# **Post-Trade Risk Reduction with Core-Payments®**

##### **Proactively mitigate post-trade risk with real-time visibility and an advanced level of control across the entire operational lifecycle, wholesale payments process and all business silos.**

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## **Post-Trade Risk Reduction Challenges**

Reducing post trade risks – including payment, operational, liquidity and counterparty risks – challenges many banks. Siloed systems, delayed batch-generated data, and escalation and operational processes requiring manual intervention, mean teams lack critical real-time visibility into payment and settlement flows, or access to automated firm-wide risk controls. These limitations leave firms vulnerable to inefficiencies, operational errors, and potential disruptions.

Core-Payments enables banks to overcome these constraints providing access to real-time and historical payment intelligence, actionable analytics, and automated, conditional, controls. Delivering the real-time oversight and control required for post trade risk reduction, Core-Payments empowers firms to more effectively process safe and optimised payments and settlements across all business areas.

## **Delivering Post Trade Risk Oversight and Control**

Core-Payments is designed to transform post trade risk management, enabling banks to tackle key operational, counterparty and liquidity risks while streamlining processes, maintaining business agility and efficiencies.

##### **Why Core-Payments?**

- **Complete Visibility** – Consolidate data from across business silos into real-time, intuitive dashboards.
- **Proactive Post Trade Risk Mitigation** – Leverage data-driven predictive analytics to detect issues and automate swift responses.
- **Enhanced Payment Risk Control** – Instantly activate firm-wide payment hold and release rules across all required payments and settlements.

## **Intelligent, Modular Post Trade Risk Management Solutions**

### **Identify Post Trade Risks**

- Set up **low-code alerts,** configured to your business requirements to monitor critical thresholds in real-time.
- Access **intuitive real-time dashboards** consolidating fragmented data into actionable insights.

### **Accurately Assess Post Trade Risks**

- Analyse **time-stamped historical and real-time data**, exposing patterns and risks.
- Use advanced **stress testing** capabilities and **precision forecasting** to anticipate potential impacts.
- **Assess financial resilience** and enable more **informed data-driven decision-making**.

### **Effective Post Trade Risk Mitigation**

- Automate the controlled and conditional release of cash settlements with **payment-on-payment (PoP)** capabilities.
- Implement **real-time no-code payment hold and controlled release rules**.
- Automatically adjust risk management strategies in real-time in response to intraday market developments.

## **Post Trade Risk Reduction: The Benefits of Core-Payments**

Elevate your firm’s **post trade risk mitigation strategies** with a modular, cloud-based platform designed to scale and adapt to meet future business needs and an evolving settlements environment:

#### **Counterparty Risk Reduction**

- Conduct **real-time payment reconciliations** and **assign cash flows against specific obligations** and **counterparties**.
- **Assess counterparty exposure** in real-time.
- **Safely settle** on a payment-on-payment (PoP) basis with **automated, conditional controls** so payments are only released once obligations are met.

#### **Liquidity Oversight and Resilience**

- Monitor intraday liquidity with **real-time low-code alerts** to quickly identify and escalate issues.
- **Forecast intraday demands** and **automatically adjust payment sequencing** to avoid shortfalls.
- **Stress test liquidity** by currency or counterparty to enhance financial resilience.

#### **Operational Risk Reduction**

- Replace manual processes with **collaborative, automated workflows**.
- **Identify operational bottlenecks and fails** across business silos with Core-Payment’s **real-time dashboard**.

#### **Enhanced Payment Supervision**

- Activate **configurable alerts for real-time payment monitoring**.
- **View consolidated data sourced from multiple systems** in real-time, related to counterparty and liquidity exposures.

### **Build a More Resilient Post Trade Process Today**

Core-Payments transforms your firm’s ability to adapt and thrive in an evolving settlements landscape. Whether it’s reducing counterparty exposure, optimising liquidity, or achieving operational excellence, Core-Payments helps your business to stay steps ahead of potential post trade risks while driving business efficiency.

Make informed data-driven decisions, act with confidence, and achieve more reliable post trade outcomes with **Core-Payments**, the gold standard solution for **post trade risk reduction**.