Front office
- Japanese
- フロント・オフィス
- Last reviewed
- September 26, 2026
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The front office is the part of a financial institution that enters into trades with clients and counterparties and manages the resulting positions. Sales and trading staff belong to it.
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- Exercise Styles: European, American and Bermudan
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Stress Testing
- Exposure Profiles by Product
- Credit Limit Management
- Booking Errors and Confirmation Mismatches
- Rogue Trading Cases: Barings, Societe Generale and Others
- P&L Attribution
- The Client Business Flow
- KYC and Credit Review
- Suitability Checks
- Trade Execution
- Trade Confirmations
- Trade Capture and Approval
- Lifecycle Event Processing
- Daily Valuation and P&L Sign-Off
- Daily Risk Management Operations
- Settlement
- Accounting Operations
- Front-to-Back System Architecture
- Lifecycle Event Data
- Market Data Management
- End-of-Day Batch Processing
- Trading System Types and Vendor Examples
- The Three Lines Model
- Limit Frameworks
- Independent Price Verification (IPV)
- Conduct Risk