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Scaling reconciliation operations: AI, exception...

As financial institutions face growing operational complexity, increasing transaction volumes and ongoing regulatory change, many are asking the same...

Helping capital markets firms achieve T+1

From email to automation: helping capital markets firms achieve T+1 The transition to T+1 settlement is one of the most significant operational...

EMIR Phase II

This article first appeared in The Trade: https://www.thetradenews.com/blog/emir-phase-ii-reporting-was-the-easy-part/ EMIR Phase II: Reporting Was...

Achieving straight-through processing on inbound...

Achieving straight-through processing (STP) on inbound confirmation flows remains one of the most complex challenges for post‑trade operations....

The hidden cost of manual reconciliations

A capital markets guide to data automation

The average capital markets firm spends 74 business days onboarding a single reconciliation manually – exactly the kind of work data automation can...

How Xceptor transforms the confirmations process

Capital markets is fast‑moving and complex, but that complexity reflects healthy market activity and expanding opportunity. Confirmations sit at the...

Operational control series: The blueprint for how...

Across this series, we’ve made one thing clear: operational control is no longer a back-office clean-up function. It’s engineered, provable, and...

Operational control series: Control you can prove...

In the first article of this series, we explored how capital markets firms are industrialising operational control by unifying ingestion,...

Operational control series: Reconciliations are...

In part one of this series, we explored how capital markets firms are industrialising operational control and why the shift toward engineered,...

What are confirmations? The most crucial step in...

When most people think about trading, they focus on the moment the trade executes, the buy orsell decision, the market movement, the strategy. But in...

Operational control series: How capital markets...

Operational control is now the operating model for capital markets. Growing regulatory pressure, fragmentation fatigue, and the rising cost of manual...