Business Architecture

IT Alignment with Business

• Attain insight into the business operating model and its relation to the external, corporate and regulatory business drivers.
• Provide transparency across business units and product lines to enable cross-organizational planning and collaboration.
• Develop a technology strategy and a roadmap to support long-term objectives and project demands.
• Help prioritize investments into information technology to optimize return on the investment while minimizing business and regulatory risks.

Our IT Alignment Services Can Successfully Support and Develop a Wide Range of Business Initiatives

• FX/MM Trading IT Strategy: Develop an IT strategy to support the business goal of maintaining a competitive advantage in the FX/MM market through the application of technology that improves the client experience by providing the following: competitive and timely rates, auto-cover functionality that takes advantage of a multi-bank environment and an automated interface access that uses a standardized protocol (FIX) to meet buy-side demands.
• Global Cash Management Intelligence Framework: Enhance the bank's ability to effectively manage its liquidity risk. Create an end-to-end view of cash flows (e.g., funding, sweep, settlement, disbursement, etc.) across cash accounts (nostro, suspense, clearing, etc.) to improve the treasury team’s projection of potential cash needs and ability to raise funds in a timely manner. Assist operations teams to efficiently monitor, govern and improve delivery of the cash management function across the line of business, currency and geography.
• Investment Book of Records IT Strategy: To optimize future technology investments across wealth management businesses: align business processes and technologies used for Investment Book of Records capabilities (e.g., position monitoring, client / portfolio reporting, performance calculation, performance reporting, order management, client billing, compensation reporting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, etc.).
• Mobile Distribution Channel IT Strategy: In response to the increasing customer demand for financial services on mobile devices and pressure from competitors that already provide banking services for mobile devices, assist the bank build its vision to provide greater customer services and develop an IT strategy that supports core banking and wealth management functionality for mobile clients.
• Institutional and Wealth Management Compliance IT Strategy: Develop an IT strategy that supports the bank's compliance objective to shift from audit and assessment to workflow and rules automation, increase its ability to react quickly to regulatory demands and requests, stay ahead of changing regulatory requirements and improve its reputation through regulatory certification.
• Legal Department IT Strategy: Develop an IT strategy that supports the bank's legal department’s objectives: provide proactive support, advice and services to SBUs to help them grow their businesses; provide cost-effective litigation; streamline matter management and legal billing; and improve the client and employee experience.
• Information Security and Risk Management IT Strategy: Develop an IT strategy that supports the bank's objectives to deliver services that mitigate information and operations risks within reasonable cost. Provide assurance to the bank's shareholders that appropriate controls are in place to effectively manage technology risks, protect information assets, monitor external threats and develop strategies and capabilities to mitigate risks.