Financial Services

Applications and IT Solutions for Financial Markets
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Reduce costs, increase efficiencies and achieve high levels of business performance with Dell Services. With its extensive knowledge and experience in the capital markets sector ― earned in hundreds of successful engagements with financial institutions worldwide ― Dell can help investment banks and capital markets secure investors’ trust and confidence through:

  • Post-trade automation, integration and rationalization solutions
  • Client connectivity solutions
  • Reference data services
  • Enhanced order routing and management solutions
  • SWIFT and payment services
  • Operational risk and compliance solutions

Dell Services can design, develop, deliver and manage solutions that help you control costs, integrate and streamline processes, prevent fraud, manage risk and adapt to changing regulatory mandates. It has helped investment banks and capital markets solve challenges and adapt to changing regulatory requirements, and delivered the following results:

  • Provided support for over 200 applications for a bulge-bracket investment bank across equities, fixed income, credit, rates and currencies, derivatives, and wealth management services
  • Migrated securities settlement system for equities with more than $1 trillion open positions to complete a 200-man-year migration project
  • Developed state-of-the-art, object-oriented, workflow-based system for processing over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives
  • Accomplished process optimization and automation of securities processing value chain, resulting in reduction in batch-run time by more than 80 percent in some systems
  • Developed FIX/SWIFT interfaces with market utilities to ensure straight-through processing (STP)
  • Supported a robust back office for 24x7 centralized securities processing
  • Developed tools such as XML converter to help major investment banks map externally obtained data and market information into internal XML formats for processing and use
  • Performed Linux® migration for a global investment bank’s securities settlement system