Securities Industry Offering
Our Expertise
Over the last couple of decades, Opera consultants have served several leading securities firms globally. We bring our analytical rigor and understanding of current industry challenges and opportunities to help our clients transform their businesses rapidly.We have served all sectors in the industry:
- Investment Banks
- Asset Management
- Stock Exchanges
- Retail Brokerage
- Private Banks/Financial Advisory
- Securities Processing/Servicing
- Shareholder Services
- Market Data Providers
- Trading
- Research
- Derivatives
- Sales
- Prime Brokerage
- Back Office Operations (e.g. custody, reconciliation, clearing & settlement, trade processing, fund accounting and maintenance, transfer agency, market data)
- Technology development , maintenance, operations and infrastructure
- Fund Accounting & Finance
- Retail Marketing
- Legal (Advisory and Operations)
- Performance Improvement: Trade Execution Performance, Alpha Leakage, Research Performance, Sales Productivity, Shareholder/Advisor/Distributor Loyalty/Satisfaction
- Commercialization: Spin-off of in-house back office operations, Sale/lease-back of in-house technology applications, leveraging back-office advantage to enabling new business opportunity etc.
- Operations Efficiency – Scalable Derivatives Operations, Optimizing Operating Model, Process Reengineering, Benchmarking, Organization Redesign, Outsourcing and Offshoring.
- Technology Transformation: Trading Tool Evaluation & Sourcing, Shared Services, RTB Utilitization, Commercialization, Enabling New Business, Pricing, New Technology Evaluation and Complexity Reduction.
- Extended Enterprise Cost Reduction: Commission Management, Strategic Sourcing of Indirect Goods & Services, Market Data Optimization, Large IT Contract Benchmarking & (Re)Negotiations.