GO BEYOND ...
ISO 20022,

migrate to enhanced customer service, compliance and management of financial crime - leverage rich data for competitive advantage
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The LEGO® metaphor is highly applicable to financial services and the ISO 20022 journey. From technical building blocks or developers' coded core transaction systems, we enter a world of solutions built with solution design patterns of assembled components. Low cost, hosted API accessed components that can accelerate the path to business solutions - out of the box and as part of a "BANKLand" topology which responds rapidly to a digital, data centric age of global financial services.

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Why Choose Us?

The 20022 journey

Discovery

With over 100 man years of experience in the founding team and a range of partnerships - The 20022 Consultancy can take you safely through the ISO 20022 migration journey. From evaluation of current state, development of the strategy and implementation of tactics to ensure compliance and seamless, enhanced ongoing operations.

Integration with legacy transaction systems
Counterparty communication with rich ISO 20022 data
Insulation, future proofing and cost optimisation
In house, outsource, cloud and aaS

Are you ready?
Reach out - we can help if you are behind schedule, offer new ideas and set a vision of the possible.

Data Centric

"it's all about Data" - However one looks at the challenge, front, middle or back office - trading, risk or settlement - DATA is the lubricating oil that enables global financial services. Core transaction systems generate it, communication between counterparties will use the richness of ISO 20022´s extended fields to create complex messages. These will enable automation along an STP optimised value chain with efficiency gains from eliminating false positives in anomaly checking, through wider compliance and KYC. 20022 will multiply the data asset x10.
Get it right, now, from the beginning!

200+ additional available fields comparing 15022 and 20022
Integration and transformation
Data strategies - flat files, RBBMS, structured, unstructured, lakes and fabrics
To canonical flexibility - bring data analysis into the firm's DNA
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Evolution

1973 saw the founding of SWIFT - the first step in the automation of centuries of old paper based processes. These were reliable and worked well, but with potential for improvement as IT took hold. ISO 20022 now brings financial messaging and data up to date with the digital world, opening up horizons of enhanced business processes, and realising automation across the transaction value chain.

Legacy systems, at the core of operations have received decades of investment, must be protected, but now harnessed and integrated into the data flows that will reach new processing environments that enable enhanced KYC, AML and other risks to be analysed. Deepen CRM to enhance customer affinity and experiences; and where feasible augment with AI to eliminate the overhead of standard repetitive reporting and messaging in an increasingly enabled STP environment of automation.

The 20022 Consultancy has experts who know these possibilities. Whether in house build or buy externally, managing and leveraging the experience of vendors; we understand the techniques, intricacies and subtleties of successful technology enabled programmes in this space.

As independent advisors, our market vantage point is valuable - we embrace and thrive on evolution - it's our DNA!

Strategy horizons - tactical deliverables
Time to revenue
Vendor and 3rd party management - be aware and manage hybrid teams and cultures
Insulate legacy, and renew into a world of change

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The TEAM

The 20022 Consultancy

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Nigel Woodward
Founder & CEO
UK based, Nigel started his career in International Banking shortly after the formation of SWIFT in the late 1970s - and has since held pivotal roles in some of the technology industry's major names that have transformed technology enabled financial services over 4 decades. With historical insights comes risk mitigation on future bets as the market lays down strategies for the next era with 20022.
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Jose Luis Melgarejo Frutos
Technology Advisor
Based in Madrid, Luis brings +30 years of experience to the market. Following a career based in Mexico and covering the LATAM geography, Luis is conversant in the latest technology developments. Today Luis' expertise has focus on the mix of vendor capabilities and leading edge technology that delivers solutions across financial messaging and payments - a landscape in evolution over the last decade.
Nigel and Luis pride themselves on their network of contacts across Financial Services and technology, In a world of online. and social media based contacts there is no substitute for experience and knowing someone who knows, As a virtual team capturing varied experience - we think it is likely we can help you.  If you think we might have some useful insights, please - reach out.
"A lighthouse, the shining light for navigation of choppy and potentially dangerous waters, and warning of hidden hazards for novice and most experienced mariners.  Beyond the lighthouse however lie calm waters and our destination - and hence we adopt this for our contribution to the 20022 journey . . ."
the founders, August 2023