Solutions for financial markets

	Customer insight
	Data management
	Payments

	Risk and compliance
	Trade processing

Core building blocks for the on demand business

With both volumes and volatility growing in the financial markets industry, you must adopt innovative strategies to increase profitability and market share. Increase the sophistication of your electronic trading systems. Create an infrastructure that enables you to be responsive to fluctuating business demands. Automation of middle and back-office processes enables enterprise-wide trade cycle management. IBM can help you rethink the way your firm operates. Within a framework. On your timetable. In synch with the global marketplace.

Financial markets trade processing offerings

IBM can help you identify and assemble the core building blocks to improve trade processing responsiveness, variability and resiliency. Our offerings begin with the analysis and evaluation of your trade processing environments. By selecting the right set of business processes, we can help you manage the cost and risks of transforming your trading environments. Automate order capture, routing and execution. Integrate post-execution processing from trade matching on the exchange up to settlement. Optimise your infrastructure for managing the interconnectivity of trade-related messaging.

Our solutions can help differentiate your financial markets firm in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Rapidly deliver new capabilities to your customer and establish your organisation as a leader in the markets your firm serves.
Enable enterprise-wide trade cycle management by leveraging integrated automation of middle and back-office processes.
Improve efficiency, as well as increase transaction capacity and staff productivity while reducing operational and financial risk.

Financial markets trade processing offerings:


	Financial information interchange from IBM Financial markets data is mission critical. Your business functions depend on it and it accounts for a large proportion of your overall costs. The financial markets data optimisation solution from IBM can help optimise the supply and demand of your financial markets data and enhance your process and distribution capability.

	Post execution process solution from IBM Does your business need help integrating post execution processes? From trade matching on the exchange to settlement, the post execution process solution from IBM can help you prepare and streamline - including the confirmation process, asset allocation, collateralization, prefunding and financing.

	Sales and support environment solution from IBM Maximize front office efficiencies. Enhance information sharing across your enterprise. Streamline your business processes with IBM software and consulting services. We can help you integrate customer intelligence, market data and research information for greater efficiency across your organization.

	Trade and order management from IBM Maximize trading efficiencies. Enhance information sharing across your enterprise. Streamline your business processes with IBM hardware, software and consulting services. We can provide support for different pre-execution trading applications for a fully automated order capture and execution environment.

	Transaction monitoring and exception management from IBM Effectively manage risk exposure and reduce costs by quickly identifying and resolving failed trades. Transaction monitoring and exception management from IBM can help streamline the process for handling exceptions throughout a trade's lifecycle, which can account for more than 50% of back-office costs.