Platform
RiskArc Alpha is a passive, read-only layer that watches the post-trade lifecycle, predicts settlement failure, validates compliance, and preserves the evidence — all without altering the systems it observes.
RiskArc Alpha scores instructions across the settlement lifecycle and highlights those most likely to fail, with the factors behind each assessment made explicit. The output is a ranked, explainable worklist — not a black box — so operations teams can act while intervention still changes the outcome.
Each instruction is checked against the applicable regulatory and market-infrastructure requirements. Every decision is captured with its rationale, giving first-line teams a defensible answer to “why did this pass, or fail?” long after the fact.
The platform maintains a continuous, tamper-evident record of what it saw and concluded. That record is designed for audit and supervisory review, supporting the traceability that model-risk and operational-resilience expectations demand.
The guarantee
The value of a risk layer collapses if it can itself become a source of risk. RiskArc Alpha is engineered so that it structurally cannot write to the systems it reads. This is not a configuration setting or an operating policy — it is the shape of the system, and it is what lets a conservative institution deploy it against live settlement flow.
Foundation
RiskArc Alpha runs on IBM’s enterprise platform and is delivered for IBM Cloud for Financial Services environments. That foundation gives institutional buyers a known operational, security, and compliance baseline from the first conversation.