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By Abhinit Kumar.

What is a trade?

Trade is a process of buying and selling any nancial instrument.

Just like any other product even a trade has its life cycle involving several steps, as those with a
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What are the Steps involved in a Trade Life Cycle?

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Overview of the Process

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1. Sale

This is a process of client acquisition in which HNIs or Institutional clients are introduced to
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These vehicles or products are available with an Investment Manager or Bank by whom
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The investments are collectively called a Mutual or a Hedge fund.

2. Trade Initiation and Execution

This is the process of placing an order in the market.

Trade Initiation and Execution can be done both at Order and Quote driven markets.
This depends on the choice of market place and on the external platform.
Once order is placed and it gets matched, the trade is said to be executed.

3. Trade Capture

Trades are then booked internally in a FO system for it to ow down to the operation
systems.
It is booked in a Risk Management System (RMS)

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4.Trade Validation and Enrichment Reference data team sets up the static and dynamic details
which helps middle oce teams to validate the trade, before releasing instructions into the market.

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5.Trade Conrmation

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Trade details and SSIs are agreed with counterparty at least a day prior to settlement date.

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6. Trade Settlement This is the process of simultaneous exchange of cash versus securities for
a security tradeorcash versus cash for a Derivative trade.

7.Reconciliation Reconciliation involves matching ledgers against statements to ensure correct

accounting of all trade booked.

A pictorial representation of the steps.

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