Guild Global
Customer Profile

Guild Global as Europe's independent, dedicated Third-Party Securities Lending intermediary developed its leading position through the use of innovative business models, supported by a global network of Borrowers. They deliver world-class Securities Lending services to their customers.

In an environment where organisations are looking for innovative ways to generate more income and add greater value to their clients, Guild Global have developed a proposition that allows these organisations to make the most of their existing asset base, to benefit their clients and their shareholders. Guild Global maximizes its Lenders Assets in the capacity of Non-Custodial Agency Lender thus avoiding any potential conflict of interest.
A Lender has no operating costs as Guild Global seamlessly integrate with a Lender's Custodian, providing full transparency and intelligence on the drivers of Securities Lending transactions by a team of specialist Stockloan Traders and Relationship Managers.
 
The Challenge
Guild Global (Guild) required a new MIS platform to support its securities business. It had to continually evolve as the business expanded into new markets and areas. The system would provide one central platform for collating, analyzing and disseminating trading information to Guild managers. Furthermore, the system needed to produce data and reports for export to external organisations. It also needed to future-proof the company for changes to internal business processes.
 

Objective
    • To provide a scalable reporting that would be reliable and easy to use.
    • To allow for further growth of the business.
    • To automate previous manual tasks in order to increase productivity.
    • To allow Guild Global non-technical staff to operate and manage the system effectively without having to receive further training
 

Key Challenges

    • To align the vision underpinning the project with the correct solution. (MerrionIT is the only company trusted to provide custom software to Guild Global).
    • To identify and manage the unique risk that comes from reporting on real-time financial information.
    • To ensure that the project team structure and related communication allowed the client ample time to acclimatize to the larger workload during the project.
    • To agree reasonable and attainable deadlines given the pressing demand for project completion.

Following the tender process, Guild engaged MerrionIT to provide an MIS system.
 
Solution
The solution was developed as a browser-based client utilizing .Net and SQL Server 2000 technologies. MerrionIT is expanding the system continuously as and when new functionality and requirements are needed.
  • MerrionIT has worked and continues to work closely with Guild to ensure that the system meets all requirements. It builds an interactive prototype for each new upgrade before final signoff on the specification.
  • Solution allows extensive administration and management thereby ensuring Guild is able update the master data of the system right from users to the business information on a needs be basis.
  • The Guild Global system also provides for an exhaustive reporting mechanism in the form of charts as well as graphs and with all the reports being exportable to excel. The reporting mechanism provides an interface to generate reports based on specific data and search criteria.
 
Benefits
  • Comprehensive, Scalable solution.
  • Rigorous, comprehensive error checking throughout the system ensuring data integrity.
  • Easy to use administration system allows Guild to assign access rights for each area
  • Administrator facility to carry out internal audits on the quality of the information available and carry out maintenance activities to keep the data up to date
 
Technologies Used
  • ASP .Net
  • Visual Basic .Net
   
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