Merlin delivers multi-prime and multi-custody clearing and settlement solutions, plus the highest levels of service, support, and reporting. As an introducing broker to J.P. Morgan Clearing Corporation, Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing (GSEC) and National Bank of Canada (NBCN) and fully integrated with Northern Trust, Merlin offers its clients security and multi-custodial risk management on a global scale.
Manage counter-party risk
In a world of real and perceived risk, Merlin believes that funds need to look at custodial risk in addition to the usual notions of portfolio risk. It is in that spirit that Merlin offers a choice of custodians and “out of the box” multi-prime solutions.
Streamline operations
Fund managers are able to diversify their custodial risk while offloading the administrative, operational, and technology burden of managing multiple primes to Merlin.
Aggregate multi-custody reporting
Our dynamic platform facilitates multi-prime reconciliation and reporting, as well as transaction-based attribution across all custodians. Clients can access and measure the performance effect of every transaction, same day, every day, via an always-available web-based interface.
Grow with Merlin’s scalable and customizable platform
To complement the benefits of its multi-prime model, Merlin combines the transparency of consolidated portfolio and risk management with the unparalleled maneuverability and flexibility of its robust open architecture platform.
Access best-of-breed partners
Merlin’s multi-prime, multi-custody solutions allow all its clients, who may have been previously excluded because of their revenue and/or asset size, access to the security and global strength of our financial services partners.
Merlin’s Clearing, Custody & Finance resources include:
Full integration of all custodians into Merlin’s powerful prime broker, performance attribution, and risk management reporting system
Real-time trade monitoring
Multiple Direct Market Access (DMA)
Position reports available end of the day—not overnight batched
Seamless flow of trades through all of Merlin’s systems
Multi-prime reporting capabilities
Our state-of-the-art platform with full redundancy with robust business continuity planning
Virtualization, scalability, and cost containment