Atos Origin delivers complete IT solutions for corporate and investment banking companies. Through close collaboration with our investment market customers, we design, build and manage tailored solutions combining the optimum balance of business process automation, cost efficiency and data management to make a real competitive difference. Furthermore, in conjunction with Atos Euronext Market Solutions, we provide a world-class capability in electronic trading systems, data management services and business process outsourcing.
Keeping pace with market changes
The investment banking sector is facing tough commercial challenges. Merger and acquisition activity is driving fierce competition for market share and business operations have developed so rapidly that complexity in processes and structures has become the norm. Yet falling margins on commodity products are putting ever more pressure on profitability. With our expertise in change management and business transformation, we support our customers through the advance from legacy IT, enabling them to streamline and refresh IT infrastructures to meet current and future business needs.
Helping to manage the compliance challenge
To keep pace with increasing regulatory and governance requirements, we create strategies to maximise the benefits and minimise the burden of compliance. Embedding consistent compliance controls across the enterprise gives investment banks the assurance of knowing their customers as never before and the ability to manage risk at a micro level. We are working closely with our customers to help them prepare for Basel II and MiFID, ensuring that they are positioned to take advantage of the new opportunities the changes will bring.
Developing a holistic approach to global sourcing
In the current commercial climate, the need to manage the entire business more cost-effectively is driving the trend for business process outsourcing (BPO) across the whole company IT infrastructure – from desktop management to data centres and networks.
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Outsourcing any process requires careful planning as part of a holistic, sustainable and value-added approach, underpinned by a deep understanding of the culture and nature of each individual customer environment. Any outsourcing specification needs to be based on a clear definition of exactly how teams, customers and trading environments operate and how best shared processes can be integrated. There is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution for outsourcing – each solution is as unique as the organisation for which it is designed.
It is vital to ensure that outsourced back-office processes are thoroughly validated to verify how effectively they will integrate with, and provide support for, front-office functions. By drawing on our in-depth knowledge of corporate and investment banking processes, extensive experience and network of global service centres, we deliver outsourcing solutions that are optimally tailored to match the needs of the business.
Our solutions and expertise
We have a strong track record of design and delivery of solutions for corporate and investment banks, including:
- Operational IT solutions, particularly for trading and exchange related businesses, through Atos Euronext Market Solutions
- Design and build of operational process solutions
- Shared service centres that provide access to centralised reference data, enabling better integration between operational systems
- Risk and enterprise solutions that enable better business management. This includes solutions to address key regulatory changes currently facing financial institutions that have an impact on operational risk, such as MiFID and Basel II
- Enterprise architecture solutions to rationalise and transform applications used by retail banks, giving reduced total cost of ownership and greater business flexibility.
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