Capital Markets

LEGACY REPLACEMENT

Break free from legacy data constraints
Capital markets firms have long been restrained by obsolete legacy systems and overreliance on user-built applications—frameworks rigidly anchored to fixed data models unable to efficiently handle today's diverse, complex data streams. 

The result? Systemic control gaps, manual workarounds and sluggish onboarding of new controls.

Our solutions give institutions the ability to finally gain unwavering trust in operational data accuracy. We provide a unified platform automating all 

• Data validation
• Reconciliation
• Revenue management
• Regulatory reporting
• Core processes. 

This replaces inflexible legacy tech with agile, cloud-native architecture built to ingest any data format, construct sophisticated multi-way controls, and scale seamlessly alongside your evolving business needs.

post-trade automation

Mastering the post-trade data frontier
For capital markets firms, any missteps or delays in post-trade processing pipelines and reporting represent an existential risk that can be avoided. Yet as trading volumes accelerate across intraday, intercompany and T+0 environments, the importance of maintaining lockstep middle and back-office governance has become an increasingly laborious and endless task fraught with operational hazards, compliance landmines and the ever-present spectre of losses.

This is where our solutions empower institutions to transform post-trade workflow knots into tightly woven threads of holistic, enterprise-wide data command and control. Whether migrating, validating and reconciling data, optimising reconciliation processes, streamlining cash and collateral management, or enhancing regulatory reporting transparency, our end-to-end post-trade automation and controls frameworks instil order and inject new dimensions of value across the entire trade lifecycle continuum.

G20 regulatory compliance

Taming G20 compliance chaos
The G20's sweeping OTC derivatives market reforms have unleashed a tidal wave of new compliance intricacies for capital markets participants to navigate. Varying cross-jurisdictional requirements, trade repository reporting obligations, and heightened regulatory scrutiny have come together, exerting immense pressures. Firms now face mounting difficulties and costs in an already challenging landscape.

Cut through this chaos with Gresham’s solutions, simplifying the process of adhering to G20 mandates. Through a unified platform, we make it easy for your organisation to establish connectivity with a multitude of trade repositories, rapidly build required controls, and guarantee transpicuous data integrity. This enables our clients to confidently meet stringent regulatory deadlines without spiralling costs or relying on disparate point solutions.

regulatory reporting

Navigating the regulatory reporting labyrinth
Capital markets firms face relentless pressures from the escalating intricacy and volume of financial regulations. Not only are these mandates increasingly intricate to implement, regulators are also intensifying their scrutiny of data quality and reporting veracity. Meanwhile, the costs of regulatory compliance continue spiralling while businesses are compelled to "do more with less" to divert resources towards value-generating activities instead of regulatory "sunk costs."

Our end-to-end solution illuminates a clear pathway through this regulatory labyrinth, helping firms meet convoluted requirements quickly and efficiently across multiple jurisdictions. Our Connect and Control offerings streamline existing reporting obligations like MiFID II, MiFIR RTS 15, Dodd-Frank, FINRA TRACE, EMIR REFIT, MAS OTC derivatives reporting and more. Additionally, we enable future-proofing for emerging mandates such as SFTR and the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT).

cash/collateral reporting

Illuminate your cash and collateral control
For capital markets firms, reconciling cash and collateral holdings to satisfy regulators and auditors is a key obligation. Yet the fragile, costly and complicated legacy solutions the industry has relied upon for decades have rendered this all-important reporting an exercise in inefficiency and frustration.

Gresham’s offerings streamline cash and collateral reporting, injecting efficiency, efficacy and simplicity into the process. An out-of-the-box, self-sufficient cash, nostro, bank account reconciliation solution quickly implements with ease of operation. 

Benefit from pre-defined rules and behaviours that provide immediate oversight across all accounts and geographies, high auto-match rates, unshakeable data confidence, transpicuous visibility and reduced total cost of ownership.

Gain the insight required to exert true command over your cash and collateral control frameworks. Discover why leading institutions have embraced our cash reporting solutions.

CONSOLIDATED AUDIT TRAIL (CAT)

Mastering the CAT compliance imperative 
The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting regime represents a new frontier of data-intensive rigours for capital markets participants. Firms must report staggering transaction volumes while managing exceptions and rectifying errors under aggressive deadlines. With so many trades in scope, even relatively low error rates quickly culminate into resource-draining counterparty outreach and resolution cycles.

Our solutions deliver efficient, cost-effective CAT reporting assurance with industry-leading low error rates. As a certified CAT Reporting Agent (CRA), we provide guaranteed end-to-end connectivity and timely, precise transaction reporting. Gain insights into unmatched data patterns alongside real-time report reviews and error monitoring that help your team adapt rules and elevate reporting quality over time.

This proven framework enables firms—especially those unaccustomed to the immense scale and velocity CAT demands—to optimally contain implementation costs while fostering complete confidence in stringent compliance control. Redefine your CAT capabilities with our pioneering solutions.

INTERSYSTEMS RECONCILIATION

Intersystem reconciliation remastered
Legacy reconciliation systems are buckling under the intensifying pressures of verifying mounting volumes of intricate, high-velocity data flows in real-time environments. This strain is especially acute for capital markets firms grappling with the sophisticated controls necessitated by their complex operational theatres. 

Even when errors are surfaced, convoluted exceptions and manual-processing overheads elevate the risk posture substantially—courting potential failures and loss events. Speed, accuracy and transparency are non-negotiable imperatives.

Our solutions solve even the knottiest intersystem reconciliation challenges at scale. Through optimised efficiency, elevated accuracy across reconciliation and exception management processes, and enhanced transparency over the entire post-trade continuum, we equip firms with the robust operational resilience they require. 

End-to-end from Gresham delivers the intelligent automation, accelerated matching capabilities and expedited control onboarding capabilities essential for driving down risk exposures while amplifying productivity gains.

message transformation

Data transformation evolved
Having the right data in the precise required formats at every juncture is a make-or-break imperative. Yet firms routinely struggle against a tsunami of incompatible messaging standards and proprietary formats from counterparties, hindering efforts to efficiently transform data across disparate sources. The rise of ISO 20022 as the emerging global lingua franca only amplifies these challenges—and the urgency of addressing them.

Our solutions provide a fully-managed panacea for acquiring, formatting and producing standards-based data transmissions spanning FIX, FPML, ISO 20022 and beyond. Whether your needs call for rapid translation efficiencies or optimised processes capable of harnessing the enriched dataset prowess of ISO 20022, our flexible off-the-shelf and custom-made offerings have you covered. And with comprehensive standards revision and maintenance handled seamlessly, compliance becomes simple.

Gain the data transformation mastery required to maintain your competitive edge. Partner with us to illuminate the path forward through the formatting maze.