Advanced Securities Consulting

ASC is a premier consulting firm specializing in analyzing complex financial transactions. Founded in 2006 by industry veteran Edmon (Ed) Blount, ASC leverages over three decades of securities market experience to deliver unparalleled insights and support to clients.

Our team combines deep practical knowledge in securities lending, finance, corporate governance, and risk management with advanced financial, statistical, and quantitative analysis. This unique approach allows us to uncover critical insights from raw data, providing clients with a comprehensive understanding of their financial landscape.

Our mission is to provide clients with rigorous analysis of financial transactions, expert assessments, and forensic data analysis, empowering them to make informed decisions in complex securities markets.

Advanced Securities Consulting provides institutional investors with holistic analysis and expert recommendations on all aspects of securities lending.

Our experts employ both a qualitative and quantitative approach to contract assessment, performance evaluation, and expert witness testimony, backing up conclusions with statistical and other analyses of relevant market or transaction data.

Securities Lending Metrics - Advanced Securities Consulting.

About

Our Experts

ASC’s consultants draw on many years of wide ranging experience in the banking, finance, and securities industries in areas such as securities finance, corporate trust, contract compliance, risk management, corporate governance, and sophisticated quantitative analysis of market data. Our team-based approach means that we can provide the full range of our expertise and experience to every engagement.

More…

Our Services

ASC offers the courts and boards of directors a wide range of financial consulting services, including expert testimony, contract assessment and evaluation, and data mining and coordinate analysis. Our team draws on experience in finance and government, to bring each engagement the benefits of a multi-disciplined approach. We collaborate with lawyers, economists, regulators, and academics to develop defensible, cost-efficient solutions to challenging problems in the capital markets.

More…

Our Outreach

ASC partners with educational organizations to assist in increasing financial literacy. The Regulatory Outreach for Student Education (ROSE) program engages students in the debate over financial services reform. The program is designed to put students in touch with the regulators, policy-makers, and industry leaders who are currently shaping the financial regulatory landscape. ASC challenges students to participate in discussions shaping the financial market.

More…

Expertise Services

Securities Financing Transactions

With experience spanning 30 years, Advanced Securities Consulting’s industry recognized experts in the securities financing transactions, including lending and repo, have actively participated in the growth of these sectors into global market forces. Since the early days of the US industry, ASC’s experts have counseled clients in program design, implementation, and assisted them to keep pace with the technological, internal control, and operational advancements and challenges presented by today’s complex multi-national securities lending and repo businesses.

More about Securities Financing Transactions…

Securities Financing Transactions Services - Advanced Securities Consulting.

Expert Testimony and Complex Litigation Support

Financial services, particularly those which rely on securities finance, have become increasingly global, leading to greater technological and transactional complexity. With the explosion of litigation arising out of the 2008 financial crisis, litigants and courts frequently require plain language insight into the structure, flows, and strategies associated with securities finance. Working closely with counsel, our team assists a litigant’s analysts and experts to turn archival data into workable records. Then we combine that data with contemporaneous market intelligence. As a result, courts and litigants have meaningful, well supported conclusions that can serve as coherent answers to key litigation issues.

More about Expert Witness Testimony and Litigation Support…

Expert Testimony Complex Litigation Support Services - Advanced Securities Consulting

Policy and Contract Compliance

Although cooperating subsidiaries can achieve great service efficiencies, the prospect of regulatory reforms or operational restructuring can create unexpected risks to fiduciary compliance. In such cases, ASC assists the boards of firms in evaluating compliance with program objectives and contract terms.

More about Affiliate Contract Validation…

Policy and Contract Compliance Services - Advanced Securities Consulting.

Profitability / Performance Measurement

The key to a successful securities lending program is the effective management of value generation versus risk. ASC assists clients to strike the appropriate balance by providing in-depth performance measurement and assessments of program management.

More about Profitability Analysis and Performance Measurement…

Profitability / Performance Measurement Services - Advanced Securities Consulting.

Risk Management

Following the failure of Lehman Brothers, counterparty risk and the risks surrounding the investment of lenders’ collateral became the focus of lenders, borrowers, and agents alike. Advanced Securities Consulting assists clients on all sides of securities lending transactions to better understand and manage the risks associated with securities lending.

More about Risk Management…

Risk Managment Services - Advanced Securities Consulting.

Corporate Governance

Advanced Securities Consulting advises clients on wide range of corporate governance issues Corporate Governance and matters, including:

Proxies/Empty Voting
Corporate Actions
Reporting and Disclosure
Mutual Fund Governance

More about Corporate Governance…

Corporate Governance Services - Advanced Securities Consulting.

Cash and Collateral Management

ASC works with financial institutions, securities lending agents, hedge funds, broker-dealers, and asset managers to help them streamline and improve their collateral management processes. Whether it be securities lending programs, repo, or OTC or exchange traded derivatives, ASC can help firms develop collateral processes and strategies that control funding costs and effectively manage counterparty and other risks.

More about Cash and Collateral Management…