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Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

Title:Europe-Swas-Artificial-Intelligence
Moderator:HERON::BUCHANAN
Created:Fri Jun 03 1988
Last Modified:Thu Aug 04 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:442
Total number of notes:1429

281.0. "reply 3rd party ES applications in Finance" by YIPPEE::FITZGIBBON (Joe Fitzgibbon VB/EIC) Wed Feb 13 1991 11:35

	The follwoing summarises some of the 3rd party ES applications in
	the Finance sector. Reference is made to the source of the information
	and possible contacts (where available) who *may* be willing to
	provide more details.

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281.1Syntelligence Inc., Lending Advisor.YIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:3736
Name : Lending Advisor

User : Finance Industry.

Description : General purpose Financial Loans advisor, developed by 
		Syntelligence Inc. of california, designed to assist loans
		officers , credit officers, and Bank Mgrs in making quick and
		consistent evaluations of Commerical borrowers. The KB can be
		tailored to suit the rules of the particular establishment 
		which decieds to implement its use.

		Users include Australia New Zealand banking Group; Integra 
		Finance Corp., Pittsburgh, Penn.; Security Pacific Bank, 
		Washington; Wachovia bank & trust, Winston-Salem, N. Carolina;
		Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Toronto, Canada.

		CIBC began installation in 1987 with completion of 
		implementation scheduled for mid 1990. Response from bank 
		officers has been positive. Results have included time saved,
\		greater consistency and accruacy in the screening process, more
		time available to deal with the customer. 

		The CIBC implementation has over 1200 users in 80 Bank offices 
		throughout the country.

		NB This package sells at 950k$!!

Language : ??

Platforms : IBM (MVS/XA, CICS, PL/I) mainframe host, with users on PCs.  

Contact : Syntelligence Inc., 1000 Hamlin Court, PO Box 3620, Sunnyvale,
		CA 94088. Tel 408 745-6666 or 800 624-2474.

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6 No 4.
281.2Metropolitan Life (USA), CLINTYIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:3825
Name : Checklist for Incoming Loan Transactions. (CLINT)

User : Commercial Property Loans - Real Estate Investment.

Description : Used by real estate investment law department of Metropolitan
		Life (USA), assists in identifying legal requirements.
		Conducts structured dialogue with user (e.g. attorney or clerk)
		taking into account Metroploitan Life policies, the different
		Local, State and Federal law and regulations which are 
		applicable to commercial property loans.

		Provides conclusiions plus a printed checklist of points which
		must be processed and signed-off, before the loan can be 
		completed.

		CLINT is stated as being for internal use only.

Language : ADS of Aion.

Platforms : PCs.

Contact : ???

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6, No 4.
281.3Trustee Savings Bank, Expatriate Advisor.YIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:4025
Name : Expatriate Advisor.

User : Trustee Savings bank, UK.

Description : Provides advice on foreign and domestic tax law to customers
		leaving UK for more than one tax year. 

		In response to a questionairre completed by the customer, the
		application prints a personalised letter containing 
		comprehensive tax advice particular to their own situation.
		The entire process takes 3 - 10 minutes.

		Bank offices identify 20% increase in business from overseas
		customers due to the use of the application.

		In use since May 1988.

Language : Software Arcthitecture & Engineering's KES package.

Platforms : ???

Contact : ???

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6, No 4.
281.4American Express, Credit Authorizer.YIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:4121
Name : Authorizers Assistant.

User : American Express - Credit Authorizers.

Description : Helps AMEX Credit Authorizers make quick decision on purchases 
		for cardholders who are at, or above, their normal credit
		limit.

		Used to reduce losses resulting from bad judgement in 
		authorizing additional credit.

		More than 300 authorizers use the application on a daily basis.

Language : ART

Platforms : Symbolics, with network access to IBM mainframe databases.

Contact : AMEX 

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6, No 4.
281.5Deutsched Bank GY, Business Consultancy...YIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:4330
Name : Consulting and Financial Planning.

User : Deutsche bank/Roland Berger, Germany.

Description : Advises mid-sized Mfg companies on how to increase revenue. The
		application identifies problems causing low revenue and 
		suggests remedial action. 

		The application applies a variety of analytical methods to the
		data acquired from the user. It then generates a 100 page
		report, including charts and graphs, detailing the findings.

		Additional information is obtained from Industry and Market
		databases.

		The goal of the application was to reduce cost of bank staff
		time in providing smaller companies with business consutlancy,
		a goal whihc is belived to have been met since it saves 
		about 200k$ a year.

		Application currently has approx. 70 users.

Language : KES. 

Platforms : COMPAQ 386 with links to EXCEL and CLIPPER databases.

Contact : ??

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6 No 4.
281.6Foreign Exchg. Trading, Auditors Asst.YIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:4615
Name : Auditors Assistant.

User : Chemical bank of NY - Foreign Exchange Trading.

Description : Monitors Foreign exchange trading activity for illegal, or 
		doubtful, practices.

Language : ART.

Platforms : ???

Contact : ???

Reference : ES trategies, vol 6 No 4.
281.7Citibank NA, DOLSYIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:4719
Name : DOLS of Citibank

User : Citibank NA - Pension fund taxes.

Description : Helps support the Disbursement On-Line System  in adjusting 
		State and Federal witholding taxes on customer pension funds.
		Developed in response to a California state  law requiring 
		banks to perform this activity.

		Batch process whihc handles 120k pension cheques per night.

Language : ???

Platforms : IBM (MSV/XA)

Contact : ???

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6 No 4.
281.8Credit Administration, MCESYIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:4918
Name : Margin Credit Evaluation System (MCS).

User : Merill Lynch - Credit Administration.

Description : Sets credit limits on Customer accounts based on the securities
		held on those accounts (including current day stock ratings). 
		The application is used on a daily basis and has allowed 
		additional workload to be absorbed without hiring of 
		additional staff.

Language : GURU ES Shell.

Platforms : PCs.

Contact : ???

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6 No 4.
281.9Discretionary Invest., Broker Activity MonitorYIPPEE::FITZGIBBONJoe Fitzgibbon VB/EICWed Feb 13 1991 11:5130
Name : Manager's Broker Monitor System.

User : Bear, Sterns & Co - Discretionary Investment activity.

Description : Branch Managers are expecetd to monitor discretionary investment
		activity performed by Brokers, i.e. they have "discretionary
		powers" of use of customer cash to make investments on behalf 
		of the customer without asking customer permission for each
		action taken. It is the responsibility of each Brnach manager 
		to ensure that each Brokers activity is within compliance 
		guidelines.

		The application maintains a profile of each Brokers activity
		and can idebntify items a "Compliance Manager" may look for.
		The monthly workload on the branch manager is reduced by PC
		access to the application summary of Broker activity - a
		workload which would typically involve the monitoring of, 
		20k discretionary activities per month, per branch
		
		The application was developed with the co-operation of 
		Coopers and Lybrands.

Language : Goldworks.

Platforms : PC/AT with Gold Hill Computer 386 HummingBoard.

Contact : ??

Reference : ES Strategies, Vol 6 No 4.