Capital Markets

Capco's capital markets technology consultant project teams are specialists in the key issues driving the evolution of capital markets strategy, solutions and technology choices world-wide. Their highly experienced and effective focus includes:

• Post-Merger Integration – helping realize the full potential and value of the newly-merged entity.
• Cost Takeout and Technology Rationalization – dealing with complexity while building on standards that prepare for the future.
• Identifying and Developing Prime Services – new opportunities to capitalize on existing strengths and culture.
• Over-the-Counter Derivatives Clearing Process Design – to improve volume, reliability and transparency.
• Operating Process Controls – helping realize greater returns on initiatives to simplify processes and contain costs.
• Inter-Company Trade Settlement – securing greater processing volume in less time, at lower costs.

Capitalizing on Success
Working closely with our capital markets clients, we have helped many recognize, engage with, and exploit the considerable opportunities that change brings. Examples include:

• Attaining 60% Project Management Office headcount reduction as a result of process streamlining and automation.
• Offering - through newly-implemented product - real-time settlement instruction enrichment and settlement notification messaging, incorporating industry codes of practice and local market standards, including field formats from the ISO15022 data dictionary, to promote data integrity and streamline settlement.
• Using RFP results to determine feasibility and timing of solutions offered by ASP to help client achieve a state-of-the-art technology solution, providing next generation latency, scalability and flexibility at low Total Cost Of Ownership.

We design and implement best-of-breed strategic, operational and technology solutions, including complex Package Integration, that directly help our clients to improve operational efficiencies, and to build resilience in the face of ongoing fluctuations. The positive impact of the “change vortex” in the capital markets environment is the huge opportunities it is creating for institutions which engage with the challenges and develop and implement the models that effectively exploit new opportunity - helping them do that is one more way we are forming the future of finance.