CAPIS, STP partner to launch outsourced trading model
KENT, UNITED KINGDOM — CAPIS and STP Investment Services launched a strategic partnership that merges institutional trade execution with middle- and back-office operations, targeting buy-side firms squeezed by rising costs and tightening regulation.
According to a report from Fintech Finance News, the coordinated model collapses the traditional wall between outsourced trading and operations support, giving investment managers a single integrated infrastructure across the trade lifecycle.
The launch arrives as asset managers from emerging shops to established institutions hunt for ways to scale without bloating internal headcount.
A unified front-to-back solution hits the market
The joint offering pairs CAPIS’ outsourced and supplemental trading capabilities across global equities, fixed income and derivatives with STP’s tech-enabled investment operations through its BluePrint platform.
Clients can outsource a discrete portion of trading activity, use CAPIS for overflow or contingency coverage, or hand off execution entirely, while STP handles reconciliation, trade settlements, performance measurement, corporate actions and compliance.
The model eliminates the vendor-stitching that has long plagued buy-side workflows, where fragmented data feeds and reconciliation gaps drain margin.
“Buy-side firms don’t want more vendors, they want integrated infrastructure,” said Jeff Hooks, senior vice president at STP Investment Services.
He added that the packaged solution lets firms outsource “as much or as little as they need, whether that’s execution support, trade settlements, reconciliations, or broader middle-office functions.”
Proven collaboration drives the launch
The partnership formalizes work the two firms have already completed for a mutual investment manager client, where they aligned data feeds, file structures and system requirements to move trading data cleanly into downstream operations.
That engagement cut manual intervention, eliminated client-side reconciliation between separate providers and produced a more scalable operating model.
CAPIS also brings its ARC solution to the table, designed to eliminate trade rotation for WRAP and SMA platforms by folding those orders into the primary block.
“By combining CAPIS’ proven trade execution and commission management services with STP’s middle- and back-office expertise, we’re offering clients a seamless experience that reduces complexity, strengthens oversight, and ensures that execution and post-trade processes move in lockstep,” said Chris Hurley, senior vice president and head of institutional sales at CAPIS.
The deal lands amid a broader consolidation push across financial outsourcing, where providers including SS&C, Northern Trust and State Street have moved to bundle trading, fund administration and operations under unified platforms.
As regulatory complexity grows and fee compression bites deeper into asset managers, integrated front-to-back outsourcing models are emerging as the dominant structure for buy-side cost discipline.
