FINACLE CORE BANKING SOLUTION

Is your bank ready for tomorrow?

The financial services industry is undergoing significant transformations. Mergers, consolidation, expansion, shifting customer preferences, emerging nontraditional competition and a continuously evolving complex regulatory environment are just some of the issues on the minds of bankers worldwide. With change coming this rapidly, banks must quickly embrace the new world order and accelerate growth to stay a step ahead of the competition. This requires shedding away the complexity which has grown significantly across business functions and operations. Banking leaders understand that technology is critical for simplifying banking to create sustainable business growth. But, many are burdened with disparate host systems added piecemeal, over time, and developed on obsolete technology. These legacy systems are simply not equipped to readily respond to change. However, bankers, having grown weary of lengthy deployments and the ensuing business disruption, have apprehensions about transformation. Yet, the need to modernize the organization remains as compelling as ever. A painfree approach to banking transformation, with an adaptive solution at the core, will prove invaluable for banks looking to gear themselves for tomorrow

configure modules. Finacle provides all the building blocks of business functionality enabling users to configure products and processes flexibly in order to adapt to a dynamic environment. With a 360 degree single source view into customer accounts, banks can empower customers with relevant information and delight them with the right offerings, presented at the right time through the right channel The solutions componentized structure gives you unmatched agility to modernize at your own pace - progressively or an integrated manner - to meet business priorities. The solution also enables you to dynamically refresh your business model by adding or upgrading existing modules and components selectively to reach out to new customer segments. This helps you realize modernization benefits in months as against years. The solutions readymade integration adaptors and its compliance to industry standards reduce integration costs and further simplify your transformation journey.

banks can expand product offerings on demand and stay ahead in a competitive marketplace. Configure bundled product suites: The modular nature of our solution allows banks to easily configure bundled product suites to cater to the growing demands of todays customers. Offer differential pricing: This is not an option but a need for banks today and our solutions gives banks the flexibility to offer differential pricing. Generate right-sell opportunities: Finacle core banking solution enables a 360 degree view of customer relationship to generate actionable insights for maximizing right-sell opportunities. Eliminate data redundancy: Our core banking solution helps banks build a master data system that consolidates all customer and product data and eliminates redundancy. Reduce costs: Our enterprise class components empower you to create central processing hubs and eliminate duplicate functions & applications across business units Increase the productivity of frontline staff: Automation and ease-of-operation lends itself to increase in productivity. Comply with emerging global regulations: Compliance is every banks concern. With our solution banks can rest assured of being compliant with growing regulations. Manage growth with proven scalability: The solution is designed to be scalable and support your pace of growth.

Comprehensive offering to support growth

Finacle has a layered Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), STP capabilities, Webenabled technology, and supports true 24 X 7 operations, so banks can: Create a differentiated and unique customer experience: The Finacle core banking solution enables banks to provide a hassle-free and unified banking experience to customers thats personalized to their needs. Expand product offerings: With a robust and comprehensive core solution,

Finacle core banking

Finacle core banking solution is a comprehensive, agile, componentized yet integrated business solution, addressing all the core needs of banks, in easy-to-

Functional architecture
Enterprise CRM
Marketing Sales Service Interaction Communication Channels Knowledge Base 360 Degree View

Enterprise Customer Information Enterprise Components

Payments Liquidity Management Dashboards Origination

Product Factory
Consumer Banking and Wealth Management
Consumer Banking
Saving & Checking Retail Loans Time Deposits Mortgages Islamic Banking Current / Overdrafts Leasing and Hire Purchase

Corporate Banking and Trade Finance

Corporate Banking
Syndication Commercial Lending Leasing and Hire Purchase Securitization Islamic Banking Forward Contracts Export / Import Financing

Wealth Management Solution

Insurance Structured Products Mutual Funds Equities Bonds

Trade Finance
Documentary Credits Guarantees

Functional Services
Standing Orders Limits / Collaterals Bill Payments Clearing Referral

Reusable Business Components

Interest / Tax Exchange Rates Bank Management Fees / Charges Inventory Channel Rules Discounts / Preferential Pricing Signature Verification

Accounting Backbone
General Ledger
Enterprise Components Multi-Currency

Transaction Manager

24/7 Multi-lingual Finacle Studio Single Sign On Integration Framework Purge Access Control Workflow (BPEL) Reporting Audit Multi - Calendar Scheduler

Infrastructure

Finacle core banking solution is a comprehensive, agile, componentized yet integrated business solution, addressing all the core needs of banks, in easy-to configure modules. Finacle provides all the building blocks of business functionality enabling users to configure products and processes flexibly in order to adapt to a dynamic environment.

Key modules
Enterprise customer information When more is known about customers their demographics, financials, preferences, and the relationship they already have with a bank banks are in a position to offer them the right solutions at the right time. Finacle enables banks to create and maintain a single source of customer truth enterprise customer information files, across multiple host systems including Finacle. This helps manage the various lifecycle stages in a relationship with the customer and access comprehensive segmentation information, all through a unified view. Flexible and user-definable templates support KYC and AML compliance mandates. Consumer banking As consumers ask for new products, banks can leverage the flexible product definition capabilities of Finacle to create new offerings and target campaigns exactly where they are most relevant. Each product can be associated with a wide range of properties and then bundled meaningfully based on customer input. Offerings such as savings and checking accounts, and provision for personal and auto finance are easily supported. Multilayered productsstructured deposits, multi-currency accounts, top-up deposits, master term deposits, top-up loans, revolving loans and securitizationcan be added as needed.

Corporate banking From simple products such as overdrafts and cash-term loans to complex ones such as securitization and syndication, this module presents a powerful range of offerings for corporate banking. It includes commercial lending essentials such as multicurrency disbursements and repayments, flexible and varied interest rate setup, commitment fee setup, crystallization, amortization, and debt consolidation. Finacle maintains the corporate customer information files, corporate deposits, commercial lending, corporate origination and corporate payments with comprehensive liquidity management, sweeps and pool facilities. Its multicurrency enabled centralized limits and collateral function lets banks monitor both collateralized lending and online exposure. Trade finance This module presents an end-to-end solution for the trade finance needs of a bank. It is fully integrated with the payment system and exchange rate setup, and supports multicurrency processing of trade products such as:

business reports and rigorous statistical models. This can be leveraged to strengthen customer engagement and differentiate the service experience. The customer analytics module supports operations with comprehensive intelligence, ranging from data acquisition to reporting and analysis, leveraging quantitative modeling techniques and multi-dimensional reporting. It provides critical information such as customer attrition scores or profitability measures to help develop a clear picture of the customer. This information can also be extended to front-end applications or combined with online tacit information to help make timely and effective decisions. There is also the flexibility to pick and choose specific customer analytics functions, relevant to the business, across the customer life-cycle stages of acquisition, development, and retention. Wealth management Create new revenue streams by offering high net worth individuals and the mass affluent, products and services powered by the Finacle wealth management solution.

Documentary credit Forward contract Import and export financing Letter of guarantee Factoring Buyers credit
Customer analytics Any business can benefit from holistic customer analytics through insightful

End-to-end processing of investment Unified solution for wealth

office and back office

products across asset classes including structured products, equities, mutual funds, insurance, bonds, futures and options management needs of front office, mid Straight through processing across wealth and core banking functions such as limits management, payments

 Rule based configuration to accelerate

launch of new products such as dual deposits, range accrual deposits, mutual funds, and insurance products Islamic banking Offer Shariah-compliant products to customers and address their needs for Islamic banking along with international offerings. currency deposits, principal protected

Origination Simplify and strengthen the complete credit lifecycle, across retail and commercial loans with Finacles enterprise loan origination solution

Standing orders integrated with payment systems, enabled for multi-currency, with auto-execution capabilities Feature-rich bill payment that supports multi-currency payments and collections

Supports the end-to-end credit lifecycle from customer application to credit analysis and decisioning, followed by loan onboarding and credit monitoring across various types of loans, ensuring cost efficiencies and optimum control.

Remittances offering comprehensive

inter-bank and intra-bank funds transfer

Flexible and feature-rich clearing services that support both paper-based and image-based clearing

Solution offers a flexible and varied feature repertoire for banks to design and deploy products for varying market segments, based on different Islamic concepts including Mudarabah, Murabaha, Ijarah, Istisna, Kafalah and Tawarruq. The solution also offers a wide range of possibilities for business users at the bank to create products and embellish them with innovative features

Advanced rule-based underwriting

and integrated credit monitoring capabilities, which empower banks to control risk and achieve higher credit quality to increase profitability. Dashboards Advance operational efficiencies and user experience by enabling availability of frequently used functions on a single console. The widgets led design empower banks to personalize the dashboard for various roles to enhance user productivity. Pre-built widget library and robust widgets creation infrastructure offer extensive flexibility and enable banks to design the most optimum dashboard for various users.

Automated exception and approval

and non-financial exceptions

management with referrals for financial

Reusable business components

Users can define which business-enabler functions of Finacle core banking to turn on, and then reuse these across various functions, such as:

Unified, comprehensive, real time

products Payments

view of the client across the enterprise covering both Islamic & non Islamic

Interest rate support for definition of Rule-based Signature Verification

System (SVS)

differential and slab-based interest rates

Modernize your payments with Finacles advanced enterprise payments services hub:

The solution manages end-to-end

payments lifecycle and processes payments regardless of payment instruments, originating channels, hosting modules and payment networks.

Exchange rate structures with multitiered definitions

Tax structure definition and application

of withholding tax for defined events

Functional services
Finacle core banking offers a wide range of mainstream and bank-definable services that help banks differentiate offerings by creating uniquely bundled products and services, such as:

Event-based charges with provisions

for online and batch collection of charges

The SWIFT ready solution is designed

global and local payment networks.

leveraging ISO 20022 standards to deliver seamless interoperability across various

Support for preferential pricing and discounts, both ad hoc and based on customer segments

 Inventory management Elaborate channel rules and channelbased differential pricing for charges and interest

24 x 7 capabilities to operate roundthe-clock through branches and channels even during batch job execution and day-end operations

the latitude to create offerings with differentiated features. With Finacle, bankers can offer differential pricing, set up channel rules, and easily customize offerings across market segments. Right-sell to customers effectively The Enterprise Customer Information File and CRM capabilities in Finacle offer a unified view of the customer across the entire solution and across multiple back-end applications, letting users view the customer from a completely informed perspective. This information lets banks forge more meaningful relationships with customers and aggressively explore rightsell opportunities. Adapt to change quickly The SOA allows the banks IT team to make changes without touching the base code ensuring minimal vendor dependency, lesser operational risk, and faster adaptability to changing business conditions. Increase operational efficiency and productivity Finacle core banking supports business event automation and process orchestration, eliminating manual tasks and reducing process time. The elimination of error and data redundancies results in increased branch productivity, and Straight Through Processing (STP) that, in turn, reduces turnaround and processing time, increases output and speeds up response to customers.

Rebates, clawbacks, subsidies, planned

prepayments and multi-source for retail loans repayment configuration capabilities

Integrated, secure, and scalable

reporting infrastructure

Ease of integration with industry

standards-based framework and existing and external systems readymade adapters to integrate with

Direct Selling Agent (DSA) features with capabilities for sub-DSA, turnover and commissions calculations Extensive framework for bank management with user definition capabilities, audit trail features, reporting and exception management

Single Sign On (SSO) for uniform and common authentication Sophisticated security management at application, database, and user levels with built-in checks and role-based access

Accounting backbone
Finacle core banking has a built-in integrated financial and accounting management system with multicurrency support, that effectively serves banks with multiple branches and profit centers. The integrated general ledger module supports real-time online updating of transactions and allows real time generation of statements that show the banks financial position. At the same time, the transaction manager auto-generates all batch and online transactions while processing large transaction volumes, complete with validations and defined checks.

Support for multiple calendars such as Gregorian, Hijri and Buddha

A Batch Job Scheduler (BJS) to

schedules

automate invocation, execution and monitoring of batch jobs at defined

BPEL/BPML based workflow for automation of sequential business processes with reduced manual intervention Finacle Studio to create bank definable business rules and logic for behavior and outcome of business events

Business benefits
Create differentiated products easily Finacle core banking offers an unlimited palette of features to design and deploy products for different market segments. Its product bundling capabilities provide

Infrastructure
Finacle core banking empowers users with a wide range of utilities to enhance operational efficiency and facilitate ease of use. These include:

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