Comprehensive Securities Services Lifecycle Management Platform
The client is one of the leading fund custody & administration service providers in Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman markets with total assets under custody worth US$ 3.5 billion (as of December 2014).
The legacy system existing at the client location required a high degree of manual intervention, making it difficult for the client to expand its market presence in the gulf region and meet business objectives. It was not an integrated system and the entire process of setting up of a single new fund took about two days, which was unacceptable by industry standards.
Intellect provided the client with an integrated Fund Custody solution suite, which comes under OneMARKETS from iRTM and the solution deployment was carried out in a phase-wise manner. In the first phase, the critical functionality demanded by the client was provided, after which further enhancements were incorporated in the second phase. During solution deployment, the implementation team had to overcome significant challenges in the areas of data migration and regulatory compliance, as this was the first Fund Custody implementation carried out in the Middle East region.
Intellect Fund Custody solution suite enabled the client to provide comprehensive fund accounting, custodial and transfer agency services to both retail and foreign investors. It had supervisory capabilities to ensure that all funds necessarily complied with rules & regulations mandated by various regulatory announcements. Settlement, Safekeeping, Holdings Reconciliation and Corporate Actions Processing activities were completely automated in-line with the client’s expectations. The Registrar and Transfer Agency component seamlessly manages activities related to subscription and redemption of securities; and ensures timely unit capital reporting.