Securities Operations: A Guide to Operations and Information Systems in the Securities Industry

As the industry-altering shift from Trade Date +5 to Trade Date +3 grows ever closer, securities operations executives and managers are looking for facts, figures and updates on new technology that will enable them to meet the new 3-day settlement periods. This text ties together much-needed information on the "back office" (operations) and the "data processing" (information systems) functions of international securities industries.

This book ties together the much-needed information on the "back-office" (operations) and the "data processing" (information systems) functions of the US and international securities industries. Executives, managers, and sales and trading professionals will learn, firsthand, how to provide the back-office support for cashiering, transfer, margin, and branch office operations; plan and fund the high-tech data processing systems to support trading, sales, and oeprations; manage technology in today's dynamically changing multi- currency world; and much more.