Glossary

Every term between trade and settlement.

Reference Data Management

The governance and maintenance of static data that financial systems depend on — instrument identifiers, counterparty LEIs, and settlement rules — to process transactions correctly.

Regulatory Reporting — Securities

The post-trade obligation to submit structured trade data — transactions, positions, and order lifecycle events — to regulators under MiFID II, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, and CAT to establish the supervisory record of each trade.

RIA Trading Platform Post Trade

RIA trading platform post-trade is the adviser workflow that verifies model-driven trades after execution across client accounts, allocations, restrictions, custodian feeds, corrections, reconciliation, and audit evidence.

Rule 15c3-3 Customer Protection Rule

SEC rule requiring broker-dealers to hold customer securities in possession or control and fund the Special Reserve Bank Account through the reserve formula.

Rule 17a-3

The SEC rule requiring registered broker-dealers to create and maintain current books and records for every securities transaction - including the blotter, general ledger, customer account ledgers, order tickets, and net capital computation.

Rule 17a-5

Rule 17a-5 requires registered broker-dealers to file periodic FOCUS Reports and annual audited financial statements with their designated examining authority and the SEC.

RWA Settlement Operations

RWA settlement operations is the institutional workflow for settling tokenized real-world asset transfers against an on-chain payment leg, with programmable compliance enforcement and continuous oracle-based valuation.