Advisor Custody for the Digital Age
Upgrade the experience for your clients and your team with tools and services built for the future that’s already here.
A Powerful Experience that Scales
Meet modern custodial infrastructure and services centered on four key elements.
- An innovative custody engine
- A modern digital backbone
- Self-service at scale
- The power to create your own client experience
$141B+ Assets Under Custody
15 Seconds To open an account*
Apex proprietary data as of 6/30/2024.
* Most accounts can be opened in seconds and funded moments later, enabling trading thereafter.
Apex Onboarding Edge
Apex Onboarding Edge is an end-to-end digital tool that enables advisors to validate, open, and fund new accounts in seconds.* It removes hassle and errors by performing real-time validations as you enter information, and harnessing the data you already have in your CRM (Customer Relationship Management), portfolio management, and financial planning tools.
Open and Digitally ACAT Entire Books of Business
- A Variety of Account Types
- Individually, by Household, or in Bulk
- During and After Transition
- Eliminate Reliance on Proprietary eConsent
- Resolve Errors and Investigations in One Workflow
Perform Real-Time Compliance and Financial-Crime Checks
- US Identify Verification
- Cash Account Verification
- OFAC & Sanctions
- Negative News
Accelerate and Enhance the Transition Process**
- Timelines Potentially Cut by Months
- Simplified Client Experience During Transition
- NIGO Rates as Low as 3.4%†
- Bespoke Service by Experienced Transition Specialists
- Streamlined Back-Office Experience (Avoiding manual and back-and-forth processes with custodian)
Apex proprietary data as of 12/31/2023.
* Most accounts can be opened in seconds and funded moments later, enabling trading thereafter.
** Pre-transition services are provided through our alliance with DocuPace
† NIGO Rate refers to the percentage of applications that are incomplete, inaccurate or in some other way unable to be processed as is.
Innovative Custody Engine
Modern infrastructure starts with APIs that make it easier to add new capabilities for you and your clients. This includes:
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Digital account opening
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Digital ACAT
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Digital bulk transfer
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Fractional share trading
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Auto-transfers for uninvested cash
Modern Digital Backbone for Nimble Integrations
We’re standardizing and streamlining the 3rd-party integration process to make it much faster to plug into the latest tools and technologies for your business. And making it much simpler for innovative new vendors to connect with and serve advisors like you.
The result: a flexible, customizable platform that supports a variety of RIA models.
Self-Service at Scale
Less hold music. More tools that can enable you and your clients to securely handle common issues with a few taps of the finger, 24/7, instead of having to speak to a person or wait for typical business hours.
The Power to Create Your Own Client Experience
You don’t have to be a major corporation to launch your own client-facing app. You just need to start with a custody engine flexible enough to support your unique vision. Our engine is built for customization, so you can deliver the experience you have in mind.