Wipro and LSEG partner to provide hosted reconciliation solution

LONDON, UK: Wipro Ltd. and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) have entered into a strategic partnership to provide a hosted, end-to-end reconciliation solution using LSEG's UnaVista platform for the financial services industry. UnaVista is LSEG's global hosted platform for all matching, and reconciliation needs, helping firms reduce their operational and regulatory risk.

 

The solution will help financial services firms access an enterprise reconciliation utility without any capital investment. The utility solution will be hosted in London Stock Exchange's secure and regulated data centres and delivered to customers by leveraging Wipro's global service delivery capabilities.

 

Based on the simple ‘pay as you go' pricing model, this one stop offering encompasses platform and data as well as IT and business operations. It simplifies customers' existing and future reconciliation requirements by enabling scalability and regulatory compliance and reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Customers can convert their fixed costs to variable, reduce their TCO by 30-40 percent and benefit from a scalable, standardised process environment.

 

"The Wipro-LSEG reconciliation utility is designed to eliminate the need for firms to invest in technology, people and processes for their current and future reconciliation needs. The utility will set the defacto standard for banks to mutualise their reconciliation costs, reduce operating risk and improve client on-boarding time, at significantly lower costs. It offers banks the potential of moving all reconciliation activity onto a single platform with round-the-clock operations processing support, with zero infrastructure requirement," said Manoj Punja, chief executive, Wipro BPO.

 

The solution simplifies the reconciliation landscape for financial firms that are grappling with a massive TCO for reconciliation due to the factors such as complex reconciliation architecture, increased regulatory reporting, which  strain existing operations (volumes, complexity, scale), and  regulatory efforts to reduce operational risk and costs.

 

Mark Husler, head of Product Management, Information Services, LSEG, said, "This innovative partnership will utilise Wipro's expertise in consultancy, system integration and operations and UnaVista's flexible and scalable software. UnaVista's hosted platform means that operations, risk and control will get real time visibility on all outstanding issues across their organisation globally, creating a truly transparent business. The utility is flexible to customers needs and can incorporate new business and regulatory processes quickly and efficiently when they arise."