Middle & Back Office Operations

Financial markets don't observe business hours.

AurenOps delivers continuous middle and back office operations covering trade settlement, margin management and position oversight built for the hours when operational risk is highest and coverage is hardest to maintain.

We run your operations while you run your fund.

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The Problem

Institutional complexity. Without institutional infrastructure.

Smaller asset managers operate in the same market structure as the largest institutions. Tightening settlement cycles, intraday margin calls, multi-prime relationships and overnight corporate actions are not problems that scale with AUM.

Settlement windows are compressing. Trading hours are extending. Critical processes run unattended during the hours they are most likely to break. A trade fail at 11pm. A margin call at 6am. A position break that sits until morning when the cost of resolution has already grown.

The risk isn't in the strategy. It's in what happens in the hours no one is watching.

Financial operations control room with multiple monitors showing 24/7 market activity

Critical processes run unattended during high-risk hours

What We Do

Three ways we work with you.

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Continuous Ops Coverage

End-to-end ownership of middle and back office processes settlement, margin, reconciliation and reporting without gaps in coverage or end-of-day blind spots. Continuous. Precise.

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Intelligent Automation

Purpose-built agents that monitor, triage and act on exceptions in real time across settlement queues, margin calls and position breaks. Not a reporting tool, a live operational layer.

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Targeted Transformation

Deep-domain engagements to identify which processes are anchored to legacy assumptions and redesign them for the operational demands a tightening market structure creates.

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Who We Work With

Asset managers where operational depth matters.

Our clients are investment managers running real operational complexity against lean infrastructure. The fund strategy varies. The problem does not.

Processes that carry risk around the clock require coverage that matches. We work where there is a precise operational problem and a readiness to address it directly.

Good operations are invisible. The fund runs. Trades settle. Margin clears. Nothing becomes a fire. That's the standard.

How We Work

Simple start. Serious delivery.

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Process Audit

A precise look at where risk concentrates in the overnight and early morning window. No obligation. No sales pitch. We find out where the exposure actually lives.

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Scoping Call

We map coverage gaps to specific services and confirm fit directly. 45 minutes understanding the operation is worth more than any brochure.

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Delivery

Ongoing managed coverage, agent deployment, or project delivery. Operational deliverables not recommendations that sit in a deck.

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Find out where your overnight exposure actually lives.

We start with a process audit. A precise look at where risk concentrates in the overnight window and what continuous coverage would change.

Managed Services

Operations that run on the market's schedule.

AurenOps delivers continuous middle and back office coverage, managing the processes that carry the most risk precisely when oversight is hardest to maintain.

The end of day is no longer a safe assumption.

Investment operations have long been built around a single reliable concept: the market close. Batch runs, overnight controls and valuation cuts. The entire architecture of middle and back office functions assumes a defined closing moment. That assumption is under structural pressure that only grows over time.

Settlement cycles continue to tighten. Trading windows continue to extend. The processes a fund runs matching, margining, reconciling, reporting are increasingly expected to function closer to continuously than periodically. Operations still running on end-of-day architecture are carrying risk that has not been fully priced.

Our managed services model was built for this reality. Not as an overnight extension of a business-hours service, but as genuinely continuous process coverage.

Process Coverage

Trade settlement

Pre-settlement matching, fail identification, custodian and counterparty liaison and resolution managed continuously across the settlement cycle. As windows compress, a fail identified at 9am is already carrying cost. We find it when it happens.

Margin management

Intraday and end-of-day call processing across cleared and bilateral relationships. As trading hours extend, margin exposure becomes a round-the-clock obligation. Collateral selection, substitution and dispute management handled with the speed that compressed cycles require.

Position reconciliation

Daily reconciliation against custodians, prime brokers and fund administrators. Breaks triaged, investigated and resolved with same-day resolution targets and a clear audit trail. Built to scale toward intraday as market structure demands it.

Valuation support

As trading hours extend, the timing of valuation becomes operationally complex. We support NAV workflows and downstream compliance dependencies across an increasingly compressed window between trading close and reporting open.

Corporate actions

Mandatory and voluntary event processing against portfolio positions. Elections, entitlements and fail-to-deliver consequences managed with the same continuity standard as the rest of the operational cycle.

Exception management

The real measure of an operations function is exception velocity. How fast breaks are identified, triaged, escalated and resolved. In a tightening market structure, resolution speed is risk management. We build around that metric.

Start Here

We begin with a process audit, not a proposal.

A precise look at where operational risk concentrates in the overnight window, which processes are exposed, what continuous coverage would change and where the most immediate value lies.

AI Agents

Not a reporting tool. A live operational layer.

Our AI agents are purpose-built for financial operations. Designed around the process logic, exception patterns and decision frameworks that experienced practitioners carry. Running continuously across the hours when manual oversight is hardest to sustain.

The automation case is structural, not optional.

As settlement cycles tighten and trading windows extend, the coverage math for lean operations changes fundamentally. Continuous human oversight across every hour that now carries risk is not cost-effective at the scale most asset managers operate.

Our agents are not layered on top of existing processes. They operate within them, monitoring queues, matching records, triaging exceptions and escalating with context. Not a morning report. A live operation.

AI and machine learning automation interface
What Our Agents Handle
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Settlement Monitoring

Continuous fail detection

Agents monitor settlement queues around the clock, matching against custodian records, flagging unmatched trades and initiating resolution workflows with escalation logic built in. Particularly critical as settlement windows narrow and same-day resolution becomes the expectation.

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Margin Processing

Real-time call intake

Inbound margin calls processed, validated and prioritised by deadline and size then routed for action with collateral selection logic applied automatically. As intraday margin exposure grows with extended trading hours, agent-driven processing keeps response times inside the window.

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Reconciliation

Continuous break identification

Position and cash breaks identified across multiple counterparty sources, classified by type, assessed for materiality and prepared for resolution. As market structure moves toward intraday reconciliation demands, agents run that cycle continuously rather than periodically.

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Compliance Monitoring

Intraday rule checking

Many compliance controls depend on prior-day data and end-of-day positions. As trading becomes more continuous, those controls need to run more frequently. Our agents are built to operate on intraday data rather than point-in-time snapshots.

What agents are not for.

Judgment. Relationship management. Escalation decisions that carry real consequences. Agents handle the structured, repeatable operational work that should not require senior attention, preserving experienced capacity for the decisions that do.

See It In Context

We map agent coverage to specific process gaps.

Every deployment starts with the actual workflow, not a generic demo. The goal is to show exactly what gets handled, when and what the escalation path looks like across the overnight window.

Project Consulting

Processes built for a market that's changing.

We work with asset managers to audit, redesign and future-proof operational workflows still anchored to assumptions batch cycles, end-of-day cuts, point-in-time controls that a tightening market structure is making obsolete.

The question worth asking now.

Which processes genuinely require an end-of-day cut-off and which exist that way simply because they always have? It is a deceptively important distinction. Trade processing, valuation, compliance checks and reporting workflows built around batch architecture are becoming constraints as the market structure around them evolves.

Our consulting engagements start with that audit. We identify what is structurally constrained and what is constrained by inertia. Then we redesign the processes that do not have to work the way they do.

The firms best positioned for where markets are heading are the ones asking this question now, not after the pressure arrives.

Engagement Types
Process Redesign

From how it is to how it should be

Workflow analysis and end-to-end redesign for settlement, margin, reconciliation and reporting. Moving from batch-dependent architecture toward models built for continuous operation.

Platform Readiness

Systems built for what's coming

OMS, PMS and reconciliation platform assessments for their ability to handle continuous data feeds, intraday valuations and minimal downtime windows. Any system dependent on overnight batch cycles is a potential constraint.

Infrastructure Build

Operational architecture from scratch

For funds scaling into new strategies, asset classes or markets, we design the operational infrastructure that continuous coverage requires before gaps become urgent problems.

Why early movers have more options.

Custodians, fund administrators and technology vendors are all working through the same operational transition. Firms that engage early have more influence over how infrastructure evolves alongside their counterparties. Those that wait inherit whatever their service providers decided for them.

Start a Conversation

Tell us what's broken, inefficient or overdue for a rebuild.

We scope engagements around the outcome, not the hours, and will say whether it is something we can help with before any commitment is required.

Why AurenOps

We've run these processes. Not just mapped them.

The difference between a vendor and a partner is whether they understand what 3am looks like when a settlement cycle breaks. We do.

Process depth is the product.

AurenOps is not a technology company that learned operations. It is an operations firm that built technology where it makes processes genuinely faster, safer and more resilient. That distinction shapes everything, from how engagements are scoped to how agents are deployed and how results are measured.

Continuous coverage was the founding principle, not a feature added later. The structural pressure on asset manager operations tightening settlement, compressed valuation windows, intraday margin exposure was already pointing in this direction. We designed for it from the start.

Good operations are invisible. The fund runs. Trades settle. Margin clears. Nothing becomes a fire. That's the standard.

What Makes Us Different
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Continuous by design

Not end-of-day coverage with extended hours bolted on. Built around continuous process ownership from the ground up.

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Practitioner-led

Every engagement led by people who have worked inside operations functions. The judgment that comes from having been in the seat.

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Right-sized by design

Calibrated specifically to the complexity and coverage needs of the funds we serve. Not scaled down from something built for a different market.

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Agents built on process logic

AI agents designed around how exceptions actually behave in settlement and margin workflows. More precise the longer they run.

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No handoff model

Managed services clients have ongoing coverage. Consulting clients receive operational deliverables not recommendations that sit in a deck.

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Coverage that matches the clock

When the overnight window is when risk concentrates, coverage has to match. Our operating model is built for exactly that reality.

The Honest Version

AurenOps is not right for every fund. Let's find out quickly.

We work best where there is a precise operational problem and a readiness to address it directly. A process audit is the fastest way to find out whether there is a fit and we will say so either way.

About AurenOps

Built by people who have run the overnight.

AurenOps was founded on a straightforward observation. The structural gap between the operational demands placed on smaller asset managers and the infrastructure available to meet them was visible, growing and solvable. We built the solution we would have wanted.

The firm.

AurenOps is a financial operations firm specialising in middle and back office managed services, AI-driven process automation and project consulting for asset managers.

We work with investment managers where operational depth and continuous coverage matter as much as at the largest institutions, but the model for achieving them has to work differently.

We are domain-first. Every capability built the managed services model, the agent architecture, the consulting methodology is rooted in deep process knowledge of settlement, margin and position management.

The philosophy.

Operations is risk management. Every unmonitored window, every manual handoff, every exception left unresolved overnight is a risk event in waiting.

The market structure around asset managers is tightening. Settlement cycles are compressing. Valuation windows are narrowing. Trading hours are extending.

The operational architecture that made sense a decade ago is now carrying risk it was not designed to carry. AurenOps exists to close that gap.

Work with us

Start with a conversation, not a sales process.

45 minutes understanding the operation is worth more than any brochure. If there is a fit it will be clear quickly. If there is not, we will say so.

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