Brokerages and Trading Firms

• Client on-boarding and trade enablements

• Trade reviews

• Managing e-trades through various trading platforms

• Reconciling records between different platforms

• Central PoC for electronic changes

• Tracking corporate actions for underlying constituents of trading baskets

• Back testing strategies

• KYC

• Remediation and periodic reviews

• Providing specialist support with experience on variety of trading platforms and tools such as ION, Market Axess, MTS BondVision, Bloomberg etc.

• Manning inboxes & live chat platforms for coverage changes

• Real-time cover in coordination with the onshore team

• Trade verification and affirmation

• Clearing auto suspended account notifications

• Maintain and calculate margin balances with broker

• Tracking macro data

• Tracking changes in corporate actions

• Index rebalance strategies

• Trade surveillance and monitoring

• Ensure trade fails are properly documented and escalated to business lines

• Streamlining trade reporting

• Beneficiary accounts mapping to legal entity

• Trade confirmation / reconciliations / raising any settlement issues

• Supporting with Transaction cost analysis

• Supporting with commission sharing agreements

• Analyze trade volumes and price movements

• Analyze alerts post-orders/transactions

• Identify possible market manipulation and insider trading

• Financial modeling

• Coverage expansion support

• Coverage maintenance support

• IPOs support

• Earnings support including earnings reviews and previews

• Database creation and maintenance

• IG/ HY / DD support

• KPI driven financial models

• Responding to investor queries on company/industry

• Detailed issuer review reports

• Target screening

• Cap structure review

• Covenant analysis

• Trade flow data analysis and generating insights

• Developing tools and applications for trade operations

• Robotic Process Automation for trade process to improve efficiency and accuracy

• Integration support for external tools with trading applications / databases

• Providing AI/ ML models implementation / development support

• Trade archiving - trade records are archived for future reference and regulatory compliance

• CRM & DATA MANAGEMENT

• De-duplication, bulk-cleansing, validation & migration

• Data management & administration

• End-to-end CRM implementation

• Readability statistics, commission reports, and KPI trackers

• Custom charting and powerful dashboards

• Interactive visualizations through tools including Tableau and PowerBI, etc.

• Executive/Personal assistant support

• Calendar management

• Onboarding and providing entitlements access to clients

• Day-to-day operational support

• Consumption reporting

• Scorecard template design

• Book-keeping of broker votes

• Automated scorecard and MIS

• Customized MIS/dashboard/scorecards for COO teams

• Integrating with internal databases

• Travel & expenses

• Data subscriptions

• Reconciliation with contracts

• Approval coordination

• Periodic reports

• Event updates and corporate access database management

• Calendar management (including meetings and training schedules)

• Event status reports, feedback analysis

• On-the-ground support in China

• Submitting and monitoring enablement requests from third-party platforms

• Maintain enablement records for sales coverage updates, booking code mapping changes, and legal entity mappings

• Perform regular reconciliations and maintenance activities

Acuity Knowledge Partners works with specialised structured finance companies and securitisation desks at leading investment banks and institutional investors globally, supporting their key business functions such as asset finance, structuring, portfolio management, research, trading, risk analytics and reporting. Our analysts work as a natural extension of client teams, providing support on critical tasks such as the following:

• Loan tape cracking

• Bespoke cash flow/credit modelling

• Sourcing, organising and mining market data, and tracking custom metrics

• Sell-side/buy-side research and publication

• Valuation, stress testing and scenario analysis

• Custom database/technology and automation solutions

We take pride in our analyst pool with their multi-asset-class experience across functions in the securitisation space. Our deep domain understanding and tool-agnostic approach, coupled with in-house custom technology offerings, enable us to provide highly relevant, efficient and scalable solutions that seamlessly integrate with existing client systems and processes.

• Sector primer

• Sector note

• Sector and Industry reports

• Thematic research support

• Sector database creation and update

• Sector specific financial models

• Sector specific newsflow analysis

• CONTINUOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM: In-house Acuity sector experts regularly conduct sessions for all research analysts on latest sector trends, valuation metrics, and analytical nuances

• SECTOR PRESENTATIONS: Detailed presentations covering industry value chain, revenue and cost drivers, valuation methodologies, etc.

• SECTOR SAMPLE MODELS: A real-life, comprehensive working model that incorporates sector-specific valuation and operating metrics

• SECTOR CHEAT SHEETS: Covers key indicators, trends etc., on sectors for quick understanding and memory refresh