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Zarion is specifically focused on the financial services sector and specialises in improving human centric processes.

Products/Services
TouchPoint2 is Zarion’s process optimisation software for the banking, insurance and capital markets industries.
• Loans/insurance customer enrolment.
• High value processes such as swap payments.
• High volume, low value processes such as claims settlements.
• Zarion’s business process consulting organisation aligns strategic objectives with operations and business processes.
• Zarion’s Lifetime Support team provides ongoing support for customers.

Key Benefits
• Build on rather than replace, existing work management platforms including Global 360’s Execute360
• Achieve quick implementations.
• Reduce long term support and maintenance overheads.
• Require minimal customisation.
• Reduce or eliminate custom build and integration work.

Clients
AIB, Bank of Ireland, GMAC Commercial Finance, Irish Life and Permanent, ING Group.

Partners
Microsoft, Kofax and Global 360.

Tel +353 (0)1 240 5200

Web www.zarion.com

Address
Marine House, Clanwilliam Place, Dublin 2.

Vision is a management and IT consultancy specialising in delivering innovative customer-facing service promises. Vision delivers operational breakthroughs, strategy implementation with culture change, management training/coaching, architecture and system design along with system integration.

Products/Services
• Business Performance Improvement through introducing bold, new, recurrent service promises among value chain members.
• Technology Integration Services drives systems design and integration to maximise business potential and optimal cost reduction. Vision specialises in service oriented architecture (SOA).
• Strategic Change Services assist with the implementation of new strategies, new ways of working, and committed behaviours to achieve strategic goals.

Key Benefits
• Hidden revenue or profit sources tapped.
• New organisational capacities delivered and morale lifted.
• Decreased cycle time through cross-departmental alignment.

Clients
Deutsche Bank, Zurich Financial, Bank of America, Hibernian, Credit Suisse First Boston, Nova/US Bancorp, JP Morgan, Intelligent Finance, Lloyds TSB, RSB. Cemex, Voith Siemens Hydro.

Tel+353 (0)1 240 0200

Web www.vision.com

Address
Eastpoint Business Park, Fairview, Dublin 3.

VigiTrust is a leader in the provision of security assessments and security learning solutions in corporate and IT security.

Products/Services
• VigiTrust provide security awareness workshops, security audits as well as technical security solutions.
• VigiTrust offer an eLearning security platform covering physical, people, data and IT security as well as disaster recovery and business continuity.

Key Benefits
• VigiTrust helps organisations  by providing an end-to-end security solution starting by formulating security strategies, providing security benchmarking against key standards and legal frameworks (PCI DSS; ISO 27001)  and also providing employee security training across all levels of the organisation.
• VigiTrust helps organisations maximise on previous security investment and on staff productivity (ROI).
• Vigitrust helps organisations take a pro-active approach towards security, compliance and corporate governance.
• Reduce potential legal liability and increase security levels.

Partners
HP and IBM.

Tel +353 (0)1 410 0864

Web www.vigitrust.com

Address
Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylor’s lane, Dublin 8.

Valista is a provider of multi-channel merchandising, payments, and settlement solutions aimed at accelerating and automating digital commerce.

Products/Services
• PaymentsPlus is a payments and transaction processing solution designed for enterprises such as mobile operators, aggregators, broadband / cable operators, media and entertainment companies.
• Operator Payments Service is a managed service for on-deck and off-deck payments tailored specifically for mobile operators.
• OffersPlus is an end-to-end solution providing the widest range of offerings, from pay-per-use to subscriptions and multi-merchant bundles.
• SettlementPlus is designed to manage the advanced settlement requirements in complex payment relationships and third party service offerings.

Key Benefits
•Valista enables wireless, fixed line and cable operators, ISP’s, media/entertainment companies to create new relationships with customers by facilitating the purchase and delivery of digital content and goods/services.
• Operator Payment Service is designed to provide the maximum up time thereby allowing customers to purchase whenever they wish.

Clients
America Online, Cricket, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom’s W-HA, Orange, mBlox, Hong Kong CSL, Gtech.

Partners
Alcatel, CITI, eServ Global, Headstrong, HSenid, NEC, Vignette.

Tel +353 (0)1 276 4500

Web www.valista.com

Address
Glencormack Business park, Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow.

Tradeshape is provider of cash and liquidity management solutions that empower financial institutions to better manage their capital once a trade has been executed and thus to ‘know their traded world’.

Products/Services
• TS Workstation will alert and display all transactions that do not process in a timely manner.
• TS Integration Server is a highly configurable solution suite that provides industry standard real-time connections to all disparate information sources, operational user configurable workflows and secure data store of all transaction history.
• TS Analyser allows operations management to quickly drill past surface issues and will allow the quick identification of the root cause.
• TS CAS Manager is a stock and cash management solution providing users with a realtime actual and projected view of their stock and cash balances.
• Professional Services
   o Analysis and project management.
   o Integration.

Key Benefits
• Uses a single technology platform that provides point solutions for real-time stock and cash ladder management, transaction monitoring and repair, transaction flow analysis and exception reporting.
• The Tradeshape single architecture can be extended to consolidate business silos by providing an up-to-the second single-window view on “At Risk” transactions across the entire enterprise.

Tel +353 (0)21 463 9374

Web www.tradeshape.com

Address
Unit 4, 2 Drury’s Avenue, Midleton, Co. Cork.

Taxback International provides services to international businesses which make it easier to do business overseas.

Products/Services
• International Payments for companies who pay or receive money from overseas, or buy and/or sell products or services overseas.
• Foreign VAT Refunds for companies who pay VAT on overseas expenses e.g. exhibitions, conferences, hotels, meals, warranties, telecoms, transport, diesel, etc.
• Travel Visas: Terrorism fears have lead governments to introduce new requirements for travel visas. Taxback International provides travel visa services to business travellers.

Key Benefits
• Taxback International’s regulated payments system provides a faster, easier, and cheaper means of international payment.
• A guarantee of lower transfer fees, better exchange rates, and much quicker transfers.
• Taxback International’s regulated payments system provides a faster, easier, and cheaper means of international payment with a guarantee of lower transfer fees, better exchange rates, and much quicker transfers.

Clients
BMW Sauber, Excel Centre, Fujifilm, Narutis, iBooks, Neopharm Inc, Siemens, Sulzer Chemtech, Televizja Polska, Tyco International.

Partners
3GSM, Barclays Bank, Gelco, IFP, Informa Telecoms & Media, LSO, Marriott hotels, STA Travel, Thistle hotels, Visit London.

Web www.taxbackinternational.com

Tel +353 (0)1 878 3361

Address
12-14 College Green, Dublin 2.

Sysnet Global Solutions is a consultancy and services company that delivers information security assurance to its clients.

Products/Services
Sysnet helps organisations implement ‘best practice’ in information security and ensures that risks arising from a compromise of information assets or operations are properly identified and addressed.

Key Benefits
• Sysnet’s operations are certified to the leading standard for information security, ISO 27001.
• Sysnet are certified to validate information security compliance with the payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard, which includes the security requirements of all the major credit card associations.
• Sysnet have also developed a PCI compliance management portal which will generate automated security scans, issue automated reports for compliance and allow remote login.

Clients
Vodafone, Anglo Irish Bank, Fyffes, FBD Insurance, NTR.

Web www.sysnetglobalsolutions.com

Tel +353 (0)1 495 1300

Address
Unit 5, Grange Road Office Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16

Sentenial finance is a supplier of direct debit processing software applications and fully managed services for financial institutions, SMEs and enterprise businesses.

Products/Services
• EuroDebit: Clients can licence the EuroDebit on-line software while retraining in-house administration staff.
• Sentenial Finance can assist clients with obtaining direct debit permissions from their client bases.
• EuroDebit Bureau is a fully managed service including:
• Direct debit processing and management.
• Automated default management.
• Bill presentation.
• Direct marketing.

Key Benefits
To Businesses:
• Automate direct debit processing.
• Easily integrated with existing payment or account receivable system.
To Financial Institutions:
• Comprehensive real-time online reporting (with XML / batch data feed facilities).
• Reduced direct debit / direct credit returns.

Clients
Curves health Clubs.

Web www.sentenial.com

Tel +353 (1) 629 2141

Address
Unit 16F, Maynooth Business Campus, Maynooth, Co Kildare.

Rockall Technologies is a software company which offers a solution to financial institutions who require improved visibility of their credit exposure while providing greater confidence in LTV via pro-active management of the collateral it holds

Products/Services
• Rockall’s flagship product SAM (Securities/Collateral Activity management) is a solution that provides the lender with a complete, up to date view and status of the collateral held for a customer or loan.
• The software can be implemented as a standalone or integrated.

Key Benefits
• Drives down costs associated with security processing and staff retraining.
• Improves service quality.
• provides sales information.
• Reduces risk.
• Increases productivity.
• Increases customer satisfaction.
• Meets regulatory demands (Basel, Sarbanes Oxley etc).

Clients
Wachovia Corporation, National Australia Group, AIB, Bank of Ireland, EBS, National Irish Bank, Northern Bank.

Partners
Microsoft, Oracle, Cap Gemini, Deloitte, Touche.

Tel +353 (0)1 289 0800

Web www.rockalltech.com

Address
3 Aspen Court, Cornelscourt, Dublin 18.

Quaternity is a spuuplier of Software for the fund management & equities industry used in the financial services sector.

Products/Services
• Explica uses the returns arising out of portfolios to generate an array of investment statistics and graphical analyses.
• The results of these statistics/graphic analysis can be used to monitor the risk and investment style of a portfolio as well as its performance against peer groups.

Key Benefits
• Innovative statistical and graphical investment analysis, providing clearer and deeper insight into the risks and performance of portfolios.
• Powerful automation features that enable more portfolios to be analysed more quickly and comprehensively saving clients time, effort and money.
• Versatile reporting (Crystal Reports, Excel, Word, Powerpoint) of results improves communications.
• Can be applied equally well to monitor internal and external portfolios.
• Powerful product development tools.
•Excellent return on investment.

Clients
Royal Bank of Scotland, AXA, AIB, Bank of Ireland, Coutts, KBC, Irish Life, Investment Solutions, Pensco, Thornhill Asset Management, Goodbody, Bloxham.

Tel +353 (0)71 962 2585

Web www.quaternitytech.com

Address
32 Inver Gael, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

Polarlake delivers financial services specific integration applications based on its unique patented XML pipelining technology.

Products/Services
• PolarLake RDD: Reference data distribution for financial services.
• PolarLake OTC Derivatives: Reconciliation and matching of OTC derivative portfolios and trade lifecycle management.
• PolarLake Messaging Integrator for Financial Services (FPML, SWIFT, FIX, CSV, non XML, web services, etc.)

Key Benefits
• Business Benefits
       o Increase the ability to trade in complex instruments.
       o Reduce straight through processing failure rates.
       o Lower operational risk of reference data quality and
• OTC derivative reconciliation processes.
       o Meet compliance and operational efficiency requirements.
       o Support MIFID, KyC, SOX, Basel II.
• IT Benefits
      o Deliver with 80% less resources and 75% faster on traditional data distribution projects.
      o Improve ROI on enterprise data management projects.
      o Facilitate system flexibility.

Clients
JP Morgan Chase, Société Générale, Pioneer Investments, Unicredit, Man Financial, Bank of Ireland, Dimensional Fund Advisors.

Partners
Hitachi, Sun Microsystems, Accenture, EDS, Golden Source, Asset Control, CounterpartyLink.

Tel +353 (0)1 449 1010

Web www.polarlake.com

Address
80 harcourt Street, Dublin 2.

Phoenix Technology group delivers enterprise content management and business process management solutions to the financial services sector.

Products/Services
• Claims management solutions.
• Loan origination and approval solutions.
• Customer service solutions.
• Electronic document and records management solutions.

Key Benefits
• Phoenix integrates to line-of-business systems using a range of technologies including .NET, Java and XML.
Phoenix employs a unique project delivery approach:
• Reduce claims cycle times.
• Identify and reduce claims leakage.
• Approve loans rapidly.
• Increase productivity.
• Provide real-time management information including:
   o Service levels.
   o Productivity.
   o Costs.
   o Pipeline activity.
   o Workload balancing.

Clients
AXA Life, Winterthur Life, Allianz, Canada Life, Royal & SunAlliance, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, First Assist, Landesbausparkasse (LBS).

Partners
Oracle, Global 360, IBM, FileNet, Microsoft, Kofax.

Tel +353 (0)1 670 7722

Web www.phoenix.ie

Address
32-34 Castle Street, Dublin 2.

Pacemetrics provides real-time business transaction monitoring, end-of-day pricing and compliance solutions to the investment banking and financial services industry.

Products/Services
• PaceMaker is a business activity monitor. PaceMaker is deployed in investment banking to improve operational efficiency, reduce operational risk and improve customer service.
• PaceMaker listens in at strategic message points in business processes and instantly highlights problems as they occur so that effective action can be taken.
• PVS (Price Verification Server) provides a single source of verified prices for all types of financial instruments and offers full transparency and process control to ensure that price delivery is on time and quality assured.

Key Benefits
• Quick implementation, pragmatic approach, compelling ROI.
• MIS, full audit trails and comprehensive reporting provide full transparency and process control.
• Scaleable architecture matched to investment banking needs.
• Lightweight, non-intrusive Software that builds on the existing investments leaving existing systems and processes unaltered.

Clients
HVB Group, Bank of Ireland, Value price AG, Global Tier 1 Investment Bank.

Partners
Value price AG (Frankfurt), Effectas Gmbh (Zurich), Tori Global, Real EMC (Madrid), Ordina, Benoist (Munich).

Tel+353 (0)1 818 4000

Web www.pacemetrics.com

Address
Dunluce house, Eastpoint Business park, Dublin 3.

MoneyMate provides managed services for fund data centralisation, validation and distribution to the global asset management community.

Products/Services
MoneyMate provides a suite of fund data management services including:
• Sourcing and validating raw product informationfrom all sources.
• Centralising data in a web-accessible hub for easy 24/7 access.
• Formatting the data for consistency and in adherence with in-house requirements.
• Disseminating accurate, consistent and timely data to all required parties in any required format.

Key Benefits
• Asset managers leverage MoneyMate’s expertise to manage product information in a timely and accurate manner.
• Partnering with MoneyMate enables asset managers to remove a huge administrative burden from their in-house resources allowing them to focus on core activities.
• MoneyMate provides services that enhance an asset manager’s work, rather than duplicating or reinventing it – Moneymate’s services are built around a comprehensive understanding of the current data management processes.

Clients
JP Morgan, Schroders, Fidelity, State Street, London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times.

Tel +353 (0)1 671 6911

Web www.moneymate.com

Address
4th Floor, The Tower, Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.

Monex Financial Services provides multi-currency card processing solutions to merchants.

Products/Services
• Monex developed the Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) service which enables merchants to earn new revenue from the conversion of all foreign card transactions. This is done by capturing the foreign exchange margin currently taken by the card issuing banks worldwide and sharing that with the merchant.
• The Monex DCC Multi-Currency Card processing system enables merchants to provide pricing and accept payment from customers in any local currency worldwide and provide settlement payment to merchants in the currency (or currencies) of their choice.

Key Benefits
• Stimulates high value international sales.
• Eliminates conversion risk or processing fees for the merchant.
• Ensures valuable buying time is not wasted calculating home currency price.
• Simplifies expense reports for business travellers.
• Removes any anxiety about the final purchase amount.
• Compatible with all eCommerce environments.
• Monex DCC integrates with a merchant’s existing system at no cost.

Clients
Merchants and Banks in Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Macau, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, and USA.

Web www.monexfs.com

Tel +353 (0)64 30500

Address
Killarney Technology Park, Killarney, Co. Kerry.

Merit Software products automate the payable and receivable process in the investment-banking and broking environment.

Products/Services
• Claim Manager looks at pre and post-trade activities in order to monitor settlements and risks, monitors the incremental revenue associated with trades and also monitors agreement and recovery of payable and receivable items and supports two-way communications
• Claim Manager Tax processing supports both reclaims and the SX1 processing.
• Pathfinder is an internet based extension to the Claim Manager product, facilitating query and exception case management, agreement and resolution.
• Consulting services that compliment its areas of product expertise.
• Outsourcing service for claim and trade management functions is also offered.

Key Benefits
• Streamline the many operational processes into a standard claims inward and outward process. Also covered is post settlement matching, fails management and claims management.
• Enhance management control, reduce client risk and assist with regulatory and risk compliance requirements.

Clients
Credit Suisse, UBS, Merrill Lynch.

Tel +353 (0)86 821 9375

Web www.merit-soft.com

Address
10 Wilfield park, Sandymount, Dublin 4.

Koelo is a specialist technology provider for advanced trading and post-trading flow management. Koelo software solutions help financial firms in implementing efficient straight through processing (STP).

Products/Services
FIX Station SUITE is a group of modules that combine to form a scalable messaging platform that connects to multiple counterparties in a trade lifecycle.
• FIX Station TRADE provides real-time multi-counterparty trading and connectivity for all major asset classes.
• FIX Station POST-TRADE captures and processes posttrade information to achieve full automation of middle and back-offices
• FIX Station MATCH automates the allocation, matching, confirmation and reconciliation processes of middle and back-offices.
• FIX Station WEB is a new generation web application specifically designed for fund administration and service providers enabling bi-directional real-time communication.
• FIX Implementation/STP Services.

Key Benefits
The FIX Station SUITE brings automation and control to the information flows associated with the trade and post-trade management.

Clients
Bank of Ireland Securities Services, MPS Asset Management Ireland.

Partners
Sun Microsystems, Member of FIX protocol.

Tel +353 (0)1 659 9230

Web www.koelo.com

Address
NCI Business & Research Centre, Mayor St, IFSC, Dublin 1.

Integral Computer Services provides card payment solutions for the retail, petroleum, banking and eCommerce sectors. Integral’s software and payment systems have been certified by all of the major banks in the UK and Ireland.

Products/Services
• Integral’s products include desktop and handheld terminal solutions, pc-based standalone or integrated solutions, and an online system which requires only a web browser and an Internet connection.
• Integral provides a hosting service for merchant’s various sites and provides a central platform for the delivery and distribution of card transactions, reports, dynamic currency conversion information and exchange rate files.

Key Benefits
• PayRouter is Integral’s large volume client/server card payment and transaction routing software, which has been designed for merchants with high levels of transactions.
• PayRouter will perform card appraisal, card authorisation and batch transfers to the merchant’s acquiring bank.
• PayRouter accepts all credit cards and is certified with major UK and Irish banks.
• PayRouter is scalable, secure and has a proven track record in retail environments.

Clients
AIB, EuroConex, Fexco, Shell, Maxol, Fintrax, Statoil, Global Refund.

Partners
VeriFone.

Tel +353 (0)1 231 1777

Web www.integral-ie.com

Address
Crofton hall, 22 Crofton Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

Information mosaic (IM) is a provider of advanced middle and back office solutions including corporate actions automation for the investment services industry. Addresses the needs of investment services organisations seeking to support their clients’ global investment business from a single, consolidated platform.

Products/Services
• Converg-e is an investment accounting and custody system designed from the outset to be a global, multi entity market solution that allows for consolidation of operations minimising operational risk.
• CAMA (Corporate Actions Management Application): an end-to-end corporate actions automation solution, featuring sophisticated rules based data cleansing and entitlement processing.

Key Benefits
• Converg-e and CAMA  provide financial institutions with increased control of and transparency into their globally distributed operations.
• Information Mosaic’s products lower operating costs and improve risk management for the globally invested, multi-domiciled financial institution.
• IM brings to market new low cost of ownership technology solutions for global corporate actions and custody processing that scale.

Clients
Clients include global custodians, asset managers and broker / dealers who require global functionality from a single location.

Partners
IBM, Real-EMC (Spain), INEUM Consulting, Module 1 (Sweden), HP, Sun Microsystems, Interactive Data, Trace Financial.

Web www.informationmosaic.com

Tel +353 (0)1 241 5200

Address
Styne house, Upper hatch Street, Dublin 2.

Fintrax is a payments company supporting tax free shopping, financial payments services and card acquiring processing, dynamic currency conversion and outsourcing services.

Products/Services
• Premier Tax Free Shopping is a network of tourist tax refunding  subsidiaries in 18 countries.
• Fintrax Payment Systems supports its worldwide tax refunding network with centralised refund payment and reconciliation services.
• Fintrax Currency Conversion is a point of sale system allowing overseas cardholders to pay for goods and services in their home currency while simultaneously enabling participating merchants to settle in their local currency.
• Fintrax Outsourcing Services provides high-speed, centralised database and processing solutions.

Key Benefits
• Fintrax simplifies payment and refund processes for international customers and merchants.
• Customers shopping in tax free environments can choose from a range of refund payment options to suit their needs.
• The dynamic currency conversion system allows the customer make a purchase in a currency of their choice.
• Allows the customer to see the final cost at the time of purchase.

Clients
Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Lalique, Christian Dior, Cerruti, Lanvin, Guess, Mango, Tiffany, Adolfo Dominguez and Tommy hilfiger.

Partners
MasterCard, Visa, APACS, AIB, ANZ, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, NatWest, Toronto Dominion, BBVA Bank, BRED Bank, PBS, Polcard.

Tel +353 (0)91 558 255

Web www.fintrax.com

Address
Tully, Ballinahown, Co Galway.