Solution Architecture

Solution Architecture

• Provide project stakeholders with a holistic view of business requirements and their relationship to the proposed solution composition and technology components. Enable stakeholders to evaluate the solution and the possible alternatives, and agree on the final course of action.
• Identify critical aspects of a project to ensure they are addressed early in the development cycle.
• Document in a consistent way the proposed architecture and decisions that need to be made together with the related inherent risks, opportunities and cost impacts.
• Reduce operations risk and ongoing operations cost by enforcing use of the corporate standards and best practices.
• Reduce overall technology development costs and improve the solution quality by enforcing the reuse of technology and the creation of components that can be reused in the future.

Our Solution Architecture Services Can Successfully Support and Develop a Wide Range of Business Initiatives

• Collateral Management Solution Architecture: Develop a solution for an application that provides integrated management of collateral information (e.g., collateral agreements, monitoring of counterparty aggregation exposure, collateral call, collateral centralization and optimization) across the bank.
• Middle-Office Component Architecture: Develop capital markets middle-office applications architecture with an objective of reducing integration complexity and improving operational efficiency. Identify opportunities and solution options to decouple front office applications and enable middle office to efficiently provide data to the downstream system.
• Dodd-Frank Regulatory Reporting: Develop solutions that enable the bank to comply with the CFTC and SEC final rules pertaining to swap transactions reporting under the Dodd-Frank Act.
• FATCA Regulatory Reporting: Develop solutions that enable the bank to comply with the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
• Fixed Income Analytics: Develop an application architecture that enables fixed income trading sales, traders and analysts to identify, assess, monitor and propose value-added debt trades for clients. The solution provides financial and statistical models (e.g., Market Monitor, Rich/Cheap, New Issue Calculator, Index Compare, Butterfly, etc.) that are applied to historical data on fixed incomes securities, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange and relevant economic time series. Based on that, the application generates a number of relative value-oriented reports, associated analytics, calculators and graphics for assessing the risk/reward profile of prospective trades.
• Credit Valuation Adjustments: Develop an application that performs calculations, scenario analysis, simulation and report generation for the credit exposure group. It provides the required CVA quote functionality to the trading desks and confirms CVA for finance (P&L booking) at all levels.
• Credit Limit Management: Develop a pre-deal check system that enables traders to determine the effect of a trade before it is booked and to assess if there is a sufficient credit limit available to confirm the trade.
• SalesForce Data Encryption: Develop solutions to store and report investment banking’s highly confidential data in SalesForce CRM systems.
• Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Hold: Develop solutions to provide channel and account hold functionality for foreign branches and to provide account balances data extract upon a CDIC request.