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The syndicated bank loan market has matured very rapidly into a significant and attractive sector for fixed income investors of all types such as institutional and long/short managers. Loan types, structures, and payment terms are varied and require an integrated system that can track and process income, fees, principal payments, and repricing information. CAMRA eliminates the back office burden by streamlining the processing requirements.
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Focuses on the problem of price transparency in OTC commodity markets and how to solve the problem.
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Quasar Mobile Trader, add market overviews by publishing FX, equities, indexes and commodities to your mobile offeri www.aphelion.se
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Quasar Limit Order, advanced 24/7 order management (stop loss, take profit, one starts other, limitless chaining of orders etc.) www.aphelion.se
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Quasar Trader Portal, single bank portal (reach your own customers directly). White labeling using newest standard technology, real-time trading browser without Java or plugin (AJAX GWT)
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Aphelion provides trading services running on our trading platform Quasar ETFX, The next generation autotrading intelligence. Benefits: Quasar offers the most advanced dynamic pricing and auto trading intelligence Dedicated FX solution with a proven track record Extensive elaboration and execution moves focus to strategy Intelligent quotes with a millisecond decision engine Executable streams...
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The Innovators comprises a collection of financial institutions that have decided to think differently and not always follow the crowd. The Innovators explores and dissects 20 institutions that are truly innovative in their business and systems strategies and in the technology they have chosen to implement. Our search has taken in all corners of the globe and all sizes and make-up of financial...
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Volume 3 takes 30 new core banking system implementations and evaluates the experiences of a diverse set of financial institutions across the globe, of various sizes and activity. It provides a valuable insight into the entire process of a core banking system implementation, from the first steps towards choosing a new solution to assessing the results of a completed project, and the further IT...
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This white paper attempts to identify key areas in the wealth management process that will be affected in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. While everyone will re-discover what ‘risk’ is, private wealth management firms will need to adapt their private wealth management practice to a new era of investing. The white paper also explains why the implementation of enhanced processes...
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QuantLINK is QuantHouse’s trading infrastructure service to help buy side and sell side trading fi rms improve their infrastructures to keep up with market demand. Whether you use Smart Order Routing or algo trading applications, your overall performance is linked to the quality of your trading infrastructures. QuantLINK combines QuantHouse’s proprietary fi ber optic...
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The paper demonstrates the importance of the work client reporting teams in meeting the exacting demands of clients, and showcasing the work of the business. Providing an analysis of the key elements of client reporting; experience, systems and value-added activity, the white paper assesses the role of technology in assisting client reporting teams in bringing together ever more complex data in...
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Delta Lloyd, a member of international insurance group Aviva and one of the leading financial services providers in Benelux and Germany, has for years used an inefficient claims handling process, causing high expenses, customer dissatisfaction, and heavy staff losses. To address this issue, the insurer has implemented an innovative Web-based claims automation and management reporting information...
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RBC Insurance chose to undertake a complete overhaul of their entire operation platform all at once - Policy Administration, Claims, and some related peripheral systems, including linkages to some legacy systems. Read this case study to find out more about this groundbreaking project.
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This Success Story demonstrates how, with carefully planning and determination, a Peruvian bank has in recent years come to not only dominate the country’s banking market but has also become a standard carrier for other national and regional banks. BIF has, without fanfare, shown the true power, flexibility and versatility of the Internet.
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This Success Story details how Bank Pekao, one of Poland’s leading banks, has increased their trade finance / trade services operations with Surecomp’s comprehensive solution including best-of-breed Internet-based corporate front-end Java solution allNETT and Surecomp’s flagship trade finance solution IMEX.
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The following brief describes the benefits of utilising Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting as a stand-alone rating engine versus maintaining rating functionality inside a policy administration system. Although Oracle Insurance Insbridge provides powerful enterprise performance for all lines of business, this brief focuses on specific needs of the general insurance market.
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Recent events and especially the fall of Lehman Brothers have demonstrated the effectiveness of European central counterparties (CCP), confirming the important role played by clearing systems in general. Working on the novation principle, CCPs eliminate the bilateral counterparty risk; by meticulous monitoring of the exposure of each counterparty and the systematic use of margin calls, they...
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Leveraging our considerable depth of Capital Market domain expertise, our track record of successful development project deployments in this domain, as well as, our mature test engineering processes, Anshinsoft is offering Software Testing Services for Capital Market. STS for CM is designed to provide scalability, reliability and cost optimization for the testing life cycle for internal or...
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Treemap, Treemaps, Treemapping, Tree Map, Tree Maps, Tree Mapping, Heatmap, Heatmaps, Heatmapping, Heat Map, Heat Maps, Heat Mapping, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Information Visualization, Information Visualization Softare, Datavis, Infovis, Business Intelligence, BI, Panopticon, EX, Chart, Charts, Charting, Dashboard, Dashboards, analytics, risk, performance, attribution,...
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Treemap, Treemaps, Treemapping, Tree Map, Tree Maps, Tree Mapping, Heatmap, Heatmaps, Heatmapping, Heat Map, Heat Maps, Heat Mapping, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Information Visualization, Information Visualization Softare, Datavis, Infovis, Business Intelligence, BI, Panopticon, EX, Chart, Charts, Charting, Dashboard, Dashboards, analytics, risk, performance, attribution,...
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Panopticon’s solution is to use its Visual Business Intelligence tools to provide a highly graphical, interactive view of the same set of data. The primary visualizations used are Treemaps, Heatmaps, and other data visualization software tools. These visualizations help managers identify problems quickly. For example, a manager can quickly discover desks where a poor performing book is...
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Anshinsoft has been implementing solutions for capital market back-office automation for the last 9 years in the US, the UK and the Asia Pacific region. These include securities trading and settlement back office systems for brokers, custodians and asset managers supporting multiple asset classes in multi-currency and multi-market settings. Many continue to be supported/maintained/enhanced by our...
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CHAKRA is a comprehensive, modular and customizable application framework for automating the entire post-execution trade life-cycle management, enabling STP in back office operations. It provides application components covering all major processes, starting from trade capture & enhancement through all the way to accounting & reporting. It has been built on the Java EE platform, based on a...
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“We can now have our business rated with the same rating engine and the same set of rates during both the quote and issuance processes. We no longer have a situation in which an agent gets a quote online and the actual rate issued may be slightly off from that. They get the same rate, every time.” – Dean Kimball, Project Manager, Penn National Insurance
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“It used to take one person a half-day to assemble policies. Now it takes less than an hour. This is about an 80% reduction in time to get policy print out the door.” – Kelley Frisch, Director of Annuity Administration, FBL Financial Group, Inc.
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“One of our critical business goals was to increase the number of quotes and, ultimately, the number of new business policies,” said Robin Clements, systems supervisor, State Auto. “To accomplish that goal, we needed the ability to provide quick and accurate rates to our agents via the Web site. Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting allows us to do that.”
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In recent months wrong-way risk has come sharply into focus as an area of concern for risk managers and one that may have been neglected by many. In this paper learn how to detect and manage 'wrong-way risk' through an approach that combines numerical rules and judgment-based sensitivities and see how exposure-sensitivity reports directly linked to credit risk engines enable users to gain a true...
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Solife, the BSB software for the management of life insurance policies, now also includes the management of variable annuities. So if you want to commercialize this type of product, BSB can help you doing so in less than three months time!
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Financial institutions still using leased line network technology are at a significant disadvantage when compared to organisations who have upgraded to Next Generation, Ethernet Technology.. Download this whitepaper to find out why.
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“Exponential-e replaced our legacy DSL connections and layer 3 IP-VPN with a scalable layer-2 cloud. They’ve taken away costly duplication. Network services previously working in a silo are now plugged into our new VPLS cloud and are available throughout our wide area network. Exponential-e were able to prioritise traffic by type intelligently and fully backed up with service level...
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Channel integration, Multi-channel, SOA
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customer experience, single view of customer, banking transformation, process led transformation
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Banking transformation, bank-in a-box, TCO, technology implementation
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Implementing Talisman - a complete solution for life insurance, pension and wrap providers for the administration of retirement savings, investment and risk products. Client centric and rules based application that enables administration of wrap platforms, master trusts, retail and wholesale unit trusts and retirement products; eg. superannuation, pensions, annuities and provident funds. UK...
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Implementing Bravura Solutions’ consolidated SOA unit registry system at Perpetual
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When the world's leading aerospace company and largest manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft decided to take on the challenge of rationalizing its foreign exchange procedures, they chose FXpress FIRST Treasury Solutions and received staggeringly good results. Treasurer Paul Kinscherff's department more than doubled the value of their FX program and tripled the number of transactions...
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A laptop filled with consumer data stolen from a travelling employee, a USB key filled with customer relationship information “lost” at the cafeteria, four DVDs containing highly confidential customer information sold to secret services: cases involving companies being victims of data theft are increasingly reaching the news headlines. How can banking environments be protected against such...
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Banking documents, independently from their types, format or content, are key features in transactions, clients’ services, account management and corporate identity. However business processes around documents are still mainly paper-based from the Back Office to the Front Office. In this specific industry, the document management is made more difficult by security and accessibility aspects that...
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With New Access™/ TEMENOS T24™ business connector, it is easier to create a straightforward answer to a problem faced by every bank, when dealing with document production and management. The New Access™/ TEMENOS T24™ connector enables the creation of any document in a bank running TEMENOS T24™ as their banking engine. This includes not only clients’ reports, internal reports,...
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The New Zealand government insurer, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), administers over 2 million claims annually for personal injury, work cover and workers’ compensation from 48 locations across New Zealand. In 2003 the ACC identified a requirement to replace its legacy claims system with a more flexible solution to allow it to become more claimant-centric and prepare it for future...
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Claims handling has always been a critical moment of truth for the insurance industry. It is also a costly business to administer. Given that between 70% and 75% of the average insurance premium may go into claims payments, it is critical to manage the claims department appropriately. Moreover, disability claims are counter cyclical so effective claims management is more important today than at...
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Standard Bank chose business performance management firm City Fios to implement their proprietary client revenue-tracking solution across their domestic and international wholesale banking operations. They have also outsourced all the administrative processes around the system to City Fios via a managed services contract. The bank can now calculate the value of each client relationship and has a...
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With over 20 years experience in Collateral Management, Rockall Executives have produced this white paper to share their thoughts on the challenges facing Financial Institutions.
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Wallstreet Treasury - The best pratice, easy to use, cost effective cash and treasury management solution for corporations. National Express made a comprehensive study of five or six different solutions eventually concluding that the ASP model offered by Wall Street Systems was the best fit in terms of ease of use, simplicity and low maintenance, and ability to reduce settlement risk.
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This case study examines what the business drivers were behind a US Federal Agency Bank with $95 billion dollars in assets for selecting Razor.
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A paper on how IT&e's Razor product can help address IDRC and IRC
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Will the middle office shape the future of investment management? There’s no time like a crisis to discover new ways of doing things. The current financial climate is a real opportunity to improve systems and processes. In the investment firm of the future, the middle office will enjoy greater prominence and have a new role to play. We predict that the middle office will emerge as the new...
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Successful implementation of ‘FIOS solution’ for West LB AG. West LB’s Global Markets Division takes on board a key component in its sales strategy - City Fios' global Client Revenue Tracking system.
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Wallstreet Suite - Comprehensive, cross asset investment and debt management solutions for financial institutons and corporations
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CreditManager™ is an ASP-based or locally installed application that helps measure, analyze and manage portfolio risk due to credit events. CreditManager helps risk managers quantify overall credit risk by capturing market exposure, rating changes and default risks within a VaR framework. The stress testing functionality allows users to comply with Basel II requirements. Users can create...
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Opval case study for LME Trading
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Tadawul Serenity Portfolio
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A bridge between fundamental expertise and quantitative modeling
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Covariance matrix filtering in a decision making framework
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Revenue Management Software Platform Since 1999, Bonaire Software Solutions LLC has been developing and implementing enterprise software and technology solutions for the global investment community. Our REVPORT™ 7.5 Revenue Management Software Platform has been recognised as a “Best in Class” suite of solutions by 9 out of the top 20 largest global asset managers and wealth management firms....
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Financial institutions want more accurate calculations delivered at a quicker rate for more complex instruments and in greater volumes than ever before. And they want this all achieved through one, high performing, cross-asset system. Nils Undén explains how new technology and techniques from other industries and markets can be applied to financial technology systems in order to address these...
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Over the last fifteen years we have witnessed significant advances in the risk management profession, from both the institutional and regulatory viewpoint. This market perspective looks at limitations of the standard methodologies and introduces a new analysis to anticipate and mitigate the effects of cataclysmic events.
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Understanding Hedge Fund Risk Drivers from Manager Returns
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FX Concepts is one of the world's leading independent providers of foreign currency management and research. Following an evaluation of operations in 2004, the firm started a strategic relationship with Misys, utilising Misys Opics and Opics Risk Plus, the powerful treasury and capital markets solution, to boost efficiency and execute a growth strategy. Keywords: FX, foreign exchange, options,...
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Tesco is the leading supermarket in Great Britain. Following an evaluation of its corporate treasury in 2007, the retailer took a strategic decision to change systems and streamline processes to maximise returns from financial trades. This involved utilising Misys Confirmation Matching Service to boost STP and improve ways of working. Keywords: post-trade, confirmation matching, risk, STP
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Groupe SNI is a property and facility management institution and a subsidiary of French state bank, CDC. Following a change in French regulation which allowed the company to hedge loans on property portfolios, Groupe SNI formed a strategic relationship with Misys, and now uses the innovative software-as-a-service platform, Misys Summit ASP, to hedge €6.5bn of debt. Keywords: fund management,...
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Dresdner Kleinwort is the commercial and investment banking division of Dresdner Bank AG and a member of the Allianz Group. Following a strategic review in 2004, Dresdner developed eLoancoordinator, an innovative online platform to support its loan syndication business. The solution has subsequently been acquired, developed and rebranded by Misys as Misys Loan Coordinator, with Dresdner...
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A discussion around the value of SOA strategies and the opportunity to leverage process management strategies and technologies to deliver true business benefit. John Flynn – Global Head of Solutions Engineering, DST International.
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In this white paper Coexis, a global IT provider of next generation software for capital markets reveals benchmark results showing high performance and linear scalability of Syn~ trade processing solutions for settlements on an open source Linux/HP platform with just six X86 processors (including the database server).
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Disparate markets and complex trading call for smarter exceptions management. Straight Through Exceptions Processing (STEP) or intelligent exception management provides the answer and a way of managing on-line interactions with transactional systems, when reference data is updated and of avoiding the risk of manual overrides.
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Revenue Management and Fee Billing Case Study IT Solutions That Meet Security and Compliance Standards Executive Summary To remain competitive, companies must continue to invest in software solutions that efficiently serve their business needs. The key is to embrace these solutions without compromising adherence to policies, procedures and processes in place that insure the control objectives of...
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risk management, credit default. VaR
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CYMBA Technologies provides solutions for the Investment Management community focusing on the delivery of front office products that enable fast, efficient, application implementation and integration. CYMBA Technologies has a successful & well established industry track record in the delivery of consulting solutions to the Investment Management front office space. CYMBA Technologies products...
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Liquidity Risk Management Assessing and Planning for Adverse Events
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Cyclicality of Operational Risk: The Tracking Phenomenon
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How the world's largest bank's discuss their risks with shareholders.
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This paper describes 'The Silo Effect' - whereby applications meet the functional requirements of their primary users but present problems to the wider business when it comes to management and control functions, such as consistent, accurate, and timely cross-asset risk and profitability reporting on a global scale. It examines the introduction of SOA in the Capital Markets, and its failure to...
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The focus of the Basel II implementation is increasing more on Pillar II requirements like liquidity and concentration risk. In parallel, European regulators are trying to upgrade the existing large exposure regulation which is often intertwined with concentration risk of Pillar II. When creating the new Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), the intention of the European Commission was to adapt...
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Optial and Operational Risk
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Webinar showcases how financial services, research and publishing market leaders employ intelligent software Agents to achieve rapid ROI, generate new revenue streams and enhance productivity. View Webinar: http://www.connotate.com/kmslideshow-form.aspx?EventID=291
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An article illustrating how one hedge fund is using intelligent software agents to monitor changes in information on Web sites that might indicate the financial health of companies. The data collected by Agents feeds sample datasets and attracts funding by showing prospective investors how trends based on data from the Internet can be used as an input into stock trading Link to the article
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"As buy-side firms pursue higher returns, asset managers and hedge funds increasingly are consuming alternative research. Not to be cut out of the value chain, the bulge-bracket brokers are building platforms to market and distribute independent research from third party firms..." Link to the full article
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The Web is the ultimate database for financial research. Financial researchers and investors can use technology to data mine, mashup, and analyze the Web's vast amount of information. While the sell-side and independent researchers provide a starting point, buy-side professionals are challenged to dig out and organize the high value data. Emerging technologies can empower financial researchers...
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While factoring is a highly established business tool in a number of Latin American markets such as Brazil, Chile and Mexico nevertheless, many countries, banks and financial companies are still fighting to throw off the negative image of factoring projects.
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taking supply chain financing to the next level
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Fee Billing and Compliance Case Study IT Solutions That Meet Security and Compliance Standards
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The paper describes the trends toward automation and quantitative techniques in securities trading that are resulting from explosive growth in market data volumes and delivery rates. The acceleration of trading activity in global capital markets is stressing the downstream system, creating a significant impact on trade monitoring, trade pricing, and risk management. In this paper, the emerging...
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Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc (MUSI) built the ideal system to deliver timely, reliable and accurate market data and analysis to meet the needs of the firm’s traders. They succeed by using Sybase RAP--The Trading Edition. Key Benefits 1. Provides rapid analytics using both real-time and historical tick data 2. Stores massive amounts of market data in less space 3. Creates...
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Sybase Financial Services Viewpoint sheds light on matters of high interest in the financial services industry. Each edition brings you insights from our industry experts and thought leaders who have direct experience with the challenges you face every day.
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This solutions overview describes the different scenarios where Sybase RAP -- The Trading Edition is used. This scenarios include 1) Trading and 2) Risk.
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In the post-MiFID landscape, sell-side brokers need to justify their role in the transactional chain by demonstrating their value – providing additional features and analysis with high service-levels and efficiency. The indications of interest and Trade Advert process has become a key opportunity for brokers to market their services by stating what volume of transactions they can handle. But the...
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What exactly constitutes mission critical information and how have recent market events affected the area of risk management? SunGard’s senior risk management think tank roundtable provided some answers.
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ISDA estimates that the gross amount of collateral in use stood at $1.35 trillion by the end of 2007. This paper outlines the issues and challenges facing this burgeoning industry and the part technology can play in reducing operational risk enabling firms to realise the full advantage of a more sophisticated collateral management function that mitigates credit risk, facilitates more trading,...
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As is typical following a market event such as the sub-prime lending crisis, there has been a certain amount of revisionism with financial institutions now focusing their attention on the large number of credit-based instruments on their books. Given the increased likelihood of defaults implied in the current economic conditions, it is crucial that institutions are able to understand and...
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Securities lending is an area in which there is still considerable scope for efficiency improvement as it is one of the last areas to have fully embraced automated processing. The lack of automation, evident in front, middle and back office activities, is largely due to the variable nature of the trades and the complexity of the operational lifecycle. This is particularly true in international...
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The global currency trading market is not just growing in terms of daily turnover, it is becoming broader in terms of the range of FX instruments traded, the types of participants, particularly from outside the interbank market, the currencies involved and the geographic spread of FX markets. While a growing market is to be encouraged, such is the level of increase that it is beginning to tax the...
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Transamerica Investment Management Selects Bonaire's Revenue Fee Billing Suite
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The world’s most progressive banks are discovering new ways to manage and measure the onboarding process to optimise lifetime values, accelerate cross-selling, inspire customer loyalty and maximise profits. Successful customer onboarding comes down to intelligent interactions that add up to a great customer experience starting from day one. . This paper reviews the current state of onboarding,...
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By placing market discipline in an equal position, alongside minimum capital standards and the supervisory review process, as one of three pillars in the framework, the Basel committee has underscored the importance of market disclosure in ensuring the financial reliability of banks.
Cornelius Nandyal
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Multi Lingual Press Release Kanji Accounts receivable foreign currency fees Forecasting Accruals 12b-1 fees Subta Transfer agent asset management fees wrap fees performance fees performance fee sub-advisor payouts incentive commissions Sarbanes Oxley reporting fx Eliminates manual calculations and the use Excel spreadsheets revenue data repository SMA UMA Model Separately managed account Unified...
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Hexaware's Retail Banking Test Suite IP reduces the overhead of dependencies on SMEs and brings in the concept of resuability. The RBT IP has been created by leveraging Hexaware's vast exposure to Banking projects, using the power of Mercury Business Process Testing through ready to use business components, test cases and proven best practices. While this solution enables effective manual testing...
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Consumer Debt - How Financial Institutions can predict, treat and prevent delinquency, early. Portrait Pre-Delinquency Management identifies customers likely to default on their payments, then triggers the right treatment strategies to reduce risk and drive up customer lifetime values. Benefits include reducing the cost of collections and the provision for impairment and focusing efforts on the...
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Europe) (SMBCE), the European division of a top five Japanese bank with over US$850 billion in assets, recently implemented a new solution for Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and caution list screening to better support its anti-money laundering operations. The firm jointly developed the solution in partnership with another company after finding no suitable...
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A top tier investment bank wanted to integrate a newer version of its Accuity compliance software used to screen various entity files and payment transactions. The firm wanted to incorporate additional caution lists into its compliance screening process. In addition to the systems integration, the firm sought a review of its filter rules and compliance processes currently in use. The objective was...
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Article explores GRC drivers, best practices around assessment planning, broad functional capability required from technology solution address the overlaps between the requirements of multiple risk & compliance initiatives, placing them under a common governance umbrella. This would help financial institutions re-use the o/p a Risk & Control Self-assessment (RCSA) across multiple control &...
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Global Operational Risk Management (ORM) Platform for a ”Tier 1” Financial Institution with European, US and Asia-Pacific operations. The bank wanted to reduce operational risk losses, establish thought-leadership and achieve Basel II compliance.
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A case study on Credit Risk Management for Basel II. A large bank in South East Asia with banking operations in 8 countries required to comply with Basel II regulations. The bank engaged us on multiple initiatives to evolve their risk management – processes and systems toward bestpractice.
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Consolidation and fragmentation:
Two main, seemingly contradicting, trends are appearing at the same time: firstly, consolidation of the traditional stock markets, leading to rationalisation of trading and settlement platforms, and secondly, fragmentation of order and settlement execution places with the development of several MTFs (Multi Trading Facilities) and associated CCPs.
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As part of Fifth Third Bancorp growth plans, it decided to implement a new solution to enable the gains in efficiency associated with an integrated straight-through processing model. Wallstreet FX was chosn to be the key component strategy.
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Optimizing Settlement Risk Management
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The Bank of Thailand has transformed it's operational infrastructure
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Comprehensive, cross-asset investment and debt management solutions for financial institutions
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High Performan, real-time trade processing solutions for currency management
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The best practice, easy to use, cost effective cash and treasury management solution for corporations
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This paper provides a high-level overview of the replicating portfolio construction process available within Algo Risk.
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This paper examines the lessons learned and ten specific 'red flags' that can be extracted from a case study analysis of recent hedge fund blow-ups, with emphasis on the Amaranth Advisors loss event.
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When organizations first started using risk tools it was to do batch calculations of their exposures overnight. Then people started dreaming about using the technology to measure risk before each and every transaction.
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Ask a group of risk and finance executives to define enterprise risk management (ERM) and you will hear a number of overlapping answers.
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As European banks start implementation of the Single Euro Payments Area, SEPA’s far-reaching consequences are beginning to be realized. Some of the changes that the European banking landscape will witness as a direct result of SEPA include fewer corporate-to-bank relationships....
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Read an excerpt from a newly published book titled: “The Handbook of
Electronic Trading” and was written by Patrick Keough, Director, OMS Practice, InvestTech
Systems Consulting, Inc., October, 2007.
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Read an an excerpt from a newly published book titled: The Handbook of Electronic
Trading and was written by Bennett Kaplan, Principal and Senior Manager, InvestTech Systems
Consulting, Inc., August, 2007.
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InvestTech Systems Consulting's Principal and Co-Founder Jeremy Hurwitz discusses the relationship between the Hedge Fund regulatory landscape and the impact of risk factors in the marketplace.
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SEB Group have rolled out an enterprise-wide operational risk management system from Optial, which achieved an ROI within 13 months of the initial implementation. The Optial system (known as ORMIS to SEB) is now rolled out to all 20,000 employees.
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InteDelta has conducted a survey of major banks to identify the trends in the development of methodologies and systems for the measurement of Potential Future Exposure for derivatives.
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Performance Service-Oriented Applications
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Citigroup Chooses Platform Symphony to Optimize
IT Resource Utilization and Launch a Cost-Effective
Utility Computing Model
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edge IPK delivers Know Your
Customer (KYC) solutions to ABN AMRO across multiple business
units and across 30 countries.
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MiFID as a trigger to innovative investment advisory services
October 2007, by Didier Pitton, Product Marketing Manager, Odyssey
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Collateral Management is rapidly becoming an essential and integral part of a financial institution’s risk and regulatory compliance framework. Apart from evolving into a dedicated business practice, collateral management is gaining in importance as an ef
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Copp Clark Professional is the leading publisher of trading and settlement calendars for international financial markets. Our world holiday reference data is relied upon by key financial organizations around the world. We ensure transactional integrity in trading and back office venues everywhere. See what our clients have to say about us.
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Issuer risk is an institution’s exposure to a fall in value of an issuer’s securities (or equivalents). The sub-prime crisis was largely an “issuer event”. Yet issuer risk has traditionally been one of the more poorly managed risks at the enterprise level
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David Rowe, EVP Risk Management David M.Rowe Ph.D. EVP, Risk Management, SunGard Adaptiv
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The issue of automation, or rather the lack of it, has long been a concern in the financial services industry. The operational and risk management benefits of straight-through-processing (STP) are well documented but the application of automation has been
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The intensity of today’s capital markets is placing considerable strain on risk managers and their systems. David Rowe of SunGard Adaptiv explains how technology firms can react to this inexorable demand by focusing on three important considerations - dynamic efficiency, qualitative risk factors and parallel processing technology.
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Traders’ demands for systems that match the complexity of their strategies have led vendors to begin work on creating the Holy Grail – cross-asset trading systems. Pontus Eriksson, Product Manager, SunGard Front Arena, outlines what functionality these systems should include and how they can become the foundation of traders’ future plans.
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Evolving the Treasury Management System - ASP Treasury, the Future is Now
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Visualize Attribution, Risk, Returns, and Other Related Performance Data Aggregated from Multiple Databases using Panopticon Heatmap, Treemap and other data visualization software tools. Panopticon’s Attribution and Risk Solution is an advanced information visualization tool that allows managers to view aggregated risk and performance data from all funds under management down to the constituent...
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Real-Time Visual Business Intelligence for Viewing Enterprise Risk and Managing Trading Desks. New data visualization tools, including treemap, heatmap and other data visualizations, are now available that work in real-time and can handle feeds from multiple sources and very large databases. By adding Panopticon Trade Monitoring to a system, client firms can pinpoint problem trades before they...
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Short paper that describes the Reference Data Distribution problem, PolarLake's approach and a client case study at a large buy side firm
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High net worth investors with $1mm or more in discretionary assets remain the
most elusive segment in the wealth management space. While investment firms
of all types and size have aggressively pursued the market, most find that conventional
business a
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Verasis Server at AIBC. Delivering clarity, consistency,
transparency and cost effectiveness to multiple Risk and
Regulatory business processes. All within a single system.
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Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering compliance can be challenging for any organization. Ensuring consistency across four separate financial institutions…even more difficult. A regional bank holding company sought Accuity’s help to ensure workflows
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Compliance and risk policies are dynamic. Ensuring compliance processes, systems and results are appropriately aligned can be a challenge. A European private bank and asset management firm engaged Accuity's Strategic Services Group to identify opportunities for improvement including standardized solutions to support new policies. As a result, the firm realized nearly 55% less false positive...
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Without appropriate anti-money laundering and OFAC compliance procedures, a top 25 U.S. commercial bank was burdened with excess manual research and dispositioning of their transactions and sought out external expertise for assistance. Accuity’s Strategic
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Identification screening is an essential function of any money services business. Not only is customer and transaction screening mandated by U.S. regulations, such as the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act, it is elemental to maintaining an impeccab
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Much like corporations, federal, state and local government agencies require economical, yet dependable solutions to address the myriad of issues that stem from their constituents’ electronic payments. By providing a solution that verified routing informa
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Although First Interstate Bank was successful enough to produce $4.3 billion in assets it struggled with the costly burdens of frequently researching and verifying payment routing information. Accuity’s global coverage of bank routing information was the
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Taking advantage of the payment straight through processing benefits of IBANs and the cost savings of SEPA regulations was elusive to a major European financial institution. However, after employing the unmatched data of Accuity’s IBAN Solution the organi
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Casinos process thousands of transactions everyday. As such, their need for reliable and cost-efficient payment processing is of the utmost importance. Two of Accuity’s Payment Solutions were implemented into the payment processing operations of a Las Veg
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The current time frame for MiFID is 1st November 2007. Timely assessment and planning require
broad representation from the business, operations, technology and compliance in order to
understand the far reaching impacts of MiFID.
As the implementation
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Tui is a leading global travel and container shipping company, listed on the German DAX 30 with annual turnover in excess of €21bn and 54,000 employees. Following a 2004 review of treasury operations processes, the Misys Treasury Plus solution was chosen
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Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) harmonizes key regulatory standards across EU member states and removes barriers to the provision of investment services. This white paper focuses on the key themes of MiFID, and its business and technolo
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New developments in Capital Markets, Increasing traffic in Electronic Trading had led to genesis of Financial Information eXchange (FIX).FIX Protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transa
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Global and Centralised Control model
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Treasury and Risk Control solution
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Hexaware Recon solution meets the entire range of business and data management reconciliation requirements for financial institutions. Highlighting discrepancies and integrated exception handling are the two strong areas of this tool.
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Order Management Systems pose several challenge to the way in which a financial institution is able to leverage them to ensure effective trading. This paper explores the need for and use of an effective quality assurance framework to address these problem
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White paper discussing the relevance of Know Your Customer (KYC) to MiFID
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Pillar III will fundamentally change the way in which the market evaluates banking institutions. This whitepaper aims at providing an overview of Basel II reporting requirements and highlights the impact, essence, challenges and the approach to develop a
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JPMorgan Cazenove is using Syn~Settlements for both UK and non-UK equities covering a range of securities processing functions.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc (MUSI) uses Syn~Reference to manage enterprise-wide counterparty reference data, improve STP and reduce risk.
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This paper examines the issues surrounding the appropriate level of automation for properly managing these high value and complex deals and why spreadsheets and STP are not suitable.
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Firms that offer investment advice have significant requirements from both KYC and MiFID, and should look carefully at how they can structure to take advantage of process overlaps in the way they interact with clients - read more
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edge IPK solution can yield 40% cost savings on initial application development and deployment, rising to 85% - read more
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Details of performance benchmarking on the Linux version of Razor performed at IBM's performance centre
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Case study for Asset+ implementation for Axiom Investment Managers, Feb 2007
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This paper explores the foundations of managing data for operational risk control and points the way to designing the powerful, flexible and extensible exception management approaches that can achieve this integrated vision.
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Overcoming Structural Obstacles to Success in
Financial Institution-Owned Insurance Agencies
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National Bank of Greece with offices across Europe is using IMSplus and NOUS CRM from PROFILE, experiencing cost effectiveness and efficiency.
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Platform EGO is the first and only grid platform that will deliver the power of virtualization, automation and the sharing of all IT resources to every application type.It is the core of an open Enterprise Grid strategy that enables IT to allocate r
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Grid Technology Helps Deliver Retail Banking’s Vision of ‘One to One’ Marketing. Read about how Platform Symphony enables banks to supercharge analytics and data mining application, delivering improved target marketing and cross selling for higher reve
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Charter One reduces risk across the retail enterprise
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Moving from traditional Web applications to a new "streamingAJAX" style with Lightstreamer.
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In July 2005, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), as established by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) published a major amendment to the Basel II framework in its application to a bank’s Trading Book. This amendment describes ch
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Lightstreamer is a web push engine for live data distribution. It streams real-time data to an HTML browser without the need to download or install anything on the client, updating the changed data on the display without reloads. It can also enliven any t
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A complete overhaul of back and middle office functionality is considered one of the most challenging projects facing any financial institution – but Mellon Corporation decided to do it in six months.
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