The middle desk department, including marketing department, risk control department, finance department, supervision and audit department and product research and development department, mainly provides support for the company's front desk, with the goal of ensuring the continuity of the company's customer service. Although the central Taiwan department does not directly contact customers, it must establish a corresponding isolation mechanism with the front desk department. Otherwise, there will be leakage of investment decision-making information in the front and back office, and the communication efficiency between the central and Taiwan departments and the front office is low, which will affect the overall operation efficiency of fund managers.
Backstage departments, including administration department, personnel department, liquidation department, information technology department, etc. , mainly to provide support for the former middle and Taiwan departments, with the goal of ensuring the implementation and effect of the fund manager strategy. Because the backstage department of fund managers needs to communicate and contact with the regulatory authorities, other relevant government departments, institutional investors, legal advisers, auditors and other subjects, it is very important to control the business behavior of backstage personnel.
In recent years, some fund managers have tried to explore the outsourcing of front-office and back-office departments, which challenges the internal control of fund managers and puts forward higher requirements for the front, middle and back-office control of fund managers.