ICS BANKS® Investment & Treasury system is a completely integrated and parameterised End-to-End solution designed to cover all investment, treasury, and brokerage activities for financial institutions. This powerful, comprehensive, and easy-to-use system provides an innovative collection of functions and features that enable the full trade life cycle. It significantly boosts productivity through high performance, real-time trade processing transactions, and multi-lingual, multi-markets, and multi-currency functions. An embedded workflow environment further increases operational efficiency, covering all financial, transactional, processing, and reporting needs. The system is fully compliant with international accounting standards such as IAS 39 & IFRS 9. It offers essential Straight-Through-Processing (STP) and End-to-End event-driven processing for a wide range of asset classes, including securities, equities, and derivatives. For data integrity and market insights, the system integrates with third-party data providers like Bloomberg and Reuters DataScope Select (DSS) for global pricing, validated terms and conditions, corporate actions, historical data, and cross-reference data. It also interfaces with Refinitiv Eikon for deal capture. ICS BANKS® Investment & Treasury supports Front, Middle, and Back Office activities, providing capabilities for deal capture, limits control, position keeping, automatic transaction processing, confirmation, and settlement to maturity. It generates all necessary accounting and reporting, and includes a robust Risk Management solution that offers risk performance measurements and market risk analysis, covering market valuation, sensitivity calculation, and various Value at Risk (VaR) methodologies. The underlying ICS BANKS® platform is built to be modular, secure, and agile, ensuring business continuity and scalability, and features a complete cloud-native and cloud-agnostic architecture with Open APIs and automated processes.

Features & Benefits

• Integrated End-to-End Solution
  • Covers all investment, treasury, and brokerage activities with a completely integrated and parameterised system.
  • Treasury & Investment
  • Brokerage Activities
  • Asset & Portfolio Management
• Full Trade Life Cycle Management
  • Provides innovative functions and features to manage the entire trade life cycle from inception to maturity.
• High Performance & Operational Efficiency
  • Boosts productivity with high performance, real-time trade processing, multi-lingual, multi-markets, multi-currency functions, and an embedded workflow environment.
• Regulatory Compliance
  • Ensures full compliance with international accounting standards such as IAS 39 & IFRS 9.
• Straight-Through-Processing (STP)
  • Offers essential End-to-End event-driven processing for diverse asset classes including securities, equities, and derivatives.
• Third-Party Data Integration
  • Integrates with providers like Bloomberg and Reuters DataScope Select for global pricing, market data, and corporate actions, and interfaces with Refinitiv Eikon for deal capture.
• Comprehensive Office Support
  • Supports Front, Middle, and Back Office activities for complete operational coverage.
  • Deal capture
  • Limits control
  • Position keeping
  • Automatic transaction processing
  • Confirmation and settlement to maturity
  • Generating all necessary accounting and reporting
  • Risk Management
• Advanced Risk Management
  • Offers risk performance measurements and market risk analysis, including market valuation, sensitivity calculation, and Value at Risk (VaR) methodologies.
• Cloud-Native & Cloud-Agnostic Platform
  • Delivers a complete cloud-native and cloud-agnostic platform for future-proofed digital banking products.
• Open Banking & APIs
  • Features an Open APIs Architecture for unification of all digital systems and an omnichannel experience.
• Automated Processes & Robotics
  • Incorporates automated processes and robotics, leading to time and money savings with high accuracy.
• Modular, Secure, and Agile Architecture
  • Built from the ground up to be remarkably modular, secure, and agile, ensuring business continuity and the ability to expand vertically or horizontally.