ACUO Succeeds with Trace Financial's Transformer

LONDON, January 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

Leading message transformation software provider Trace Financial announced today that ACUO has used Transformer as a component in its derivatives collateral management platform.

Creating a leading-edge derivatives collateral management platform from scratch is by no means a simple project. In addition to the complexity of the core processing calculations and the demands of the regulatory environment, the messaging requirements are considerable. Because many parties and services are involved, message complexity and variety is a key consideration. Key data structures need to be transformed several times to carry out the complete process.

When ACUO set about building just such a system in 2016 they therefore knew that a powerful data transformation capability would be an essential component. The intention was to deliver a SaaS solution, either as an integrated workflow or as a host of microservices that could be consumed in isolation. While their own platform would communicate via APIs and use JSON, they knew that a wide range of legacy data formats and standards would be required. These included CSV, XML, FpML, FIX, ISO 20022 and SWIFT MT as well as various proprietary formats.

ACUO conducted in-depth assessments of the leading data transformation tools, before selecting Trace Financial's Transfomer.

Transformer was chosen for its twin capabilities - to handle the intricacies of the major messaging standards involved, and to perform well in a JSON/API environment.

Interoperability is a key feature of Transformer's JSON capabilities, dramatically reducing the number of mappings that need to be created. The ISO 20022 standard for example is normally structured in XML, but when communicating these messages via an API users want to have the ability to easily model this format in either XML or JSON as necessary.

ACUO can achieve this 'out of the box' when using the Transformer ISO 20022 library, because the user can define whether the output is to be produced in its native structure (in this case XML) or in JSON. This also means that users can define a single mapping to/from ISO 20022 and then when deploying to runtime specify, say, that one instance might use XML and another JSON.

This functionality is available for use with any message definition, whether it is a pre-built standards library supplied by Trace Financial or a proprietary message definition that users have created for themselves.

The core ACUO solution has been built and is now being marketed, while additional features such as interfacing to a GLEI (Global Legal Entity Identifier) database are in development.

Conor Cunningham, CEO and Founder of ACUO stated: "Transformer has been instrumental in helping us to build and grow the ACUO solution. Transformer's strength and depth in traditional messaging standards together with its flexibility in JSON/API based mapping have provided us with a mapping solution which is easily able to meet all of our needs."

About ACUO

ACUO is a derivatives collateral management platform for financial institutions. Regulations have rendered the domain extremely complex and capital intensive. ACUO's solution addresses the challenges by connecting the data, enriching it and delivering output that simplifies the complexity.

About Trace Financial

Trace Financial Limited are leading specialists in financial message transformation and have been designing, implementing and supporting mission critical solutions to the financial industry for over 30 years. Trace Financial is part of the privately-owned Trace Group.

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