What to Ensure Before Investing in Reconciliation System?

Capital Markets CIO Outlook | Wednesday, February 12, 2020

With the rising competition and changing demands, professionals understand the need for deploying and upgrading advanced reconciliation systems, which enable them to manage customer details in a structured format with high security.

FREMONT, CA: The massive shift of the operational infrastructure to digital platforms has created new demands for upgrading conventional processes, especially of the reconciliation system. The continuously generating data and rising complexity to extract valuable insights create huge challenges for the capital market professionals to perform accurate reconciliation. Here are some considerations decision-makers must ensure before choosing a new reconciliation system.

• Data Quality

Before investing in a new reconciliation system, decision-makers need to ensure that the platform can access and filter data accurately in the right format and make it readily available. A perfect reconciliation system is capable of accessing accurate data from numerous spreadsheets, accounting systems, and legacy platforms. Investing in an integrated reconciliation solution can help the professionals minimize the time for extracting, transforming, and loading data. Advanced reconciliation systems with ML features can effectively predict patterns and match the algorithms for onboarding new reconciliation with high quality, structured data.

• Smart Workflow

Professionals can look for reconciliation systems that can automate workflow and deliver exceptional management solutions. Advanced reconciliation systems can effectively analyze and predict data patterns for improving match rates, and streamlining the workflow processes, eliminating the need for re-investigation. Implementing such advanced reconciliation processes helps the professionals add high value to their tasks while optimizing repetitive work.

• Cloud-based Application

Today, cloud-based operational applications have become a priority for various financial institutions. Cloud-based applications require minimal installation but deliver high-quality performance. Deploying cloud-based operational platforms are easy to update and help to avoid major, disruptive project up-gradation of the installed software. Advanced cloud solution contributes to upgrading the security of reconciliation data and set multi-factor authentication by using strong encryption.

There are various factors, which back the selection of an ideal reconciliation system. Professionals need to prioritize their demands and invest accordingly.

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