Banca Akros is the investment Bank of the BPM (Banca Polopare Milano) Group , a leader in third-party operations on Fixed Income Markets , which sees a constant growth of volumes and of interest among the investors.

These results were achieved through strong customer focus, within the framework of highly specialized and innovative brokerage services where human relations and technology represent crucial added values.

Thus, focus on the quality of the offering, both in terms of business skills and professionalism and with reference to groundbreaking technological choices.

 

 

  

 

  

AMOS, the platform for order management and execution, is central to the offering of Banca Akros.

The platform of Banca Akros is based on AMOS, a comprehensive front and middle office system developed in partnership with ATS-Advanced Technology Solutions, capable to satisfy the functional and performance requirements that are deemed crucial to meet market challenges, both now and in perspective. Through AMOS, Banca Akros provides to its customers, both private and institutional, a comprehensive pre-trade, market connectivity, trading and post-trade services, whose strategic components for customer risk profile management and best execution of orders are MIFID compliant. “Our strategy is founded on innovation and specialization,” says Ferrante Zilioli, Organization and IT manager of Banca Akros. “We believe we can rely on a highly developed system, on which we keep investing to ensure a higher and higher level of efficiency, flexibility, and security for our customers.”

ATS skills and professionalism

ATS has been working with Banca Akros on the development of AMOS, enhancing the respective skills with the shared goal of providing a comprehensive response to the needs of Financial Institutions. The result is a technological platform focused on the entire operational process, allowing to provide customized services, as well as ensuring top-level performance and availability.

“The quality of the financial service offering is increasingly based on a skill-efficiency combination. The financial know how should be supported by appropriate operational features, as well as by service and performance levels corresponding to the growing expectations of a highly competitive market, where the best conditions and the speed of execution are by now an integral part and a must of service.”

The AMOS platform is designed to respond to the new paradigms regulating customer relations, introduced by the MIFID regulation. In full compliance with these provisions, in fact, AMOS can control the appropriateness and suitability of customer orders, assessing the suitability of the Value at Risk (VaR) both for instruments and for the customer’s portfolio, as well as seek for the best conditions available on the market by forwarding the orders to engines specialized in stocks and bonds, ensuring top-quality execution and transparency to institutions, as well as – particularly – to their customers.

AMOS, a future-proof solution

“We are proud to say that we have met the goals stated at the start of our analysis on the legal provisions,” concludes Zilioli. “We believe we can now provide a true added value to our customers. The characteristic and distinctive features we have included in AMOS give us the confidence we need to meet the challenges posed by the markets, relying on our highly qualified and competitive offering.”