CLIENT BACKGROUND
Established in 1995, the company provides wide range of services to corporations, institutional investors and high net-worth individuals.
Edelweiss is an existing customer of Miles. They have been using MoneyWare Integra for Wealth as well as Portfolio Management and recently implemented MoneyWare Vantage for Security based lending and MoneyWare Custody for custody business.
CLIENT SUMMARY
Edelweiss is one of the leading online stock/ share-trading portal across multiple asset classes such as equities, derivatives, currency, commodity, mutual funds, etc. It has grown into a diversified Indian financial services company organized under agency and capital business lines operated by the Company and its thirteen subsidiaries.
CLIENT CHALLENGES
Being recognized as the leading integrated financial services conglomerates, the Edelweiss Group offers one of the largest range of innovative products and services spanning across varied asset classes and diversified client segments. Increased competition along with solid growth and as a part of diversity and business expansion Edelweiss Group ventured into new business of Custodial Services.
They were looking for a trusted technology partner to help them build and set-up their Custodial business. Being into new business the solution needed to be cost-effective as well as easily scalable and integrated with various other applications and systems.
QUICK FACTS
- Enhanced Customer Experience
- Paradigm shift from manual to automated investment management
- 360⁰ view of customer’s portfolio
- Minimal errors with automated reporting
SOLUTION
- MoneyWare Custody
THE MILES ADVANTAGE
Miles was a trusted name in the financial technology with years of enriched domain experience and expertise. Since Edelweiss was already a customer for MoneyWare Integra Wealth and Portfolio management solutions and the solutions were running seamlessly since years, Edelweiss agreed to extend their partnership with Miles considering the augmented domain expertise and cost-effective solution for their upcoming business.
SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION
Seamless automation and deployment for end-to-end management of custodial business
Miles implemented MoneyWare Custody that enables all aspects of end to end Custodial operations including custody management, account opening, trade settlement, corporate actions, billing, auditing and reporting.
The Trade Match process comprises of a three way matching (client, trading member and exchange) trade process also the system is enabled with DVP process (Delivery Versus payment process).
The solution is all set for augmented automation in sending SWIFT messages to Edelweiss custody clients, offering the flexibility to enhance the system with new features. The trade settlement module includes improved STP and auto-repair of SWIFT messages, supporting partial settlement.
The system enables on market and off market settlement, trade settlement and settlement with the broker. A fully automated corporate action module includes an extensive coverage of all the corporate action events. The Maker/ checker facility enabled to confirm the trade orders.
Billing process determined with various plans as per the clients and the transactions. The process is well defined right from bill generation to pre-bill checking, consolidation of all types of fees and delivering the bill and receiving payments and accounting.
SOLUTION BENEFITS
The solution has been orchestrated to meet the growing needs of sophisticated custody services providers, across an extensive range of markets and asset classes.
The solution is well equipped and future-ready, empowering Edelweiss in achieving their business goals in the custody segment, the solution comprises of;
- Operational efficiency and maximize productivity
- Ability to deploy custody functionality rapidly across all markets in India with a quick time-to-market in response to customer and business requirements
- Elimination of manual creation of corporate actions events and automate the processing of customer instructions for voluntary corporate actions.
- Provides a holistic view of the client assets with convenient search facilities.
- Covers integrated general ledger accounting
- Supports third-party interfaces and reconciliations to upload and download data (e.g. trades from an external feed, Bank and Depository data for reconciliation)
- Easy and flexible interface with external systems
- Client can check on the status on trade, obligations and access to various reports, etc.…
- Automated emails being sent regarding reminders for various transactions, payments and obligations
- System supports both segregated and omnibus structures
- Integration with various core banking platforms
