Success Stories: Capital Markets

Capco intervention secures significant margin gains.

A transaction processing service provider contacted Capco to assist with process improvements which would help the firm to attain a 30% operating margin over a three-year period. The high number of manual processes had depressed margins; the client also wanted to achieve some separation from a core platform running on an aging mainframe system.

The Capco project team:

• developed the business case for an operations transformation program which included a BPCM layer to manage human interaction;
• conducted activity analysis, focusing on identifying and measuring user behaviours in the existing operational environment;
• facilitated workshops with business service heads and users;
• completed a detailed activity matrix for each operations focus area and adjusted initial benefits against real-life scenarios;
• defined as-is and to-be process models to visualize user activity changes, common service usage and implied efficiency savings; and
• prepared roadmaps for the work-stream releases and their associated benefits realization schedules as input to the business case model.

Benefits

• The three-year program projected a 32% gain in operational efficiency
• The efficiencies created by the new system would allow the client to recoup implementation costs in four years.