Overview
Finastra Opics is the ideal front-to-back office solution for regional and local banks looking to centralise their systems and gain increasing value from treasury operations.
Build business, increase revenue, improve customer service, reduce risks, and stay compliant. All while keeping costs to a minimum. Whether you are a regional or local player, all financial institutions have these challenges on their to-do lists today. Where to start? Smart institutions are looking to integrate and automate their systems, and streamline treasury operations as much as possible. This way, you can create a platform for cost-effective growth and unlock new opportunities across the organisation.
This is where Finastra Opics can help. Delivering transparency, flexibility and functionality on a single platform, it makes treasury operations more cost-effective, increasing overall profitability. It features regional, country and local capabilities, flexible and rapid deployment options as well as online client portal capabilities.
Finastra Opics is built on more than 20 years of core treasury and back-office experience. With unsurpassed straight-through processing (STP) capabilities, it covers all aspects of a bank’s treasury operations, from deal inception through to settlement and accounting. Over 180 clients in over 300 sites globally use Finastra Opics to simplify core treasury processing. It enables banks to manage risk more effectively, consolidate systems, reduce costs and focus their attention on client needs.
Key Features
Single, integrated treasury solution
With a proven heritage in core treasury functionality, Finastra Opics allows for the removal of spreadsheets and silo architecture. It improves the efficiency, accuracy and integrity of operations while boosting trading volumes up by 50-80% and reducing end-of-day batch processing by up to 50%.
Front-to-back processing
Finastra Opics provides deal pricing and entry, positioning-keeping and risk management in a real-time environment. It enables increased automation and STP and its customisation features allow for business re-engineering and fine tuning as your needs evolve.
Risk management
Finastra Opics delivers enhanced transparency with tools for cash forecasting, advanced risk management with cross-asset views, compliance, limits monitoring and STP.
Current clients deployed on Finastra Opics have seen 50-80% reduction in settlement errors. Regulatory compliance With a flexible framework for over the counter (OTC) derivatives and FX reporting and workflow, Finastra Opics meets Dodd-Frank and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) obligations. It provides reports in a timely manner through rules-based data enrichment and capture, with direct connectivity to the repositories. Trades can be aggregated from third-party upstream applications, centralising compliance reporting.
Support for Central Counterparty Clearing (CCP) transactions
Automated and interactive CCP workflow and trade reporting decreases risk and increases STP levels. Flexible design and architecture Award-winning for innovation, FusionCapital Opics is designed on a single .NET service-oriented architecture platform delivering flexible customisation features and high levels of scalability.
FusionCapital Opics ‘gives us the scalability and flexibility for our future transaction & processing needs.’ according to one client. Fast deployment FusionCapital Opics enables banks to replace multiple incumbent systems and procedures with a single platform that has regulatory reporting and best practices “built in”. As a result, you can deploy new business offerings, enter new markets and provide broader instrument coverage much more quickly
Multi-asset class coverage › Treasury › Capital markets › Derivatives › Risk & compliance .Net SOA architecture › Scalable, high volume processing › Flexible customisation › Interfacing & integration › Microsoft design validation Flexible deployment › Regional or global hubs › Front to back-oce › Unrivalled implementation track record › Rapid implementation options › Hosted, Managed, SaaS
Customer web access › Trading/orders › Cash management › Self service Front-oce › Deal pricing/capture › Market feeds › Position management Middle-oce › Portfolio analysis › Credit risk › Value at Risk Flexible interfaces › Trading systems › SWIFT › GL, DDA Accounting › Multi-entity › Multi-currency GL › Full reporting suite Back-oce › Workflow based processing › Exception management › Confirmation/settlements › STP enabled