Post-Trade Risk: Striking the Right Balance

With clearing at the front of many financial minds today, pre-trade risk has taken center stage in the broader conversation about risk management—particularly as it relates to credit extenders like futures commissions merchants (FCMs) and to custody of contracts.

Yet attendees of the North American Trading Architecture Summit focused on the other end of the trade lifecycle, post-trade risk—assessment of which became much more important after the 2008 crisis exposed the complexity and poorly