Mindtree specializes in asset management solutions, showcasing significant growth in assets under management since the 2008-09 financial crisis across regions such as Latin America and North America. They offer a wide range of services including enterprise data management, regulatory compliance reporting, and performance analysis, addressing industry challenges like demographic shifts and increasing customer expectations. Through their proprietary products like Cadis and Thinkfolio, they enhance operational efficiency and risk management for financial institutions.

1. Mindtree's expertise in asset management.
Overview
Since the 2008-09 financial crisis, Assets Under Management (AUM) have
risen rapidly. Regions like Latin America, North America, Europe and APAC Key benefits
have been leading growth. With improving trends and the need for new  Enables faster decision making
investment products, AUM have continued to evolve.  Reduces operational costs and
increases data accuracy
The focus overall is on asset allocation, diversification, renewed  Removes complex manual
commitment to risk management and regaining investor confidence. interventions and improves back office
process efficiency
Business challenges  Improves customer satisfaction due
 Demographic and economic shifts cause trillions of assets to be turned to reduced error rates and delays
over to the younger generation. This requires constant evolution of  Reduces risk across all
customer service strategies market participants
 Renewed focus on client service and retention to overcome the distrust  With respect to COTS products:
created by the recent economic crisis  Builds feature and functionality
 Regulatory compliance mandates and demands for transparency, driving level test packs around
the need to better monitor and manage risks for clients and companies thinkFolio and Cadis products
 Maximizing value from mergers and acquisitions  Provides overall test strategy and
 Delivering cost-effective technology and operations end-to-end test coverage to improve
 Heightened customer expectations to develop an integrated and quality and reduce test cycle time
unified view of their portfolio across channels, products and services  Develops complete automated
regression suite – reduce
Our solution regression efforts and cycle time
Mindtree has worked with leading banks, asset and wealth management  Carries out performance testing for
firms and superannuation funds for over 10 years. We have built a key applications and improves
strong team of business consultants and offer services spanning front user experience
office, middle office, back office and compliance services across various  Reduces total cost of testing and
asset classes. increases quality and predictability
Services offered range from:
 Business consulting
 Application development and maintenance
 Production support
 Independent testing
 Infrastructure management services
 Development, testing and support for Cadis (an enterprise data
management solution) and thinkFolio (a portfolio modeling and trade
order management system). Both COTS products are widely used by
buy-side firms

2. Functional landscape _ asset management
External interface Client services Trading
Acquire new Management Order Transaction
Onboarding Securities management reporting
Clients clients relationship lending
Trade Confirms
ECNs / MTFs support management
Asset management services
Treasury
Portfolio Asset Order
Exchanges management relocation generation Research Manage
Funding
& portfolio cash
Order analysis
Brokers management FX admin Hedging
Middle order operation
Regulators
Manage pending Allocation management Corporate action NAV & transfer prices
instructions Reconciliations management Fees
CSDs / ICDs Manage payments Mark to market Payment processing
Manage depots Commission / exception Proxy management
Manage collateral management Tax management
Payment &
transfer
Reporting & compliance Static data Risk & control
Data vendors Regulatory Client Client CCP Risk management - credit,
reporting reporting maintenance maintenance market, operations
Manual
interfaces Internal Tax Security Market Control GL subledger;
reporting reporting maintenance calendars P&L management accounting
In the above landscape, Mindtree's substantial depth includes: asset management services, research and portfolio
analysis, treasury, middle office operations, reporting and compliance, data and risk management and interfacing with
external entities.
Our expertise
 Enterprise data management – delivering enterprise data services for  Regulatory compliance reporting –
improved business automation provide automated and systematic
 Internet applications – online portals for various fund administrator filing methods and end-to-end filing of
houses, which help streamline the routing operations such as new the 13F, 13G and 13D regulatory
customer onboarding, portfolio rebalancing and management, agent reports to the Securities Exchange
authentication, etc., for stakeholders including customers, employees, Commission (SEC)
end users, trustees and external agencies  Asset management dashboard – one
 Order processing system – third party order management system with global view (client / portfolio) designed
capabilities such as portfolio management information and modeling to give account directors, fund
capabilities, risk and performance reporting, benchmark management, managers, administrators and
cash management and workflow capabilities secretaries, a top down view
 Performance reports – provide analysis and reporting capabilities for of portfolios for which they are
the customer’s fiduciary group assigned a specific role
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3. Success story
Customer profile
A UK based fund manager and leader for almost three decades in Business benefits
responsible investing. Specialists in alternatives, equities, fixed income,  Time needed for software development
OTCs, ETDs and shareholder advisory services. reduced and quality of build improved
 Increased unique test case scenarios
Business challenges brought about better code coverage
 Lack of Cadis knowledge  Decrease in post-production issues /
 No clarity on the documents required bugs due to effective use of proven
 Change in management due to constant changes in testing methodologies that reduced
requirement specifications the overall testing cycle
 Lack of a specific test process  Time spent in regression was
 Customers unfamiliar with specialized testing reduced due to a test suite created
 Numerous production issues from the regression test packs
Our solution
 Execution of standard tracking processes and matrices to improve the
effectiveness of accountability
 Providing individual ownership on particular modules developed
 Asserting templates on various processes, such as effort estimations,
code review, checklist, release guidelines and unit test case guidelines
 The lack of Cadis knowledge was resolved by implementing AutoREL,
a Cadis project release automation tool
About Mindtree
Mindtree is a global information technology solutions company with revenues of over USD 400 million. Our team of 11,000 experts engineer
meaningful technology solutions to help businesses and societies flourish. We enable our customers achieve competitive advantage through
flexible and global delivery models, agile methodologies and expert frameworks.
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