Traders Magazine 0 Shares The report titled, ‘The Importance of Automating the Middle Office’, emphasises a number of pain points experienced by firms across middle office operations which include: Pressure on staff to support multiple, fragmented processes tied to asset class siloes in the front office which can limit operational oversight Higher settlement risk and related costs as a result of fragmentation and manual processes which are prone to inaccuracy Challenges in meeting multiple market structure changes in a timely manner as manual processes face scalability issues An inability to quickly respond to client requests due to lack of transparency across asset class specific systems