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UCITS-Website by Bank of America Merrill Lynch
17.11.2011 | Bank of America Merrill Lynch is responsible for the investment banking of the company BofA. The company offers European UCITS funds, which are presented on funds-invest.baml.com. UCITS are funds that invest in legally well-defined types of securities and other financial instruments such as investment funds.
The new site offers private and institutional clients a different product range and a different information depth. For private investors, there is also a state-dependent different extensive product line.
The central navigation tool is the UCITS Fund Tool - that allows selecting funds by region, strategy, asset class and other aspects. From the overview page, the user navigates through the interactive charts on offer. According to their "region" or "strategy" matching products are quickly recognizable. The site also features a performance calculator, which allows the comparison of the selected funds with different benchmarks. Also available to visitors: a performance index, current fact sheets, legal documents and a glossary.
Solvians builds on local presence in Hong Kong
01.07.2011 | Solvians has opened a new office in Hong Kong. For our company this represents a very significant strategic step. We want to develop a local presence in that Asia-Pacific banking metropole in order to be able to serve the needs of our customers globally.
The new office is located in the financial district of Hong Kong in the immediate proximity to the representations of our European customers. Our activities not only rely on a key account. All the services we offer in Germany shall also build in Asia.
The financial center of Hong Kong has been very dynamic over the past years. Economically the Special Administrative Region in southern China has the broadest possible autonomy. In 2010 the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was - with a trading volume of $ 534 billion - one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Hence Solvians sees there an excellent reason for its services market, which is intended to develop positively in the future.
Turbo Calculator on ABN AMRO Markets
26.05.2011 | At the website of the Dutch bank ABN AMRO Markets investors can simulate the performance of a turbo. By entering the ISIN of a security, the name of the underlying asset and its current price are displayed for reference.
Depending on the market expectation the user can modify the price at a future date. The simulation and the real market trend can be compared that way. When using a non-EUR certificate, an exchange rate option is enabled automatically.
That means that an exchange rate will be incorporated into the calculation. ABN AMRO has worked in the implementation of this tool for the first time with Solvians. Significant for the decision was the reliable supply of price data and great expertise in the calculation, what are the fundaments of the Turbo Calculator.
EFG Financial Products - Web presence in other countries
25.05.2011 | In the future, the investment products of EFG Financial Products will be offered in several European countries. After Germany, the Swiss bank continues its international expansion into France, Spain and Sweden.
Also in this online project, Solvians is the technical service providers. The German pilot project was the first in terms of localizing the website into different languages. The various country websites are based on the same framework and are to be managed centrally with a CMS.
Forward curves designed and implemented by Solvians on financial portals in Germany and Switzerland
04.04.2011 | Solvians realized the integration of forward curves on several financial platforms in Germany and Switzerland. This finance tool enables investors a confident decision-making when investing in commodities. Thus, financial institutions are able to extend the features of their websites with an additional attractive service tool for investors.
Forward curves allow investors a confident decision-making when investing in commodities. The charts show the future price development of important commodities. In order to provide the investor with the most current numbers, all charts are calculated with up to date stock exchange prices.
Solvians develops innovative web tools for financial institutions. These include interfaces and content modules as knock-out maps, bonus clouds, sharepicker, interactive charts and forward curves. They can be easily integrated into client’s websites and portals. The price data systems of Solvians process high volume data feeds of our clients and market data providers. Static and dynamic information is merged to a uniform content in a self-developed data management system and therefore, adds informative value to the Internet user.
Watch the forward curves live:
Cash.ch
Der Aktionär
Onvista
T-Online
The world of certificates as soccer match as podcast on iTunes
01.06.2010 | The product classifications of the German Derivatives Association (“Deutscher Derivate Verband”, DDV) are now available to its investors as a free podcast. With the support of Solvians, the eleven videos can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes store for free. Eleven certificate classes are explained by means of a soccer match. Thereby, each position in a soccer match represents one product classification. The President of DDV, the former popular moderator Lars Brandau, explains the chances, risks and strategic advantages of asset management by means of goal keeper, fullback and forward. The easily comprehendible videos are optimal for continuing training in railway or airplane.
“Deutscher Derivate Verband is committed to investor protection and education. Consequently, it continuously extends its broad supply of information by utilizing different information channels. The Derivate-Liga of the DDV and its multimedia implementation are a great step towards the amelioration of investor intelligence”, according to Dr. Hartmut Knüppel, President of DDV.
Solvians reedited the movies and subsequently converted them into the iPod data format. The videos are now hosted on an own domain for Deutsche Derivate Verband. Information in more detail for each episode is provided to the users in the program iTunes.
Solvians advices Deutsche Bank at the development of its online-banking portal
09.12.2009 | Deutsche Bank is now offering the flexible mobileTAN-applications to its 3.5 millions online-banking customers.
Customers with access to Deutsche Bank OnlineBanking can now choose between executing an order via the paper based TAN-list (iTAN) or the mobileTAN. Regarding the mobileTAN, a customer receives for each online-banking transaction a generated transaction number per SMS on his or hers private mobile phone. Heinz Beeck, head of Direct Banking of Deutsche Bank: “Due to a restricted period of validity and the fixation to a certain transaction, a high security level can be maintained for customers in the mobileTAN application”. The transaction will only be processed after the insertion of the individual mobileTAN number. In addition, before finishing a transaction, the customer will receive all transaction information together with the mobileTAN number. Sending of a mobileTAN is charged with 0.09 EUR per SMS.
Simultaneously to the introduction of the mobileTAN, Deutsche Bank presented a new-designed and with regard to content further developed online-banking portal which will facilitate the daily banking transactions of its customers. ‘The new online banking offers our customers an added value with regard to user application and user comfort along with a high level of security’, explains Heinz Beeck. This way, data insertion is facilitated by, for example the implementation of dynamic fields when a user processes a banking transaction. Extensive information opportunities provide the user with a new structured and clearly arranged derivative search and an extended revenue history. Consequently, the mobile-banking was also converted into the new design with several new, clearly represented features. ‘Both the online-banking and the mobile-banking enjoy increasing popularity with our customers. Today more than a million customers have already executed their orders via online-banking on a day-to-day basis’, according to Beeck. These are usually money or security transfers.
Translated from source: Deutsche Bank AG (http://www.deutsche-bank.de/presse/de/content/presse_informationen_2009_4695.htm)
