Broker

Sernova Financial’s direct clearing solutions for brokers and bilateral processing empower your firm to introduce significant operational, cost, and margin efficiencies for clients across all asset classes and market segments.

Sernova is the future of your post-trade requirements: Specialise. Scale. Streamline.

ETD

Clear exchange-traded derivatives with confidence.

We provide a modern and efficient solution that empowers your organisation to take control of futures and options clearing operations.

Our partnership approach and cutting-edge technology ensure savings of between 30-80% compared to legacy systems.

Features

Global exchange management

24/7 operational support and transaction processing

Reference data management

Regulatory reporting

Collateral management solution

Accounting feeds

Reconciliations

Benefits

Reduces operational risk and improves accuracy

Increases efficiency and streamlines workflows

Provides real-time insights and a comprehensive view of trading positions and exposures

Enhances transparency

Optimises collateral usage by enabling cross-margining with your cleared OTC and repo positions

Testimonial

“Our clients expect the best clearing solutions, and Sernova provides this. Together we are strengthening our clearing capabilities and enhancing the overall user experience. We are confident that this partnership will bring long-term value and growth to RBI and our clients.”

Christian Geberth, Division Head Group Prime Services at Raiffeisen Bank International

Bilateral

Take control of your uncleared over-the-counter trades with Sernova’s bilateral solution.

Sernova’s expertise in bilateral trading enables you to automate processes and improve regulatory compliance.

We reduce complexity, implement and scale faster, and reduce costs more than any other provider.

Features

Consolidated X-product trade capture and affirmation

Counterparty risk management

Collateral management including dispute resolution

Margin management

Back office valuation and pricing

Lifecycle management

Reporting, including client, downstream and regulatory

Benefits

Reduced operating and investment costs for a complete back office solution

Flexible infrastructure provides reduced time to market while increasing levels of control

Supports relationship-based trading

Facilitates the trading of less standardised products

Testimonial

Sernova enabled a non-bank broker to provide new and differentiating services to its own clients cost-effectively. By providing bilateral OTC transaction management services to the client, they were able to enter the market in record time. Our services also supported enhanced automation, reporting, and funding efficiencies.

Major Broker

OTC

Clear OTC derivatives with confidence.

Our advanced solution offers a comprehensive and cost-effective approach to OTC clearing through our shared utility model.

Partnering with us empowers your operations by improving operational efficiency in post-trade processing.

Features

Trade capture and affirmation

Credit checking

Trade processing and lifecycle management

Collateral management, margin management, independent margin validation and cross-margining

Limit management, fee management and risk analytics

Reconciliation

Benefits

Enables revenue generation

Reduces capital costs and supports optimisation strategies

Reduces counterparty risk and enhances transparency

Provides access to wider liquidity pools and cross-margining benefits, optimising collateral usage across multiple CCPs

Improves operational efficiency

Enables compliance with regulatory requirements

Testimonial

“BBVA is focused on providing more and better services to our clients and so we have selected Sernova to ensure that we can more effectively manage a multi-CCP and broker world. This will result in a more automated digital product offering, better pricing and greater flexibility for our customers.”

Ian Downes, Managing Director of CIB Post-trade Business Development at BBVA

Financing

Optimise your financing operations in repo, equities & bonds.

We offer post-trade solutions for derivatives in financing markets. You gain access to multiple clearing houses, settlement and clearing infrastructure, an integrated and automated collateral management system, and robust risk management.

Reducing costs in your post-trade operations.

Features

Multi-CCP trade processing, lifecycle management and netting

Sponsored clearing solutions

Integrated collateral management, margin management and margining optimising solution

Settlement management and tracking

Dedicated client portal

Risk management, data management, and reporting

Benefits

Reduces balance sheet usage and improves funding efficiency

Enables client revenues with provision of sponsored clearing

Reduces counterparty risk & capital requirements, and supports optimisation strategies

Streamlines operational processes and facilitates netting and compression of trades

Enhances transparency

Testimonial

By partnering with clients to support the changing cleared repo environment, Sernova solutions are at the cutting edge of new market infrastructure. This is enabling clients to understand the benefits of cleared repo while speeding the transition to sponsored client adoption.

Major European Bank

Find out more

To discover how Sernova can benefit your firm, contact us today. One of our solutions specialists will be in touch shortly.