With a wealth of experience partnering the world's leading banks and financial institutions, and a comprehensive range of services and solutions, Saytek is the partner that gets you results: optimized investments, enhanced operational efficiencies, minimized risk and sustained cost leadership.

Client Challenges

• Increasing regulatory and security requirements
• Providing superior levels of customer service
• Managing price pressures with greater efficiency

What Saytek Provides

• Reliable and secure systems that address market changes quickly, develop profitable customer relationships and secure new opportunities to stay ahead of competition
• Comprehensive, end-to-end, domain-led business process solutions that enable Banking and Financial Services institutions to focus on their core financial services competencies

Business Value

We will help you identify and realize goals, which may include but are not limited to the following:

• Optimized investments
• Enhanced operational efficiencies
• Minimized risk
• Sustained cost leadership

Cards

Current Challenges: Increased and aggressive competition, security threats to sensitive customer and business data, margin pressures

What Saytek provides: A broad range of solutions that help card issuers, transaction processing agencies, credit bureaus, large merchants and payment networks implement strategies and solutions that improve process efficiencies, simplify transactions, speed up time-to-market for products and reduce risks.

Banking Technology

Current Challenges: Deploying the right technology architecture, applications and policies that allow banks to operate as seamlessly connected and integrated enterprises

What Saytek provides: Comprehensive, custom strategies that align a bank's business needs and result in increased productivity, real-time processing and synchronized processes

Depository / Registry

Current Challenges: The huge rise in cross-border and online trading, supporting diverse portfolio of instruments and processing huge volumes

What Saytek provides: Domain knowledge in the securities industry and vast IT expertise that helps customers reduce operational risk, enhance efficiencies and build real-time depository/registry solutions to increase reliability and efficiency in multi-currency, cross-border operations

Custody

Current Challenges: Increased globalization of portfolios, diversity in financial instruments and growth in offshore fund markets

What Saytek provides: Strategies for global custodians and custody departments to support operations, manage complex processing requirements, reduce risks, successfully adapt to market demands, rationalize diverse platforms, build common infrastructure and centralize processes

Reconciliations

Current Challenges: Financial instruments are getting increasingly complex, transaction volumes are escalating exponentially, changing market conditions warrant flexible reconciliations operations and reducing IT budget makes it difficult to manage a large workforce with significant overheads to process transactions at the desired service level.

What Saytek Provides: Saytek Aspire Service helps you eliminate limitations of your reconciliations and investigations operation in the fastest possible time. It delivers a scalable, industry-leading "Center of Excellence" for the matching, investigation and reconciliation of core and client-specific financial transactions.

Retail Banking

Current Challenges: Mergers and acquisitions, increased competition, new regulatory requirements, optimizing sales and fulfillment processes, managing distribution channels and streamlining operations to acquire, satisfy and, thereby, retain customers

What Saytek provides: Comprehensive strategies for creating reliable systems that improve operational efficiency and meet business goals effectively

Investment Banking

Current Challenges: Low margins, workflow disconnects, data redundancies, complying with mandated regulations such as Basel II and incorporating frameworks like Straight Through Processing (STP), etc. To be able to work round-the-clock in such demanding environments, investment banks have made technology an integral part of their strategic initiatives.

What Saytek provides: Comprehensive strategies for round-the-clock, efficient management of core functions including brokerage, asset management and wealth management while managing risks and regulatory compliances.

Risk & Compliance

Current Challenges: Mergers and acquisitions, increasing focus on regulatory norms such as Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley, Solvency II and spiraling compliance costs, inadequate and inconsistent controls and accountability, data quality and data integration, integrated GRC fragmented risk infrastructure and model risk.

What Saytek provides: A broad range of solutions and services to address regulatory compliance such as Basel II, risk infrastructure upgrades (risk warehouse), GRC requirements, model building/validation and other risk management related areas

Surveillance

Current Challenges: Introduction of new instruments, greater volumes of cross-border trading, market manipulation, erroneous reporting and illegal trading practices

What Saytek provides: Real-time solutions for monitoring transactions while assessing and reducing risks, the ability to anticipate abnormal trading behaviors and take steps to prevent further market abuse and comprehensive strategies for risk mitigation

Corporate Banking

Current Challenges: Increased pressure to deliver increasingly sophisticated services to meet corporate client expectations, high demand for comprehensive corporate product and account management

What Saytek provides: Comprehensive strategies and solutions that provide a unified multi-channel view of corporate customers and automation of processes to increase profitability and improve customer satisfaction

Wealth Management

Current Challenges: Increasing numbers of clients with high expectations of financial advisors' roles and client relationships

What Saytek provides: Tools for greater CRM, including real-time access to integrated client information throughout the advisory relationship

Exchanges / Trading / Broker - Dealer

Current Challenges: Trans-national markets and global exchanges that demand fast, accurate processing of high transaction volumes, delivering superior customer service

What Saytek provides: Mission-critical, flexible, scalable trading solutions that support multiple channels and that span across equities, derivatives, commodities, forex and fixed income instruments, covering different types of trading methodologies, resulting in increased agility and transparency in trading environments

Clearing / CCP

Current Challenges: Consolidation, cross-border trading, and multi-channel access; extended trading hours and shortened settlement cycles to meet increased trading volumes

What provides: Secure platforms that support multiple settlement models and payment methods, resulting in real-time connectivity and computation, effective risk management and improved operational efficiency