Building on its long-standing middle office expertise, CACEIS is enhancing its Front-to-Back servicing model with ATLAS.
Ramy El Houayek
Global Head of Operations,
Fund Services
In a market environment characterised by increasing regulatory requirements, shorter settlement cycles (T+1), and growing operational complexity, asset managers are reassessing their operating models. Investment into technology, closer integration, tighter controls and enhanced scalability have become strategic priorities. ATLAS is CACEIS’ response to the investment management community’s evolving needs.
ATLAS is a further step in CACEIS’ long-term strategy of providing closely integrated asset services that leverage robust interfaces and dedicated expertise, all with a seamless and straight-forward onboarding process. By combining full investment lifecycle coverage, in-depth operational expertise and ongoing technological innovation within a regulated framework, CACEIS seeks to provide investment managers with a resilient and forward-looking solution to support them across the investment value chain, now and for the years to come.
Through ATLAS, CACEIS enables investment managers to address structural industry challenges, including ongoing regulatory change, increased governance expectations, operational risk concerns and cost pressures.
“This offer, backed by specialist teams with over two decades of experience, ensures consistent delivery and service continuity, enabling investment managers to outsource middle-office activities with complete confidence. The objective is to streamline operating models while controlling costs, enhancing oversight and raising transparency, allowing investment managers to focus on generating investor value”, said Ramy El Houayek, Global Head of Operations, Fund Services at CACEIS.
As an asset servicing group, CACEIS provides support across the entire investment lifecycle, from portfolio management to custody. This includes portfolio management capabilities, trading desk access and execution services, risk management, middle office operations, fund administration, and depositary and custody services.
By bringing these functions together within a coherent servicing framework, the modular ATLAS solution reinforces continuity between investment decisions, execution and post-trade processing. The alignment of operational flows and data environments helps reduce overall system fragmentation, limit reconciliations, reduce error rates and strengthen end-to-end oversight.
ATLAS builds on CACEIS’ established servicing experience, integrating a best-in-class portfolio management system with CACEIS’ full post-trade capabilities and reporting expertise. It raises the STP rate across front office, middle office and custody activities, strengthens data consistency and industrialises all forms of reporting. This combines with CACEIS’ Follow-the-Sun - Data Anytime, Anywhere model that ensures 24/5 operational support, and is a key element in preparing for shorter settlement cycles such as Europe’s T+1.
