Our Securities Processing Software offers twelve Solutions that correspond to operational
areas within the typical broker-dealer. Its unique architecture and database allow it to
perform unlike any other brokerage system offered in the industry.
You can start with one or a subset of Solutions, then add more as your business grows or
changes. The CSS system can be run in its entirety as a Books and Records Solution or it
can be combined with existing systems as business needs dictate.
We work with our clients to satisfy the demands of today's marketplace, adapting our system
to meet regulatory changes and industry initiatives.
Dealer Clearance and Settlement
- Supports post-trade execution processes and solutions required to clear and settle street-side transactions.
- Provides broker/dealers tools to manage and financially fulfill their end-of-day settlement processes, and supports calculation of settlement obligations.
- Manages the transfer of customer assets between brokerage firms.
Account Management
- Provides a comprehensive means for a broker/dealer to create, maintain and update all of the various types of accounts held on their books.
- Includes customer, institutional, inventory and operational accounts.
Order Management System
- Contains the tools a firm needs to effectively manage all stages in the life of an order, while also maintaining audit trail and effective compliance controls throughout.
- Predicated on a straight-through processing philosophy, OMS provides touch-free automation from the point-of-sale through trade creation.
- Fully supports the retail sales force as well as the execution trade desk.
- Facilitates entering orders for all product types.
Accounting
- Contains tools that record and maintain the effects of a firm's own transactions on its capital, financial statements, and financial reporting obligations.
- Captures the financial aspects of securities transactions, brokerage commissions and fees, and a firm's proprietary accounts.
Packaged Products
- Comprises industry solutions for processing securities issued by investment insurance companies.
- Contains industry-leading tools needed to process all types of mutual funds transactions via the NSCC Fund/SERV system.
- Maintains the accounts through the Networking system.
- Insurance products are similarly transacted through the DTCC using the IPS system.
- Provides the ability to process and view insurance holdings.
Asset Services
- Facilitates the deposit of securities into a brokerage account; the "transfer and ship" of securities; and the identification, notification, and payment of cash and/or securities to a brokerage firm's beneficial owner account.
- Provides the fulfillment of informational materials to client investors.
Reference Data Management
- Contains tools that capture and maintain data used throughout an enterprise financial services system.
- Supports data storage for both internal sources as well as external sources, such as Market Data.
- Provides the ability to interface critical data from proprietary and legacy systems.
Books and Records
- Contains functionality needed by broker/dealers to keep and preserve accurate books and records for all of their accounts.
- Allows broker/dealers to demonstrate that they have the proper policies, procedures, and systems in place to update and maintain accurate records, including individual account activity as well as cash and security balances.
Regulatory and Compliance
- Features tools needed by financial institutions of all sizes to adhere to both industry-related requirements as well as regulatory and compliance rules imposed by self-regulatory bodies.
- Supports the stringent reporting requirements imposed by government agencies.
- Supports systemic processes and reporting for monitoring and overseeing customers and the retail sales force.
Business Process Solutions
- Automates business processes and eliminates the need to physically route documents.
- Streamlines processes and creates a more efficient flow of documentation through broker/dealer operations.
- Allows you to electronically manage, view and distribute firm-wide reports from a central location.
- Allows firms to customize system permissions.
Wealth Management
- Consists of tools to support financial services companies engaged in recruiting and managing the mass affluent to the ultra high net worth client.
- Allows firms to provide wealth management services to attract high net worth (HNW) individuals as firms move away from transaction-based models and as the affluent market continues to grow.
Customer Cashiering
- Provides a broker/dealer's retail force with transactional and informational support.
- Services the retail force with cash management processing; account margin/credit condition maintenance; and cashiering functions.
- Provides an easy-to-use and understandable reporting format that is vital for customers to retrieve and analyze data.
- Provides ad-hoc reporting.