Financial Sector

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The key to success in the banking and financial sector is to create innovative new financial products within the increasingly complex risk frameworks.

The alignment of these new operational procedures places a heavy burden on the IT function to increase agility and reduce costs. It is essential, in the early life of a financial product, that both business and technology can adapt quickly to support the viability of the product. Later, as the product transactions in popularity, the supporting operational procedures and technical systems need to prepare to reduce the cost transaction processing.

 

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organizations need to update middle and back office systems to capture and monitor risk effectively. This is becoming increasingly important in today’s business where government is tightening controls in all industry sectors.

Financial Expertise

  • Running a successful integration project that provides business benefits is about far more than technology. That’s why our consultants work with financial organizations to create a seamless, real-time and accurate view of their information so that they can execute deals and manage risk more effectively.

  • Our consultants have financial experience working across Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office environments to deliver clear business value.

  • Solutions provided include: Real-time Trade feeds, Settlement, Risk Management and P&L reporting.

Technical Specialization

  • Our financial integration team specialize in developing and delivering robust, scalable solutions to financial problems.

  • Each of our Principal Consultants has at least 7 years data integration expertise with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and many have up to 15 years of banking experience.

  • Through a fusion of consultancy, financial domain and technical expertise, we provide vendor-neutral solutions that map onto the specific objectives of individual financial organizations.

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Financial Systems

We have experience integrating most financial applications using data formats such as SWIFT, EDIFACT, CML, CRML, MXML, ebXML and BAPI. Some of the systems we have integrated include:

  • — Bloomberg
  • — Sungard Front Arena
  • — Sungard Adaptiv
  • — SAP
  • — Calypso
  • — Murex
  • — ATS Exis
  • — Globus
  • — Salesforce
  • — Thunderhead
  • — RFrame


Our Work

Many consultants in our financial integration practice have over 10 years financial experience clients have included:

  • — Standard Bank
  • — Norwich Union
  • — SNS Real Bank
  • — Mellon Bank
  • — Ventura Financial Services
  • — Betfair