Banco General Automates Wealth Management Operations with Charles River
Consolidated platform streamlines workflows; delivers remote access and electronic FIX trading
Boston, Beijing, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo – July 21, 2010 – Charles River Development (Charles River), a front- and middle-office investment software solutions provider, today announced that Banco General, S.A., the largest private banking institution in Panama, is live on Version 9.1 of the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS). The project, delivered on-time and on-budget, is part of Banco General’s initiative to automate the firm’s wealth management operations. Key project goals included: integrating workflows of Banco General’s Private Banking unit and BG Valores brokerage subsidiary on a single platform; providing access to remote brokers; and enabling real-time electronic trading via FIX (Financial Information eXchange).
Over 50 Banco General users benefit from Charles River IMS’ automated portfolio management, trading, and compliance monitoring, as well as seamless integration with accounting and other back-office providers. Users include 39 remote BG Valores brokers who leverage the Charles River Anywhere browser-based workstation to remotely monitor and manage portfolios, compliance, trades and post-trade information in real-time for wealth management clients. The Charles River FIX Network enables Banco General to route orders electronically to its primary offshore broker.
“Charles River IMS has increased our efficiency and reduced operational risk, creating a unified platform and delivering remote capabilities to service both our Private Bank and BG Valores clients,” said Carlos E. Samaniego, Assistant Vice President, BG Valores. “We now have fully-integrated order capture and trading workflows, and FIX trading capabilities. We can also validate compliance anytime – across all asset classes and domestic and international orders – whether trading Panamanian Bolsa de Valores securities, fixed income instruments, hedge funds or mutual funds.”
Supporting BG Valores’ remote brokers was a key project goal. With Charles River Anywhere, brokers can quickly originate client-directed orders and access account information in real-time. “Charles River understands the wealth management business,” said Samaniego. “They have delivered the best technological solution, training and support to meet our operational needs, as well as tools to help build client relationships.”
Banco General also streamlined its processes for trading equity and options orders with real-time global electronic FIX trading through the Charles River Network. The firm connects to its brokers via Charles River’s low-cost, internet-based Virtual Private Network option. Charles River’s FIX Network Services provides Banco General with complete FIX software administration, connectivity management and support for each sell-side broker and trading destination. The Charles River Network is fully integrated with Charles River IMS and includes over 120 buy-side firms, 440 broker-dealers, and has 3,700 live broker/client FIX connections.
“Charles River helps wealth managers, like Banco General and BG Valores, support high volumes of high-net worth, SMA, UMA, UMH and discretionarily-managed portfolios,” said Spiros Giannaros, Vice President-Sales, Americas, Charles River Development. “Many of our wealth management clients have rolled out Charles River Anywhere to their Financial Advisors because it increases their efficiency by making account information available 24x7 – anywhere.”
About Banco General, S.A.
Headquartered in Panama City, Republic of Panama, Banco General is partly owned (61%) by Empresa General de Inversiones, S.A. and provides personal, corporate, private, and online banking services for individuals and institutions. Banco General has $3 billion of domestic and international equity, fixed income, derivatives and money market assets under management.
About Charles River Development
Charles River Development is a front- and middle-office software solutions provider to more than 300 investment firms in the institutional, wealth management/trust, alternative, mutual fund, insurance, pension fund and fund administration/custody markets in over 35 countries. The Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) is an institutional-class multi-asset, multi-currency software suite that consists of five main modules: Charles River Manager for portfolio management and modeling; Charles River Compliance for real-time pre-trade, in-trade, post-execution and end-of-day
compliance monitoring; Charles River Trader for order management, electronic trading and execution management; Charles River Post-Trade for the centralized management of trade matching, confirmation, and settlement workflow; and Charles River Performance for daily performance measurement, attribution, and performance risk.
Charles River IMS features a modern, proven, N-Tier service oriented architecture (SOA) that is highly scalable and supports continuous 24x7 operations. Message-based APIs and exposed Web Services facilitate rapid systems integration. The system is fully integrated with the Charles River Network, a broker-neutral, financial network that incorporates global real-time electronic trading via FIX (Financial Information eXchange). Charles River also offers comprehensive FIX network and implementation services, as well as hosting and application management solutions.
Founded in 1984, Charles River maintains headquarters in Boston and primary offices in Beijing, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo and has a local presence in every other major financial center of the world.
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