Consider a morning in the treasury desk of a mid-sized brokerage house where you are managing liquidity for the firm’s proprietary book. You have identified a temporary surplus of Rs 50 crore in the firm’s settlement...
Consider a scenario where a mid-sized corporate client approaches your brokerage firm with surplus cash, seeking to invest in Certificates of Deposit (CDs) issued by a scheduled commercial bank. As an operations...
Picture a busy Wednesday afternoon in your firm’s treasury desk, where the team is preparing to bid for a large block of 91-day Treasury Bills. As an operations professional, your role is to ensure the electronic bid...
Picture this: it is the last Thursday of the month, and your back-office team at a brokerage house is bracing for the expiry of index and stock derivative contracts. While index derivatives are cash-settled, your screen...
A High Net-worth Individual walks into your office, eager to diversify their portfolio with Real Estate Investment Trusts, specifically targeting the newly launched SM REITs. As an operations professional, your first...
A client calls your desk, frustrated that their broker’s app shows an error during a request to convert their IDRs into underlying foreign equity shares. They want to move these holdings to their foreign brokerage...
A common situation in a broking firm involves an HNI client calling to express frustration that their corporate bond portfolio, held across various private apps, lacks transparency and centralized reporting. Previously,...
A common situation in a broking back office occurs when a Thursday, typically the final trading day for monthly derivative contracts, falls on a public holiday such as Republic Day or a sudden state-declared bank...
A common situation in a broking back office occurs during the record date of a corporate action when a client calls, frustrated that they did not receive voting ballots despite holding a company's debenture in their...
A common situation in a broking back office occurs when a client calls, panicked that their 'buy' position in a derivative contract is showing as a liability rather than an asset. As an operations professional, you must...