WE CAN ENVISION, DESIGN, BUILD,
TEST AND SUPPORT YOUR NEXT
PROJECT.
ADVISORY
• Strategy alignment & roadmap
• Subject matter expertise
• Organizational design & change management
• Process model definition
• Process & architecture definition
• User experience & interface design
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
• Program management (PMO)
• Technology project management
• Agile methodology consulting
• Governance model definition
• Project benchmarking and reporting
• Project & program diagnosis and turnaround
ANALYTICS
• Quantitative methodologies
• Requirements capture
• Audits & process reviews
• Benchmark-driven roadmaps
• Trade & portfolio evaluation
TECHNOLOGY
• Architecture & technical design
• System selection & implementation
• Custom development
• Systems integration
• Data architecture & management
• QA & testing services
• Maintenance & support
OPERATIONS
• Process analysis & optimization
• Testing services
• Outsourced operations
• Operations staff support
• Merger & divesture support
• Trade documentation support
• Middle office
• Outsourcing
Sapient Global Markets, a division of Sapient® (NASDAQ:
SAPE), is a leading provider of services to today’s evolving
financial and commodity markets. We provide a full range
of capabilities to help our clients grow and enhance their
businesses, create robust and transparent infrastructure,
manage operating costs, and foster innovation throughout
their organizations. We offer services across Advisory,
Analytics, Technology, and Process, as well as unique
methodologies in program management, technology
development, and process outsourcing. Sapient Global
Markets operates in key financial and commodity centers
worldwide, including Boston, Chicago, Houston, New
York, Calgary, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf,
Geneva, Munich, Zurich, and Singapore, as well as in
large technology development and operations outsourcing
centers in Bangalore, Delhi, and Noida, India. For more
information, visit www.sapientglobalmarkets.com.
© 2012 Sapient Corporation.
Trademark Information: Sapient and the Sapient logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sapient Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S.
and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE FOR THE
CAPITAL & COMMODITY MARKETS
In today’s dynamic markets, proven experience and expertise is needed to successfully navigate increasingly complex regulatory,
market and infrastructure challenges. As a global provider of business and technology services, Sapient Global Markets has been
helping participants and regulators in the capital and commodity markets do just that for over 20 years. A division of Sapient
(NASDAQ: SAPE), Sapient Global Markets provides technology, advisory, analytics, program management and operations services
to help you address today’s most complex challenges in the areas of trading and risk management. We help solve problems
relating to changing regulatory requirements, achieving competitive advantage and maximizing operational effectiveness. With
first-hand knowledge of what it takes to operate in traded markets, we apply our expertise to help meet challenges, improve
transparency and enhance trading strategy performance in new and innovative ways.
For more information, please contact us at:
sgm@sapient.com
In North America:
+1 (617) 621 0200
In Europe:
+44 (0) 20 7786 4500
OUR CLIENTS INCLUDE
In Asia:
+65 6622 5813
NORTH AMERICA
Boston • Calgary • Chicago • Houston • New York • Toronto
EUROPE
Amsterdam • Düsseldorf • Geneva • London • Munich • Zurich
ASIA
Bangalore • Delhi • Singapore
• Most of the largest global
investment banks
• Six of the top ten investment
managers
• The most influential hedge funds
• Three of the top four integrated
oil and gas companies
• The largest utilities in the world
• The most influential central
banks and regulators
• A variety of exchanges and
clearing houses
TURNING CHALLENGE INTO OPPORTUNITY
Our unique combination of services, capabilities and practice areas equips you
to effect real change within your organization and turn the demands of volatile
markets into opportunity. We have proven experience and expertise helping
financial institutions and regulators create a competitive advantage by evaluating
requirements and providing guidance based on deep industry expertise and
implementation experience.
ALIGNED WITH YOUR BUSINESS
Our capabilities are mapped specifically to the challenges you face and focus on
key areas of need within your organization. We utilize our deep understanding to
identify and develop solutions that will deliver the best results for your business.
To better address challenges at the local or global level, we study the business
model of each segment in which we operate and identify the correct business
framework and critical success factors. Additionally, we work with regulators and
industry bodies in key financial markets to maintain a unique perspective and
understanding of changing requirements.
SERVICES FROM CONCEPT TO DELIVERY – AND BEYOND
Our five service lines provide full coverage of the project lifecycle—from concept to delivery—and beyond. For each
engagement, we partner with you, working closely to identify and deliver the services required to address your needs,
transform your business and optimize operations well into the future. This unique partnership approach allows us to
develop relationships based on openness at every level, shared knowledge and risk and a cultural match.
• ADVISORY
We study and develop best practices in business processes and technology architecture, enabling us to create
relevant industry-leading solutions across the trade and project management lifecycle.
• PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
We provide full lifecycle capabilities across all stages of a project—from concept development to solution design,
implementation, optimization and support. We perform strategic planning, develop enterprise architecture and
provide project support and oversight and IT governance services for all engagements, including large-scale,
multi-vendor initiatives, to ensure the success of your project.
• ANALYTICS
Our experts are industry leaders in such areas as portfolio valuation and market, credit and operational risk
management techniques. We help you select, implement and optimize solutions so you can value and manage
portfolios more effectively and meet increased regulatory requirements.
• TECHNOLOGY
We design, develop, integrate, support
and test software solutions for critical
operational and trading functions.
Our capabilities range from custom
software development to third-party
system integration. By maintaining
core expertise in today’s most relevant
technology platforms, we are able to
create effective solutions that align with
strategic business objectives.
ADVISORY
PROGRAM
MANAGEMENT
ANALYTICS
• OPERATIONS
We design, implement, execute and
enable delivery of some of the most
complex trading and risk management
processes within the capital and
commodity markets. Our combination
of deep industry expertise, a customized
outsourcing methodology and a Global
Distributed Delivery model allows
us to provide support and process
management in the most effective way
possible.
TECHNOLOGY
OPERATIONS
Investment Banks
Investment
Management
Firms
Commodity &
Energy Firms
Intermediaries
Government &
Regulatory Bodies
FOCUSED EXPERTISE THAT MOVES WITH THE MARKETS
We move with the markets, maintaining expertise in the
areas of greatest importance to your business today and
evolving our practices to align with changing market
needs. We attract experts in their fields to lead our
practices and retain them through our people-focused
approach to business. Our featured solutions include:
Data Management
Data is your most valuable resource. We design, develop and
implement innovative solutions around all types of financial data
management initiatives to improve technology, controls and
processes as a result of incomplete or inaccurate data and its flow
through the business. Our work spans areas including data strategy
and transformation, data governance, data warehousing, market
and reference data management, business intelligence, golden copy
creation, security data quality and data architecture, analysis and
design.
Derivative Platforms
We help you improve the technology driving your derivative trading
engines, whether it involves implementing a new front-to-back
trading application to expand product offerings, upgrading existing
systems to gain additional functionality or integrating multiple
systems for improved cross-functional processing. Our experts
understand the derivative trading process and use that knowledge
to craft and implement the best solution for either over-the-counter
(OTC) derivative or exchange-traded derivative (ETD) contracts.
Energy and Commodity Trading Platforms
We help design, implement, optimize and manage your trading
platforms and processes across the entire energy value chain,
from origination through trading, analytics, risk, operations and
settlement. For nearly two decades, we have played a role in the
changing landscape of energy and commodities trading, and our
experts are at the forefront of trading market innovations.
Investment Management
With our deep investment management knowledge, asset class
expertise and extensive experience across the entire investment
life cycle, we help maximize business value by aligning technology
to desired business processes. We apply our unique insight to the
challenges you face today, including research, portfolio risk, trading/
execution, reporting, collateral management, analytics and valuation,
providing solutions across the complete investment lifecycle—from
research to portfolio accounting.
Market Initiatives and Infrastructure
We deliver services relating to the assessment, definition and
execution of strategy, based on the impact of regulatory and industrydriven change. With deep subject matter expertise and extensive
industry experience, we provide valuable insight and the necessary
discipline to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery of change
programs. Our continued success and expertise underscore our
unique position working with leading regulatory and industry bodies
in key financial markets.
Portfolio Accounting
We provide accurate, real-time data for increasingly complex
operating environments. Leveraging an unmatched breadth and
depth of expertise across industry-leading portfolio accounting
packages, we offer the full range of services, including process
alignment, solution design, implementation, outsourcing, technical
hosting, help desk and systems integration needed to help you get
the most from your portfolio accounting system.
Risk Assurance
Using our proven assurance methodology, we provide insight into,
and understanding of, new regulatory requirements to enable
organizations to better adapt and comply. Our experts understand the
end-to-end integration process and operational optimization required
to ensure compliance with today’s and tomorrow’s regulatory and
reporting requirements.
Trade Documentation
With in-depth knowledge of business processes, market standards,
industry solutions, trends and commitments specifically related to
documentation, we provide guidance in the areas of vendor selection,
system/process design, integration and implementation, process
audit and re-engineering and tailored documentation-related
training. And, our experts deliver flexible support services ranging
from targeted portfolio reviews to business and technology platform
support.
Valuation and Risk Analytics
Our experts combine deep market intelligence with the technical
expertise needed to implement best practices for valuation—from
price discovery, to trading, hedging, risk management, P&L and
reporting. Our consulting and technology capabilities, along with our
understanding of models and complex instruments, allow us to help
solve the most difficult challenges in valuation and risk mitigation for
derivatives and complex securities.
Visualization
We help you improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your
traders by designing and building intuitive, graphical interfaces and
visualizations that enable you to better identify opportunities, value,
strategies and risk across the entire investment lifecycle. Our team
of designers and technology experts infuses industry knowledge
with standard research methodologies and a user-centered design
process to develop high-performance, dynamic applications for
desktop, web, mobile and large displays.
SERVICES FROM CONCEPT TO DELIVERY – AND BEYOND
Our five service lines provide full coverage of the project lifecycle—from concept to delivery—and beyond. For each
engagement, we partner with you, working closely to identify and deliver the services required to address your needs,
transform your business and optimize operations well into the future. This unique partnership approach allows us to
develop relationships based on openness at every level, shared knowledge and risk and a cultural match.
• ADVISORY
We study and develop best practices in business processes and technology architecture, enabling us to create
relevant industry-leading solutions across the trade and project management lifecycle.
• PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
We provide full lifecycle capabilities across all stages of a project—from concept development to solution design,
implementation, optimization and support. We perform strategic planning, develop enterprise architecture and
provide project support and oversight and IT governance services for all engagements, including large-scale,
multi-vendor initiatives, to ensure the success of your project.
• ANALYTICS
Our experts are industry leaders in such areas as portfolio valuation and market, credit and operational risk
management techniques. We help you select, implement and optimize solutions so you can value and manage
portfolios more effectively and meet increased regulatory requirements.
• TECHNOLOGY
We design, develop, integrate, support
and test software solutions for critical
operational and trading functions.
Our capabilities range from custom
software development to third-party
system integration. By maintaining
core expertise in today’s most relevant
technology platforms, we are able to
create effective solutions that align with
strategic business objectives.
ADVISORY
PROGRAM
MANAGEMENT
ANALYTICS
• OPERATIONS
We design, implement, execute and
enable delivery of some of the most
complex trading and risk management
processes within the capital and
commodity markets. Our combination
of deep industry expertise, a customized
outsourcing methodology and a Global
Distributed Delivery model allows
us to provide support and process
management in the most effective way
possible.
TECHNOLOGY
OPERATIONS
Investment Banks
Investment
Management
Firms
Commodity &
Energy Firms
Intermediaries
Government &
Regulatory Bodies
FOCUSED EXPERTISE THAT MOVES WITH THE MARKETS
We move with the markets, maintaining expertise in the
areas of greatest importance to your business today and
evolving our practices to align with changing market
needs. We attract experts in their fields to lead our
practices and retain them through our people-focused
approach to business. Our featured solutions include:
Data Management
Data is your most valuable resource. We design, develop and
implement innovative solutions around all types of financial data
management initiatives to improve technology, controls and
processes as a result of incomplete or inaccurate data and its flow
through the business. Our work spans areas including data strategy
and transformation, data governance, data warehousing, market
and reference data management, business intelligence, golden copy
creation, security data quality and data architecture, analysis and
design.
Derivative Platforms
We help you improve the technology driving your derivative trading
engines, whether it involves implementing a new front-to-back
trading application to expand product offerings, upgrading existing
systems to gain additional functionality or integrating multiple
systems for improved cross-functional processing. Our experts
understand the derivative trading process and use that knowledge
to craft and implement the best solution for either over-the-counter
(OTC) derivative or exchange-traded derivative (ETD) contracts.
Energy and Commodity Trading Platforms
We help design, implement, optimize and manage your trading
platforms and processes across the entire energy value chain,
from origination through trading, analytics, risk, operations and
settlement. For nearly two decades, we have played a role in the
changing landscape of energy and commodities trading, and our
experts are at the forefront of trading market innovations.
Investment Management
With our deep investment management knowledge, asset class
expertise and extensive experience across the entire investment
life cycle, we help maximize business value by aligning technology
to desired business processes. We apply our unique insight to the
challenges you face today, including research, portfolio risk, trading/
execution, reporting, collateral management, analytics and valuation,
providing solutions across the complete investment lifecycle—from
research to portfolio accounting.
Market Initiatives and Infrastructure
We deliver services relating to the assessment, definition and
execution of strategy, based on the impact of regulatory and industrydriven change. With deep subject matter expertise and extensive
industry experience, we provide valuable insight and the necessary
discipline to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery of change
programs. Our continued success and expertise underscore our
unique position working with leading regulatory and industry bodies
in key financial markets.
Portfolio Accounting
We provide accurate, real-time data for increasingly complex
operating environments. Leveraging an unmatched breadth and
depth of expertise across industry-leading portfolio accounting
packages, we offer the full range of services, including process
alignment, solution design, implementation, outsourcing, technical
hosting, help desk and systems integration needed to help you get
the most from your portfolio accounting system.
Risk Assurance
Using our proven assurance methodology, we provide insight into,
and understanding of, new regulatory requirements to enable
organizations to better adapt and comply. Our experts understand the
end-to-end integration process and operational optimization required
to ensure compliance with today’s and tomorrow’s regulatory and
reporting requirements.
Trade Documentation
With in-depth knowledge of business processes, market standards,
industry solutions, trends and commitments specifically related to
documentation, we provide guidance in the areas of vendor selection,
system/process design, integration and implementation, process
audit and re-engineering and tailored documentation-related
training. And, our experts deliver flexible support services ranging
from targeted portfolio reviews to business and technology platform
support.
Valuation and Risk Analytics
Our experts combine deep market intelligence with the technical
expertise needed to implement best practices for valuation—from
price discovery, to trading, hedging, risk management, P&L and
reporting. Our consulting and technology capabilities, along with our
understanding of models and complex instruments, allow us to help
solve the most difficult challenges in valuation and risk mitigation for
derivatives and complex securities.
Visualization
We help you improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your
traders by designing and building intuitive, graphical interfaces and
visualizations that enable you to better identify opportunities, value,
strategies and risk across the entire investment lifecycle. Our team
of designers and technology experts infuses industry knowledge
with standard research methodologies and a user-centered design
process to develop high-performance, dynamic applications for
desktop, web, mobile and large displays.
WE CAN ENVISION, DESIGN, BUILD,
TEST AND SUPPORT YOUR NEXT
PROJECT.
ADVISORY
• Strategy alignment & roadmap
• Subject matter expertise
• Organizational design & change management
• Process model definition
• Process & architecture definition
• User experience & interface design
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
• Program management (PMO)
• Technology project management
• Agile methodology consulting
• Governance model definition
• Project benchmarking and reporting
• Project & program diagnosis and turnaround
ANALYTICS
• Quantitative methodologies
• Requirements capture
• Audits & process reviews
• Benchmark-driven roadmaps
• Trade & portfolio evaluation
TECHNOLOGY
• Architecture & technical design
• System selection & implementation
• Custom development
• Systems integration
• Data architecture & management
• QA & testing services
• Maintenance & support
OPERATIONS
• Process analysis & optimization
• Testing services
• Outsourced operations
• Operations staff support
• Merger & divesture support
• Trade documentation support
• Middle office
• Outsourcing
Sapient Global Markets, a division of Sapient® (NASDAQ:
SAPE), is a leading provider of services to today’s evolving
financial and commodity markets. We provide a full range
of capabilities to help our clients grow and enhance their
businesses, create robust and transparent infrastructure,
manage operating costs, and foster innovation throughout
their organizations. We offer services across Advisory,
Analytics, Technology, and Process, as well as unique
methodologies in program management, technology
development, and process outsourcing. Sapient Global
Markets operates in key financial and commodity centers
worldwide, including Boston, Chicago, Houston, New
York, Calgary, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf,
Geneva, Munich, Zurich, and Singapore, as well as in
large technology development and operations outsourcing
centers in Bangalore, Delhi, and Noida, India. For more
information, visit www.sapientglobalmarkets.com.
© 2012 Sapient Corporation.
Trademark Information: Sapient and the Sapient logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sapient Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S.
and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE FOR THE
CAPITAL & COMMODITY MARKETS
In today’s dynamic markets, proven experience and expertise is needed to successfully navigate increasingly complex regulatory,
market and infrastructure challenges. As a global provider of business and technology services, Sapient Global Markets has been
helping participants and regulators in the capital and commodity markets do just that for over 20 years. A division of Sapient
(NASDAQ: SAPE), Sapient Global Markets provides technology, advisory, analytics, program management and operations services
to help you address today’s most complex challenges in the areas of trading and risk management. We help solve problems
relating to changing regulatory requirements, achieving competitive advantage and maximizing operational effectiveness. With
first-hand knowledge of what it takes to operate in traded markets, we apply our expertise to help meet challenges, improve
transparency and enhance trading strategy performance in new and innovative ways.
For more information, please contact us at:
sgm@sapient.com
In North America:
+1 (617) 621 0200
In Europe:
+44 (0) 20 7786 4500
OUR CLIENTS INCLUDE
In Asia:
+65 6622 5813
NORTH AMERICA
Boston • Calgary • Chicago • Houston • New York • Toronto
EUROPE
Amsterdam • Düsseldorf • Geneva • London • Munich • Zurich
ASIA
Bangalore • Delhi • Singapore
• Most of the largest global
investment banks
• Six of the top ten investment
managers
• The most influential hedge funds
• Three of the top four integrated
oil and gas companies
• The largest utilities in the world
• The most influential central
banks and regulators
• A variety of exchanges and
clearing houses
TURNING CHALLENGE INTO OPPORTUNITY
Our unique combination of services, capabilities and practice areas equips you
to effect real change within your organization and turn the demands of volatile
markets into opportunity. We have proven experience and expertise helping
financial institutions and regulators create a competitive advantage by evaluating
requirements and providing guidance based on deep industry expertise and
implementation experience.
ALIGNED WITH YOUR BUSINESS
Our capabilities are mapped specifically to the challenges you face and focus on
key areas of need within your organization. We utilize our deep understanding to
identify and develop solutions that will deliver the best results for your business.
To better address challenges at the local or global level, we study the business
model of each segment in which we operate and identify the correct business
framework and critical success factors. Additionally, we work with regulators and
industry bodies in key financial markets to maintain a unique perspective and
understanding of changing requirements.