FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES
The ObjectWay Financial Suite platform provides MiFID compliant support for private bankers’ advisory services through a holistic approach that meets the high standards of the most demanding customers.
Support is provided by three separate solutions:
ObjectWay Personal Financial Planning,
ObjectWay Portfolio,
ObjectWay MiFID Suitability and Appropriateness.
Even though the three solutions are closely interrelated through the sharing of common data and functions, they can each be used on a stand-alone basis.
ObjectWay Personal Financial Planning consists of MiFID compliant advisory support tools for financial institutions and their clients.
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The solution is intended for multichannel advisory services, measurement of the effect of proposed transactions on the riskiness
of portfolios, financial planning "by objectives" based on asset allocation.
- Financial Planning
This module lists the client’s objectives, provides an analysis of existing portfolios, suggests strategies, monitors investment
decisions made and verifies the suitability of MiFID either using the ObjectWay MiFID Suitability and Appropriateness module
or any other provider’s engines used by the client.
- Retirement planning
This module analyses the adequacy of retirement arrangements, identifies any shortfalls and proposes solutions.
- Household budget
This module can be used to manage cash inflows and outflows combined with analyses of a client’s projected networth.
ObjectWay Personal Financial Planning fulfills a multi-faceted role in support of advisory processes, in particular:
- assists financial advisors to establish and maintain relationships with clients by providing them with support tools than can be customized. It can also be used for post-sale monitoring;
- permits full integration of the bank’s various channels to take full advantage of available information so that a centralized database of client information can be created;
- provides tools to marketing and commercial managers to maximize client relationship potential by making information available to clients that is always up to date as well as being structured by specific client requirements;
- is a vehicle for marketing products by the network and enhances the methodological support of financial advisors by assuring that they are always in possession of the latest information;
- provides for the headoffice supervision of marketing staff though reviews of their performance in the field;
- assures the provision of tailored advice to clients, ongoing follow-up with actual vs plan comparisons in addition to giving clients the ability to directly modify their portfolios.
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An integral component of the ObjectWay Financial Suite that provides financial institutions with full navigation services, thorough analysis and reporting of the risks and returns of client portfolios.
DETAILS
The solution comprises the following modules:
- Client position
The module retrieves and displays information retrieved from back office systems, blending it with information from information providers or the bank.
- Portfolio analysis
This module shows market and currency exposure, measures performance in accordance with international standards and performs a risk analysis. It also verifies compliance with MiFID using either the ObjectWay MiFID Suitability and Appropriateness module or any other provider’s engines used by the client
- Assets held by third parties
The module calculates total client investments in financial assets, real estate or any of other types of asset.
- Reporting
The module provides a wide selection of reports that can be customized and adapted to a specific client or portfolio.
ObjectWay Portfolio provides up to date information to advisors (portfolio managers, tied agents, bank consultants, private bankers and relationship managers) and their managers on:
- the status and evolution of clients’ assets under management and those held in custody
- advisor profitability
- market trends compared to client portfolio performance.
The solution’s prime advantages are its ease of use, the wealth of information supplied, the ability to adapt analyses and customize report formats. The benefit for the end-customer is the ability to obtain extensive information tailored to the client’s investment portfolio.
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A tool used by financial institutions to input and manage clients’ MiFID data and assure the suitability and appropriateness of transactions that have been requested or recommended.
DETAILS
ObjectWay MiFID Suitability and Appropriateness meets the needs of financial institutions because it permits:
- the centralized configuration of client profiling rules for the provision of services and verification of the suitability and appropriateness of transactions that have been requested or recommended;
- the provision of advisory services by the bank in a manner that underlines their high standard;
- the straightforward and timely verification of the suitability of investment recommendations by evaluating the client portfolio rather than just individual transactions;
- the ongoing monitoring and flagging of client portfolios with respect to their suitability.
This module serves as the basis for:
- the verification of the suitability of investment recommendations made by advisors to assure compliance with MiFID;
- sales and distribution solutions for brokers, advisors and tied agents, that verify the suitability and appropriateness of orders input in comparison with a client’s portfolio and profile.
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WHO & WHAT
BARCLAYS
Barclays selected the ObjectWay Financial Suite components - ObjectWay Financial Planning, ObjectWay Portfolio, and ObjectWay Mifid Adequacy & Appropriateness - to support MiFID compliant advisory services for its “affluent”, “top affluent”, and “private clients”. Barclays uses the ObjectWay Financial Suite in its Italian and Spanish subsidiaries for nearly 1,000 branches. The software has been used in Italy since 2008 and will be introduced in Spain at the end of 2009. Nathalie Couveignes, Marketing Director, Barclays France and head of Barclays University for the Global Premier Banking described ObjectWay as a “scientific and holistic” support of Barclays Premiere business model that is fully compliant with MiFID and explained that the platform would soon be introduced in four other European countries.
CREDIT SUISSE
The Wealth Management, Private Banking division of Credit Suisse, serves approximately 700,000 high net worth individuals around the world. Credit Suisse Italy’s Personal Bankers and Relationship Managers provide financial, retirement and insurance advisory services in 29 locations throughout Italy.
Credit Suisse Italy uses the full ObjectWay SMIT2 platform - Front, Middle & Back Office – for all aspects of asset management and administration: order input, straight-through processing trading on domestic or international markets; asset management services for private and institutional clients, SWIFT settlements, securities custody, taxation and reporting.
Credit Suisse uses ObjectWay integrated solutions for CRM and MiFID-compliant advisory services.
BofA MERRIL LYNCH
With 20,000 advisors and 2,500 billion in client assets, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the world’s largest broker.
The Italian branch of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management selected to use the entire ObjectWay
SMIT2 software product line in its Private Banking business, adopting the ObjectWay front-office and back-office solutions for investment management of clients' safekeeping accounts and discretionary portfolios.
The solution is an integral part of the Bank’s global infrastructure. Introduction of continuous 24-hour availability eliminated business cut-offs
and accelerated data updates, thus increasing the accuracy of portfolio information provided by private bankers to their clients.
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