Middle / Back Office Toolkit

Ridge Clearing & Outsourcing's Connect is a web-based interface that gives clients access to account information, and the ability to monitor and manage the transaction life cycle. Through Ridge Connect, you have access to these powerful tools:

eAccounts

A graphical user interface (GUI) based workflow management system that stages accounts through the approval process.

Benefits:

• Real-time approval process ensure new accounts are immediately available for trading
  
  
• User-friendly format for opening and managing accounts
  
  
• Immediate account updating that is instantly reflected in your firm's back-office books and records.
  
  

Trade Management System

Ridge Clearing & Outsourcing provides direct access to our Trade Management System (TMS) for order entry, trade billing and allocations. Integrated with Ridge Clearing & Outsourcing's back-office processing engine, TMS captures real-time or end-of-day trade files from any order management system you choose.

Benefits:

• Supports Financial Information eXchange (FIX) and other standardized formats
  
  

Fixed Income Front End

Ridge Clearing & Outsourcing's Fixed Income Front End (FIFE) will accept trades from all leading bond platforms, including Bloomberg.

Benefits:

• Simplify the complex processing of debt instruments
  
  
• Automatically verifies against Bloomberg for principal, interest, and static data
  
  

One Click

Ridge Clearing & Outsourcing's One Click solution integrates Omgeo ALERT and OASYS to our trade management system and eAccount system. One Click retrieves new account information from ALERT and automatically creates the new account at Ridge Clearing & Outsourcing.

Benefits:

• Eliminates manual data entry
  
  
• Reduces the risk of costly trade fails
  
  
• Streamlines the trade settlement process
  
  

eReports

eReports provides automated access to vital information for your brokers, traders, operations personnel, and compliance and risk managers. Users can generate reports on a daily, weekly, monthly, or ad hoc basis. They can also schedule automatic email delivery of reports to predefined recipients.

Benefits:

• Advanced search capabilities that enables users to generate the reports they are looking for
  
  
• Easily export data into commonly used programs such as Microsoft Excel and Access, or other applications for further analysis
  
  
• Access to over 250 reports