Informatica solutions for operational efficiency ensure that banking systems and applications are populated and maintained with trustworthy, actionable, and authoritative data. These solutions acquire, manage, and syndicate securities and instrument data for faster straight through processing (STP). These solutions also enable more efficient payment processing and trade executions through real-time payment hubs. And they accelerate development and test cycles while dramatically reducing hardware, software, and maintenance costs.

With Informatica solutions for operational efficiency, your bank or capital market firm can operate more efficiently across the front, middle, and back offices, reduce operational costs, and increase profit margins.

Reference Data Management

The Informatica solution for reference data management helps banks and capital market firms manage consistent counterparty, security, and product master data across multiple transaction and trading systems. With this solution, your institution can acquire, manage, and distribute counterparty and security data. Data can be easily accessed from vendor and proprietary feeds using prebuilt libraries and transformation tools. Your IT organization can create the most authoritative and trustworthy security and counterparty master data and manage the hierarchies and relationships across all entity types. Master data can then be syndicated to any system—front, middle or back office—in batch, real time, or through messaging.

Benefits

  • Cut new security and counterparty onboarding costs in half
  • Handle exceptions with far fewer resources
  • Enable timely trades

SWIFT Integration

The Informatica solution for SWIFT integration is the only SWIFT-certified data integration solution on the market. With this solution, your institution can easily exchange data with your customers by transforming their documents (e.g., in Excel, Word, PDF) into SWIFT-compliant formats and sending them readable documents. This solution integrates SWIFT messages into proprietary applications and back-office legacy interfaces. Prebuilt SWIFT transformation rules automate the upgrades needed to comply with new SWIFT versions. The solution enables the smooth transition to SWIFT MX and supports ISO 20022 and other financial standards such as SEPA, BAI, FIX, FpML, CREST, and NACHA.

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Benefits

  • Achieve true STP from customer to bank office system
  • Lower operational costs by 50 percent or more
  • Comply with the latest SWIFT messaging standards

Financial Trade Integration

The Informatica solution for financial trade integration automates the trade confirmation process, allowing all trade tickets to be integrated into back-end time and labor management systems. With this solution, securities firms can exchange securities data across trading partner and client networks quickly and accurately. The solution accesses, transforms, and integrates massive volumes of real-time transactional and analytical data—regardless of its source or structure—from arcane mainframe systems, relational databases, and applications. It searches and matches identity and associated securities data to ensure only high-quality data is delivered to downstream systems.

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Benefits

  • Cut development and maintenance costs in half
  • Minimize trading and operational risks
  • Support compliance, corporate governance, and transparency

Real-Time Payment Processing

The Informatica solution for real-time payment processing creates a single, centralized payment hub for operational oversight into and control over all payment activities. With this solution, your institution can access and process payment data regardless of its source or structure and deliver high-quality data for downstream payment systems. It provides a comprehensive data transformation library that supports SEPA, ISO 20022, BAI, FIX, CREST, and NACHA. Analysts can define business rules to detect payment anomalies.

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Benefits

  • Onboard customers in days—not weeks—to increase revenue
  • View cash positions across geographies and subsidiaries
  • Provide targeted offers and lower-risk pricing

Application Modernization and Optimization

The Informatica solution for application modernization and optimization enables banks and capital market firms to update legacy systems and applications, maintain their performance, and keep storage, server, infrastructure and maintenance costs down. This solution manages data growth in live applications, databases, and data warehouses. It accesses data from any system (including legacy mainframe systems), format, or location and moves data to newer applications while finding and fixing data quality problems along the way. Your IT organization can use fully functional, smaller targeted data subsets of actual production data and mask sensitive information for application development and testing purposes to speed new application delivery. Archive data from retired systems, cost-effectively retain archived data, and easily retrieve archived data to comply with audits and legal discovery.

Benefits

  • Improve application performance
  • Maintain SLAs
  • Reduce storage, server, and maintenance costs