Now more than ever, all financial firms are giving intense focus to their ‘total cost’ of doing business.

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Nowhere should this be more relevant than within the Custody domain. Even medium-sized financial organisations can have tens of Custodian providers around the globe, each providing services to different business divisions of the same firm.

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Often these legacy relationships have been in place over decades, without close review of fee schedules, service terms or service standards. And now with an ever-increasing burden of post-trade regulations, the market’s dependency on Custodians continues to get stronger. Based on our hands-on experiences, there are huge opportunities for cost rationalization and other efficiencies within a firm’s Custodian relationships.

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In addition, there are genuine prospects to significantly improve a firm’s Custodian operating model, via access to new services and higher service levels to drive profit increases.