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Capital markets transformation and architecture
Architecture. Not configuration.
Four capabilities, applied to front-to-back platform change for banks and hedge funds. Each one concentrates where delivery risk does.
Four capabilities
One decision, followed through the system.
Transformation and architecture lead. Accounting, risk, post-trade and assurance follow the same decision through the system.
01Transformation and solution architectureModernization · Architecture · Operating modelArchitecture risk concentrates in the decision taken once and inherited everywhere. An operating model chosen for the front office is still the operating model at the close.02Accounting and controlsAccounting · Reconciliation · ControlsControl risk concentrates between the trade and its treatment. A system can be right about the position and wrong about the ledger, and the difference surfaces at the close.03Trading, risk and post-tradePricing · Collateral · LifecyclePost-trade risk concentrates in the lifecycle event nobody planned for. A position that behaves at inception can still break at exercise.04Automation and transformation assuranceTesting · Validation · ReadinessAssurance risk concentrates in the exception. Happy-path coverage passes, and the break that matters arrives at month end.
Architecture risk concentrates in the decision taken once and inherited everywhere. An operating model chosen for the front office is still the operating model at the close.
Discuss this capabilityGo-live is not success.
Success is the first close, the first regulatory submission, and the first exception handled by the people who now own the system.
Engagement approach
01
Architecture definition
Accounting treatment, capital impact, and regulatory requirements are defined before vendors or platforms enter the conversation.
02
Lifecycle mapping
Every instrument type is mapped through its full lifecycle, identifying where accounting, risk, and capital intersect.
03
Validation design
Validation is designed against edges and stress scenarios rather than happy-path processing.
04
Control transfer
Documentation is written for successors rather than for project sign-off, building internal capability instead of dependency.
Platform depth
Deep expertise in Nasdaq Calypso.
Calypso work since 2004, across front office, risk, accounting, collateral, operations, testing, migration, and implementation.
Review Calypso expertiseIntelligent automation
Applied where the work already is.
Not a practice of its own. Automation is applied to processes the firm already runs by hand: testing, controls, reconciliation, exception management, migration, and operations.
Start a conversation
Start with the mandate.
Share the platform change, current constraint, and decision that needs senior attention. Ulysses will respond directly.
A useful first note includes the current platform state, delivery stage, and the issue requiring attention.
Discuss a mandate
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