Back office
- Japanese
- バック・オフィス
- Last reviewed
- September 26, 2026
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The back office is the part of a financial institution that records the trades entered into by the front office, confirms their terms with the counterparty, and settles them by delivering cash or securities.
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- Exposure Profiles by Product
- Booking Errors and Confirmation Mismatches
- Settlement Failures and Reporting Errors
- Rogue Trading Cases: Barings, Societe Generale and Others
- The Client Business Flow
- Trade Execution
- Trade Confirmations
- Trade Capture and Approval
- Lifecycle Event Processing
- Daily Valuation and P&L Sign-Off
- Daily Risk Management Operations
- Collateral Operations
- Settlement
- Accounting Operations
- Front-to-Back System Architecture
- Lifecycle Event Data
- Market Data Management
- Trading System Types and Vendor Examples
- Choosing the Booking Entity
- Post-Trade Confirmation and Matching Services
- The Three Lines Model
- New Product Approval
- Independent Price Verification (IPV)
- Conduct Risk