Margin · Risk · Collateral · Financing · Execution

Real-time risk safeguards
for digital-asset intermediaries.
Not a dashboard. A brake.

One limit framework across every venue, client and product you face — and something that holds it, live. Positions stream in as they fill, the whole book revalues against your limits, and every screen is pushed the result. Safetifi checks a ticket before it fills and turns a breach into an event with an owner and a deadline, instead of a number that turns red in tomorrow’s report.

Built for digital-asset prime brokers, OTC desks, brokers and exchanges.

LiveFill to screen, without a refresh
  1. Venue fillsWS · FIX · NATS
  2. Event-sourced booksequenced, gap-checked
  3. Risk enginewhole book revalued
  4. Your screenpushed, not polled

A fill lands over a persistent socket with sequence tracking and resync, the book applies it as an event, the engine revalues exposure, margin, collateral and limits across the whole book, and the result is pushed to every open screen. No refresh button. No overnight batch.

Live
streamed, not refreshed
continuous recompute · pushed out
4
margin modes
Isolated · Cross · Portfolio · Unified
5
ingestion channels
REST · WebSocket · FIX · NATS · SFTP
2-sided
spread validation
client-facing vs venue-facing
Exact
decimal math
no floating-point money
The problem

A limit that only reports is not a limit

An intermediary’s risk is spread across venues, clients and products that each enforce their own rules and none of yours. Every venue holds a line against you. Nothing holds your line across all of them.

01

Your limits live in a spreadsheet, your risk lives on five venues

Each venue enforces its own margin and position caps against you, in its own units, on its own schedule. The firm-level limit that spans them is a number somebody checks on a Monday — not a control that acts when it is crossed.

02

By the time it turns red, the trade is done

Post-trade reporting tells you that a limit broke. It cannot tell you that a ticket would break one. The only moment a limit is cheap to hold is before the fill, and that is the moment most systems have nothing to say.

03

The margin you charge drifts beneath the margin you are charged

When a venue raises initial margin on a symbol, every client tier priced beneath it silently becomes loss-making. Nothing in an order-management system flags it. You find out in the funding P&L, weeks later.

04

Portfolio margin moves the limit while you are watching it

Under portfolio or unified margin, venue requirements move non-linearly with the book. A buffer that is comfortable at today’s prices can be gone on a 15% move — which is exactly when you can least afford to discover it.

The platform

One reconciled book, every control on it

Margin, risk, collateral, financing and execution are not separate problems for an intermediary — they are views of the same position. Safetifi computes them from a single event-sourced book, so the numbers agree wherever you look at them.

Margin Management

Price client margin against venue margin, continuously.

  • Two-sided spread validator — client IM/MM vs counterparty IM/MM
  • Margin pricing engine with tier and per-client overrides
  • Portfolio-margin scan: worst-case scenario requirement across the book
  • Cross-venue comparison — where the same risk is cheapest to carry
  • Liquidation waterfall and margin-call thresholds
Margin Management in detail

Real-Time Risk Management

The whole book revalued as it moves — measure the loss before it happens, not after.

  • Continuous book-wide recompute, streamed to every screen
  • Risk monitor — which module needs you, right now
  • Counterparty risk — exposure at default, LGD, wrong-way tests
  • Net book by underlying, matched-book ratio, basis exposure
  • Value-at-risk: parametric 1d/99% plus historical replay of real crises
  • Liquidity: ADV concentration, days-to-exit, market-impact exit cost
  • A safeguard framework: editable limits, live utilisation, breach alerts
Real-Time Risk Management in detail

Collateral Management

What you give clients versus what you get from venues.

  • Two-sided haircut spread per asset and per client
  • Per-client eligibility policies — allow-list or deny-list
  • Loan-to-value: current, call, liquidation and headroom
  • Concentration and collateral wrong-way detection
  • Cheapest-to-deliver and substitution what-if
Collateral Management in detail

Financing Management

The other half of the intermediary P&L.

  • Financing rate engine — client rates against your cost of funds
  • Funding accrual tracked intraday from the venue’s own schedule
  • Financing P&L by client, product and venue
  • Rate publication with an auditable change history
Financing Management in detail

Trading Fees Management

Fees are a spread business too — what you bill against what you pay.

  • Fee summary across the whole book, both sides netted
  • Fee analysis by client, product and venue
  • Venue fee tiers — where your volume actually sits on the ladder
  • Fee rates engine: client schedules as a markup over the venue ladder
Trading Fees Management in detail

Pre-trade Analytics

Answer the question while it is still a question.

  • Pre-trade what-if — what this ticket does to your book, before it does it
  • Smart order routing: where the trade should go, scored on total cost
  • Composite pricing across every venue you face
  • Marginal portfolio margin — offsets versus standalone
  • A limit check that isolates this trade’s own contribution
Pre-trade Analytics in detail

Book & Positions

One reconciled book, event-sourced end to end.

  • Positions and trades ingested from your platform and your venues
  • Event-sourced book with corrections, not overwrites
  • Continuous reconciliation against venue statements
  • Client, instrument and asset registries with live marks

Safeguards & Operations

Alerts, stress tests and an audit trail that stands up.

  • Alert feed for negative spreads, breaches and stale data
  • Stress tests and scenario libraries across the whole book
  • Role-based access control down to the nav group
  • Exportable evidence for risk committees and auditors
The product

Built from the intermediary’s seat, not the venue’s

Every screen answers the same question from a different angle: given both sides of this position, are we being paid enough to carry it?

Every client row, judged against the venue that clears it

The validator resolves the margin each client is charged — tier, product override, per-client override — and puts it side by side with the requirement of the counterparty holding that risk. Rows are ranked by how close they are to inverting.

  • Initial and maintenance margin validated separately
  • All four margin modes, including portfolio approximation
  • Config resolution shown in full: which rule produced this number
  • Click any flagged row to reprice it and watch the status recompute
Spread by product IM · resolved
BTC-PERP
Venue A · cross
+3.50
12.00% / 8.50%
ETH-PERP
Venue B · cross
+0.75
10.00% / 9.25%
SOL-PERP
Venue A · isolated
−3.00
15.00% / 18.00%
BTC-0927
Venue C · portfolio
+6.00
20.00% / 14.00%
How it works

Connect the book. Compute both sides. Safeguard the difference.

01

Connect

Push positions, trades, clients and configuration over REST, WebSocket, FIX, NATS or SFTP — or let Safetifi pull from your venue accounts. Per-source authentication, schema validation at the boundary, corrections handled as events.

02

Compute

The engine resolves client margin, venue margin, collateral haircuts and financing rates on every update, then recomputes book risk on a continuous loop and streams the result. All money math is exact-decimal by construction.

03

Safeguard

Hold the line. Limits that act when they are crossed, a pre-trade check before the fill, alerts that carry an owner and a deadline, and new margin and rate schedules published with a full audit trail behind them.

Connectivity

Fits the stack you already run

Safetifi is an intelligence layer, not a migration. It reads from the systems you have — over the transport your operations team already supports — and stores state in your own database, behind your own identity provider.

Ingestion

  • REST push
  • WebSocket stream
  • FIX drop-copy
  • NATS subject
  • SFTP batch file

Per-source credentials, replayable, corrections as events.

Venues & counterparties

  • Centralised exchanges
  • OTC counterparties
  • Prime brokers
  • Custodians
  • Off-exchange settlement

Venue directory with margin schedules, fees and connection state.

Persistence

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • In-memory

Your database, your infrastructure, versioned migrations.

Identity

  • Local accounts
  • LDAP / Active Directory
  • OIDC
  • SAML
  • Role-based access

Single sign-on against the directory you already run.

Who it’s for

Anyone who takes margin on one side and posts it on the other

01

Crypto prime brokers

You extend leverage to clients and consume it from venues. Safetifi is the ledger of that difference — by client, by product, by venue, with the financing leg attached.

02

OTC desks & market makers

Bilateral margin terms negotiated per counterparty, cleared across several venues. Keep the net book, the basis and the collateral spread visible while the terms differ on every line.

03

Exchanges & brokers

Publish client-facing margin and financing schedules with confidence that no tier prices beneath the requirement you carry, and evidence the decision afterwards.

04

Asset managers & treasuries

See the true cost of the leverage you are being charged, compare it across venues, and stress the book before the market does it for you.

Security & architecture

Institutional by construction

A margin system is only as credible as the arithmetic and the audit trail behind it. Both are design constraints in Safetifi, not features added later.

Single-tenant deployment

Safetifi runs inside your VPC or on infrastructure dedicated to your firm. Your positions, clients and margin terms are never pooled with another institution’s.

Exact-decimal money math

Every margin, haircut, rate and P&L figure is computed with arbitrary-precision decimals. A floating-point number in a calculation path is treated as a defect, not a rounding preference.

Event-sourced audit trail

Positions, corrections and published schedules are appended, never overwritten. Any number on screen can be traced back to the event and the configuration rule that produced it.

Access control that maps to your desk

Authenticate against your existing directory over LDAP, OIDC or SAML. Permissions gate each functional area, so risk, treasury and operations see only their own surface.

Company

Traditional-finance risk discipline, rebuilt for a market that never closes

We come from traditional finance, where real-time risk management on an intermediary book is a solved discipline — limits that hold, margin that is reconciled against the clearing house, and a control framework a regulator can read. We have spent the years since working in digital assets, where the same seat exists and almost none of that machinery does.

01

Where we come from

Real-time risk management in traditional finance — prime brokerage, clearing and margin, where the requirement you post and the requirement you charge are reconciled continuously and the limit framework is a control, not a report.

02

What digital assets changed

The market moves faster and never closes, and it is fragmented across venues that each set their own margin, their own haircuts and their own fee ladder, and change them without notice. The same position is priced differently on every venue you face.

03

Why we built Safetifi

Because an intermediary in that market has to answer two questions at once, continuously: is what we offer our clients competitive, and is it still in line with what the market and our counterparties are actually charging us? Nothing on the desk answered both.

Competitive for your clients, and in line with the market. At the same time, on every position.

That is the whole product. A digital-asset intermediary that only watches one of those two numbers is either losing business to a cheaper competitor or losing money on a spread that has quietly inverted — and in a market this fast and this fragmented, both happen in the same week.

Questions

What people ask first

No. Safetifi is an intelligence and control layer. It reads your book and your venue terms, computes margin, risk, collateral and financing, and tells you what to do. Orders stay in your OMS and assets stay with your venues and custodians.

A venue shows you the margin it charges you. It has no view of what you charge your clients, and no view of the other venues you face. Safetifi is built from the intermediary’s seat: both sides of every position, across every venue, in one book.

Positions, clients and your margin configuration. Most firms start with a read-only feed over REST or SFTP against a subset of clients, see the spread on their real book, then widen the connection.

Yes — with the model stated explicitly. Isolated and cross margin are computed in full. Portfolio and unified are computed as a worst-case scenario scan across the book, and the interface labels them as such rather than presenting an approximation as venue-exact.

In your environment. Single-tenant, your database engine — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server or Oracle — and your identity provider. Nothing about the deployment requires your book to leave your infrastructure.

A scoped pilot: we connect one ingestion channel against a slice of your live book and report the spread on it. If the spread is already where you think it is, you have evidence. If it is not, you have found the number this is for.

Find out what your real margin spread is

A pilot connects one channel against a slice of your live book and reports the two-sided spread on it — client by client, product by product.