Trade Capture & Booking

It means turning an agreed trade from chat, email, or a pricing workflow into a structured trade record automatically. The key terms are extracted, validated, approved where required, and pushed into the booking or back-office system with a complete audit trail.

Trade capture can be triggered from enterprise chat, email, Excel workflows, web forms, or system messages via APIs/webhooks. Any channel that carries an agreement or executable intent can be configured as a trigger.

If required fields are missing, inconsistent, or outside policy thresholds, the workflow flags an exception and routes it to the right user or team for review. Users can correct, approve, or reject, and the decision is recorded before booking proceeds.

Approval rules can be set by instrument, size, price bands, counterparty, desk policy, or role. Every trigger, extracted field, validation step, approval, and booking event is logged with timestamps and user/system provenance for surveillance and compliance.

Automation removes rekeying, copy-paste, and interpretation errors at the point of agreement. It also reduces latency between agreement and booking, so downstream systems reflect true risk and position state faster.

Integration is done through APIs or messaging/webhooks, so it can connect to internal booking platforms, ETRM/CTRM systems, OMS/EMS, risk systems, and reporting environments. Exact connectors depend on your stack, but the workflow is designed to map to your existing data model rather than replace it.