Customers – whether institutional traders, correspondent and introducing brokers, prime brokerage or wealth management clients – place greater demands on middle and back office operations. New instruments, especially alternative investments and complex derivatives, have transformed investment strategies and present further operational challenges.

SmartStream solutions drive Straight Through Processing (STP) across the enterprise, helping to reduce costs and operational risk, support firms growth and asset retention aims:

Reconciliations
Fully flexible matching with integrated exception management

Cash Management
Comprehensive, real-time liquidity and cash management provides full visibility into and optimisation of all cash movements

Corporate Actions
Automating the corporate actions lifecycle, including data scrubbing, diary function, voluntary response tracking, entitlement application and cash flow reconciliation

Trade Process Management
Integration and control of the post-trade process from deal capture through allocation, confirmation and settlement

SmartStream has worked with many of the leading global sell-side organisations to help them create more efficient middle and back office operations:

• Implementing a global reconciliation platform for derivatives in multiple operations centres
• Delivering real-time streetside trade matching for NSCC and OCC
• Realising an enterprise-wide reconciliation platform across all asset classes in three time zones

Each SmartStream TLM Solution is designed to be best in class, offering the performance, scalability and flexibility needed to handle any type of instrument traded. They can be implemented as independent solutions or in a wider integrated architecture that aims to provide greater control, visibility and predictability over transaction lifecycles and enable businesses to outperform.