The current economic climate worldwide has led to a drive toward reducing operational risk and costs throughout the financial services industry. Says Christian Gastager, Equity Trading, Bayerische Landesbank, "For our front office equity trading system, OM's Institutional Order and Trade Management system presents the best fit for eliminating the manual process of exception handling and toward full automation of the front office order and trade process. We are confident that OM with its trusted brand will deliver benefits to our customers."
OM's Institutional Trade and Order Management solution is an integral part of the front to back office solutions suite which offers trade management, order management, position keeping and order routing to the retail and institutional financial services industry. It is able to be easily integrated to in-house legacy systems and its modular format has meant that banks are able to eliminate most of the manual process of order and trade management, hence increasing efficiency and reducing costs and operational risk throughout the company. "This endorsement by Bayerische Landesbank has created a first significant step toward penetration into the German market, OM is at the forefront of front office transaction technology." says James Stoker, OM Sales Manager, Front Office Solutions.
OM's Front Office solutions cover the entire trading cycle from trade capture through to settlement, facilitating the move toward Straight Through Processing (STP). As says Jan-Gotz Reichwald, Managing Director, OM Germany comments "Our expertise in transaction technology has been extended to over 300 clients and 25 Exchanges worldwide in both energy and financial markets. Our knowledge can only mean that banks receive optimum service and expertise in improving their services to their clients"