Capital Alpha, Intellect’s enterprise brokerage solution, wins the Waters Technology Asia Awards 2020 for best front to back office integration

Intellect’s Capital Alpha has won the award for the ‘best front to back office integration’ category in the 2020 WatersTechnology Asia Awards.

These awards honour excellence in the deployment and management of financial information and technology within Asia’s capital market community. It also offers unique opportunity for companies to compete and strive for excellence.

Capital Alpha, an integrated front to mid to back office brokerage from Intellect, facilitates a seamless omnichannel trading experience for the customer through contextual trading. This is backed by in-depth research and analytics, while also ensuring compliance through a real-time pre and post-trade risk management. It also enables an increase in efficiency of operations of brokerage firms through a comprehensive back office, which includes clearing & settlements, corporate actions, fees & commissions, reports and interfaces to market entities. It is a single platform, providing access to domestic and cross-border markets with investment options across exchange traded and distributed products.

A prominent brokerage house in Philippines wanted to streamline and revamp their securities trading business and provide online trading for local and international stocks, backed by risk management and back office support. It wanted to become the industry leader by increasing its market share and client footprint.

After being consulted by the brokerage house, Capital Alpha helped them gain prominence in the market and increase their client footprint by 10X in 3 years without any increase in operational staff. That means more productivity and efficiency in their brokerage software for better stock management.

Value delivered:

• Marketplace model with Equity, IPO, MF along with research and analytics all at one place
• Real-time market data and rapid trading
• Omnichannel trading allowing customers to use same cash accounts across multiple asset classes
• Increased cash and stock position leverage through front-mid-back office enterprise solution
• Real-time risk management
• Market-ready Philippines Stock Exchange certified, providing ready regulatory reporting

The brokerage house had earlier won the prestigious “Online Securities Platform of the Year” award at the Asian Banking & Finance Awards 2019. Capital Alpha catapulted their business as one of the leading brokerage houses. This transformation was made possible by providing-

Platform economy – Integrated Front-To Mid- to Back-office enabled cost reduction of up to 25%

Market-ready- Ready Adapters to Exchanges, Clearing Houses and Depositories reducing implementation time by 30%

Seamless flow-STP index >95% – Remove redundancies in processes and systems

Ease- Instant Account Opening, Instant Order Entry, Instant Buying power, Instant cancel/square off with real time MTM – Rapid Trading

Minimise risk – Central and real-time risk management and monitoring functions

How it works?

Capital Alpha covers Order Management, Risk Management, Back-office, Research and Analytics. It also offers an omnichannel trading platform, equipped with contextual research & analytics, and flexible order placements, besides Direct Market Access, facilitating low latency trading with real-time reporting and notifications for cash, stock and market rates enhance the front office capabilities.

With online trading taking precedence, an integrated risk management becomes crucial in the trading ecosystem. An integrated back-office provides leverage to the firm to allow its investors to take advantage of online position updates, whether it is stock or cash. A product, which is stacked up with numerous features, it facilitates the brokerage firms to increase the STP index and improve efficiency. An integrated back office also allows the investor position to be updated in real-time, as and when corporate actions benefits are received in investor account, which in turn, helps the latter to take advantage of the market movements better. Multi-asset trading capabilities and an integrated back-office empowers the investors to use the same cash account to trade in multi-asset, enabling faster movement of money from trading in any asset and re-ploughing into a different asset.

Business dimensions are supported through robust gateways: FIX Gateway, Settlement Integrator, Market Data, Payment Gateway, Transaction Routers and Co-location Hosting.