London, England, 10th February 2004 – FINANTIX
Ltd is pleased to announce the successful
launch of the first phase of the ‘Future
Bank’ project at Standard Chartered
Bank using FINANTIX Components.
This achievement represents a successful milestone
towards the rollout of the new, cross-countries
platform, which will support the Bank’s
multi-channel strategy and range of client
relationships, including banking, investment
and wealth management activities.
The launch focuses on delivering an integrated,
browser based environment and workstation
to all SCB’s client facing staff, enabling
an innovative and structured approach to managing
client relationships. SCB’s financial
professionals can now access, manage and analyse
the overall client relationship with the Bank
by adopting a consistent, holistic approach.
They are able to view extensive client profile
information, track and monitor all contacts
and interactions, analyse details of client
asset and liability positions as well as manage
client reporting, diary and calendaring services,
and be promptly alerted on potential clients
and cross-selling opportunities.
“This is the first step towards our target
solution, ‘Future Bank’.” said
Alison McFadyen, SCB Programme Director. “The
target solution will incorporate all of the
first phase functionality as well as financial
planning, automation of banking and investment
transactions and internet transactional capabilities
of FINANTIX Components integrated with the
newly selected TEMENOS GLOBUS™ backend.”
“We are very pleased to see the first
rollout released on time, within budget and
complying with SCB’s expectations”,
states Cord Hoppe, director of Professional
Services of FINANTIX. “Another successful
delivery continues to validate the strength
of the FINANTIX, component-based, J2EE and
MDA (Model Driven Architecture) architecture.
These implementation standards ensured a rapid
deployment, reduced the project risk and allowed
a smooth integration between FINANTIX modules
and SCB’s internal systems and applications”
explains Mr. Hoppe.
“The six-month deployment is evidence
of a strong working relationship between SCB
and FINANTIX. We are proud to have laid down
a solid foundation, upon which to start our
collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank.
We view this as an important partnership,
assisting the Bank to consolidate its reputation
at a global level.” comments Mr Hoppe.
About Standard Chartered Bank
Standard Chartered – leading the way
in Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Standard Chartered Bank employs 30,000 people
in over 500 locations in more than 50 countries
in the Asia Pacific region, South Asia,
the Middle East, the United Kingdom and
the Americas. It is one of the world’s
most international banks with a management
team comprising 70 nationalities.
Standard Chartered is listed on both the
London Stock Exchange and the Stock Exchange
of Hong Kong and is in the top 25 FTSE-100
companies, by market comparison.
It serves both Consumer and Wholesale Banking
customers. Consumer Banking provides credit
cards, personal loans, mortgages, deposit
taking and wealth management services to
individuals and small to medium sized enterprises.
Wholesale Banking provides corporate and
institutional clients with services in trade
finance, cash management, lending, custody,
foreign exchange, debt capital markets and
corporate finance.
Standard Chartered is well established
in growth markets and aims to be the right
partner for its customers. The Bank combines
deep local knowledge with global capability.
The Bank is trusted across its network
for its standard of governance and its commitment
to making a difference in the communities
in which it operates.
About
Finantix
FINANTIX offers component-based software
solutions that help financial institutions
better service clients and increase sales.
With more than 42 active clients all over
the world and offices in Helsinki, London,
Milan, Munich, Singapore and Venice, FINANTIX
offers an unparalleled array of modular,
process-oriented, client-centric, sales-driven
financial components for retail and corporate
financial services including: retail advice
and financial planning; branch innovation;
lending and mortgage origination; financial
relationship management; wealth management
and private banking; bancassurance; mutual
funds and unit trusts supermarkets; brokerage
and internet banking; SME and corporate
banking advisory services. All functionality
is available over multiple channels adopting
cutting-edge J2EE standards and a Model
Driven Architecture.
FINANTIX Components are designed with a
coherent and consistent approach that leverages
a modern, enterprise-wide data model. They
adopt a flexible process and workflow management
architecture with a specific attention to
reusability, process assembly and customisation
capability across multiple business channels.
All business services, based on a native
object-oriented Model Driven Architecture,
are available as SOAP services and can integrate
smoothly with multiple Enterprise Information
Sources such as core banking systems, asset
management and insurance applications, data
warehouses and other specific applications.
The system allows a full reuse of business
logic across multiple business channels
such as branches, investment services, call
centres, external agents, intermediaries,
and the Internet with total support of technical
channels and devices such as browser, PDA
and wireless devices, ATM, IVR, etc
For further information please contact:
Finantix
E-mail:
sales@finantix.com |
