Reduce costs and maximize the benefit of transitions
After mergers, acquisitions and restructurings we help you maximize the savings and benefits through effective understanding of business functions, operational processes and systems.
Services which improve effectiveness and reduce costs:
Prioritizing goals with stakeholders, refining objectives, assessing the current state, if appropriating identifying business processes and assessing gaps in alignment with goals. This leads to defining projects and other specific actions to close the gaps to reach the desired state and defining a road map to initiate these projects across a realistic time frame.
Identification of risk factors, resource gaps, blocked communication paths and suggestion of appropriate recommendations to bring organizations or projects in on track and within budget by supporting your team. Audits can also be performed as part of a due diligence assessment to understand and manage the impact of transitions.
Documentation of business processes either to be communicated directly with management and staff, within your BPM platform, or using our proprietary process documentation tools and metrics.
Review of organizational functions. Identification of functions with appropriate criteria. Recommending any necessary organizational changes. Identifying significant business activities and drilling down into processes, if necessary defining metrics around processes in order to set metrics within SLAs.
SPECIALIZATIONS: Securities Lending, Payments
Experience in the following niche specializations is also part of our offering
SWIFT Messaging
Implementation of engines and interfaces around a series of settlement and cash related SWIFT messages for a broad range of financial processes. Implementations can be provided across a range of platforms or implemented a fresh for specific projects.
UBL
The universal business language (UBL) is a standard to allow integration across businesses of standard business order placing, fulfillment and accounting functions. Mandated by a number of governments and supported by standard ERP solutions it provides the core services for general industrial business process integration.
FpML
A rich XML format for the communication of SWAP trades for execution, valuation, settlement and reporting. Knowledge of this protocol is key to the integration of many derivative processes. FIX protocol based processes can similarly be implemented where needed.
EquiLend Integration
Extensive in house knowledge of the EquiLend platform (The leading Securities Lending platform) allows us to advice, design or implement EquiLend integration or related development projects.
Document Barcoding
The incorporation of barcode technologies into form based process steps and the integration of fax readable barcode formats into business processes is something for which we can offer proprietary solutions which, where manual steps are required, can be a significant time saver.