Networking & It Infrastructure Of Standard Chartered Bank

NETWORKING & IT INFRASTRUCTURE OF STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

INTRODUCTION • Started in 1969 • • Location – Headquarter at Singapore and London • • Largest International bank in INDIA in terms of branch , network and profits

Capabilities 1. Transaction banking 2. 3. Financial markets 4. 5. Corporate finance 6. 7. Principal finance 8.

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Current - Fiber Channel (FC) protocol. Database - Oracle’s recent Exadata V2 SAS data warehousing and analysis s/w In addition to SAS they use MDDB server s/w which gives multiple dimension to data for online analytical processing

SOFTWARES • Security gateway technology – Secured Java Applet 

 eBBS provides an easy-to-use browser based Graphical User Interface (GUI) • eBBS has been developed using the IBM's eBusiness framework on J2EE, which includes software components like the Websphere Application servers, MQ series, Secureway LDAP, Websphere edge servers, Linux servers, DB2 database and hardware servers like the pSeries and iSeries.

• Tie up with Spectrum LTD for Financial S/W system • FIX is the most widely used API supports multiple instruments FX Spot, Forward and Swap transactions. • Enhance their e-trading capabilities, without using a web interface. • CATS – Financial engineering toolkit (FICAD) which helps users to make new application more easily • Internal S/W development - SPARC SERVER1000 (Sun Microsystems)

E-COMMERCE • Business dealings related to sales of product and services using electronic media • 3 types of E-Commerce provided – Straight 2 bank – OLT – Straight 2 bank stream

• Straight2Bank Web via internet • • Straight2Bank Link via dedicated computer connection to the bank 

• Straight2Bank Access via back-end system integration 

ARCHITECTURE • Built on open architecture – – – –

SwiftNet (MACUG) SCORE Twist ERP integration via SAP XI.

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• Security – Vasco or GTI – GTI is world class and IdenTrust TM certified  

STRAIGHT2BANK WEB • A wholesale internet banking service combined with convenience and security •

Straight2Bank Stream • Straight2BankStream is their proprietary streaming electronic platform for Foreign Exchange. – multi-bank portals such as FXall, FX Connect, Currenex, 360T and Bloomberg FX, as well as acting as an EBS Prime Bank

• IM – To provide instant messaging solution to enable real time collaboration – – Parlano MindAlign messaging application – – Based on Microsoft windows Server 2003 –

References • • • • • • •

www.standardchartered.com www.google.com www.sas.com www.tau.ac.il www.thefreelibrarysoftware.com www.allbusiness.com CASE STUDIES

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