SHIFTING GEARS: DERIVATIVES BEFORE AND AFTER COVID-19

The global quarantine and business lockdown associated with COVID-19 drove the derivatives industry to apply a traditional business processing model, built primarily on legacy infrastructure, to confront increased market turbulence, falling interest rates and work-from-home (WFH) restrictions. As the industry exits the COVID-19 off-ramp, where it goes next will determine its future state of resilience.

MAIN CHALLENGES DURING LOCKDOWN

Is your infrastructure able to accommodate a home-based workforce over the long haul?

What can you automate to remove the stops and promote straight-through processing?

Are you headed down the road to recovery? Would you like to accelerate your progress?

MOST CHALLENGING PEAK-PERIOD PROCESSING PRACTICES

WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE IN THE NEXT 6 MONTHS

*FIS polled 313 participants from the AMERICAS, EMEA and APAC in various leadership and management roles during our latest webinar on 5 May 2020 hosted by Greenwich Associates. Participants were able to select multiple poll answers.

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Increasing efficiency

Reducing cost

Expanding product

offerings

Enhancing customer

experience

Productivity issues related to WFH

restrictions

46%

Intraday margins

Technology capacity and

resilience measures

52%Risk management

tools (market/credit/operational)

37%Market practices

and processes

33%Staffing capacity

and resilience measures

30%

Manual credit checking

Handling client inquiries

Capacity planning

Client allocations

42% 31% 27% 23% 19%

Infrastructure issues related to

system access

26%Delays and manual

interventions related to high volumes

19%Technology resilience

issues related to high volumes

7%

Before COVID-19Derivatives Clearing Infrastructure

Investment Focus

After COVID-19 New Priorities Take Front Seat*

FIS CLEARED DERIVATIVES A Strategic Solution For Post-trade Derivatives

Our comprehensive offering of technology and managed services is designed to cross over to the “new normal” focusing on resiliency and flexibility to rapidly transform your post-trade functionality, including real-time responsiveness to current and future market volumes, middle- and back-office integration, and the latest innovations in cleared derivatives processing. Our modularized functionality provides you the flexibility to create the deployment that best suits your business with all the efficiency benefits of getting an integrated suite of components from a single vendor.

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