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Derivatives and FCMs

Solutions For

Derivatives and FCMs

Drive efficiency while improving financial performance by optimally managing IM and VM collateral requirements across products

Holistically Manage Cleared and Uncleared Margin Requirements

Connect, Optimize and Automate Margin Workflows

Differing eligibility schedules and regional regulatory requirements, in addition to increasing breadth of counterparties and margin call volumes have significantly complicated the management of collateral pools.

Transcend’s integrated suite of solutions are designed to help holistically manage initial and variation margin requirements across various products, offices and teams. With a central margin center, Transcend runs the analytics, optimization and automation needed to accurately forecast liquidity and mitigate client risk, demonstrate tight cross-functional controls to reduce regulatory risk, and operate most efficiently.

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Who We Serve

  • FCM Teams
  • COOs
  • Product Management Teams
  • XVA/CVA ​Teams
  • Collateral Operations
  • Margin and Derivatives Operations

Unlock Full Margin Efficiency with End-to-End Solutions

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Connect & Harmonize

Gain direct connectivity to CCP’s, Exchanges, Custodians, while also integrating derivative margin systems and internal platforms for a single, harmonized source of inventory and margin intelligence.

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Analyze & Alert

Roll-up CCP margin analytics across the firm with enterprise-wide intelligence and drill into segmented details with the ability to configure alerts that notify teams to potential risks and inefficiencies for both firm and customer accounts.

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Optimize & Enhance

Run business-specific or enterprise-wide optimization to improve funding, liquidity, and inventory decisions in line with company-wide objectives and goals.

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Automate & Execute

Automatically allocate collateral for intraday margin requirements to achieve STP and improve operational efficiency .

Take Performance and Processing to the Next Level

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Inventory Management

Gain one view of holistic margin requirements and available inventory data with configurable analytics for proactive management of fails, trade break resolution, margin disputes and more.

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Empower Smarter Business Decisions

Apply quantitative techniques to optimize transactions and processes that make margin a performance driver. Move collateral decision-making to the front office to support strategic business objectives.

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Efficiently Manage Margin Operations ​

Systematically connect margin requirements to inventory and eligibility information and achieve straight-through-processing for cleared and uncleared margin calls.

Ready to Transition Margin Management to a Competitive Edge?

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UMR Solutions

Solutions For

Uncleared Margin Rules

Comply with Uncleared Margin Rules and Seamlessly Optimize or Validate the Selection of Collateral for Initial and Variation Margin Across Derivatives Systems
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Transition UMR from a Regulatory Requirement to a Financial Edge

Solutions designed to help the buy-side, sell-side, custodians and outsourcers elevate uncleared derivatives decisions

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Harmonize Margin and Eligibility

Integrate your margin calculation systems and custodians and digitize eligibility schedules to create a centralized margin ecosystem to support complex eligibility schedules and automate IM and VM allocation decisions.

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Elevate Compliance and Controls

Don’t just comply with UMR. Leverage solutions that not only help you meet risk and regulatory requirements but also drive significant financial and operational efficiencies for your business.

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Improve Operational Efficiency

Transcend’s solutions offer end-to-end automation, from out-of-the-box connectivity to tri-party agents, utilities, and custodians to automated decision execution across margin calculation, inventory, and settlement systems.

Stay Ahead of Increased Margin Volume and Complexity

Uncleared Margin Rules have certainly increased operational complexity as in-scope firms look to integrate workflows with a now broadened set of global tri-party and third-party custodians, central utilities, fund administrators, and outsourcers. As a result, there has been a learning curve for these firms as they try to develop the operational processes to meet requirements efficiently and effectively.

Transcend offers a holistic suite of solutions designed to address many of the data and automation challenges associated with UMR requirements. By centralizing disparate margin centers and harmonizing eligibility schedules, Transcend’s analytics seamlessly validate collateral adequacy and execute optimal VM allocations.

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Ready to Achieve UMR Compliance and Tighten Controls?

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Solutions For

Derivatives and FCMs

Drive efficiency while improving financial performance by optimally managing IM and VM collateral requirements across products

Holistically Manage Cleared and Uncleared Margin Requirements

Connect, Optimize and Automate Margin Workflows

Differing eligibility schedules and regional regulatory requirements, in addition to increasing breadth of counterparties and margin call volumes have significantly complicated the management of collateral pools.

Transcend’s integrated suite of solutions are designed to help holistically manage initial and variation margin requirements across various products, offices and teams. With a central margin center, Transcend runs the analytics, optimization and automation needed to accurately forecast liquidity and mitigate client risk, demonstrate tight cross-functional controls to reduce regulatory risk, and operate most efficiently.

Check Out Our UMR Solutions

Who We Serve

  • FCM Teams
  • COOs
  • Product Management Teams
  • XVA/CVA ​Teams
  • Collateral Operations
  • Margin and Derivatives Operations

Take Performance and Processing to the Next Level

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Inventory Management

Gain one view of holistic margin requirements and available inventory data with configurable analytics for proactive management of fails, trade break resolution, margin disputes and more.

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Empower Smarter Business Decisions

Apply quantitative techniques to optimize transactions and processes that make margin a performance driver. Move collateral decision-making to the front office to support strategic business objectives.

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Efficiently Manage Margin Operations ​

Systematically connect margin requirements to inventory and eligibility information and achieve straight-through-processing for cleared and uncleared margin calls.

Ready to Transition Margin Management to a Competitive Edge?

Chat With A Transcend Expert

Treasury & Central Funding

Solutions for

Treasury and Central Funding

Achieve enterprise-wide inventory transparency to create a strong control environment while leveraging powerful analytics to ensure the firm is optimally sourcing and deploying financial resources

More Effectively Utilize Firm Assets to Maximize ROA

Seamlessly facilitate critical governance, analytics, and optimization capabilities

Technology and data silos make it difficult to achieve the enterprise-wide inventory transparency required to reveal the sources and uses of collateral and funding across the enterprise. Furthermore, this lack of visibility prevents firms from being able to optimally manage assets and proactively address inefficiencies across business-lines.

By harmonizing inventories across the enterprise, Transcend empowers Treasury and Central Funding teams to ensure the business is most efficiently and optimally funded.

Benefits of Transcend

  • Seamlessly transition to a centralized funding model for improved efficiency, performance, and risk management
  • Allocate secured and unsecured funding costs across businesses for dynamic Transfer Pricing
  • Proactively identify and resolve inefficient usage of cash and collateral
  • Digitize collateral schedules to reveal additional funding opportunities
  • Easily mobilize assets across the enterprise with STP
  • Ensure you are not overexposed within a business-line or across the firm

Solutions Designed to Uncover Decision Intelligence and Drive Peak Performance

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Centralize Eligibility Schedules

Analyze harmonized eligibility schedules to ensure you are realizing the greatest funding value from your assets.

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Analyze Firm-wide Inventory

Gain a holistic view into the composition of firm-wide inventory and granular insights into the sources and utilization of global assets.

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Facilitate Dynamic Transfer Pricing

Seamlessly allocate the costs of various financing activities to pricing practices and incentivize smarter trading decisions.

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Consolidate Margin Activity

Improve risk management with insights into margin call statuses, disputes, and fails across all counterparty exposures.

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Optimize Funding Decisions

Analyze counterparty obligations against your entire asset inventory to optimally and efficiently fund your business.

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Evaluate Cash and Liquidity

Improve financial performance through the most efficient utilization of cash and greater HQLA retention.

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Ready to Optimize Your Funding Activities?

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Risk and Regulatory

Solutions For

Risk Management and Regulatory Reporting

Connect data ecosystems to optimize, analyze, and comply with business and regulatory requirements​

Transform Global Requirements into a Competitive Edge

Integrate risk and regulatory requirements into your enterprise-wide optimization goals and strategy

As the financial services industry increasingly turns to collateralized markets across margining, clearing, lending, and liquidity, new risk, and regulatory requirements are emerging. While these requirements can quickly burden firm resources, Transcend alleviates risk management and regulatory requirements while elevating the overall strategic impact to the business.

The Benefits of Transcend

  • Harmonized collateral and liquidity ecosystem across securities finance, prime brokerage, FCMs, derivatives, margin, operations, and treasury​
  • Powerful and flexible dashboards enable enterprise data aggregation and queries for granular transaction details across businesses and functions​
  • Modular solution framework allows for seamless integration into existing regulatory and risk reporting infrastructure​
  • Non-standard data capture (i.e. exceptions, guarantees, umbrella agreements) linked to business data results in a single platform​

Our Risk Management and Regulatory Reporting Solutions

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QFC Recordkeeping

Automatically map agreements, generate reports, and perform validations​

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Recovery and Resolution-Collateral​

Comply with RRP Operational guidelines to manage, identify & value collateral​

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Cash and Liquidity Intelligence

Consolidate real-time cash and securities movements, exposures and projections​

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Collateral Validation​

Harmonize pledges, agreements, pricing, and reference data to test for eligibility ​

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Enterprise Margin Intelligence

Enable effective risk management of daily and intraday margin calls across the enterprise​

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Risk and Regulatory Insights

The New Meaning of UMR: “Undertaking a Massive Rebuild”

Highlights from the Collateral+ Symposium: Post-trade – Are you ready to be compliant?

Countdown to June 30: Five Final Steps for QFC Recordkeeping Compliance

QFC Delay: Regulator Likely to Reject Requests For Deadline Extension

US regulation could leave firms “scrambling”

Collateral Management in the Age of QFC and High Quality

Ready to Elevate The Impact of Your Regulatory and Risk Management Functions?

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Operations

Solutions For

Derivatives and FCMs

Drive efficiency while improving financial performance by optimally managing IM and VM collateral requirements across products

Holistically Manage Cleared and Uncleared Margin Requirements

Connect, Optimize and Automate Margin Workflows

Differing eligibility schedules and regional regulatory requirements, in addition to increasing breadth of counterparties and margin call volumes have significantly complicated the management of collateral pools.

Transcend’s integrated suite of solutions are designed to help holistically manage initial and variation margin requirements across various products, offices and teams. With a central margin center, Transcend runs the analytics, optimization and automation needed to accurately forecast liquidity and mitigate client risk, demonstrate tight cross-functional controls to reduce regulatory risk, and operate most efficiently.

Check Out Our UMR Solutions

Who We Serve

  • FCM Teams
  • COOs
  • Product Management Teams
  • XVA/CVA ​Teams
  • Collateral Operations
  • Margin and Derivatives Operations

A Single Platform For Cleared Margin Management

Introducing CCP Central

CCP Central provides out-of-the box connectivity to CCPs, enabling a holistic and real-time view into margin requirements and collateral balances, evaluation of collateral eligibility, and automation of margin postings at the CCP.

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Take Performance and Processing to the Next Level

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Inventory Management

Gain one view of holistic margin requirements and available inventory data with configurable analytics for proactive management of fails, trade break resolution, margin disputes and more.

Alt Text

Empower Smarter Business Decisions

Apply quantitative techniques to optimize transactions and processes that make margin a performance driver. Move collateral decision-making to the front office to support strategic business objectives.

Alt Text

Efficiently Manage Margin Operations ​

Systematically connect margin requirements to inventory and eligibility information and achieve straight-through-processing for cleared and uncleared margin calls.

Unlock Full Margin Efficiency with End-to-End Solutions

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Connect & Harmonize

Gain direct connectivity to CCP’s, Exchanges, Custodians, while also integrating derivative margin systems and internal platforms for a single, harmonized source of inventory and margin intelligence.

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Analyze & Alert

Roll-up CCP margin analytics across the firm with enterprise-wide intelligence and drill into segmented details with the ability to configure alerts that notify teams to potential risks and inefficiencies for both firm and customer accounts.

Alt Text

Optimize & Enhance

Run business-specific or enterprise-wide optimization to improve funding, liquidity, and inventory decisions in line with company-wide objectives and goals.

Alt Text

Automate & Execute

Automatically allocate collateral for intraday margin requirements to achieve STP and improve operational efficiency .

Ready to Transition Margin Management to a Competitive Edge?

Chat With A Transcend Expert