Cash Management

Delivering transparency and efficiency across your short-term liquidity investments.

The Platform

Across the industry, managing short-term liquidity held across various jurisdictions and multiple providers during a time of market uncertainty and regulatory change can prove to be a challenge for cash management teams of all sizes. At State Street, we have helped our clients with money market execution and settlement services for more than 20 years. Fund Connect was one of the first technology solutions for treasury and our in-house developers continue to work with clients to leverage cutting-edge technology to help you navigate money market funds.

 

Features

  • Trading Flexibility

    Support multiple investment styles through a single interface to meet your trading requirements:

    Direct – accounts opened directly in your own name.

    Nominee – accounts opened on your behalf.

    Omnibus – trade with State Street Global Markets as your intermediary; single counterparty with a single wire for settlement.

  • Powerful Risk Management

    Integrated analytics tools:

    • Trade compliance tools to support investment guidelines

    • Real-time breach notifications

    • Transparency Connect provides the ability to analyse credit exposure by multiple factors including Issuer, Country, Asset Type, Maturity and Credit Rating

    • Support for multiple asset classes, including onshore US 2a-7 MMFs, Non-US MMFs, Ultra-Short Duration Bond Funds, Time Deposits and Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs).

  • Centralised Information Source

    Daily capture of fund statistics and client holdings:

    • Balances, accruals and yields

    • Fund AUM, WAM and WAL

    • Customised report scheduling tool – create reports and have them delivered.

    Fund Connect is a fully managed and hosted SaaS solution providing order capture, automated investment, order routing, cash settlement, securities settlement, intraday pricing, end of day pricing, transaction pricing, corporate action events, balance ingestion/reporting, transparency data ingestion, what if scenario modelling, pre trade compliance, real time event notification, ad hoc and scheduled reporting in a single user friendly interface.

  • Bespoke Integrations

    Send and receive information related to your activity on Fund Connect (Trades, Account Balances, Fund Rates) this is enabled with web services made available via messaging queues (WMQ), SWIFT, FIX protocol, file processes (SFTP) and web service endpoints (SOAP/REST).

    Additionally our unique customizable flexibility allows clients to connect leveraging their own internal message format, naming conventions and protocols. Fund Connect supports multiple connections to banks through various messaging protocols and networks.

    At present, Fund Connect has over 50 distinct bank connections for various types of banking activity including cash settlements, securities settlements, account balances, corporate actions and bespoke flows.

  • Straight Through Processing (STP)

    Connectivity to upstream and downstream systems:

    • Bespoke integration to client Order Management Systems (OMS) or Treasury Work Stations (TWS)

    • Real-time trade connectivity with a wide range of global Transfer Agents

    • Post-Trade Cash and Security messaging via SWIFT to any Bank, Custodian or Prime Broker

    • Support for multiple communication methods and messaging protocols including Web Services (SOAP/REST), MQ, SWIFT, FIX and SFTP.

Benefits

  • Access more than 25 leading fund providers with $280 billion in assets under management across more than 350 global funds in eight currencies

  • Improve efficiency with powerful tools for analyzing and viewing data, automated trade execution and settlement features, and easy integration with other systems

  • Explore an all new single intuitive interface experience featuring a widget-enabled customizable dashboard

  • Streamline operations with straight-through processing with asset managers, treasury management systems, custodians and other platforms

  • Connect to your in-house systems and external providers frictionlessly through API technology

  • Reduce risk with automated processes and standardized data.

 
 

Learn about our capabilities

  • Fund Connect® is State Street’s liquidity management tool, offering cash managers’ access to over 350 global Money Market Funds (MMFs) with fully automated real-time trade execution and settlement.

  • Risk management tools provide investors with pre- and post-trade analysis to ensure compliance with investment guidelines whilst the Transparency Connect reporting suite provides the ability to analyse credit risk down to the instrument level.

  • Fund Connect provides investors with one-stop-shop to streamline execution, settlement, reporting, research and risk analysis through an intuitive interface which supports any trading style and provides multiple layers of authorization with a full audit history.

  • Our dedicated client service team provide 24/6 support to your global investment teams, allowing them to trade in confidence.

Contact us

We are available to assist with general queries or complicated integration issues 24 hours a day, 6 days a week.