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The Alternative Matching and Clearing Solution

LISA Clearing Engine is a matching and clearing solution which allows your firm to streamline all of its post-trade operations. Its unique architecture and set of advanced clearing functions delivers both high performances and reliability and empowers your operational teams.

Pushing the boundaries …
LISA Clearing Engine delivers all necessary middle-office functions. But LISA goes further to:

  • Deliver the performance and stability your operations and clients are expecting.
  • Make sure all exchange specific clearing functions are made available to the operators,
  • Ensure your IT department can smoothly integrate LISA with 3rd party systems via our message-based API
  • Provide your IT department with all the necessary real-time monitoring tools.

Main features

LISA Clearing Engine delivers all standard middle-office functions:

  • Capture all your trades through a variety of different exchanges and venues
  • Uppload client allocation instructions through multiple sources
  • Standard quantity/percentage/High Low allocations capabilities
  • Automated matching and clearing
  • Managing risk limits
  • Real time follow up on trade status, exception management
  • Support for all exchange specific features (APS, GiveIns, GiveUps, reversals…)
  • Standard export to all book-keeping systems or other in-house systems.

Most importantly, LISA Clearing Engine also delivers a unique set of added value features and differentiators:

  • Advanced set of allocation algorithms such as “fair price allocation” rules, over multiple prices and any given period of time (daily, weekly, monthly…)
  • Allocations at Average Price
  • Advanced Auto Clearing Rules (ACRs) based on trade patterns and user defined rule outcomes (e.g., Allocate, Mark as APS, on Hold…)
  • Advanced matching rules (all trade details can be used for matching purposes)
  • Position monitoring across all your accounts (Account Recap)
  • Instant access to Trades and Orders historical data
  • Automatic roll over for uncleared trades from one day to another
  • Full audit trail (trade, clearing, static data …)
  • Customized client confirmations (emails, FIX, PDF …)
  • Openness of the system and extended connectivity:
    > Support for 50+ markets
    > FIX support (Inbound/Outbound, drop copies for confirms, allocations …)
    > Execution platforms connectors (TT, PATS, CQG, FIDESSA …)
    > Other sources (e.g., Bloomberg EMSX)
    > All data available through message-based APIs at any point in time.

Operational efficiencies

LISA Clearing Engine has been designed with our customers to ensure they get the best out of our solutions:

  • Bulk copy/edit of all static data; create hundreds of accounts in a single click
  • Native static data upload from your book-keeping systems (e.g., accounts)
  • Native integration (message based) with in-house risk systems or other 3rd party applications
  • Real-time exchange and system warning and alerts
  • Single click filter on markets, memberships, trade status through “matrix” filter
  • Color based warnings on trades that are “untouched” over a given period of time
  • Ability for customers to design and run ad-hoc reports from our ATEO Reporting Tool (part of the ATEO tool kit)
  • LISA Web Client module allows end customers to monitor their trades online throughout the entire trade life-cycle.

KEY SUCCESS POINTS

SUPPORT FOR ALL EXCHANGE
SUPPORTED CLEARING FUNCTIONS

  • Allocations (Trade Account change),splits, Give-up/Take-up request
  • Open/Close and price adjustments
  • APS mark/unmark, APS group complete/cancel
  • CTI adjustment, Pit trade submit (CME Group)
  • Exercise/Assignment

ALLOCATIONS
A COMPLETE SET OF ADVANCED FUNCTIONS
TO AUTOMATE COMPLEX ALLOCATIONS:

  • Allocation Clearing Rules (ACRs), using any trade attribute or user-defined pattern
  • Multiple clearing actions (GiveUp, Mark as APS, on Hold…) resulting from successful ACR
  • Algorithmic allocations allowing time based (day, week, month) allocations across multiple prices, multiple accounts
  • Additional High/Low, odd lots management

EXTENDED CONNECTIVITY

  • 50+ markets
  • Connectivity to all major execution plat forms (TT, PATS, GL, FIDESSA, CQG …)
  • Extended support for FIX connectivity (inbound allocations, outbound drop-copies) and Order feeds (BB EMSX)

PERFORMANCE

  • With a simple and reliable architecture, our gateways have been built to handle both high volumes and intra-day peaks.
  • Gateways are built to recover a full day’s
    *transactions in less than an hour.
  • Visualize all your business across all markets, all memberships within 1 single screen (up to 5,000,000 trades)

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES

  • Real time position tracking
  • Native back-office accounts integration (one-off or intra-day)
  • Real time exchange and system alert messages and warnings
  • Web based front-end for end customers

INTEGRATION

  • Seamless message-based integration with 3rd party systems Back-office systems, 3rd party Risk systems,
  • Execution platforms, clients’ allocations feeds

RISK / COMPLIANCE / AUDITING

  • Risk module for monitoring intra-day (Net/Gross) positions and Accept/Block clearing based on user defined rules
  • Full and real-time audit trail (trades, static data)
  • Unlimited access to historical data

COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION

  • System can be installed in one unique location and support activity across al regions
  • This results in a minimal footprint and easier maintenance
  • Single core license and market-based license (inclusive of all underlying memberships)

SERVICES

  • 24 hours support, online and real-time tracking of all opened requests
  • A team committed to help you grow your business, address your requirements, deliver enhancements

FULL MONITORING
COMPLETE SET OF TOOLS AND LIBRARIES ALLOWING YOU TO

  • Monitor all technical components, latency, expected clearing time, average allocation time
  • Monitor clearing activity, volumes, cleared/pending trades, pending GiveIns/GiveUps
  • Web based tools to build/customize ad-hoc reports