Solutions
Microsoft believes in delivering products and technologies that help companies achieve a competitive edge. Through a combination of technology and industry partners, we create solutions that inspire innovation, streamline operations, and improve the customer experience.
Institutional Client Platform (ICP)
Reflecting a drive to bring together disparate systems, the Institutional Client Platform (ICP) is for buy- and sell-side firms that want to integrate instant messaging (IM), e-mail and the trader's turret technology.
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Enterprise risk management and compliance
Risk management and compliance focuses on delivering solutions that help enable financial organizations to align their information technology (IT) and business processes to meet risk and compliance requirements, achieve greater operational efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction. Microsoft and its partners also enable companies to integrate information spread across disparate systems for a holistic view of the company, thus empowering employees to identify and share best risk management and compliance practices.
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Advisor platforms
Advisor platforms enable financial advisors to work more effectively and efficiently across information sources and distribution channels to better service clients. By integrating systems, advisors gain a rounded view of the customer, along with a greater ability to cross-sell products. With integrated platforms, financial advisors have more time with customers because they have fewer administrative burdens. This approach begins with enhanced tools for client prospecting and spans every aspect of ongoing relationship management.
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Investment management
The focus on investment management is designed to meet the needs of institutional investors, brokers, dealers, and corporate treasuries by providing partner-led solutions in capital markets. Customers ranging from hedge funds and corporate treasuries to exchanges can benefit from the use of Microsoft-based solutions in their front, middle, and back offices.
- Investment analytics: Provides an opportunity for trade and investment houses to reduce unnecessary human interaction during the trade cycle while recognizing and taking advantage of trends spotted in real-time streaming data. It provides both an entry-level opportunity for customers who wish to enter the electronic trading floor and an upgrade opportunity for those who need to modernize their current investment management.
- Trade compliance: Helping investors achieve best execution, best pricing, and compliance with existing and future regulation frameworks by designing the framework for a comprehensive electronic trade compliance system which streamlines compliance with the many regulations that exist, especially focusing on the two largest: RegNMS and MiFID.
- Investment services: Supporting the trade life cycle, this solution concentrates on those services that brokers, analysts, and investment advisors use to make decisions, evaluate markets, and recommend products. There is a heavy focus on Excel Services along with market data management, streaming real-time quoting systems, and middle and back office settlement systems.
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Microsoft solutions for financial markets and securities focus on improving operational efficiency and developing innovative products and services—all within the frameworks of existing systems and business processes.
Our partners use their deep industry knowledge to build and deploy solutions that fit your business needs.
