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MONOLITH PLATFORM

TECHNOLOGY DELIVERING BUSINESS SUCCESS

Designed with the highest competence and delivering end-to-end processes that are continuously being developed, the Monolith Platform is a high-performance support system integrating more than 20 years of IT development knowledge and experience in supporting investment services.

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Founded on prudent system planning

  • offers you general IT solutions with system functionalities based on uniform standards (code base) to deliver business process support

  • ensures the flexibility required for developments customised to your needs (code local)

MONOLITH PLATFORM BASED SOLUTIONS

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The Monolith Platform, which has been supporting universal investment services for more than 15 years, was supplemented in 2017 with a new Solution. The Monolith Front End system, with full MiFID II compliance, provides an integrated IT solution for the sales and consulting activities of all sales channels (Branch, Treasury, Call Center, Internet Bank). With the new product development, the Monolith Front End system can provide market-leading services to Investment Service Providers in the following areas:

  • Ex ante cost calculation and presentation

  • Product Governance

  • Preparing minutes of meeting

  • Questionnaire creation and evaluation algorithm definition - MiFID tests, Customer analysis sheet

  • Wizard-like transaction entering process support

BROKER BACK OFFICE

The Monolith system is capable of delivering end-to-end business process support for investment services from recording the deal being done right through to its settlement, including analytics and general ledger account movements across the full range of investment products. In addition, the system provides a solution for booking operational accounts and thereby supporting full general ledger accounting.

BANK SECURITIES BACK OFFICE

The Monolith system supports client- and securities account management in settling custodian deals (transfer, closing, physical securities etc.), financial deals (external- and internal payment order, foreign exchange etc.) and securities deals (buy / sell, orders). In addition, the system provides a solution for the collection and/or payment of emoluments (settlement of repayments and the payment of interest-, dividends and yields)

TREASURY BACK OFFICE

The Monolith system supports the settlement of deals which may be concluded by the bank’s Treasury department and investment services deals relating to the following transactions: FX spot, forward, futures, swap, option, interest rate swap, buying and selling bonds, repo deals and share purchase orders for institutional clients. The system also supports booking with respect to own-account securities portfolio: daily booking of market price re-evaluations and accrued interest.

FUND MANAGEMENT BACK OFFICE

The Monolith system is capable of supporting the entire settlement and accounting activity for investment fund managers who manage securities funds from recording the deal being done (buy / sell, derivatives) right through to calculating regular portfolio evaluation and net asset values (NAV) as stipulated by law, and in the manner required by the client. The system also enables you to check the portfolio- and investment limits specified in the legislation and as defined by the client, and to calculate, delimit and debit costs (fund management fee etc.) and commissions (trailer fee etc.), in addition to allowing you to book operational accounts and support the full general ledger accounting.

TRADING INVESTMENT PRODUCTS

The Monolith system supports trading shares, bonds and investment funds at bank branch networks and call centres by means of orders and buy/sell deals. A full range of processes are supported covering recording the deal being done, through automatically allocating trades and settling the deal to the client printing out the confirmation.

DEPOSIT MANAGEMENT

Besides standard securities- and client account management, the Monolith system supports regular portfolio evaluation, calculating net asset values, and checking portfolio and investment limits specified in the effective legislation and as defined by the client. The system also enables you to keep track of and account corporate events specific to companies issuing securities which appear in the portfolio.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

In line with present day demands, the revised Avantgarde+ portfolio management module offers you the opportunity to define model portfolios according to different risk categories. Once they have selected the model portfolio corresponding to the client’s risk classification, the investment advisor can synchronise the client portfolio to the composition of the model portfolio assigned to the client and on the basis of the products recommended within specific asset categories. 

A MONOLITH PLATFORM

ANALYTICS AND GENERAL LEDGER

Essentially two ways of viewing the same thing… Technology and Methodology ensure an integral whole so that economic events appearing in the analytical system may be viewed in the general ledger. No additional account assignment, just smooth general ledger connection.

ACCESS MANAGEMENT

Finely tuned access system for roles and work processes.

MULTILINGUAL

Language knowledge is the only limit.

INTERFACE CONNECTIONS

Customised connections with widely applied technologies (web service, MQ channels), FIX protocol-based stock market connection, SWIFT-based settlement processes.

LOGGING

Three-tier comprehensive logging. Application – Database – Operating System

RIPORTING

Data warehousing connections may be flexibly configured. pdf. and excel format outputs are access-dependent and logged

WORK PROCESS BASED CONTROL

Complex modelling of business processes covering document creation through general ledger accounting to communication with connected systems.

KEY SYSTEM FEATURES

RELEIABLE

EFFICIENT

VALUE ADDED

OTHERS

  • Oracle Technology

  • 99.99% availability

  • Comprehensive logging

  • High-level operational security

  • 24 hours a day

  • High-level, automated work process

  • Customised business processes

  • Scalable

  • Services adaptable to operational scale

  • Optimised implementation and maintenance

  • Flexibly configured

  • Accounting engine

  • Value date and legal balance

  • Analytics and general ledger view

  • 2 systems in 1

  • Conditions packages

  • Standard industry frameworks

  • Multilingual

  • Reporting

  • pdf., xls., txt., data tables

  • Real-time interface connections

  • MQ, web services, API technology   

IMPLEMENTATION METHODOLOGY (MONOLITH EASY-ON):

Implementation follows the Monolith Easy ON! methodology. This means we start out on a virtual site with an already half configured system so in the implementation phase we just need to set up any incidental differences and local features. In this way we create a sample in the master data settings, the analytics and general ledger account structure, the operational processes for the required transactions (configuration), as well as the lists and client certificates (transaction certificates, extract from the statement of account, certificate of deposit).

MONOLITH IN NUMBERS

6

BUSINESS AREA

  • Trading Securities

  • Bank Treasury Back Office

  • Deposit Management

  • Portfolio Management

  • Investment Service Provider Back Office

  • Fund Management Back Office

3000+

USER

  • Client Account Managers

  • Investment Advisors 

  • Back Office Staff

  • Portfolio Managers

  • Traders & Dealers

  • Deposit Managers

100,000+

CLIENT ACCOUNTS

  • Securities Deposit Account

  • Asset Managed Accounts

  • Client Cash Account

  • Pension Savings Account

  • Long-term Investment Account

  • Stability Savings Account

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