Cross-asset trading in treasury and capital markets - bringing fixed income, equities, foreign exchange (FX), commodities, futures and options, along with OTC derivatives and complex structured products together on one platform - has seen significant growth over recent years. No longer can financial institutions 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 and margin management and accounting.

The continued onslaught of regulatory demands including Dodd-Frank, European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Basel III means that the use of spreadsheets and other manual processes for 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 handles the product complexities and changing demands; streamlining operations, providing a global, transparent and integrated view of all trading activity, and reducing market, credit, and operational risk.

Misys is the market leader in providing cross-asset front-to-back systems in treasury, capital markets and the buy-side and has comprehensive coverage, including both vanilla, OTC derivatives and cross-asset products. Our 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. Misys’ solutions are 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.

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