Predict
Surface the trades most likely to fail settlement, ranked and explained, early enough in the cycle for operations teams to intervene.
Post-trade risk infrastructure
Predict settlement failure.
Validate compliance.
Change nothing.
RiskArc Alpha is read-only risk infrastructure for tier-1 custodian banks and global asset managers. It anticipates which trades will fail and validates compliance before settlement — without ever writing back to the systems it observes.
The shift
Settlement windows are shortening. The margin for error is closing with them.
As markets move to shorter settlement cycles under frameworks such as CSDR and MiFID II, a failed trade is no longer a back-office footnote — it is a same-cycle capital, penalty, and counterparty event. Firms need to know where failure is forming while there is still time to act on it.
Validate
Check each instruction against the applicable compliance and market-infrastructure requirements, and record why it passed or failed.
Observe
Produce a continuous, tamper-evident record of what was seen and decided — evidence built for auditors and regulators, not just dashboards.
Architecture
The read-only posture is the point.
RiskArc Alpha sits alongside your systems of record, not inside their write path. It reads market, reference, and settlement data; it emits signals and evidence; it never writes back. That boundary is a hard architectural guarantee — the reason a risk-averse institution can run it in production without expanding its own operational risk surface.
Compliance & trust
Designed to the standards financial institutions are held to.
The platform is built on IBM enterprise infrastructure and aligns with the control expectations that govern regulated financial services.
- IBM Cloud for Financial Services
- DORA operational-resilience alignment
- SR 11-7 model-risk discipline
- CSDR & MiFID II context
- SOC 2 programme in progress
Framework references describe design intent and alignment, not certification status. See Security & trust for current posture.