Expertise: Trade & Post-Trade

Trade & Post-Trade:

Innovative. Intelligent. Changing.

Our services in the area of Trade & Post-Trade:

Future-proof solutions for maximum security and success.

Whether straight-through processing (STP), automation or the outsourcing of operational processing - over the last two decades, capital markets have undergone a multitude of fundamental developments. At the same time, they continue to face major challenges due to regulatory requirements such as MiFID/MiFIR, CSDR, EMIR, SFTR or SRD. In addition, in many places outdated infrastructures of core systems need to be replaced by new, flexibly scalable and cloud-based systems.

The consequences:

  • Smaller banking houses are currently merging to meet the digital challenges.
  • Capital market companies such as stock exchanges, clearing houses, infrastructure providers and larger banks are facing significant efforts.
  • There is a great need for in-depth knowledge of capital market processes and systems as well as a very good understanding of the business and regulatory landscape.

Our Trade & Post-Trade Competencies:

Comprehensive expertise across the entire capital markets value chain.

  • Trading, Clearing, Settlement: We have extensive experience in processes and systems as well as in the entire business and regulatory area.
    Trading:     On Exchange, Off Exchange
    Clearing:     OTC clearing, FX clearing, clearing risk, cash market clearing, derivatives market clearing, clearing risk, clearing services (transaction management, position management)
    Settlement:     securities settlement, cash settlement, asset management (corporate actions/income, general meetings, disclosures)
    Collateral management: bilateral, triparty
    Regulations:     CSDR, SRD2, EMIR, MiFID/MiFIR, SFTR
    Infrastructure:     T2S, Target 2, ECMS, ESMIG, CASCADE, Creation, C7 SCS, D7, R7
  • As Trade & Post-Trade is our core business, we have developed our own exclusive training and certification that is standard for all x-markets employees.
  • All of our teams have a broad understanding of end-to-end capital market flows and in-depth knowledge of related processes and systems in at least one area.In addition to being involved in strategic projects such as building clearing houses and exchanges, we go a step further and also take care of project implementation and change processes.
  • With our in-depth knowledge of capital markets, we are experts in the entire project lifecycle: from analysis to design to testing & readiness - whether as business analyst, test manager or project manager.
  • We have experience with waterfall and scrum projects and can provide you with a certified team as project manager or intelligent project management support.