Prime Services

Reduce operational costs and improve performance with hosted global prime services

S&P Global provides hosted solutions to buy and sell-side customers looking to reduce the costs and operating complexities associated with the prime finance market. Our modular, customizable system processes and validates trade information in real time, providing for better position management, asset allocation and customer service.

Comprehensive and flexible multi-asset functionality helps you optimize opportunities by quickly expanding product sets and scaling your business. Our prime finance customers also benefit from access to high volume capacity and cost efficiencies.

• Swaps – Supporting the full swap lifecycle, our swap platform runs from inception to reset to payments. Criteria-based parameters and user inputs enable the system to generate fast, accurate cash flows. The service is both flexible and customizable and is designed to handle complex deals and multi-branch implementations
• Cash trading – With full function or modular global prime brokerage, our cash trading services offer significant cost efficiencies compared to in-house models. Features include trade capture and management, position keeping, arranged finance, asset-based billing and rehypothecation and rules-based margin lending. The customizable customer service workstation provides real-time information.
• Securities lending – Our securities lending service manages the global trading book through one system with real-time views and analytics. Features include inventory management, the ability to manage fails and control risks, auto borrows and optimized trading tools.
• Reporting – Consolidate, customize and distribute capital markets reporting in a single environment. Our reporting services can be deployed as a standalone hosted web portal environment or styled to link from within your existing portals.

Key Benefits

• Risk reduction – Reduce operational and market risk by accessing accurate real-time information
• Speed to market – Leverage our strong track record of rapid implementation times to redeploy resources to higher ROI-producing activities
• Strong support – We provide global support, 24/7, by banking experts
• Cost reduction – Secure hosting helps you reduce OPEX and CAPEX
• Greater transparency – See a real-time, accurate overview of your prime financing activities in a single portal