Financial Messaging

Secure Management of Risk-Bearing Financial Communications

Whether you rely on SWIFTNet, FIX, ETC, CREST, ISITC or other messaging services and protocols Singularity's Financial Messaging Solutions provide a complete set of trusted gateways, integration tools, messaging and workflow capabilities that will measurably improve your message management. Our customers communicate business-critical financial information reliably and securely by effectively integrating their internal processes and systems with those of external parties. The result: reduced risks and costs, and improved STP performance.

Over 100 Financial Institutions across the globe already trust Singularity's store-and-forward Financial Messaging Solutions, . Many of them also use our multi-instrument Matching solution and our award-winning business process management software.

Singularity's Financial Messaging Solutions, based on IBM's FSManager technology, prepare, verify and authenticate inbound and outbound financial transactions. Flexible workflow and queuing facilities ensure that all participants comply with messaging policy and procedure while speeding message flow. Full security, safe message storage and archiving, complete audit recording and comprehensive data extraction and monitoring are among the Solutions' key capabilities.

Highlights

• Automated delivery of transactions across an entire enterprise, eliminating re-keying between applications and networks and reducing the risk of error and non-delivery
• Enrichment of outbound messages, such as automatic look-up of standing settlement instructions so that an external network will complete a payment
• Enrichment of inbound messages, such as replacement of text fields with computer readable identifiers to enable straight-through-processing
• Capture and identification of exceptions and their intelligent escalation and repair are embedded as an integral features of Singularity's Financial Messaging solution
• Delivery of transactions and notifications across all external networks, including the Internet and Intranets, from a single messaging hub
• Central message archive that supports auditing, compliance monitoring and investigations throughout the lifecycle of a financial transaction
• Desktop transaction manager, allowing creation, viewing, authorization, validation and dispatch of all message types in a clear, fast, productive interface
• Collaborative workflows, allowing integration of multiple internal and external transaction parties

Singularity's Financial Messaging Solutions support the latest fully electronic messaging technologies while simultaneously offering a platform that facilitates legacy and still used messaging technologies such as telex and fax. In addition to handling very high message volumes, and thus supporting the needs of the most transaction-intensive environments, Singularity's Financial Messaging Solutions include almost 40 built-in, proven gateways that enable Financial Institutions to immediately communicate with both proprietary and public/open networks.

Equiniti, formally Lloyds TSB Registrars, is the UK's market leading securities registrar, supporting approximately 60% of FTSE100 companies. The Company relied on Singularity to implement a solution that now handles more than 50% of UK equity settlements daily by integrating Lloyds shareholder registration systems with the automated settlement system of CREST, the central securities depository for clearing UK equity stock. "The support and technical expertise we received was excellent" - Senior Manager, Financial Markets, Equiniti.