Order management remains a critical area for investment managers to improve client service, regulatory compliance and operating efficiency. 

The clients of investment management firms and their advisers grow more diverse.  Larger clients have increasingly sophisticated requirements eg more products and instruments to invest in; more sources of liquidity to manage; and more algorithmic and programme trading.  Electronic communication among clients, advisers and investment managers varies significantly in scale and nature.

Investment managers need to handle and report on orders in processes involving a growing variety of trading venues, third party administrators, technical vendors and other product providers, while facing cost constraints.  Firms are increasingly looking at outsourcing and moving operations offshore.  They may be using legacy systems, perhaps from before a consolidation or re-organisation, and may be facing issues about what connectivity media to use while industry standards develop.  Trade volumes to be handled by individual processes have fluctuated greatly with markets and as organisations have changed.

Regulatory compliance and corporate risk management require transparency and tight controls over timing, pricing, allocation, exposures and reporting.

Good order management is essential to delivering what the client requires while reducing risk and cost.  We can help our clients with our practical experience and our product selection methodology. Our Straight Through Processing model fully recognises that optimally automated order processing is fundamental to best practice service, compliance and efficiency.