Front To Back Equity Cash Morgan Stanley Flashcards

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Who are the clients morgan stanley provides equity services to

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large sophisticated institutional clients like mutual funds, hedge funds, asset managers, governments, pension funds who wish to trade in equity cash products

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How the orders are received

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by phone, email or electronically

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3
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Where the self-trading clients submit orders to

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MSET - Morgan Stanley Electronic Infrastructure that has access to exchange

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4
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MSET

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Provides direct access to the Exchange

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5
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DMA

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Direct Market Access

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6
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What are the important factors in Electronic Trading System

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Reliability and Speed

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7
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Sales

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Client focussed

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8
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Trading

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Exchange focussed

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9
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what are the three types of trading clients

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Block clients, Program trading clients and Self trading clients

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10
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What’s FIX

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Financial Information eXchange is an industry wide standard protocol to communicate orders electronically

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BAR

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Border Access Router receives the order from the client and sends it to Razer.

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12
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What’s BAR

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It’s a gateway for clients to directly perform exchange and algorithmic trading using MSET

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13
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OMW sales

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Manual Global Order Management system for cash equities

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14
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What is SORT and where it receives the order from

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SORT is Smart Order Routing Technology and it receives the order from Razer

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Provides high speed access to markets where the particular stock is traded in order to provide cost effective way of executing an order

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SORT

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16
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A large order is generally

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sliced into different small orders and each of which is sent to different exchange

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17
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Process of determining the most cost effective way of executing an order

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Best Execution

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18
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Individual orders (in the form of messages) sent to exchange

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Execution Order

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19
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Once the buy order is matched with the sell order, the exchange returns an acknowledgement that the order has been completed

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Execution

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20
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Where the orders that completed execution sent down to

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Booker

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21
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System that captures trade information and sends execution for allocation and processing

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Booker

22
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Which System does Booker send the executions for Allocation?

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Vista

23
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Which System does Booker send the executions for Enrichment and further Processing

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Trades Completion

24
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Global multi asset class trades allocation system

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VISTA

25
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Process of taking total filled quantity against all of the client order and allocating it to each of the client’s accounts

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Trades Allocation

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Process of adding information about a trade - such as taxes, fees and commissions - required to calculate the final money to be paid on Settlement Date

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Enrichment

27
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Client Notice

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Generated by VISTA as part of confirmation and allocation process

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Client Report

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An EOD client report is generated from ETSDB and sent to the client via email

29
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Process where by a confirm notice is sent to the client about the order and that the order is filled

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Confirmation and Allocation

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ETSDB

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Equities Trade System Database

31
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NOEs

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Notice of execution generated by Vista as part of confirmation and allocation process

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System that enriches the trades with additional details such as Taxes, Fees, commissions

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TC - Trades Completion

33
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Act as a control points by funneling the trades from the front office, validating and enriching them before passing on to the downstream system

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Trades Completion, Tripod, Big Mac

34
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Date on which the trade is settled

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Settlement date

35
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Trade processing error or data error is called

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Breaks

36
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Where does TC publishes the trade to after the enrichment

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Flexible Confirms (FC3)

37
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The process of netting multiple trades in a given stock within each account in order to reduce the workload fo downstream applications

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Aggregation

38
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Where do the trades go to after Aggregation

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Morgan Stanley Mainframe system called TAPS

39
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System that sends the confirmation message with details of a transaction to the client

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Flexible Confirms

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Affirmation

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The client returns an Affirmation to Morgan Stanley acknowledging the transaction

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Reconciliation

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Prior to Clearance and Settlement, a variety of internal and external trade reconciliation is performed

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Process of calculating what market participants owe each other usually on a net basis for the exchange of securities and money on the settlement date

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Clearance

43
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Who is the US cleanring house

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NSCC

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NSCC

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National Securities Clearing Corporation

45
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What does the Clearing House do?

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Takes all the buys and all the sells, nets them out and guarantees their settlement

46
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Final exchange of value between counterparties to a trade

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Settlement

47
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What happens on Settlement Date

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Share of the stock are delivered to the custodian of the client via DTCC

48
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What’s the settlement date for cash equities

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T+3

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Custodian Job

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Takes delivery of the Client’s shares of stock and deposits cash in to Morgan Stanley’s bank account

50
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DTCC

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Depository - Sends a notice of settlement to Morgan Stanley SAFE system to verify that the trade has completed

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SAFE

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A morgan Stanley’s in-house settlement system, SAFE ensures that the contract agreed between the two trading parties actually gets fulfilled

52
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Depository

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Place where trades are settled