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Many banks and software companies have developed software for Middle Office Banking as "outsourcing" solution. What is the idea behind this?

Not every bank has enough highly skilled developers and people to develop it's own software for Middle Office.

100%

It's difficult to keep up to date with all the changes, and regulatory requirements for a bank. The outsourcing software ensures that all rules are up to date.

88%

It's cheaper to buy an outsourcing software, instead of developing software in-house

38%

It's difficult to maintain a software technically for a bank, when traders or users request modifications all the time.

88%

Middle Office software collects information from different departments and allows managers to impact decisions.

38%

Not every bank has enough money to develop it's own software for Middle Office.

13%

Which of the following tasks is done in the Middle Office

Entering a new imit order with order lifetime (day) into the trading software of your bank.

Analyzing live market data using Python to calculate moving 50 day average.

Calculation of PnL statement (Profit and Loss of a trading position)

Calculating the portfolio risk in a hedge fund.

Calculation of Net Asset Value (NAV) in a mutual fund.

As software support providing a new screen diagram showing moving averages, to the banks trading software.

22%

Changing the Limit of your order using the trading software of your bank.

Running a backtesting to check the profitability of your new algo.

22%

The Middle is connecting trading activity with functions to control, document and processing of transactions.

What is the Middle Office in Banking?

The Middle Office is a department in a bank, which is communicating between market authorities and the company officials.

The Middle Office is a middle management layer in investment companies, which is between the trading offices and the backoffice.

20%

The Middle Office is a middle management layer in commercial banking, which is between the customer accounts and backoffice transactions.

80%

The Middle Office is summarizing all departments in an investment banking between front office trading and transactions.

What is the role of the Middle Office in the Trade Cycle?

The Middle Office processes transactions.

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The Middle Office supports pre-trade checks.

The Middle Office is responsible for Trading.

The Middle Office supports post-trade checks.

The Middle Office provides clearing and settlement.

Are the leading roles in a bank (CEO, CTO, CIO, board directors) part of the Middle Office?

No. The leading positions are organized seperately and are not related to Front- Middle and Backoffice.

No. But the leading positions work very closes with the Middle Office, which gives them information and the chance to control banking operations.

Yes. The people on leading roles are directing how Front Office and Back Office should work.

Is software development, IT support and infrastructure part of the Middle Office?

No. Technological functions are managed in seperate department of the bank, not related to Front- Middle- or Backoffice.

Yes, but it depends. If the software development is developing specific products for Trading (Front Office) or Transaction Services (Backoffice) it can be part of the Middle Office.

Yes. It's always part of the Middle Office in a Bank.

Head of DevOp (Software Development) for Trading.

Which jobs can you find in Middle Office in Banking?

Legal Councel.

33%

Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

Account Manager.

Head of Treasury.

Risk Manager.

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Portfolio Manager.

22%

Chief Executive Office (CEO)

IT Support (1st tier, 2nd tier, 3 tier)

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Trader, and Assistant-Trader.

Key account manager private banking (HNWI).

Financial Controller.

Compliance Officer

78%

Which banks or financial institutions. have a Middle Office?

Commercial banks which handle customer accounts, and credit cards.

All financial companies which operate with money should have a middle office.

Broker-Dealers.

Hedge funds.

Investment Banks which trade on financial markets.

Brokers.

Investment banks which - do not -trade on financial markets.

Market Authorities (aka AMF - Authorité des Marches Financiers.

Mutual Funds.

Pension Funds.

Dealers.

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