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In a market environment with multiple trading and market infrastructures, Clearing processes take on a strategic role, presenting both challenges and opportunities for market participants. Base provides a solid and modern framework for a new market, supported by proprietary, auditable, cloud-based technology that ensures scalability and reliability.
Our platform incorporates optimized settlement cycles, innovative default event management processes, and features designed to enable and simplify arbitrage operations. Through this approach, we aim to deliver an efficient, transparent post-trade flow aligned with the demands of an increasingly dynamic and competitive market.
Base operates with a comprehensive Risk Management framework. Our systems are designed to ensure security, predictability, and robustness across every stage of the process, from trading until settlement. This includes pre-trade limit management processes capable of monitoring and controlling exposure even before order execution; structured collateral management mechanisms to ensure that participants maintain adequate collateral levels; and risk assessment and monitoring models built to reflect international best practices and respond dynamically to market conditions.
Together, these elements form a solid and transparent framework that is essential to the integrity and efficiency of Base’s trading environment.
Base provides a robust connectivity infrastructure inspired by international best practices. Our hybrid technology architecture combines low-latency on-premises components with cloud-based solutions, tailored to the intrinsic characteristics of each process.
By adopting redundant dedicated links and high-availability environments, we ensure performance, resilience, and security for market participants.
To optimize portfolio management and enhance investor returns, we offer a comprehensive tool to support the sell side in the daily management of Securities Lending operations. By leveraging technology and efficiency, aligned with our purpose of strengthening and simplifying the market.
The pillars underpinning Base’s Securities Lending service are:
Supporting asset managers and market makers in the execution of strategies and the closing of transactions;
Through short selling mechanisms, enabling more accurate pricing of potentially overvalued assets in line with investment strategies;
Reducing delivery failure risks and strengthening the integrity of operations;
Providing portfolios available for lending with opportunities to generate incremental revenue through more optimized lending processes;
Enabling transactions across multiple exchanges, making the market more efficient with tighter spreads and enhanced hedging capabilities.