Financial Services Industry

We live in a microsecond, event-driven world, where change and regulation necessitate increased innovation – and increased productivity. We began our Solutions Group in the financial services industry and deliver solutions to Wealth Management, Banking, Capital Markets, and Insurance clients with particular focus on the following business needs:

PORTFOLIO PERFORM.
PORTFOLIO ATTRIBUTION
RISK DECISION
RISK MONITORING
TRADE MONITORING
WEALTH MGT.

Portfolio Performance

We deliver solutions to help clients compute and segment portfolio contributions, weights, and returns. This begins with establishing accurate, normalized data from accounting and trading systems at a granular level that will support desired performance calculation models.

Portfolio Attribution

We deliver solutions that expose and prove causal links between the portfolio manager’s proprietary investment process and the portfolio’s segmented performance. Managers gain insight and can report on the effectiveness of their process, plus are better able to control risk.

Risk Decision Support

We deliver solutions that help clients determine portfolio systemic and security contributions to downside risk / potential upside against the investment strategy targets, including the ability to suggest trades that will realign the portfolio to desired targets.

Risk Monitoring

We deliver solutions that help clients monitor and control their Sponsored Access and/or Direct Market Access services to their clients.

This begins by developing a risk management framework that will provide real-time, pre-trade monitoring, then creating a customized technology model as an add-on to a Trade Execution platform.

The solution can provide risk alerts, plus provides for an automatic shut down of market access for clients that expose your firm to unacceptable risk.

Trade Monitoring

We deliver solutions that help clients monitor their Alternative Trading Systems, and also monitor trades at a FIX protocol node of Orders and their executions is available.

Our ATS Monitor solutions:

Allow transparent visibility into the ATS system
Establish the current state view of an Order Book, per Instrument and per Client
Display each Order in real-time
Expose details in a drill-down manner
Display instruments marked to market
Offer a History of Orders and their executions

Our FIX node monitoring solutions further enhances the value of the ATS Monitor:

Arrange all venue execution points (FIX Nodes) into a topology view
Depict execution routes for each Order
Provide real-time and historical roll-up statistics for systematic analysis of the effectiveness of each FIX node in the context of trading volume per unit of time, and free capacity assessed over a trading day

Wealth Management Solutions

Starpoint provides consulting and development services for key areas that impact your Wealth Management and Advisory Systems, including:

Strategic Review and Planning

Operations Reviews
Strategic System Architecture Review

Requirements Analysis and Vetting

Current State Assessment
GAP Analysis with Prioritization
Future State Definition

Data Strategy

Data Modeling Optimization
Data Analysis Model
Data Integration
Data Aggregation and Reconciliation

Technology Selection and Deployment

Systems Evaluation and Selection Expertise
Technology Alignment
Implementation, Customization and Integration