Glossary

Every term between trade and settlement.

Standing Settlement Instructions

Pre-agreed instructions specifying how a counterparty's securities and cash should be delivered or received, applied automatically to every qualifying trade.

System of Record Securities Operations

The authoritative single source of truth for a firm's positions, trades, and accounts — the system of record that all other systems, reports, and compliance functions derive from.

Tokenized Collateral Repo Settlement

Repurchase agreements using tokenized securities as collateral, settled on distributed ledger infrastructure for atomic DvP and intraday availability.

Trade Break Management

The exception workflow for identifying, classifying, and resolving post-trade discrepancies before they breach the T+1 affirmation cutoff or trigger CSDR cash penalties.

Trade Break Resolution

The process of resolving data mismatches between trade counterparties before settlement cutoffs to prevent settlement fails.

Trade Capture System

The system that books an executed trade into the firm's official records and initiates the post-trade processing workflow from enrichment and matching through to settlement instruction.

Trade Confirmation Matching

The automated comparison of trade details between counterparties to verify both sides recorded the same economics before settlement instructions are generated.

Trade Enrichment Automation

The automated augmentation of a raw trade capture with settlement instructions, counterparty identifiers, and regulatory fields required for clearing and settlement.

Trade Lifecycle Management

The discipline of tracking a securities trade through every stage — from order and execution to settlement and position update — with exceptions detected at each handoff.