| Business Description: PolarLake is a global leader in applying Semantic Web and Big Data Technologies to the Data challenges of the leading Financial Services firms in the world. PolarLake’s Platform enables these firms to acquire, manage and distribute Financial and Reference Data with speed, agility and control never before seen with traditional approaches. |
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| Products & Services: PolarLake offer a Solution Suite for Data Management in Financial Services Firms. PolarLake provide the following Solution Suite:- PolarLake Price Processing Solution - PolarLake Security Master Solution - PolarLake Cost Optimization Solution - PolarLake Data Distribution Solution The PolarLake Solution Suite is built on top of the PolarLake Data Management Platform. The platform enables the acquisition, management and distribution of vendor and internally sourced Reference Data. Already being used by a number of tier 1 Financial Services firms, the platform enables, data loading 11x faster, queries 17x faster and on-boarding of new data feeds 20x faster than RDBMS based Data Management systems. The Platform is the world’s first Reference Data Management Platform based on Semantic Web technologies. |
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| Value Proposition: PolarLake provide an innovative Solution Suite based on Semantic Web and Big Data Technologies and is the result of numerous successful client implementations and joint developments. PolarLake provide clients with data loading up to 11x faster, queries 17x faster and on-boarding of new data feeds 20x faster than RDBMS based Data Management systems. PolarLake also offer the world’s first Semantics Based Reference Data Search capability. The product also enables firms to define their own linkages, meta data and data dictionaries over multiple sources in a simple to use application. PolarLake has been recognized by Industry Analysts as a leader in the Reference Data Distribution and Integration space, named by Aite as the most packaged Reference Data Distribution solution and included in the Gartner visionaries’ quadrant. Financial Services Clients using PolarLake products include 6 of the top 10 Investment Banks, 2 of the top 5 Prime Brokers and 2 of the top 10 Asset Managers. Clients have used PolarLake to make in house and commercial Data Repositories easier to distribute and consume data from. Others have used PolarLake in the end to end Data Supply Chain, sourcing, linking, validating and distributing data. |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •Corporate •Banking, Finance & Insurance •Governement •Telecommunications •Manufacturing |
Geographical Market(s) Served: Belgium& Luxembourg,England/Wales,Japan,United States of America |
| Key Customers: •JP Morgan •RBS •Credit Suiss •AIB •UBS •NTT Group •Societe Generale •Unicredit Group •Ricoh •HSBC •Dimensional |
Key Partners: •Capgemini •Oracle •Accenture •Hewlett Packard |
| Address: 72 Harcourt Street Dublin 2 |
Contact Details: Phone: +353 (01 – 4491010) eMail: info@polarlake.com Website: www.polarlake.com Social Media: |
PolarLake
Posted by on 23 April, 2012 in Banking | Capital Markets | Corporate | Finance Sector | Government | Infrastructure Services | Insurance | Integration Tools/Services | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Manufacturing | Product Management | Software | Telecommunications - (Be the first to comment)PaceMetrics
Posted by on in Banking | Capital Markets | Compliance/Corporate Governance | Energy, Power & Utilities | Finance Sector | Insurance | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Management | Organisation & Business Process Management | Product Management | Products & Admin Processing; Operations; Custody | Risk Measurement & Management | Services | Software - (Be the first to comment)| Business Description: PaceMetrics Limited is a leading provider of software solutions to some of the largest financial institutions in the world. The company talks of ‘embedding governance’ throughout an organisation. Embedded governance addresses compliance as an integral part of the process and not as a costly postscript. Embedded Governance enforces quality and control throughout the organisation, monitoring, remediating and recording events to achieve visibility, accuracy and traceability. Quality data and quality processes are essential for accurate Market and Credit Risk, position-keeping, limits etc. |
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| Products & Services: 1. Assure: The primary focus of PaceMetrics’ Assure is the daily management of pricing, reference, counterparty and corporate action data updates. As a result of the update processes, Assure also builds an audit trail of all events, such as errors, new product take-ons and model updates. Time-series data is also available, with the frequencies dictated by and customisable to business requirements 2. PaceMaker Pacemaker is a non-intrusive, real-time monitoring system that provides end-to-end control and full transparency into every business transaction and process flow. PaceMaker can be deployed swiftly on existing infrastructure without requiring further technology investment. An easy-to-use Dashboard provides configurable views of process status across the business – from high-level summaries to drill-down functionality to view the detail of any step in the process. PaceMaker retains processing statistics, transaction detail and resolution history for regulatory reporting and analysis needs. |
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| Value Proposition: PaceMetrics delivers control and quality to the financial organisation and turns compliance with the various regulatory requirements into a positive experience with demonstrable benefits to the business. |
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| Sector(s) Served: •Technology •Software •Banking, Finance & Insurance •Energy, Power & Utilities |
Geographical Market(s) Served: England/Wales,Netherlands,Switzerland&Liech, United States of America |
| Key Customers: •ABN AMRO (NL)•Deutsche Bank (UK,global) •Bank for International Settlements (CH) •UniCredit (D, UK, I)•Morgan Stanley (US) •Vattenfall (SE,NL,D) |
Key Partners: •Grant Thornton (UK) •DevNet (D) •d-fine |
| Address: Pacemetrics House Eastpoint Business Park Dublin 3 |
Contact Details: Sales Contact: Mr Norbert Boon Phone: +353 (01 – 8184000) eMail: sales@pacemetrics.com Website: www.pacemetrics.com |
Origina
Posted by on 5 November, 2010 in Banking | Bespoke/Custom Software Development | BI, Reporting & MIS | Business Intelligence | Common Services | Compliance/Corporate Governance | Contact Centre | Core Systems | Data Warehousing/Data Services | Documentation, Workflow & Process Management | Education and e-Learning | Finance Sector | Imaging/Archiving & Retrival | Infrastructure Services | Infrastructure Services - Security | Integration Tools/Services | Internet | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | IT Services | Learning | Managed Services | Management | Mortgages; Credit & Loans; Claims | Organisation & Business Process Management | Outsourcing | Payment Solutions | Public Sector | Risk Measurement & Management | Security | Software | Support | Training | Treasury | Wealth Management - (Be the first to comment)Origina is a leading IT managed services & solutions company providing innovative IT solutions to public & private organisations in various sectors within Ireland, UK, mainland Europe and the USA.
Products & Services
- Consultancy: A recognised thought leader & trusted advisor, Origina are well placed to provide clients with expert IT advice & guidance in order to achieve optimum results from their IT environment.
- IT Solutions: Origina’s IT solutions help organisations derive greater value from IT. Their technology portfolio is best of breed and is constantly reviewed to ensure they have the right technology solutions for their clients.
- Teaming: Origina Teaming service can take many forms, with examples like their helpdesk support, virtual administrators, managed backups, managed Storage, 24x7x365 technical support, remote support and consolidated hardware maintenance and more.
- Training: Origina IT Training focuses on providing value-added IT training solutions to organisations throughout Ireland, Europe and Internationally. They are a trusted IBM training delivery partner, also delivering in-depth courses across a range of other vendor technologies offering insight and practical experience through an expert-led training approach.
Key Benefits
- Focused on maximising existing technology and skills investments.
- Increased agility within your IT infrastructure.
- Reduced cost of running your IT systems and associated operations.
- World class independent advice.
- Tailored best of breed IT solutions.
- Some of the industry’s best IT professionals within a range of different disciplines including High Availability, Server & Storage Virtualisation, Disaster Recovery, Private Cloud Infrastructures.
- Origina’s innovative approach and industry thought challenging leadership ‘Origina Thinking’ has seen them win numerous high profile awards including the 2010 European IT Excellence Award, ‘SMB Solutions Provider of the Year’.
Clients
Lakeland Dairies Group, European Fund Services (Société Générale Securities), Department of Education, Health Research Board, RSA Insurance, HSE South Eastern, Department of Justice, Equity & Law Reform, Omnipay, Galway University Hospitals (GUH), Cork City Council
Partners
IBM, Microsoft, VMware, Symantec, Compellent, Commvault, Riverbed and Oracle.
Web www.origina.com
Tel +353 (0) 1 2942300
Address
Unit 2 First Floor, Bracken Court, Bracken Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18.
Tradeshape
Posted by on 11 January, 2009 in Capital Markets | Finance Sector | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Product Management | Products & Admin Processing; Operations; Custody | Services | Software - (Be the first to comment)Tradeshape is provider of cash and liquidity management solutions that empower financial institutions to better manage their capital once a trade has been executed and thus to ‘know their traded world’.
Products/Services
• TS Workstation will alert and display all transactions that do not process in a timely manner.
• TS Integration Server is a highly configurable solution suite that provides industry standard real-time connections to all disparate information sources, operational user configurable workflows and secure data store of all transaction history.
• TS Analyser allows operations management to quickly drill past surface issues and will allow the quick identification of the root cause.
• TS CAS Manager is a stock and cash management solution providing users with a realtime actual and projected view of their stock and cash balances.
• Professional Services
o Analysis and project management.
o Integration.
Key Benefits
• Uses a single technology platform that provides point solutions for real-time stock and cash ladder management, transaction monitoring and repair, transaction flow analysis and exception reporting.
• The Tradeshape single architecture can be extended to consolidate business silos by providing an up-to-the second single-window view on “At Risk” transactions across the entire enterprise.
Tel +353 (0)21 463 9374
Address
Unit 4, 2 Drury’s Avenue, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Quaternity
Posted by on 8 January, 2009 in Capital Markets | Finance Sector | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Management | Product Management | Risk Measurement & Management | Software - (Be the first to comment)Quaternity is a spuuplier of Software for the fund management & equities industry used in the financial services sector.
Products/Services
• Explica uses the returns arising out of portfolios to generate an array of investment statistics and graphical analyses.
• The results of these statistics/graphic analysis can be used to monitor the risk and investment style of a portfolio as well as its performance against peer groups.
Key Benefits
• Innovative statistical and graphical investment analysis, providing clearer and deeper insight into the risks and performance of portfolios.
• Powerful automation features that enable more portfolios to be analysed more quickly and comprehensively saving clients time, effort and money.
• Versatile reporting (Crystal Reports, Excel, Word, Powerpoint) of results improves communications.
• Can be applied equally well to monitor internal and external portfolios.
• Powerful product development tools.
•Excellent return on investment.
Clients
Royal Bank of Scotland, AXA, AIB, Bank of Ireland, Coutts, KBC, Irish Life, Investment Solutions, Pensco, Thornhill Asset Management, Goodbody, Bloxham.
Tel +353 (0)71 962 2585
Address
32 Inver Gael, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
Moneymate
Posted by on 7 January, 2009 in Capital Markets | Finance Sector | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Product Management | Software - (Be the first to comment)MoneyMate provides managed services for fund data centralisation, validation and distribution to the global asset management community.
Products/Services
MoneyMate provides a suite of fund data management services including:
• Sourcing and validating raw product informationfrom all sources.
• Centralising data in a web-accessible hub for easy 24/7 access.
• Formatting the data for consistency and in adherence with in-house requirements.
• Disseminating accurate, consistent and timely data to all required parties in any required format.
Key Benefits
• Asset managers leverage MoneyMate’s expertise to manage product information in a timely and accurate manner.
• Partnering with MoneyMate enables asset managers to remove a huge administrative burden from their in-house resources allowing them to focus on core activities.
• MoneyMate provides services that enhance an asset manager’s work, rather than duplicating or reinventing it – Moneymate’s services are built around a comprehensive understanding of the current data management processes.
Clients
JP Morgan, Schroders, Fidelity, State Street, London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times.
Tel +353 (0)1 671 6911
Address
4th Floor, The Tower, Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
Merit Software
Posted by on in Capital Markets | Common Services | Finance Sector | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Outsourcing | Product Management | Products & Admin Processing; Operations; Custody | Services | Software - (Be the first to comment)Merit Software products automate the payable and receivable process in the investment-banking and broking environment.
Products/Services
• Claim Manager looks at pre and post-trade activities in order to monitor settlements and risks, monitors the incremental revenue associated with trades and also monitors agreement and recovery of payable and receivable items and supports two-way communications
• Claim Manager Tax processing supports both reclaims and the SX1 processing.
• Pathfinder is an internet based extension to the Claim Manager product, facilitating query and exception case management, agreement and resolution.
• Consulting services that compliment its areas of product expertise.
• Outsourcing service for claim and trade management functions is also offered.
Key Benefits
• Streamline the many operational processes into a standard claims inward and outward process. Also covered is post settlement matching, fails management and claims management.
• Enhance management control, reduce client risk and assist with regulatory and risk compliance requirements.
Clients
Credit Suisse, UBS, Merrill Lynch.
Tel +353 (0)86 821 9375
Address
10 Wilfield park, Sandymount, Dublin 4.
Information Mosaic
Posted by on 6 January, 2009 in Capital Markets | Compliance/Corporate Governance | Finance Sector | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Management | Product Management | Products & Admin Processing; Operations; Custody | Services | Software - (Be the first to comment)Information mosaic (IM) is a provider of advanced middle and back office solutions including corporate actions automation for the investment services industry. Addresses the needs of investment services organisations seeking to support their clients’ global investment business from a single, consolidated platform.
Products/Services
• Converg-e is an investment accounting and custody system designed from the outset to be a global, multi entity market solution that allows for consolidation of operations minimising operational risk.
• CAMA (Corporate Actions Management Application): an end-to-end corporate actions automation solution, featuring sophisticated rules based data cleansing and entitlement processing.
Key Benefits
• Converg-e and CAMA provide financial institutions with increased control of and transparency into their globally distributed operations.
• Information Mosaic’s products lower operating costs and improve risk management for the globally invested, multi-domiciled financial institution.
• IM brings to market new low cost of ownership technology solutions for global corporate actions and custody processing that scale.
Clients
Clients include global custodians, asset managers and broker / dealers who require global functionality from a single location.
Partners
IBM, Real-EMC (Spain), INEUM Consulting, Module 1 (Sweden), HP, Sun Microsystems, Interactive Data, Trace Financial.
Tel +353 (0)1 241 5200
Address
Styne house, Upper hatch Street, Dublin 2.
Financial Risk Solutions
Posted by on 4 January, 2009 in Finance Sector | Insurance | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Product Management | Software - (Be the first to comment)financial Risk Solutions (FRS) is a fund administration software company that designs and delivers business solutions for some of Europe’s top financial services institutions.
Products/Services
Invest|Pro is an investment administration system which enables financial institutions to administer collective unitised funds, personalised portfolio bonds and self invested pensions in an extremely controlled manner. Invest|pro was specifically designed for the life and pensions industry and integrates with the company’s system.
Key Benefits
Invest|pro provides life assurance companies with secure and efficient processes in their middle and back office.
Clients
Aviva, Accenture Insurance Services, Irish Life International, Anglo Irish Assurance, Friends First Life Assurance Company, Quinn Life, Eurizon Financial Group S.p.A, MGM Assurance International, IPSI (Irish progressive Services International).
Partners
Tillinghast Towers perrin.
Tel +353 (0)1 234 0000
Web www.frsltd.com
Address
2 &4 Clanwilliam Terrace, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2.
Currency Fair
Posted by on 23 July, 2008 in Capital Markets | Finance Sector | Investment Management & Fund Solutions/Services | Software - (Be the first to comment)CurrencyFair is a currency exchange website with a difference; there is no commission because there are no banks or middle-men involved.
Products & Services
• CurrencyFair puts people who want to sell any currency in touch with other people who want to buy them in a completely anonymous environment.
• CurrencyFair has created an online marketplace in which people can do business with trade currency without ever meeting through a system that makes matching orders are anonymous.
Key Benefits
• Buyers and Sellers can choose the best rate available or wait for someone to match them at the rate they want.
• Following market principles if anyone tries to charge above the odds for their currency, they will never sell them. Only when participants ask a fair price will they get to exchange.
• Companies buying and selling all over the world.
Clients
Large client base of individual currency traders.
Partners
Grant Thornton and Date Electronics
Tel (01) 662 0365
Address
CurrencyFair Limited, 26 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2.
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