Middle Office

Middle office without the overnight backlog

  • Continuous recon Positions, cash, P&L, and breaks fully explained
  • Live IBOR Real-time books at fund and PM level
  • Risk in the flow Pre- and post-trade limits enforced as you trade
  • Global coverage Automation plus optional 24×6.5 human support

ForeStrat runs the manager-side control layer across global markets with TradeStrat and MatchStrat: continuous ops you own, put together within days.

Current-state pain

Where today’s middle office breaks down

Most funds still stitch middle office from end-of-day batches, spreadsheets, point recon tools, and outsourced BPO desks. The work gets done, but latency, opacity, and headcount scale with volume.

Administrator and outsourcing relationships stay valuable for official books. The pain sits on the manager side: the operational book that must be correct before the street and the admin catch up.

01Overnight break backlogs that start every morning in firefighting mode
02Batch-only matching with no intraday control as settlement compresses
03Fragile broker feeds and one-off scripts that fail silently
04IBOR drift vs PB and admin books until T+1 or later
05Risk limits documented in IMAs, enforced inconsistently in ops
06Recurring breaks reworked from scratch with no institutional memory
07MO headcount that scales with AUM, broker count, and PM count
08Outsourced opacity: tickets move, but root cause stays in someone else’s queue
09Volume-based SaaS and admin pricing that balloons as activity grows
10New PM or strategy launches measured in months of ops reconfiguration
Scope of work

What middle office operations actually covers

A complete list of the work between the fill and the administrator. This is the surface area ForeStrat is built to run continuously, not only at T+1.

Trade lifecycle & allocations

  • Capture, normalize, and warehouse fills across brokers and venues
  • Allocations, affirmations, and give-ups across accounts and PMs
  • Order lifecycle state across equities, FX, futures, and options
  • Exception handling when street confirms diverge from the blotter

Positions, cash & IBOR

  • Intraday and end-of-day position books at fund and PM level
  • Cash balances, financing, locates, and margin movements
  • Real-time Investment Book of Record from fills, not overnight batches
  • P&L and exposure views ops and risk can trust before the close

Corporate actions & reference

  • Mandatory and voluntary event processing against the position book
  • Identifier and security master alignment across brokers and custodians
  • Entitlement impact on positions, cash, and P&L
  • Point-in-time reference so historical breaks remain explainable

Broker, PB & custodian ops

  • Connectivity and post-trade configuration to PBs, EBs, and custodians
  • Daily broker and custodian statement intake
  • Margin calls, collateral movements, and financing disputes
  • Operational follow-up when counterparties and books disagree

Risk, limits & surveillance

  • Pre- and post-trade limit checks against IMA and desk policy
  • Gross/net exposure, concentration, drawdown, and instrument restrictions
  • Compliance and surveillance hooks inside the trade flow
  • Multi-PM limit enforcement with fund-level consolidation

Reconciliation & break resolution

  • Cash, positions, trades, NAV components, and collateral matching
  • IBOR versus administrator (ABOR) and PB statement alignment
  • Break triage, root-cause analysis, and resolution workflows
  • Memory of recurring break patterns so known items auto-resolve
How ForeStrat is better

Streaming infrastructure, not another ops queue

TradeStrat and MatchStrat run as connected infrastructure inside your environment. AI automation handles the known path; experienced operators backstop the exceptions. You keep the administrator for official books. You own the middle office control plane.

Area
Typical today
With ForeStrat
Trade lifecycle
Blotter + overnight files + email exceptions
Real-time capture into TradeStrat across brokers and PMs
Positions & P&L
End-of-day positions; intraday views often trust-deficient
In-memory IBOR updated as fills arrive
Corporate actions
Manual event processing against stale books
Event processing tied to live positions and security master
Risk & limits
Spreadsheet / policy docs; post-facto breach discovery
Pre- and post-trade enforcement at PM and fund level
Reconciliation
Batch recon tools + large BPO desks for breaks
Streaming MatchStrat with institutional memory on recurring breaks
Break resolution
Same break pattern resolved from scratch each time
Agentic triage plus learned resolution templates (~80% recurring auto-resolved)
Operating model
Headcount and ticket queues scale with volume
Global-market coverage; automation first, optional human services 24×6.5 to augment client teams
Economics & ownership
AUA / volume pricing and opaque outsource queues
Deployed in your cloud; transparent costing, no volume ballooning
Products in the stack

TradeStrat and MatchStrat, designed to work as one

Middle office is not a single screener or a single recon file. It is the bridge between execution and books. ForeStrat covers that bridge end to end.

TradeStrat

OEMS and trade operations for the middle office control plane: broker connectivity, allocation workflows, real-time IBOR, P&L and risk, corporate actions, and compliance hooks inside the trade flow.

  • ~10 μs OEMS latency with multi-broker routing
  • Managed middle office with AI automation and human backstop
  • Multi-PM risk limits, crossing, and shared ops where needed
Explore TradeStrat

MatchStrat

Streaming reconciliation for cash, positions, trades, NAV components, and collateral. Built to align IBOR with administrators and primes without waiting for the overnight backlog.

  • Continuous matching with configurable tolerances
  • Agentic root-cause analysis on exceptions
  • Institutional memory that auto-resolves known break profiles
Explore MatchStrat

Complements your fund administrator, not a replacement. MatchStrat reconciles to ABOR and admin NAV. Official books stay with your admin. You own the manager-side middle office.

See middle office running in your environment

Walk through TradeStrat and MatchStrat against your broker, PB, and admin workflows.

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