Cross Asset Trading
Recent years have seen significant growth in cross-asset trading
in treasury and capital markets; a development that has brought
fixed income, equities, foreign exchange (FX), commodities, futures
and options together with OTC derivatives and complex structured
products, on one platform. Financial institutions can no longer
treat these asset classes as distinct and separate businesses.
The changing competitive and regulatory landscape is forcing
banks and other financial services providers to view their trading
operations as a single, integrated global business. And this new
business model highlights the need for cross-asset systems that
handle the full front-to-back process from trading through to
pricing, risk management, and back-office processes such as
collateral/margin management and accounting.
Under the continued onslaught of regulatory demands (Dodd-Frank,
European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Basel III) the
use of spreadsheets and other manual processes to handle the more
complex trades is no longer acceptable. Today's cross-asset
users(global investment banks, regional banks, investment managers
and hedge funds) need an integrated solution that can handle
product complexities and changing demands; one that will help to
streamline operations and provide a global, transparent and
integrated view of all trading activity, so reducing market,
credit, and operational risk.
Misys is the market leader in providing cross-asset,
front-to-back systems for treasury, capital markets and buy-side
institutions. It provides comprehensive coverage, including
vanilla, OTC derivatives and cross-asset products. Misys' solutions
are used by 19 of the top 20 global capital markets firms to handle
their global processing, including central counterparty clearing
(CCP), collateral management, and margining. These solutions have
been designed to meet the trade management, analytics,
straight-through-processing (STP) and reporting needs of global
investment banks, regional banks, hedge funds and asset
managers
Click a link below to learn more about Misys' solutions for
cross-asset trading in treasury and capital markets: