ACCENTURE AND FINASTRA

FUSIONBANKING LOAN IQ

Capital markets firms today face

increasing complexity and risk
exposure from cross-asset class
and derivatives trading. Now, more
than ever, having integrated trading
architectures will be critical to success.

That’s where Accenture Trading Platforms
comes in. We work with leading firms to
transform their front, middle and back-
office operations and risk management
departments. A part of this business
is dedicated to FusionBanking Loan IQ
and other credit and trading platforms,
and thus Accenture maintains close
relationships with these vendors and
has developed many custom solution
accelerators around their products.
Finastra is the Accenture Preferred Global
Alliance Partner for unified commercial
lending with FusionBanking Loan IQ,
which helps institutions grow, optimize
and automate their lending lines of
business quickly and strategically.
FusionBanking Loan IQ brings efficiency
to all lending operations, from complex
syndicated to high volume bilateral lending.
Accenture provides consulting, system
integration and application maintenance
services around Finastra software solutions,
namely FusionBanking Loan IQ.

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GLOBAL ALLIANCE PARTNER
Accenture is a Finastra Global Alliance Partner for systems integration,
application outsourcing and release upgrades around FusionBanking Loan
IQ. As a Premier Elite Partner in the Finastra InFusion Partner Program,
Accenture offers clients faster time to value and competitive operating costs.

The Accenture/Finastra Global Alliance also covers other Finastra

software, such as Finastra FusionCapital Summit, Finastra FusionCapital
Kondor+, Finastra FusionCapital Opics, Finastra FusionInvest, Finastra
FusionRisk Sophis and Finastra FusionBanking Trade Innovation (TI+),
where Accenture and Finastra are global opportunistic partners.

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WITH FUSIONBANKING LOAN IQ

Accenture has extensive experience with FusionBanking Loan IQ—both on
the business and the IT side. Apart from the business consulting activities in
deriving target operating and process models for capital markets and credits
area, Accenture has in-depth experience implementing FusionBanking Loan
IQ across a broad range of asset classes (regular loans, specific lending such
as aircraft or ship financing, project finance, syndicated loans and structured
finance) as well as across all functional domains ranging from sales/
distribution to front, middle and back-office and collateral management.

In Europe alone, Accenture has been the FusionBanking Loan IQ system

integrator with the most exposure to the current FusionBanking Loan
IQ release 7.x and its enhanced modules (e.g., collateral management)
in the past four years.

SUPPORT ACROSS THE ENTIRE PROCESS VALUE CHAIN

Together with Finastra, Accenture’s support typically covers the entire
process value chain—from functional design to deployment and
application maintenance. A specific focus lies on the functional design and
the configuration and implementation of interfaces, namely for automatic
transfer payments, confirmations and accounting data from FusionBanking
Loan IQ to banks’ legacy and cooperating transaction systems.

BRINGING TOGETHER MARKET LEADING SOLUTIONS

AND INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE
Accenture and Finastra bring together Finastra's market leading solutions
(especially with regard to syndicated and structured credits) with
Accenture’s unparalleled industry knowledge, integration capabilities
and service offerings.
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BRINGING FINASTRA FUSIONBANKING
LOAN IQ TO YOU

In addition to our consulting and system integration projects

around FusionBanking Loan IQ, Accenture provides application
maintenance services around different FusionBanking Loan IQ
software versions covering different asset classes for clients in
the Nordics and in the US. We have also developed a robust set
of FusionBanking Loan IQ specific tools that allow for efficiency
gains in our system integration support.

OUR FUSIONBANKING LOAN IQ SERVICES

Consulting
• Strategic assessments
• Process consulting and credit architecture design
• Global operating model design

System Integration
• Software implementation (cross-asset class, middle and back office
integration, multi-site)
• Design, build, roll out and aftercare work

Application Maintenance
• Application management and support
• Testing services
• Release upgrades

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OUR FUSIONBANKING LOAN IQ SOLUTION ACCELERATORS
FusionBanking Loan IQ Estimator
Our estimation tool quickly estimates the amount of work needed for
a specific FusionBanking Loan IQ implementation project. It also delivers
a work plan and can help optimize the scope of a specific project with
predefined FusionBanking Loan IQ tasks.

Data Migration Tool

Accenture’s migration tool kit allows banks to extract data from various
legacy systems, map it into the new FusionBanking Loan IQ target
model, enrich the data to meet data quality requirements and then
import it by means of standard tools into FusionBanking Loan IQ. Apart
from assuring comprehensiveness, the use of the tool allows for an
efficient and audit‑proven repeatability of migration transactions.

Regression Testing Facilities

Accenture has also developed regression testing capabilities in its
FusionBanking Loan IQ delivery center in Hyderabad, India. There,
acting as a testing ally, Accenture created a framework to perform
automated regression and performance testing. Additional testing
of customizations and enhancements of the software are also
performed out of the delivery center.

OUR FUSIONBANKING LOAN IQ DELIVERY

FusionBanking Loan IQ Solution Factory
Our FusionBanking Loan IQ Solution Factory offers a robust application
management service covering all aspects of FusionBanking Loan
IQ—implementation, maintenance, upgrades and testing services.
The Solution Factory is located in our Capital Markets Delivery
Center in India, where we house skilled resources with deep
industry knowledge and experience in accelerating solutions.

Capital Markets Hubs

Our FusionBanking Loan IQ delivery capabilities are able to support
projects in all the major financial centers around the world.

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“We are delighted that Accenture is working closely with us in selling
and servicing FusionBanking Loan IQ. Accenture and Finastra are
engaged together on positioning the FusionBanking Loan IQ solution
for structured/syndicated loans for corporate banks. This will
strengthen our ability to serve our shared clients in the commercial
lending market, helping us engage new clients, helping our existing
clients with support and upgrades, and create breakthrough growth
opportunities for clients in emerging markets.”
Nadeem Syed
CEO, Finastra

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