The Risk
Institutional Investors are exposed to a wide range of risks when they invest in foreign markets. These risks go beyond exposures to a local custodian bank, a CSD or a fund administrator. In fact, they include a range of risks that are not routinely intermediated or indemnified by any of these institutions, including:
- Lack of simultaneous delivery against payment
- Breakdowns in critical systems
- Entitlements lost because of inadequate information about a corporate action or an AGM
The Solution
Thomas Murray provides an independent assessment of the risk of safekeeping, transaction settlement, and asset servicing processes in a market, based on a comprehensive analysis of the post-trade risks in that market.
With this service, institutional investors are continuously updated on their post-trade exposure across their invested markets.
Markets are graded from AAA to CCC
The assessments measure the extent to which investors are exposed to eight primary risks:
Asset Commitment
Liquidity
Counterparty
Financial
Asset Safety
Asset Servicing
Operational
Governance and Transparency
We safeguard clients and their communities
Petroleum Development Oman Pension Fund
“Thomas Murray has been a very valuable partner in the selection process of our new custodian for Petroleum Development Oman Pension Fund.”
ATHEX
"Thomas Murray now plays a key role in helping us to detect and remediate issues in our security posture, and to quantify ATHEX's security performance to our directors and customers."
Northern Trust
“Thomas Murray provides Northern Trust with a range of RFP products, services and technology, delivering an efficient and cost-effective solution that frees our network managers up to focus on higher Value activities.”
Insights
Beneath the Asset – Out of Sight: The State of Cybersecurity in the Private Equity Industry
The UK’s smallest investment funds are weak security link in protecting the IP needed for national growth, new Thomas Murray study finds.
From RFP to Ongoing ODD: Closing the Monitoring Gap
RFP rigour rarely survives past manager selection. What a robust RFP process looks like, and how to close the monitoring gap that opens once it's over.
Thomas Murray Announces Significant Expansion of Digital Asset Market Information (DAMI) Service with Launch of Phase 2
Thomas Murray, a global leader in risk management, due diligence, and cybersecurity services, is proud to announce the launch of Phase 2 of its Digital Asset Market Information (DAMI)
Fool me once: What the Apollo breach tells private equity about the threats it now faces
Apollo’s August breach was one data point in a five-week campaign mapping 200+ private capital firms. What it means for fund-level cyber risk.
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