Modernise Your Post-Trade Operations in Australia

The NOVA Post Trade Platform for Australian Sell-Side Brokers

Many Australian brokers today are actively reassessing their clearing and settlement systems in Australia, seeking modern post trade solutions that reduce risk and improve operational efficiency. NOVA was built precisely to address these gaps, positioning itself as a leading post trade platform in Australia designed for automation-first operations.

Australian sell-side brokers face mounting pressure from fragmented technology stacks, tightening regulatory scrutiny, and the imminent shift to faster settlement cycles. The challenge is clear: legacy systems designed for a different era are struggling to meet today’s operational demands, creating elevated risk profiles and unsustainable cost structures.

The NOVA Post Trade Platform delivers a transformative solution – a unified, cloud-agnostic infrastructure that automates post-trade workflows across all asset classes and regions. With no upfront licence fees and a commitment to operational excellence, we help Australian brokers reduce settlement failures, cut operational costs, and build the resilient infrastructure that regulators and clients demand.

The Operational Reality for Australian Sell-Side Brokers

Fragmented Technology Landscape

Sell-side firms globally run an average of 9.1 post-trade processing solutions – a fragmentation driven by decades of legacy infrastructure accumulation. For Australian brokers, this translates to asset-class and region-specific systems that create operational silos, complicate workflows, and multiply points of failure.
Manual workflows dominate post-trade operations: trade confirmation, affirmation, matching, reconciliations, exception management, and break resolution all require significant human intervention. Research consistently identifies these areas as critical pain points, where manual processes directly increase settlement failure risk and operational exposure.
As settlement cycles compress4with active discussions in Australia about moving from T+2 to T+14the pressure intensifies. Shorter timeframes leave less room for manual intervention, making automation not just desirable but essential for operational survival.

Average Systems

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Post-trade processing solutions per firm globally

Settlement Goal

T+ 2

Target cycle under Australian market discussion

Regulatory and Operational Risk in the Australian Context

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) have escalated their focus on operational risk, infrastructure resilience, and settlement reliability.

ASIC's Enforcement Powers

ASIC wields broad powers to pursue administrative, civil, and criminal actions for operational misconduct. Recent enforcement outcomes reflect an intensified regulatory focus on data integrity, settlement reliability, and the adequacy of post-trade systems and controls.

Firms must demonstrate robust, automated monitoring and control frameworks with comprehensive audit trails and evidence of sound processes. Manual, fragmented systems make this increasingly difficult to achieve and defend.

Because of this, many institutions are now adopting post trade compliance software in Australia to ensure they can support regulatory expectations with real-time audit trails and automated controls.

Infrastructure Resilience Requirements

Regulators expect market participants to maintain resilient operational infrastructure capable of handling normal volumes, stress scenarios, and unexpected disruptions without material impact on settlement outcomes or market stability.

Legacy systems, cobbled together over decades, struggle to meet these standards. As regulatory expectations evolve, the gap between what systems can deliver and what regulators demand continues to widen.

Regulatory Reality: A single system outage at a major Australian infrastructure operator triggered a regulatory downgrade. For individual brokers, operational failures can result in enforcement actions, reputational damage, and material financial penalties.

The Cost and Strategic Pressure on Post-Trade Operations

Post-trade operations have historically been viewed as a cost center unavoidable expense rather than a strategic capability. As a result, investment has consistently lagged, with front-office systems and revenue-generating functions absorbing the majority of technology budgets.

This underinvestment creates a vicious cycle: fragmented systems require more manual intervention, driving up headcount costs whilst simultaneously increasing operational risk. The cost, complexity, and risk profile of maintaining multiple legacy platforms across different asset classes and regions has become unsustainable.

Automation Opportunity

Research demonstrates that automating manual post-trade tasks materially reduces settlement failures, operational risk exposure, and overall cost-to-serve metrics.

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Operational Efficiency

Firms that modernise middle- and back-office workflows can scale operations more effectively whilst freeing up capital for growth initiatives and competitive differentiation.

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Cost Reduction

Consolidating fragmented platforms and automating manual processes directly reduces maintenance burden, system complexity, and operational headcount requirements.

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What Your Business Risks If You Don't Act

The consequences of maintaining fragmented, manual post-trade infrastructure extend far beyond inefficiency. Australian brokers face a convergence of regulatory, operational, and competitive risks that threaten both profitability and market position.

Brokers relying on outdated post trade solutions in Australia face higher failure rates and slower exception handling, especially under compressed settlement windows.

Settlement Failures and Breaks

Manual, fragmented systems dramatically increase the probability of trades failing to settle or processing incorrectly. Each failure exposes your firm to funding costs, counterparty risk, regulatory scrutiny, and reputational damage with institutional clients.

Competitive Disadvantage

Institutional clients increasingly expect faster execution, higher-quality service, real-time operational insights, and demonstrable reliability. Brokers dependent on manual processes and fragmented systems struggle to meet these expectations, losing business to more operationally sophisticated competitors.

Regulatory Scrutiny and Penalties

As demonstrated by recent Australian regulatory actions, operational risk failures attract immediate and sustained regulatory attention. Infrastructure weaknesses that lead to settlement disruptions can trigger formal investigations, enforcement proceedings, and material financial penalties.

Delayed Transition Risk

With the industry moving toward T+1 settlement cycles and expanding into new asset classes, legacy systems face an acceleration crisis. The shorter the settlement window, the less tolerance for manual intervention creating an exponential increase in operational risk.

Rising Operational Cost Base

Operating multiple legacy systems across different asset classes and regions creates duplication, unnecessary complexity, escalating maintenance burdens, and inflated headcount costs. As manual processes scale linearly with volume, cost pressures intensify.

Talent and Resource Constraints

Manual post-trade processes consume significant skilled resources in repetitive, low-value tasks. This diverts talent from strategic initiatives whilst making recruitment and retention more difficult as professionals seek roles with modern technology and genuine career development.

The risk of maintaining legacy post-trade infrastructure is no longer just operational it's existential. Brokers who delay modernisation face a perfect storm of rising costs, intensifying regulatory scrutiny, and competitive displacement.

The Solution: NOVA Post Trade

A Unified Platform Built for Global Sell-Side Brokers

NOVA has emerged as one of the most complete post trade solutions in Australia, replacing fragmented legacy tools with a unified platform built for scale, automation, and regulatory resilience.

The NOVA Post Trade Platform delivers comprehensive post-trade automation across all asset classes and geographical regions, fundamentally transforming how Australian brokers manage middle- and back-office operations. By consolidating fragmented systems into a single, modern infrastructure, we eliminate operational silos whilst dramatically reducing complexity, cost, and risk.

Cloud-Agnostic Architecture

Unlike vendor-locked solutions, NOVA offers true cloud flexibility. You select your preferred cloud provider, whether AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or others, and we integrate seamlessly. This approach ensures you maintain strategic control, avoid lock-in, and align infrastructure decisions with your broader technology strategy and existing vendor relationships.

No Upfront Licence Fee

We believe in aligning our success with yours. NOVA eliminates the traditional barrier of substantial upfront capital expenditure, allowing you to commence automation without major initial investment. This fundamentally changes the economics of posttrade modernisation, enabling faster decision-making and reducing financial risk.

Multi-Asset Capability

Designed specifically for the complexity of sell-side operations, NOVA handles equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX, and other asset classes within a unified workflow environment. No more maintaining separate systems for different products.

T+1 Settlement Readiness

Built with compressed settlement cycles in mind, NOVA automates time-critical processes, eliminates manual bottlenecks, and ensures your operations can scale seamlessly to T+1 and beyond without additional headcount or system complexity.

Operational Risk Mitigation

Automated workflows, intelligent exception handling, comprehensive audit trails, data integrity controls, endto- end process visibility, and real-time reporting combine to materially reduce operational risk exposure and regulatory vulnerability.

Future-Proof Design

NOVA's modern architecture anticipates market evolution new regulations, faster settlement cycles, emerging asset classes, and evolving client requirements. Your infrastructure scales and adapts without requiring replacement or major re-engineering.

Why This Matters to Your Operation

NOVA Post Trade Platform addresses the specific operational challenges facing Australian sell-side brokers. By breaking down technology silos and automating manual processes, we deliver measurable improvements across multiple dimensions of operational performance.

Brokers adopting post trade automation in Australia consistently report fewer breaks, improved settlement accuracy, and enhanced operational throughput.

Cost Reduction

  • Consolidate multiple platforms into one
  • Reduce manual headcount requirements
  • Lower maintenance and support costs
  • Eliminate system duplication

Operational Excellence

  • Fewer settlement breaks and failures
  • Faster processing times
  • Improved settlement performance
  • Enhanced client service quality

Compliance & Audit

  • Full process transparency
  • Comprehensive workflow tracking
  • Real-time compliance alerts
  • Complete audit trail evidence

Scalability & Flexibility

  • Multi-asset, multi-region support
  • Cloud-agnostic deployment
  • Scales with business growth
  • Adapts to market changes

Key Benefits At A Glance

The NOVA Post Trade Platform delivers tangible, measurable benefits that directly address the operational and strategic challenges facing Australian sell-side brokers. These benefits compound over time, creating sustainable competitive advantage.

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Cut Operational Risk

Automated workflows eliminate manual errors, reduce settlement breaks and failures, and provide real-time exception alerts. Comprehensive data validation and reconciliation occur automatically, reducing risk exposure across all post-trade processes.

02

Reduce Cost-to-Serve

Automation dramatically reduces manual task requirements, lowering staff overhead whilst consolidating multiple platforms into unified infrastructure. Maintenance costs decline whilst operational capacity increases, fundamentally improving unit economics.

03

Improve Speed & Efficiency

Streamlined workflows and automated processing compress cycle times, enabling T+1 readiness without additional resources. Straight-through processing rates increase materially, reducing bottlenecks and improving overall operational velocity.

04

Enhance Compliance & Audit Trail

Complete transparency across all workflows provides comprehensive audit trails that satisfy regulatory requirements. Real-time monitoring, automated compliance checks, and detailed process documentation make regulatory examinations straightforward and defensible.

05

Scalable & Flexible Architecture

Multi-asset, multi-region capabilities delivered through cloud-agnostic infrastructure ensure operations scale efficiently with business growth. New asset classes, regions, and workflows integrate seamlessly without requiring system replacement or major re-engineering.

06

Lower Entry Barrier

No upfront licence fee fundamentally changes the economics of modernisation, enabling quicker decision-making and reducing initial investment requirements. You can commence transformation without major capital expenditure, aligning costs with realised benefits.

07

Competitive Service Offering

Deliver superior client experience through faster turnaround times, operational reliability, and real-time visibility. Enhanced service quality strengthens client relationships, improves retention, and creates differentiation in competitive pitches.

Manual Task Reduction

> 0 %
Typical decrease in manual intervention requirements

Straight-Through Processin

> 0 %
Target STP rate across workflows

Settlement Failure Reduction

> 0 %
Typical improvement in settlement success rates

Why Now: The Urgency of Post-Trade Modernisation

The window for proactive post-trade modernisation is narrowing rapidly. Multiple converging forces-regulatory evolution, market structure changes, competitive pressures, and cost dynamics-create an imperative for immediate action.

Regulatory Evolution

Faster settlement cycles, multi-asset complexities, and heightened regulatory expectations around operational resilience demand modern, automated infrastructure. Manual systems cannot meet emerging standards.

Cost Pressure Intensification

Rising operational costs, resource constraints, and margin compression make post-trade efficiency critical. Front-office investment must be balanced with efficient middle- and backoffice operations to maintain profitability.

Reduced Entry Barrier

With NOVA's no upfront licence fee model, the traditional capital barrier to modernisation has been eliminated. You can initiate transformation immediately, start realising benefits quickly, and align costs with value delivery.

Delay Risk Escalation

Postponing modernisation increases exposure to operational disruption, regulatory enforcement, cost escalation, and competitive displacement. The longer you wait, the more challenging and expensive transformation becomes.

Strategic Timing: Early adopters of post-trade automation gain sustainable competitive advantages whilst establishing operational resilience before regulatory requirements tighten further. Delayed action converts modernisation from strategic opportunity to crisis response.

The T+1 Settlement Imperative

Active discussions in Australia about compressed settlement cycles create immediate pressure. T+1 settlement dramatically reduces the time available for manual intervention, trade confirmation, matching, and exception resolution.

Firms without automated post-trade infrastructure will struggle to operate effectively in a T+1 environment, facing increased settlement failures, operational stress, and potentially regulatory intervention if performance deteriorates materially.

Competitive Dynamics

Institutional clients increasingly evaluate brokers on operational capability, not just execution quality. Firms demonstrating modern infrastructure, reliable processing, and real-time transparency win business and command better economics.

Competitors who modernise first establish operational advantages that become difficult to overcome4creating a “first mover premium” in client relationships and operational efficiency.

Ready to Modernise Your Post-Trade Operations in Australia?

Transform Legacy Infrastructure Into Competitive Advantage

The NOVA Post Trade Platform represents a fundamental shift in how Australian sell-side brokers can approach post-trade operations. By eliminating upfront licence fees, offering cloud-agnostic flexibility, and delivering comprehensive automation, we make modernisation both accessible and compelling.

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See firsthand how NOVA can replace your fragmented legacy stack, drive material cost reduction, lower compliance risk, and enable seamless migration without major upfront investment.

Our demonstration covers:

  • Your specific post-trade workflows and pain points
  • How NOVA automates manual processes and exception handling
  • Integration approach with existing systems and cloud infrastructure
  • T+1 settlement readiness and scalability
  • Implementation timeline and migration strategy
  • Commercial model and total cost of ownership

We understand the unique operational challenges facing Australian brokers. Our platform has been designed with APAC market requirements, regulatory environment, and sell-side operational complexity at its core.

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