The global financial markets are undergoing significant structural change.  Participants need to capitalise on higher returns from riskier assets, while optimising traditional brokerage businesses that face eroding margins.

Major players continue to develop hybrid business models, building on core revenue streams from brokerage and M&A services, and providing their sophisticated client base with complex structured and derivatives products.  The new business models also see securities firms benefiting from investment in proprietary trading activities and diversification into hedge funds and private equity investment.

All this requires operational excellence - from risk management processes to best-of-breed electronic trading infrastructures.  Firms are also striving to minimise reputational risk through continued regulatory compliance in the face of formidable cross-product line and cross-border implementation challenges presented by directives like MiFID.

Baringa Partners works with its clients to address the challenges created by the current market environment.  These challenges include: supporting simple product commoditisation while retaining operational agility to deliver complex products; creating transparency while continuing to hunt out dark pools of liquidity to deliver best execution; and delivering and maintaining robust risk management processes.

Our services include:

• Specialist financial markets business and IT programme management and delivery expertise
• Risk management and trading platform implementation
• Regulatory programme management and implementation
• Global financial market operational design methodologies
• Pre-merger IT and operations due diligence
• Post-merger integration
• Process definition, design and optimisation skills and capabilities