Broker-dealers

Who we serve

We specialize in providing responsive clearing and execution services to successful financial services businesses like yours.

Through our legacy of more than 40 years of service as a clearing broker-dealer, we understand the issues that are important to you—and can provide the technology, wealth management products, institutional clearing capabilities and other solutions you may seek.

Solutions for your business model(s)

We provide a holistic broker-dealer platform, including the full scope of products, services and technologies you’re looking for. With the support of one of the nation’s leading securities clearing firms, you can focus on your most important asset—your clients.

Whether you want to begin offering wealth management solutions or broaden your investment selection, we can help you expand and diversify your insurance business by providing resources to help your clients build wealth.

Capabilities for you

  • Strategic consultation to help you understand how RBC can help your firm accomplish its business goals.
  • Training to help your agents learn about products and services offered through RBC Clearing & Custody.
  • Business development ideas to help your agents spot service opportunities and deliver solutions.
  • Investments to help clients build, protect, enjoy and share their wealth.
  • Credit lines to help clients gain portfolio liquidity without selling securities. 1
  • Cash management solutions to help make it easy for clients to save and spend money.

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Technology for you

  • Productivity applications to help you open accounts, manage portfolios and serve clients.
  • Research tools to help select appropriate investments.
  • RBC Nexus to help you get more done more efficiently, our innovative technology platform is accessible from your laptop, desktop or tablet. As your gateway to all of RBC Clearing & Custody’s technology tools, RBC Nexus centralizes client information, firm-level information, service tools, knowledge resources, and all the relevant information you need to service your clients.
  • RBC BLACK to help you gain efficiency by combining leading third-party vendor technology solutions on one platform.
  • RBC Marketplace to help uncover the full breadth of solutions available from RBC Clearing & Custody and providers.

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1 Securities-based loans involve special risks and are not suitable for everyone. You should review the provisions of any agreement and related disclosures, and consult with your own independent tax and legal advisors about any questions you have prior to using securities-based loans or lines of credit. Additional restrictions may apply.

Take advantage of our institutional technology, trading and operations expertise, as well as the capital markets capabilities, of one of the nation’s leading full-service securities firms.

Our operations personnel will support you in a variety of areas, including fixed income and equity trade billing, trade comparisons and settlement, reconciliation, foreign exchange, and purchase and sales.

Capabilities for you

  • Institutional clearing services to offer support for:
    • Equities (U.S. and international)
    • Fixed income (U.S. and international)
    • Options (U.S.)
  • Trade compliance and guidance to help you fulfill regulatory requirements including REG BI, EBS, CAT, TRACE, MSRB and Best Execution reporting.

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Technology for you

  • Trade matching to significantly increase efficiency by eliminating manual processing. Our Global Trade Match Allocation system interfaces with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s account and standing instruction database (ALERT) and trade allocation database (CTM).
  • Real-time trade settlement to get up-to-the-minute trade settlement status about all dealer and delivery versus payment accounts. Our RD Master system can help reduce financial, market and reputational risk as well as staff time communicating issues.
  • Smart order routing to help to improve execution quality, minimize information leakage and control trading costs. The patented THOR technology, available from RBC Capital Markets, interacts seamlessly with RBC’s streamlined algorithm suite, as well as direct market access orders, cash desk and program trades.
  • Technology capabilities from a growing list of third-party vendors includes and is not limited to: Bloomberg EMSX, Bloomberg TOMS, BondPub, CapeLogic, EZE / Real-Tick, Fabkom, FIS Valdi OMS, FlexTrade, ICE BondPoint, Indigo, Itiviti, LiquidityBook, Mixit, Morningstar Total Rebalance Expert, Neomantra, Neovest, Nitrogen Trading, Orion, Raptor Trading, Refinitv REDI EMS, SS&C, Sterling Trader, Tamarac, TRAFiX, VestmarkONE, Wolverine, Zia.1

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1 RBC Clearing & Custody is not affiliated or associated with the listed companies or products. The list is merely of trading systems that can be supported through the RBC Clearing & Custody platform.

Whether your focus is on traditional commission-based business, retail wealth management or both, we can support your unique service paradigm by providing products, advisory accounts and full-service solutions.

Additionally, should you choose to operate your business as a broker-dealer and registered investment advisor separately from each other, we can support both sides of your business efficiently.

Capabilities for you

  • Research expertise to help you make well-informed portfolio management decisions.
  • Business development ideas to help your financial professionals spot service opportunities and deliver solutions.
  • Client website and mobile app to help clients monitor accounts and use self-service solutions.
  • Investments to help clients build, protect, enjoy and share their wealth.
  • Managed accounts to help you deliver fee-based investment advisory services.
  • Credit lines to help clients gain portfolio liquidity without selling securities.1
  • Cash management solutions to help make it easy for clients to save and spend money.
  • Trust services to help preserve and transfer wealth efficiently.2

Explore our products and services

Technology for you

  • RBC Nexus to help you get more done more efficiently, our innovative technology platform is accessible from your laptop, desktop or tablet. As your gateway to all of RBC’s technology tools, RBC Nexus centralizes client information, firm-level information, service tools, knowledge resources, and all the relevant information you need to service your clients.

    Streamline your day-to-day tasks and improve outcomes with solutions designed to facilitate:
  • RBC BLACK to help you gain efficiency by combining leading third-party vendor technology solutions on one platform.
  • RBC Marketplace to help uncover the full breadth of solutions available from RBC Clearing & Custody and providers.

Explore our technology

1 Securities-based loans involve special risks and are not suitable for everyone. You should review the provisions of any agreement and related disclosures, and consult with your own independent tax and legal advisors about any questions you have prior to using securities-based loans or lines of credit. Additional restrictions may apply.

2 Trust services are offered through third parties.

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More reasons why broker-dealers choose us

Beyond clearing and execution services, you have the flexibility to choose technology, training services and support that best fits your unique business model.

Advanced technology

To run, grow and protect your business today, you need affordable access to innovative technology with integrations that just work.

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Ongoing training

We provide you with training throughout the lifetime of your relationship with us—including comprehensive, tailored training on our systems—before, during and after the transition.

Responsive support

You always have direct access to your dedicated client service manager. No call centers, no phone queues, no “robo responses.” Prefer to go directly to our product and operations departments? Our experienced staff welcome your calls.

Our strategic relationship with RBC Clearing & Custody is critical to our business. We chose RBC Clearing to work with because of their approach to open architecture, technology innovation and their commitment to top tier service that our financial professionals and clients demand. Issues and challenges do arise, but we’ve found that RBC is willing to dig in and solve the challenges with us and for that we very much appreciate the relationship.”

Mark Garrett
Executive Chairman
Moors & Cabot Inc.
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