Post-Trade Settlement in Singapore: One Platform Across Markets
Singapore

Six Markets. One Operations Team. No Room for Manual Work.

Singapore’s sell-side firms operate across markets with different cycles, cut-offs and operating windows. NOVA CMX brings trades, settlement, custody and corporate actions onto one platform – automating the complexity without adding operational headcount.

In market since 1995

30+ years

headquartered in Singapore, platform engineered here

T+1

live in production today, and
T+0 ready

100M+

trades processed across the platform

12

week go-live, ~70% out-of-the-box functionality

The real risk

A Singapore broker is not running one market. It is running six.

Regional cycles are diverging, not converging. Every venue you add lands on the same operations team.

The multi-market stack today

A different system, cut-off and cash cycle per venue

Overnight batches and next-morning breaks

Manual exceptions, spreadsheet reconciliation, key-person risk

US affirmation and FX squeezed into the Asian night

On NOVA CMX

One platform across trades, settlement, custody and corporate actions

Real-time validation at capture, no batch dependency

Intraday reconciliation and automated exception handling

Predictive fail scoring before each market’s cut-off

Already covered

Four shifts. Same headcount.

Next

Settlement-cycle compression

SGX and MAS remain in consultation with no confirmed date, while the US is live on T+1, HKEX is consulting toward technical readiness, and the UK, EU and Switzerland cut over in October 2027. Singapore firms carry the mismatch in the meantime. NOVA settles T+1 in production now — and T+2, T+1 and T+0 side by side on one book of record.

Dec 2026

24×5 US trading

Nasdaq is targeting a 23-hour, five-day session with DTCC extending clearing to match. For a Singapore desk holding US lines, the overnight processing window disappears. NOVA never needed one.

Live

Digital assets and tokenisation

MAS Project Guardian is moving from trials to commercialisation, with GL1 and an SGD wholesale-CBDC testnet behind it. NOVA processes tokenised instruments, crypto transfers and custody on the same ledger as equities and fixed income — not a parallel operational silo.

2027

AI in post-trade

Agentic exception triage, ML-assisted matching inside the rules engine, trade-level fail prediction - native, configurable and fully audited. Aligned to MAS AIR Guidelines.

The business case

What NOVA CMX does to the cost base.

95-98%

straight-through processing achieved

20-40%

TCO reduction via STP and vendor consolidation

25-50%

lower labour cost in reconciliation and exceptions

12-18mo

typical payback on targeted automation

The C-suite outcome

Add markets and asset classes without adding an operation.

01

Cost decoupled from volume

Growth absorbed on unchanged headcount.

02

Every cycle, one platform

T+2, T+1 and T+0 run together across your venues.

03

Lower implementation risk

Modernise the operating model, keep the OMS and the front office.

Lower implemen-tation risk

Modernise the operating model, keep the OMS and the front office.

04

MAS evidence by default

Reporting and audit trail generated from the settlement record.

05

In your time zone

Product, engineering and domain teams in Singapore, not on a night shift.

Capital markets - engineered

Book an operational review.

We will map your venues, cycles and break volumes against the automation you already pay for – and show you the gap.

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