Glossary

Every term between trade and settlement.

MiCA Digital Asset Operations

The EU regulatory framework governing crypto-asset issuance and service provision — covering EMT and ART stablecoins, CASP authorization, and travel rule compliance — fully operational since December 2024.

Middle Office Software

The control layer between execution and settlement that automates trade validation, compliance monitoring, allocation, IBOR maintenance, and exception management in real time under T+1 and hybrid digital asset workflows.

Multi-Prime Broker Reconciliation

Multi-prime broker reconciliation is the workflow for matching position, cash, financing, borrow, margin, collateral, and trade records across multiple prime brokers against an independent fund record.

Natural Language Portfolio Questions

Natural language portfolio questions let institutional users ask about positions, cash, exposure, performance, restrictions, and breaks while the answer remains grounded in controlled portfolio records.

Natural Language Trading

Natural language trading converts a user's plain-language trade intent into a structured order draft, validation record, human review step, routing instruction, and audit trail.

Nostro / Vostro Reconciliation

Comparing a firm's nostro ledger against correspondent bank statements — closing fee, FX, and value date breaks before they become T+1 settlement funding failures.

Nostro Reconciliation Benchmark

A nostro reconciliation benchmark is the operating standard a firm uses to judge whether cash breaks are acceptable, aging, material, owned, escalated, and evidenced.

Nostro Reconciliation Break Management

The ops workflow for classifying, aging, and resolving nostro breaks — from break identification and SWIFT query through wash account entry and escalation.

NSCC Continuous Net Settlement

DTCC's central counterparty that novates equity trades, nets obligations multilaterally by CUSIP, and carries unsettled positions until DvP finality at DTC.