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Our market proposition

Based on flexible solutions, customer-led agile evolution and strong involvement in daily assistance, our market proposition and client’s service approach definitely enables reduced start-up and running costs.

A “cut-to-fit” approach

MasterFinance versatile and modular solutions can support different architectures and operating models.

Explore our solutions below to get more about our proposition.

Small and “special purpose” banks ▪ Mid-Corporate Treasuries

Usual context

Few systems (if any) for few users
Limited trading volumes for “plain” asset classes
Extensive manual operations
Very limited recourse to (usually redundant) market solutions

Prevailing needs

Treasury and Control solutions perceived as “nice to have”
Increasing concerns for regulatory requirements and/or pressures from central supervisories
Need for comprehensive but tailor configured solution sustainable over time (economically and in terms of skills/fte required)

Our market proposition

MF solutions’ “light” configuration (lowest licensing costs)
THEMA’s direct assistance (minimal internal skills required)
Possible platform hosting (outsourced HW needs)

Country-wide banks ▪ Big-Corporate Treasuries

Usual context

Single or double F2B + dedicated control systems and extended user base (50+ / 100+)
Trading activities covering nearly all asset classes and markets
Good level of internal automation (with room for improvements) on market+custom systems

Prevailing needs

Generally leveraging on core market solutions, main challenges residing on data quality
Interest for “enablers” to face market changes, market opportunities and regulatory requirements
Increasing pressures for cost reductions (on both CTB and RTB) on systems and services

Our market proposition

MF extended/full implementation, replacing and consolidating multiple existing systems (improve data quality)
THEMA’s direct assistance and client-led dynamic evolution (improve service quality around “neither market, nor custom” solutions)
Flexible pricing policy fitting specific contexts (with significant cost reduction at inception and over time)

Systemic Banking Groups ▪ Global Corporate Treasuries

Usual context

Highly fragmented architecture and organization for hundreds of users

Huge volumes, sophisticated and diversified operating models and products
Continuous improvements required (Production environments heavily impacted by changes over time)

Prevailing needs

Strong need for effective “add on” or “bridges” seamlessly integrating with existing core systems
Vital need for short “time to market” to meet diverse market and regulatory challenges
Traditional dependency from “long chained” services and intensive upgrade projects

Our market proposition

Versatile MF solutions complementing existing architectures, with optional scalability opportunities (lowest licencing costs)
Double chance for either leveraging on dynamic MF Solutions evolution or partnering with THEMA in new components development
Overall service ensuring straight-competence and limited indirect costs

Upfront investments needs

Market vendors’ usual client proposition

Relatively high number of nominative licences required
Rigid HW requirements
Need for mobilising extended set up & Integration team

Our market proposition

Concurrent non-nominative licences
Best cost/performance technology involved (with high flexibility to meet client’s policies)
Relatively limited/unnecessary need of external integrators

Initial set-up project's requirements

Market vendors’ usual client proposition

Complex and multi-stakeholder project plan
Lack or limited availability of product knowledge internally and/or externally, with vendor proving remote and standardized support
Local integration to be fully developed from scratch

Our market proposition

MF modularity enables multi-phased project plan
Full exploitation of THEMA’s product specialists
End-to-end integration support and leverage on existing interfaces with all kind of surrounding components
Clear partnership with third-parties

Post-golive and evolution support

Market vendors’ usual client proposition

Need to establish relatively wide competence center
“Long chain” on issue management
Pervasive non-regression tests to be run locally (integration and custom tools)
New requests rarely met on time, hence need for custom configurations or external tools

Our market proposition

“Short chain” direct assistance on daily operations with clear service level agreement
Full ownership of in/out bound interfaces, as part of the release support
Transparent and timely management of new functional requests
2 new releases per year (on average), with limited investments for clients on upgrading tasks
Full scalability for new modules and specific evolutions

Our market proposition

A “cut-to-fit” approach

Small and “special purpose” banks ▪ Mid-Corporate Treasuries

Usual context

Few systems (if any) for few users

Limited trading volumes for “plain” asset classes

Extensive manual operations

Very limited recourse to (usually redundant) market solutions

Prevailing needs

Treasury and Control solutions perceived as “nice to have”

Increasing concerns for regulatory requirements and/or pressures from central supervisories

Need for comprehensive but tailor configured solution sustainable over time (economically and in terms of skills/fte required)

Our market proposition

MF solutions’ “light” configuration (lowest licensing costs)

THEMA’s direct assistance (minimal internal skills required)

Possible platform hosting (outsourced HW needs)

Country-wide banks ▪ Big-Corporate Treasuries

Usual context

Single or double F2B + dedicated control systems and extended user base (50+ / 100+)

Trading activities covering nearly all asset classes and markets

Good level of internal automation (with room for improvements) on market+custom systems

Prevailing needs

Generally leveraging on core market solutions, main challenges residing on data quality

Interest for “enablers” to face market changes, market opportunities and regulatory requirements

Increasing pressures for cost reductions (on both CTB and RTB) on systems and services

Our market proposition

MF extended/full implementation, replacing and consolidating multiple existing systems (improve data quality)

THEMA’s direct assistance and client-led dynamic evolution (improve service quality around “neither market, nor custom” solutions)

Flexible pricing policy fitting specific contexts (with significant cost reduction at inception and over time)

Systemic Banking Groups ▪ Global Corporate Treasuries

Usual context

Highly fragmented architecture and organization for hundreds of users

Huge volumes, sophisticated and diversified operating models and products

Continuous improvements required (Production environments heavily impacted by changes over time)

Prevailing needs

Strong need for effective “add on” or “bridges” seamlessly integrating with existing core systems

Vital need for short “time to market” to meet diverse market and regulatory challenges

Traditional dependency from “long chained” services and intensive upgrade projects

Our market proposition

Versatile MF solutions complementing existing architectures, with optional scalability opportunities (lowest licencing costs)

Double chance for either leveraging on dynamic MF Solutions evolution or partnering with THEMA in new components development

Overall service ensuring straight-competence and limited indirect costs

Upfront investments needs

Market vendors’ usual client proposition

Relatively high number of nominative licences required

Rigid HW requirements

Need for mobilising extended set up & Integration team

Our market proposition

Concurrent non-nominative licences

Best cost/performance technology involved (with high flexibility to meet client’s policies)

Relatively limited/unnecessary need of external integrators

Initial set-up project's requirements

Market vendors’ usual client proposition

Complex and multi-stakeholder project plan

Lack or limited availability of product knowledge internally and/or externally, with vendor proving remote and standardized support

Local integration to be fully developed from scratch

Our market proposition

MF modularity enables multi-phased project plan

Full exploitation of THEMA’s product specialists

End-to-end integration support and leverage on existing interfaces with all kind of surrounding components

Clear partnership with third-parties

Post-golive and evolution support

Market vendors’ usual client proposition

Need to establish relatively wide competence center

“Long chain” on issue management

Pervasive non-regression tests to be run locally (integration and custom tools)

New requests rarely met on time, hence need for custom configurations or external tools

Our market proposition

“Short chain” direct assistance on daily operations with clear service level agreement

Full ownership of in/out bound interfaces, as part of the release support

Transparent and timely management of new functional requests

2 new releases per year (on average), with limited investments for clients on upgrading tasks

Full scalability for new modules and specific evolutions

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