Fluent in howmarkets actually run.
Our consultants learned this over 10+ years of business analysis in prior roles at tier-one financial institutions. Here is the ground we cover, in more detail than most people want.
Follow a price from the vendor feed to the person who relies on it.
Coverage, rights, identifiers and governance connect the vendor feed to the people and models that rely on it.
Governed data. From source to decision.
Breaks happen every day. The trick is catching them before lunch.
A reconciliation control should run like plumbing: constantly, quietly, with someone named on every exception.
Records checked
Breaks detected
Auto-resolved
Completeness
The long list, for the curious.
01Asset classes
Product economics determine the fields, tolerances and controls your change needs.
Asset classes
Product economics determine the fields, tolerances and controls your change needs.
- Equities
- Fixed income
- Options
- Futures
- FX & FX derivatives
- OTC derivatives: IRS, CDS, FX and equity derivatives
- Index data
- News & filings data
02Front-to-back lifecycle
Clear hand-offs reduce breaks before execution and long after trade capture.
Front-to-back lifecycle
Clear hand-offs reduce breaks before execution and long after trade capture.
- Pre-trade market & reference data
- Order / trade capture
- FIX (working knowledge)
- Allocations
- Confirmations
- Trade matching
- Cash & physical settlement
- Netting
- Fails management
- Middle-office support
03Market infrastructure & standards
Explicit interface requirements keep external workflows and internal processing aligned.
Market infrastructure & standards
Explicit interface requirements keep external workflows and internal processing aligned.
- DTCC
- Deriv/SERV
- MarkitWire
- SWIFT MT5xx
- ISDA
- FIX
- Back-office settlement interfaces: BPS, ICI, Gloss
04Market data vendors
Coverage and usage rights must be as clear as the data itself.
Market data vendors
Coverage and usage rights must be as clear as the data itself.
- Bloomberg
- LSEG (Refinitiv)
- Tradeweb
- Fenics
- Entitlements
- Coverage
- Licensing
05Regulation
Traceable data and testable requirements support evidence-led regulatory delivery.
Regulation
Traceable data and testable requirements support evidence-led regulatory delivery.
- Dodd-Frank
- EMIR
- Basel III / BCBS 239
- MiFID II
- AML
06Data & analytics
Queryable evidence catches issues that requirements documents alone cannot.
Data & analytics
Queryable evidence catches issues that requirements documents alone cannot.
- SQL: MS SQL Server, MySQL
- MongoDB
- Python
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Splunk
- SSRS
- Advanced Excel
07Big data & cloud
Governance must survive the move from individual feeds to enterprise-scale platforms.
Big data & cloud
Governance must survive the move from individual feeds to enterprise-scale platforms.
- Hadoop
- Spark
- Hive
- Azure Data Lake (ADLS Gen2)
- Azure Synapse
- AWS S3 / Glue / Redshift
- GCP BigQuery
08Integration
Precise contracts and mapping rules make the connections reliable.
Integration
Precise contracts and mapping rules make the connections reliable.
- REST APIs
- XML / JSON
- Swagger
- Postman
- ETL pipelines
- LoanIQ
- Salesforce
09Delivery
The thread from business intent to acceptance and release stays intact.
Delivery
The thread from business intent to acceptance and release stays intact.
- Scrum
- Kanban
- SAFe
- BDD
- TDD
- Azure DevOps
- JIRA
- Confluence
- BRD
- FSD
- User stories
- UML
- Process flows: Visio, Lucidchart
- UAT planning & sign-off
- Vendor selection & management
10Wealth, banking & lending
Platform change must fit the workflows of advisors, operations and partners.
Wealth, banking & lending
Platform change must fit the workflows of advisors, operations and partners.
- Wealth & asset management platforms
- Advisor reporting
- Digital banking & lending
- LoanIQ credit systems
- B2B partner integrations
Got a change thatcan't afford to go wrong?
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