# **Optimising Post-trade Operations**

##### Discover how Core-Payments **®** could help your firm to enhance risk management and control across the entire post-trade operations process, empower your business to scale and introduce a new level of efficiency with automated, configurable workflows powered by real-time payment data.

### Automate and Increase Netting to Drive Post-Trade Efficiencies

## **Systematically Mitigate Post-trade Operations Risks, Elevate Efficiency and Reduce Operations Costs**

Outdated and costly post-trade payment and settlement processes, often requiring manual intervention, generate significant challenges for post-trade operations. With limited oversight, a lack of [real-time payment information](/content/insights/blog-posts/reduce-intraday-funding-needs-with-real-time-insight/index.html) and siloed payment controls, operations managers often struggle to proactively and systematically mitigate emerging operational risks, drive efficiency programs and effectively reduce operational costs.

Designed to enable post-trade operations to overcome these limitations, [Core-Payments](/content/solutions/real-time-payment-control/index.html):

- Automates operationally intensive processes – powering configurable workflows with real-time data to reduce operational risk, increase capacity, generate efficiencies and cost reductions.
- Provides complete oversight across the end-to-end payment and settlement process and access to real-time payments intelligence.
- Equips firms to [proactively reduce payment risk](/content/mitigate-payment-system-risk-with-batons-on-demand-rules/index.html) with the ability to instantly implement consistent firm-wide payment controls.
- Empowers users to automate safe-settlement via payment on payment (PoP) mechanisms with the ability to configure and control the release of payment instructions.

**Core-Payments: Bringing structure, consistency, control and auditability to the post-trade operational management of payment functions.**

**_Real-time Payment Reconciliations •_** **_Automated Configurable Netting •_** **_Automated Pre-Settlement Affirmations • Automated Settlement Splitting • Real-time Payment Insight • Firm-Wide Payment Hold and Release Controls_**

#### **Core-Payments Benefits for Operations Managers**

#### **Enhance Supervision and Risk Management with Real-time Alerts and Dashboards**

Continuously reconciling payments as they’re sent and received, users are alerted in real-time to developing situations and can access configurable dashboards detailing settlement obligations, exposures and operational data. **This allows fails to be quickly identified**, and [exceptions managed with greater oversight and increased control](/content/solutions/real-time-payment-control/post-trade-risk-reduction-with-core-payments/index.html) via an **auditable process.**

#### **Build Scalable More Productive Post-trade Operations and Increase Capacity**

Standardise and streamline time-consuming manual processes with automated, collaborative workflows powered by real-time data, configurable rules and controls – processes including **[real-time payment reconciliations](/content/mitigating-counterparty-risk-harness-the-power-of-real-time-reconciliations/index.html), [netting](/content/netting-solving-operational-challenges-with-batons-core-fx-solution/index.html), pre-settlement affirmation, [settlement splitting](/content/insights/blog-posts/reduce-the-strain-on-liquidity-management-by-splitting-settlements/index.html)** and **orchestrated, controlled payment on payment (PoP) settlement.**

#### **Reduce High Intensity Manual Workloads in Times of Market Stress**

Providing instant access to the real-time status of all payments and the ability to immediately instigate [firm-wide payment control rules](/content/solutions/real-time-payment-control/post-trade-risk-reduction-with-core-payments/index.html), operational teams can easily instigate remedial actions without the high volume of manual work typically activated today in times of market stress. With Baton’s no-code rules, users can **quickly identify and manage the controlled release of outbound payments and all required approvals.**

#### **Reduce Post-trade Operational Risk and Costs**

**Automate and simplify payment and settlement processes across client and business silos** to reduce errors and associated costs with Baton’s collaborative and automated workflows. Benefit from **real-time alerts** and reports warning of **pending and realised settlement breaks**. Enable the controlled retirement of expensive legacy technologies.

#### **Improve Client Satisfaction and Expand Counterparty Coverage**

Introduce flexible and automated [post-trade processes](/content/site-root.html) that more effectively meet client requirements. Expand counterparty coverage by deploying automated safe-settlement via PoP. Enrich client relationships with online tools and incorporate processes to support new products and processes faster. **Identify and resolve client issues with easy access to post-trade data and the real-time status of payments.**

#### **Enable Liquidity Savings**

Build the operational infrastructure to **enable liquidity managers to access real-time and historic time-stamped [payment data](/content/core-payments-for-business-leaders-why-real-time-access-to-payment-data-is-key-to-long-term-business-success/index.html)** and **orchestrate the controlled release of payment instructions based [liquidity management](/content/solutions/real-time-intraday-liquidity-management-solution/index.html) strategies** such as releasing payments at a specific time, by priority order or when a dependency is met, such as fund availability.