FINANCIAL OPERATIONS AUTOMATION

Financial process automation and exception management

Certain post-trade processes still rely on a combination of applications, messaging, manual tasks and distributed controls. ARENA helps structure these processes through workflows, rules, statuses and controls, automating repetitive tasks and facilitating the management of cases that require intervention. ARENA helps understand the impact, make the necessary decisions and take change into production, combining financial expertise, technological capabilities and experience in critical environments.

Efficiency, automation and operational control

Events, instructions, confirmations, positions and deadlines may still depend on emails, spreadsheets or manual reviews. Shorter operational windows and increasing volumes make it necessary to improve automation without losing the ability to manage exceptions.

Manual intervention in increasingly tight operational windows

At ARENA, we structure statuses, rules, decisions and exceptions to automate processes end to end. We integrate data, messaging and applications, automating standard cases while providing Operations with the information needed when a flow requires review or intervention.

Workflows tailored to financial operations

How we can help

Financial workflow design

Definition of business rules and statuses

Event capture and processing

Instruction and confirmation management

Automated validations

Deadline and priority management

Work queues and exception management

Position and instruction reconciliation

Traceability of decisions and changes

Integration with custodians, CSDs and internal systems

Benefits for your institution

Higher level of automated processing

Cases that meet the defined rules can move forward without unnecessary manual intervention.

Better exception management

Operations teams have access to the status, information and context associated with each incident.

Less reliance on manual processes

Rules and controls are embedded into the workflow instead of relying on tasks performed outside the system.

Greater process traceability

The evolution of each case, the decisions made and the actions taken are recorded throughout the process.

Processes with the greatest automation potential

Corporate actions

Events, positions, options, elections and instructions.

T+1 and post-trade

Allocations, confirmations, instructions, fails and exceptions.

Settlement

Statuses, incidents and instruction monitoring.

Regulatory processes

Validations, corrections, approvals and reprocessing.

How we work together

We analyse the current process

Tasks, statuses, rules, data and exceptions.

We design the workflow

Automations, roles, controls and decision points.

We integrate systems and data

Connectivity, configuration and testing.

We review operations

STP, processing times, exceptions and recurring causes.

Looking to take your operations automation further?

Let’s talk about how to automate processes, reduce manual tasks and maintain control over exceptions.