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Our technology

To run, grow and protect your firm, you need seamless, intuitive technology, specialized expertise and comprehensive support. We deliver the technology products and the technology people to help make a difference in your business.

Our technology philosophy

We offer a revolutionary platform to unify, simplify—and elevate—the technology experience for your team and your clients. What sets us apart is the human touch that comes with our technology. As technology innovators, our strategy is actually driven by traditional values like trust, integrity and accountability. And our ability to combine next-generation RBC solutions with leading Fintech provider partnerships gives you the flexibility to customize your tech stack and user experience.

Our approach to technology is built on three simple yet powerful principles:

  1. Service-first focus – We focus on helping firms like yours service their financial professionals and clients
  2. Collaborative partnership – We innovate and grow through strong relationships with our clients and Fintech providers
  3. Strategic leverage – We leverage RBC’s broader technology platform where applicable

How we can help

Just as the objectives of your firm and clients are evolving, so is technology. At RBC Clearing & Custody, we offer advanced technology solutions that can help your firm reach its full potential.

Our investment in technology includes an equally strong emphasis on providing experienced technology specialists to help you at every step of your technology journey. Our knowledgeable and friendly people are ready to help you make the most of the technology available to you. So you can focus on your other important business goals.

Retail wealth management solutions

Serve clients effectively and manage your business efficiently with industry-leading solutions.

RBC Nexus

Get more done—quickly and easily—with an integrated website that is your gateway to all of RBC’s technology tools. Nexus centralizes client information, firm-level information, service tools, knowledge resources and all the relevant information you need to serve your clients.

  • Digital account opening
  • Client and household management
  • AI-powered global search
  • Advisory account management
  • Service requests and tracking
  • AI-powered client insights
  • Centralized notifications
  • Credit line management
  • Performance reporting
  • Markets and research

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RBC BLACK

Boost productivity with an innovative, multi-custodial client engagement platform that combines your choice of leading vendor technology solutions in one place, at one competitive price. Accessed from RBC Nexus, RBC BLACK further enhances the core RBC technology offering with a premium integrated platform fully supported by RBC. This includes:

  • Account aggregation
  • Planning tools
  • Risk alignment and reporting
  • Client relationship management
  • Wealth reporting
  • Client portal and mobile

Discover RBC BLACK 

RBC Marketplace

Find additional solutions to round out your tech stack or customize your wealth management service offering. RBC Marketplace features more than 100 of the latest technology capabilities from RBC Clearing & Custody and industry-leading partner providers.

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Investor and firm solutions

Many of the broker-dealer firms we serve use our expanded institutional clearing capabilities to accomplish their institutional brokerage goals. We continue to on-board broker-dealers who focus specifically on institutional business on a regular basis.

Our dedication to the institutional broker-dealer business model and on-going enhancements to our platform demonstrates our commitment to your success. The tools available are among the reasons broker-dealers feel confident about clearing with us.

Trade matching

Increase efficiency by eliminating manual processing. Our Global Trade Match Allocation system interfaces with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s account and standing settlement instruction database (ALERT) and trade allocation database (CTM).

Real-time trade settlement

Get up-to-the-minute trade settlement status for COD/COR cash on delivery/receive activity. Our settlement status interface can help reduce financial, market and reputational risk as well as staff time spent communicating issues.

Smart order routing

Access robust execution quality, minimize information leakage and control trading costs. RBC Capital Markets’ patented THOR technology interacts seamlessly with our streamlined algorithm suite as well as direct market access orders, cash desk and program trades.

Technology capabilities

Seamless integration to a growing list of third-party technology 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

1RBC 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.

End client solutions

Build and maintain strong client relationships with the digital wealth management capabilities investors want.

Technology plays an ever-increasing role in people’s lives, so we offer a full suite of secure online tools, resources and solutions your clients expect from you.

Modern client portal for current account information

Our client portal features an intuitive and dynamic interface and delivers the latest user functionality to make it quick and easy for clients to find what they’re looking for. Complimentary branding with your firm logo and personalization with photos and contact information for your financial professionals is also available. Watch a brief video to see for yourself.

Registration is straightforward and most information is available in real time. In addition to performance and asset allocation, this includes:

  • Holdings and positions, including cost basis
  • Transaction details
  • Gain/loss information
  • Year-to-date income
  • Cash and money market balances

Self-guided tours are available to help clients learn about everything the portal enables them to do online. End clients can call our client support services team toll free for help with technical or functional questions about the client portal.

Financial professional functionality

Financial professionals can see the same client portal and tools that end clients access and use through RBC Nexus, promoting real-time conversations between financial professionals and clients. Looking at clients’ online behavior and interests may help financial professionals build deeper relationships. This may also help them capture greater share of wallet by discovering and then servicing unmet client needs.

Mobile app for convenience

Our mobile app is designed to provide your clients with the freedom, flexibility and secure on-the-go access to information and self-service features to enhance their experience.

Available for iOS and Android, the RBC Connect app allows end clients to:

  • View accounts
  • Access market data
  • Deposit checks into eligible accounts
  • Take advantage of self-service capabilities
  • Call their financial professional at the touch of a button

Paperless delivery for simplicity, safety and sustainability

Investors registered for our client portal can elect to view statements and other documents online instead of receiving documents in the mail.

  • Monthly and annual statements, disclosures and notices
  • Trade and non-trade confirmations
  • Tax documents
  • Proxies and reorganization notices
  • Mutual fund prospectuses

Once documents are available, clients receive an email linking them directly to the client portal.

Self-service options

Firms served by RBC Clearing & Custody have the ability to offer end clients the following capabilities. Your clients can:

  • Easily move cash between eligible accounts at RBC
  • Deposit checks via mobile check deposit
  • Utilize bill pay services, manage debit cards and re-order checks
  • Set-up their own ACH profile and request ACH transfers

Client privacy precautions

We are committed to providing you and your clients with a secure online experience. Protecting client information and safeguarding clients from fraud are among our highest priorities. In addition to our stringent privacy practices, we employ a diverse range of current technologies and security mechanisms to confirm the safety, confidentiality and integrity of client information and transactions.

Our technology team

From consulting and configuration to training and support, our Minneapolis-based technology team focuses on all aspects of the RBC Clearing & Custody technology experience. Sharing their insight and delivering the expertise of RBC and third-party technology, our team members work with you as well as behind the scenes to provide:

  • Strategic consulting to help firms make well-informed decisions about technology
  • Tactical implementation to help firms customize their tech stack and deploy technology effectively
  • Training and support to help financial professionals adopt technology quickly and increase their productivity
  • Data and analytics support to help firms comply with regulations and better understand their business
  • U.S.-based phone support for financial professionals and end clients.

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The technology stack is not only beneficial to us as an introducing firm, but it’s also fabulous for clients from an overall experience standpoint.”

Mat Gleason
President of FBL Wealth Management, LLC and FBL Marketing Services, LLC
Farm Bureau Financial Services

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