Component Outsourcing
Thomson Reuters Outsourcing Services offers you a choice – the option to select the components of the middle-to-back office you want to outsource, whether it affects your entire infrastructure or just a portion (e.g. reconciliation or performance measurement). We work directly with you to understand your unique needs and determine the areas where your firm can benefit most from outsourcing. You define the desired level of service, support and processing criteria and we execute the functions following your guidelines.
While we have a menu of services to choose from, new options are added periodically based on client feedback and requests, providing you an opportunity to customize your solution specific to your needs. Our standard offerings cover the entire middle-to-back office value chain:
- Trade Matching and Trade Settlement
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Streamline the integration of your front office with your middle-to back-office environment, including seamless integration with OMS platforms and trade notification tracking across your custodians. Services include:
- Matching and affirmation of global trades via electronic interfaces (e.g., OASYS, CTM, DTC, Swift)
- Exception management handling, based on your definition of an “exception”
- Daily reports on trade counts, settlement information and cash balances
- Investment/Portfolio Accounting Services
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Leveraging PORTIA, the industry’s leading middle-to-back office solution, this service provides full multi-currency, multi-basis and multi-asset class accounting for your operations. Services include:
- Customized accounting, processing and descriptive rules – supporting the specifications you define
- Seamless integration with other platforms, providing the flexibility to interface with systems throughout your organization
- Automated transaction processing, minimizing errors and increasing efficiency
- Validated information, ensuring a high level of data accuracy and quality
- A secure and reliable platform, guaranteeing the highest level of database integrity
- Regulatory & Client Reporting
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Create comprehensive, clear and informative portfolio reporting for your clients, as well as accurate and timely regulatory reports. Services include:
- Customized, professional quality client reports leveraging an extensive library of data elements and calculations; reports are formatted and designed to comply with your organizations data and branding requirements , as well as with regulatory reporting requirements such as those defined by IAS and FASB standards
- Delivery method (i.e. FTP) and delivery timing, driven by your organization
- A user toolset, allowing you to modify reports and extracts on-demand, without needing to go through an IT department, providing you control over your reporting output
- Corporate Actions
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With integrated interfaces for prices, dividends and all corporate actions, you can alleviate the need to have staff collect, process, manage and research the corporate action functions. Services include:
- Your choice of vendor feeds and data sources, such as DataScope, IDC, and Xcitek
- Research and analysis of all discrepancies, ensuring data accuracy and quality
- Management and reconciliation of all actions, resolving exceptions in a timely manner
- Monitoring of all corporate action entitlement allocations
- Report on all voluntary and mandatory actions
- Performance Measurement & Attribution
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Perform powerful performance & attribution calculations and reporting for internal and client usage. Timely information allows you to make more informed and better investment decisions and provides your clients with detailed analysis of their portfolios. Services include:
- Daily performance calculations, leveraging various performance measurement methods and following GIPS compliant references and recommendations
- Security-level, segment-level and multi-currency performance reports, to meet month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting requirements
- Advanced equity and fixed income performance and attribution analysis, as well as ex-post risk analytics
- Analyzed and audited performance calculations, ensuring accuracy, precision and timely distribution of reports and data
- Data Management
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Highly flexible data management capabilities give you control over how your data is set up and maintained. The data can be easily extracted for seamless integration with systems throughout your organization, facilitating data flow and helping to manage risk by eliminating inaccurate, out of date or out of synch information. Services include:
- Establish and maintain portfolios, clients, brokers and custodian information
- Integrated reference data from multiple vendors
- Daily updates to critical reference data including pricing, security master and benchmark information
- Maintenance of the security master file, including the automated set-up of new securities
- Custodial Reconciliation
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Automate and service the reconciliation of your accounts with your custodian and prime brokers. Services include:
- Reconciliation of critical information, including holdings, transactions and cash data
- Research and analysis of exceptions, working directly with counterparties to resolve issues
- Timely correction of exceptions to ensure accurate data is available to support decision making
- Updated data delivered to associated platforms via an automated extract process, reducing chance for errors
- Consistent and streamlined communications processes to make certain you are aware of all outstanding issues and exceptions being worked on (such as missing transactions, incorrect pricing data, etc.)
- Billing and Invoicing
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Scale your billing and invoicing processes without manual intervention. Services include:
- Automatic calculation of fees based on your specific billing method
- Generation of customizable invoices and reports in accordance to your organization’s requirements
- Importing information from third party platforms to use in the billing and calculation process
- Maintenance of client data and all other information relevant to the billing process
- Delivery of critical reports, such as billing projections and average account values
- Facilities Management
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Minimize the risk associated with managing technology by letting Thomson Reuters manage the day to day infrastructure of your middle-to-back office operations, such as production server management, database administration, disaster recovery, automated work flow / batch management and technical support staffing. Services include:
- Design and maintenance of the infrastructure specific to your customized solutions
- Develop interfaces to third-party platforms for seamless integration
- Automate and support overnight batch processing
- Around the clock access to and monitoring of your dedicated environment – 24X7
- Ensure database and platform integrity by using back up and disaster recovery protocols to meet the requirements of your organization
- At a minimum, annual disaster recovery failover testing coordinated with your organization
Contact Us
Americas Sales
Tel: +1 617 856 2700
EMEA Sales
Tel: +44 207 542 1765
Asia Sales
Tel: +852 3762 3636
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