Services & solutions

acarda Platform

your all-in-one solution for efficient reporting

Consolidate your regulatory data and reporting with one integrated and easy-to-use Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. Reduce fragmentation of external suppliers and empower your team to work more efficiently.

The acarda Platform offers you

automated report generation through a central, modular platform
calculation of risk, performance, costs and sustainability
control, validation and mapping of core, NAV, market, account and cost data plus stocks and transactions
best practice use of market standards
one central dashboard for all regulations; fully transparent data, status, calculations and reports
a user-friendly client interface
data management, risk calculations, generation and distribution of reports and documents
central data storage for all reports
an ideal solution for asset managers, fund administrators, insurance companies and pension trustees

pros in detail

HIGH DEGREE OF AUTOMATION

The acarda platform automatises every step in your reporting process, reducing your time investment to a minimum.

MAXIMUM TRANSPARENCY

The web-based acarda dashboard maps your data and the entire reporting process. All updates and changes are audited in a log and database; all data are archived.

PROCESSING OF ALL FORMATS

The acarda platform produces reports in all formats requested by clients and regulators, e.g. for PRIIPs,MIFIDII, KIDs, AIFMD, Solvency II, CRR, MMF and IORP II, and for UK DCPT, CTI/ICT, BCL, VAG, PKG, GroMiKV and RG97.

STANDARDISED REPORTS

The acarda platform covers most standardised regulatory reports in the EU and the UK, plus some country- specific reports, e.g. for BaFin, CSSF, FCA, AMF, FMA and BVI.

OPTIMISATION OF CALCULATIONS

The acarda platform optimises your risk, performance and cost calculations, e.g. SCR, SRI, arrival price transaction costs, AuM and VaR.

REPORTING + DATA MANAGEMENT

The acarda platform allows you to easily set up new user interface views, reports and factsheets It features a flexible file loader, data mapping and validation tools, workflow management, a rules engine and hierarchical text management for KIDs and factsheets.

SECURE SAAS + MANAGED SERVICE

The acarda platform is a ready-to-use Software as a Service (SaaS) combined with an extensive managed service for data quality and support, which significantly reduces the total cost of ownership. This significantly reduces your operating costs.

DIGITISATION

The acarda platform manages all your information effectively by translating and mapping data from multiple internal and external sources and across all machine-readable data formats. You own all the normalised data and can repurpose them in your data repository.

CENTRAL DATA STORAGE

The acarda platform rapidly consolidates the data from all your reports in a central database that is easily accessible and secure..

Our solution meets all of the security requirements of a Tier 4 IT center.

FULL COMPLIANCE

The acarda platform ensures continuous compliance with the latest regulatory requirements by providing timely updates of reports and an auditable and trackable end-to-end workflow.

HIGHEST DATA QUALITY

The acarda platform guarantees consistent data of the highest quality throughout the entire report generation process and for all kinds of interfaces.

ACCESS FROM ANYWHERE

The acarda platform facilitates collaboration and remote/smart office access from anywhere – for your team, other service providers and asset managers (shared knowledge).

COST REDUCTION

The acarda platform’s high degree of automation means that your reporting costs are significantly reduced (compared with internal solutions), while you retain control and oversight over the end-to- end process.

MORE INTERNAL EFFICIENCY

The acarda platform reduces the amount of internal resources you’ll need (staff, time, finances). It ensures that requirements continue to be met by updating all regulatory changes automatically. Your in-house experts can focus on more complex tasks instead of producing reports.

HIGHEST SECURITY

The acarda platform is a 100% secure private cloud platform with central data storage, two-factor authorisation and compliance-related software solutions; it fulfils all BCP and contingency preparedness requirements.

DATA ENRICHMENT AND LOOK-THROUGH

The acarda platform has interfaces to the market data providers Refinitiv, IHS Markit, THEICE, Morningstar, WM and Bloomberg. We use market price rules to retrieve the best price for valuations and implicit transaction costs. A look-through application allows us to map external TPT, EMT, EPT, DCPT and ICT data from other asset managers and platforms like Morningstar or Fund Info. We use WM data to classify instruments and holdings.