Core-Collateral™
Automate & optimise collateral management
Reduce risk & scale for growth
Trusted by the world’s largest banks
With rising interest rates and market volatility, it's more important than ever to maximise your bank's cash assets
BENEFITS:
Greater Transparency
Gain intraday visibility of current CCP margin obligations, collateral holdings, and custody holdings with Baton's collateral management solution.
Improve Net Interest Income
Implement decisions quickly and ensure the collateral you post is working as effectively as possible.
Amplify Efficiencies
Improve the financial and operational efficiency of collateral movements for centrally cleared derivatives - reducing costs and increasing capacity.
With Baton’s Core-Collateral™ management system you can:
- Make more informed decisions with access to real-time, normalised and aggregated data directly from the major CCP’s with more effective collateral monitoring.
- Automate the delivery or recall of assets, according to completely configurable predefined rules to optimise collateral allocation.
- With Baton’s Core-Collateral the rules and alerts run continuously, allowing for real-time identification, notification (and remediation) of inefficiencies or potential points of stress.
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
“We partnered with Baton to integrate with our custodians as well and to build out real-time functionality on what our long boxes held. This is a new development in the industry.”
Mariam Rafi, Global Head of Financial Resource Management and North American Head of Clearing and FXPB, Citi
Baton's CCP connectivity comprises 93%+ of margin, placed by U.S. registered FCMs, including:
Increase operational and financial efficiency.
Improve Net Interest Income.
Gain real-time visibility and control.
- Eradicate slow, manually-intensive collateral management processes and improve decision making with intraday visibility of margin obligations, collateral posted and assets available for use.
- Be automatically alerted to changes, introduce zero-friction end-to-end workflows for cleared derivatives and configurable rules to optimise allocation.
- Then accelerate productivity with the ability to directly connect to multiple major CCPs and instruct multiple cash and security pledge and recall movements via a single, consolidated interface.
THE PLATFORM
Avoid inefficient or excessive collateralisation by monitoring and acting on evolving CCP requirements in real-time
Core-Collateral allows you to make more informed decisions with access to real time, normalised and aggregated data directly from the major CCP's.
With Core-Collateral you can automate the delivery or recall of assets, according to completely configurable predefined rules to optimise allocation.
Rules and alerts run continuously, allowing for real time identification, notification (and remediation) of inefficiencies or potential points of stress.
“We are earning an extra 20BP of net interest income on the collateral we post to CME"
Latest News:
BNY Mellon and Baton Systems announce collaboration to deliver enterprise collateral optimisation solution
Baton Systems adds LCH SA to its expanding CCP network

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Citi’s, Global Head of Financial Resource Management and North American Head of Clearing and FXPB, Mariam Rafi, Discusses the Importance of Optimised Collateral Management
Mariam Rafi discusses the evolution and importance of the role of collateral within the broader clearing context.
“We have been very focused on figuring out how to use both the collateral that clients post to us, and our own liquidity resources, in the most effective manner,” Mariam Rafi explains.
Learn more about the evolving collateral management environment
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