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Field notes on running brokerage operations to institutional standard — administration, dealing, change control, reporting.
Specification changes are where every broker gets their fingers burnt at least once. Here is the four-eye procedure we run for every client change — written so a regulator can read it.
If you can't tell us which LP fails over to which, when, and who signs off — you don't have a DR plan. You have a wishlist. This is how we structure DR for the brokers we run.
Most decision frameworks compare PAMM and MAM from the broker's seat. Try it from the manager's. The answer changes — and so does what your investor portal needs to do.
The licence is the cheap part. The integration tax is what kills the budget. Here is how we estimate true total-cost-of-ownership for a typical broker tech stack.
Outsourced dealing is not a substitute for in-house expertise; it is a substitute for *junior* in-house expertise. Here is the team-shape question we ask before we sign on as a desk.