ITS: Islamic Finance
- Product Reviews
- 26.09.2022 06:50 pm
Redefining the financial services industry!
The financial services industry is transforming and ITS has launched ETHIX NG, a next generation core banking solution that empowers banks and financial institutions to succeed in the new business landscape. From ensuring compliance with changing regulations around data security to digital onboarding and providing a seamless omnichannel customer experience, facilitating collaboration with FinTechs, to driving innovation, a faster time to market and a structured approach to data analysis and reporting - ETHIX NG does it all, from one core banking platform!
Empowering Digital Transformation
ETHIX-NG Document Management System (DMS) engine, empowers Financial Institutions on their digital transformation journey, moving them closer to a modern, paperless work environment whilst streamlining business processes for a more efficient, collaborative and effective organization. ETHIX NG supports institutions in converting all hard copy documents to digital through scanning and uploading, so that all customer and internal operations can be performed using E-documents that can be securely integrated into the operation following the workflow rules and conditions.
Tenant Management on the Cloud
ETHIX-NG Multi Tenancy Module is a highly scalable, cloud-based platform that offers a compelling set of features for building services that many users will pay a subscription to use. The platform offers tenants their own domain name and customized login pages and provides an isolated environment for specific tenants.
Elevating Legacy
ETHIX-NG has a very comprehensive ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Layer, which enables the effective communication between ETHIX NG and any older technology systems within the financial institution.
Supporting Transformation
ETHIX NG’s out of the box ESB Layer supports various protocol transformations, multiple languages, multiple data formats and spans a broad collection of capabilities, including but not limited to Application and partner integration, API management, B2B integration, Managed file transfer, High-speed messaging and In-memory caching. It provides authentication, authorization and encryption, both for incoming and outgoing messages, which complies with security requirements requested by service providers.
An Integrated Ecosystem
ETHIX NG ESB Layer Integrates over FTP, HTTPs, JMS, TCP or SMTP, among other transport protocols, and guarantees the stability of the overall ecosystem through a configuration driven development and elimination of point-to-point integration.
Controlled Notifications
ETHIX NG Notification Engine is a comprehensive messaging and notification system that supports the sending of a variety of different types of messages through various media. The Engine provides the financial institution with complete control to define notification content and type, whether it be SMS, E-mail, System Notifications or other, and to link the content to the overall system’s actions and dynamically connect it to the defined notification media and 3rd parties.
Seamless Customer Experiences
ETHIX NG Omni Channel provides banking customers with a seamless and consistent digital banking experience across all channels, allowing a customer to begin their journey on one device, whether it be a desktop, laptop, mobile or tablet, and finish it on another, without any interruption.
Facilitating Self Service
ETHIX NG Omni Channel facilitates customer interactions through various self-service facilities that enable them to accomplish banking and financial tasks on their own and through assisted service channels. Omni Channels leverages Customer 360° View, CRM and Content Management to support financial institutions to deliver exceptional banking experiences.
Controlling credit risk
ETHIX NG supports financial institutions in managing and controlling credit risk, providing the financial institution with a flexible end-to-end functionality combined with unmatched scalability to reduce risks and minimize human errors. ETHIX NG’s Intelligent Credit Analysis and Facility Granting module, allows financial institutions to control credit risk at all levels. This includes at the point of origination, upon individual account review, at the portfolio level, and also to control operational risk using ETHIX-NG standardized workflow to enforce credit management policies.
Accurate analysis
Financial statement analysis is a key process in Corporate Financing and ETHIX-NG Financial Analyzer provides unmatched flexibility in the ability to define financial spreading ratios and calculations. On the retail side, ETHIX-NG provides a template-based retail credit analysis, and according to the financial institution’s needs, a credit analysis template can be designed with the ability to create score cards for different products, define the factors inside the score cards and evaluate the customer automatically.
Eliminating guess work
ETHIX-NG’s Rule Based technology automates processes, including application approvals to create an effortless user experience. Using Industry-leading scoring technologies, ETHIX NG eliminates the guesswork in Financing and credit
decisions, even with high-risk clients. Its sophisticated self-learning algorithm supports the credit management operation in making faster and more accurate decisions, while its rule-based credit decisioning reduces the risk of non repayment. With ETHIX NG automatic or semi-automatic decision making that is made in seconds can ensure the financial institution is working with the right borrowers on the right terms.
Robust Collateral Management
ETHIX NG delivers a robust Collateral Management Engine that enables financial institutions to define collateral categories, such as Vehicle, Commodity, Property, Shares, Portfolio, etc. and design the needed input data by collateral category.
Supporting Exposure Control
ETHIX NG Limit Management Engine support the management of a financial institutions’ exposure due to customer activities. The dynamic Engine configures all limits aspects, including group and single limits, country limits, transactional limits and operational limits in regard to the Finance, Treasury, and Trade Finance operations.
Facilitating Workflow
ETHIX NG Limit Management Engine is an integral part of the operations performed by Users facilitating effective and efficient limit checking and utilization, with the Limit Engine controlling whether a transaction proceeds based on limit availability. The Limit Management Engine provides financial institutions with the flexibility to define different lines of credit and or facilities to the customer that are both revolving and non-revolving, in addition to commercial and business credit lines, with the ability to set up commissions on unused balance limits with flexible maintenance for customer limits.
Elevating Lending Operations
ETHIX NG Finance Origination & Operation Engine supports Islamic aspects of Retail, Corporate, SME and micro finance lending operations, and provides a facility for the financial institution to conduct Project Feasibility studies and follow up for project-based financing deals.
Interactive Control
The Finance Origination & Operation Engine ensures seamless after sales operations, offering financial institutions an interactive and seamless capability to enrich control over changes that need to be conducted for finance payment plans, including rescheduling, shifting or postponing the plan. The Engine also numerous business operations to support settling up or cancelling the finance, considering all the financial impact in between.
A Culturally Intelligent Solution
ETHIX NG Multi Language Engine is a next generation solution designed to address the multicultural needs of today’s diverse banking environment, providing the tools to define languages at the system level, user level and customer level.
Powerful Language Capabilities
ETHIX NG Multi Language Engine is a highly efficient engine that defines multiple languages with a user-friendly interface providing the ability to align language from right to left or from left to right according to the bank’s needs. The powerful capability provides a unified language culture that customizes the format of numbers, currencies, times and dates.
Increased Satisfaction
ETHIX NG Multi Language Engine empowers employees to work in a language they are comfortable with and the bank to communicate with customers through SMS’s, emails, statements and other correspondence in a language of the customers’ choice, substantially increasing both employee and customer satisfaction.
Streamlining Financing
ETHIX-NG provides a complete end-to-end Financing management operations solution that brings origination, analysis, underwriting, documentation, and executive reporting together in a collaborative, streamlined way. ETHIX-NG addresses the workflow management needs for the entire Financing operations through a unified, relationship-centric view of the customer’s financial data, supporting documents and portfolio management capability.
Simplifying & automating the credit decision process
Financial institutions are faced with increasingly complex credit scenarios with the need to incorporate a variety of risk-related information about their customers. ETHIX-NG provides an integrated and easy-to-use solution built around the unique needs of the credit decision process. ETHIX-NG improves productivity throughout the entire credit lifecycle by centralizing information from many sources and by automating routine tasks. This also substantially reduces paper usage by providing a convenient electronic credit file.
About ITS
International Turnkey Systems (ITS Group) provides advanced technology solutions for banks, government, and other private sector organizations across a wide array of industry, with demonstrated technology competencies and high-end skill capabilities that support client’s critical business functions Headquartered in the State of Kuwait, with R&D facilities in Kuwait and Cairo and a presence throughout the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and the Russian Commonwealth (CIS), ITS Global Business Solutions Development Center (GBS) in Cairo delivers Managed Services globally, bringing expertise to all stages of the software development process, and providing the support companies need to transition from legacy systems to new technologies. Our award-winning flagship solutions package, ETHIX, supports the digital transformation of financial institutions and is trusted by leading banks worldwide.