Services
What services do we provide
Fingention offers a variety of services to help you design and automate processes in capital markets and trading. Our diverse experience gives us the ability to cover a wide range of functional and technical topics and to find the best solutions for your business.
Front Arena
Our origins lie in Front Arena consulting and as a specialist for this platform we are bringing a comprehensive skillset in ACM, AEL and ADFL, knowledge of how the different components interact and what the best practices at some of Front Arena’s biggest clients are.
We are offering support with all kinds of Front Arena tasks like:
- Programing extensions and custom columns with ACM, AEL, ADFL
- Configuration of FAccounting
- Performance optimization
- Risk factor configuration and FRTB
- Design of custom business processes
- ATS configuration including custom ATS development
- Configuration of static data using best practices
GUI changes
- and many more…
Configuration of market data, valuation parameters and contexts
Confirmation and settlement processing
- Business data processing
- Custom valuation extensions
- User profile configuration
Reporting using Trading Manager workbooks and ASQL
- Interfaces to upstream and downstream systems
- Deal packages
Valuation and Risk modeling
Valuation and risk modelling questions are often at the focus of our assignments. We can offer valuation testing and model validation services from a test concept through the definition of test cases to debugging the results. We have a comprehensive experience with the investigation of valuation differences and have established a structured approach and our own tools to support it. We have developed custom valuation code based on client requirements and have integrated it as extensions into Front Arena.
Artificial Intelligence
We believe that Artificial Intelligence can be used to improve processes at financial institutions since they are processing large amounts of data on a daily basis. AI models can be integrated with the systems currently in use to give them an AI capability. This is an exciting new field and the use cases can be quite different. You can check out an example of how we integrated our AI model the Plausibility Engine with Front Arena
REST APIs
Today REST APIs are the preferred way to make data available to external clients since they offer a safe and scalable approach to the task. We are well versed in the OpenAPI Specification and the usage of the Swagger tools to build an API in a quick and standardized fashion, minimizing errors and getting the API documentation in the process. We have developed RESTful clients and web-services and we bring experience with API security using different authentication schemes. You can read about one of our API projects here.
Accounting processes
Efficient and error free accounting processes are indispensable for a financial institution that sometimes has to process millions of transactions per day. We are specialized in:
- Translating accounting principles to IT specifications
- Hedge accounting
- Testing of journal postings
- Defining and documenting the booking logic
- Hedge effectiveness calculations
Our strong functional background in IFRS and local GAAP makes us a capable conversation partner for the Finance department when designing solutions.
Regulatory processes
Over the last decade the reporting requirements in the financial industry have grown exponentially and the only way to master this is using automation. We support our clients in:
- Defining IT specification
Sourcing the data
- Interfacing with the APIs of regulatory services
Matching the requirements to their internal processes
- Generating documents
We design flexible future-proof solutions that can easily be adapted to the ever-changing regulatory requirements.