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TCS Financial Solutions —TradewebBest Derivatives Operations SolutionTCS BaNCSBest Clearing and Settlement SolutionQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: N. Chandrasekaran, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services; N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, president, TCS Financial Solutions.Q: Where is the company’s main headquarters?A: Global headquarters: Mumbai; American hub: New York.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: Our mission is to help customers achieve business objectives by providing innovative, best-in-class consulting, IT solutions and services.Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: 260 TCS BaNCS customers globally.Q: How does your company help customers with their post-trade challenges?A: The TCS BaNCS Custody solution has enabled custodians to meet these challenges head-on:• Enhanced transaction processing by enabling custodians to offer superior client services by providing timely and accurate information and execution.• High levels of straight through processing, coupled with efficient exception management to improve the firm’s operational efficiency.• Direct connectivity with local and international central securities depositories by facilitating smooth integration with brokers, depositories, custodians, central counterparties and internal systems (cash/general ledger systems) with the help of the service integrator solution from TCS BaNCS.• A highly scalable processing infrastructure that handles high volumes of cross-border trades and increased complexity of financial instruments.• A partnership with large financial institutions that has created a large repository of market adapters in place. This facilitates a smooth transition to new market initiatives and regulatory reforms.24 Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: TCS BaNCS went live at customer locations in new countries like Qatar, thereby expanding our presence in the Middle East. We also added key market support for Brazil.We also introduced key enhancements for corporate actions such as compliance with the European Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), the U.S. FATCA tax regulation, and the DTCC re- engineering project with support for ISO 20022 messaging and DTCC interface extensions.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?A: New customer acquisition while ensuring the highest customer satisfaction for ongoing engagements globally.★From left to right:Sunil Robert, Andrew Zelenka, Ashvini Saxena, Sanjay Prasad, Danny Garcia, Kshitiz MittalBill Hayden,Director, System IntegrationQ: Who are the top executives of the company?A: Tradeweb is led by Lee Olesky, CEO, and Billy Hult, president.Q: Where is your company’s main headquarters?A: Tradeweb is headquartered in midtown Manhattan in New York City.Q: What is the mission of your company?A: Tradeweb is focused onbuilding electronic markets to help drive efficiency and transparency in fixed income andderivatives trading.Q: As of today, how many customers does the company have?A: More than 2,000 of the world’s leading institutions rely on Tradeweb Markets to access liquidity in fixed income and derivatives markets.Q: How does your company help with post-trade challenges?A: Tradeweb is known in the industry for its customer service. Using technology that seamlessly connects the world’s leading buy-side participants, Tradeweb’s platforms electronically process derivatives trades once they are executed and deliver them downstream. Trades processed through Tradeweb will be reported automatically as part of the integrated electronic trading workflow, which helps increase trading efficiency. Information on all trades that are reported to appropriate trade repositories is available electronically. Clients have immediate access to trade data for all regulatory and compliance needs.Q: What were your company’s major achievements in 2013?A: Included below are some of the firm’s key accomplishments in 2013:• Tradeweb completed the first electronic pre-trade credit check for swaps trading.• The firm launched two swap execution facilities, TW SEF and DW SEF.• Tradeweb acquired BondDesk Group and integrated the business with Tradeweb Retail to form Tradeweb Direct.• The firm introduced interdealer trading to the Tradeweb iTraxx marketplace and an electronic hedging tool for European ETFs.Q: What are your top goals for 2014?A: This year, we are focused on expansion and growth. Following the launch of our SEFs, our goal is to become the leading derivatives trading platform for our clients as our volumes and market share in the derivatives trading space continue to increase.We are also launching a cash credit platform for trading of corporate investment-grade bonds in the U.S. In addition, as the integration of BondDesk within the Tradeweb Direct business progresses, we are expanding our footprint in the retail fixed income trading space.Finally, we announced a strategic alliance with BlackRock’s Aladdin platform earlier this year. This initiative will create a fully integrated electronic rates trading solution, which we are currently working on building out.★AWARDS SUPPLEMENT 2014 | FTF NEWS MAGAZINE