Financial Trade Integration

Exchange Securities Data Across Networks Quickly with Financial Trade Integration

The Informatica solution for financial trade integration meets the challenges of securities data exchange across trading partner and client networks. The solution automates trade confirmation, integrates all trade tickets into back-end and trade lifecycle management (TLM) systems, and ultimately drives straight through processing (STP). With the Informatica solution for financial trade integration, companies in the securities industry can:

• Accelerate STP by automating transformation of data into and out of FIX, FpML, and internally used standards
• Increase competitiveness by meeting the time windows that the market demands
• Reduce costs by eliminating development and maintenance of manual and custom-coded solutions
• Minimize trading and operational risks by decreasing trade processing time while providing visibility into transactions and trading positions
• Facilitate regulatory compliance and corporate governance and transparency with reliable audit trails

Financial Trade Integration Challenges

The growing number of financial derivative trade types has caused explosive growth in the securities industry. But a great deal of derivative trading still occurs via telephone and lacks unique, standardized identifiers.

Your company needs to manually transcribe derivative trade terms in formats that support the complexity and variety of derivatives and that legacy IT systems can understand. The lack of trade transaction processing automation and standardization slows down STP initiatives at many securities firms.

The biggest challenge for successful trade process automation is integrating data across multiple internal and external systems, as well as across different data sources. Systems are fraught with hard-coded, point-to-point interfaces, and participants such as brokers, dealers, exchanges, and banks all record and store data in their own documents and programs

Financial Trade Integration Solution Key Features

• Accesses all data—regardless of its source or structure—from arcane mainframe systems, as well as from relational databases and applications
• Creates a centralized hub for visibility, integration, management, and orchestration of disparate data
• Transforms a broad range of data, including FIX, FpML, and unstructured, (PDF, Word, Excel, and CSV) derivative-specific data, to address automation demands for global, multi-enterprise trades
• Profiles data to deliver a complete and completely accurate picture of the content, quality, and structure of securities data so that data quality issues can be resolved
• Conducts high-precision, high-performance searches on identity data and associated securities data to find matches accurately and quickly, regardless of language, structure, format, location, duplication, omissions, or errors
• Analyzes and cleanses all data—including securities data—and measures, monitors, tracks, and reports on data quality throughout the enterprise
• Integrates massive volumes of real-time transactional and analytical data residing inside and outside the enterprise