ASTI/MIPS (Monetary Instruments Processing System) was designed to process, monitor, and manage all monetary instruments transactions in accordance with the OFAC and Anti-Money Laundering Policy based on FDIC and BSA regulations.It also provides powerful report generation functions to help the bank management control and monitor business transactions and operations.The MIPS system automates the monetary instruments processing at the bank. With special interfaces, the system can also be easily tailored to meet your bank¨s special requirements.As a business operation assistance tool, the MIPS system can eliminate bank staff¨s tedious manual monetary transaction tasks.It will benefit the bank operators and management on speeding up the operating procedure, strengthening the regulation check and generating the massive monitoring reports.

Major functions cover:
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E-form based system to speed up the monetary instruments process
   * Provide the database support for the collected Monetary Instruments purchase information
   * Speed up/skip data entry work for existing purchasers/payees
   * Integrate with the core banking system to retrieve bank customer information and to perform account validation and balance check
   * Provide different security levels for control and management
   * Perform OFAC check to meet the bank and FDIC regulations
   * Comply with the Anti-Money Laundering rules and FDIC regulations on a real-time monitoring basis
   * Generate various Monetary Transaction Reports to meet bank management¨s need and government requirements
   * Provide the night processing service to collect all cash transaction details from the teller system and the core banking system
   * Generate all cash related Aggregation Cash Transaction Report, including Deposit/Withdraw, Wire Transfer, Monetary Instruments, Credit Card, ATM/POS etc.
   * Allow end users to dynamically customize the reports to fit various conditions.
   * Allow system administrator to customize functions to fit the current monetary types¨ new regulations and rules or even to add a new monetary instrument type to the current MIPS system.

Key benefits include:
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Eliminate customer¨s waiting time
   * Comply with the Anti-Money Laundering policy and regulations
   * Save the bank operators time with the system-aided data entry, retrieving and validation
   * Provide the maximum flexibility in meeting customers¨ different and various requirements.
   * Allow the system administrator to easily configure the system based on the bank user¨s various parameters and rules.

Platform & System Requirements:
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Network infrastructure: TCP/IP based network environment
   * Server machine: MS Windows 2000 or XP Professional, Unix, Linux
   * Database: MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle
   * Client machine: MS Explorer

Our customer, a commercial bank in US, realized that Internet banking is on a track to become a strategic necessity to promote its competitive position. ASTI, as their long term consulting services and software development provider, finally was selected to implement internet banking solution for them´´

iNTACS e.V. (registered association) was founded as a non-profit organisation on May 11th, 2006. 27 representatives of different companies from 15 countries signed the foundation protocol. Peter Bölter (SQS AG) was unanimously elected President of iNTACS e.V. The Vice Presidents are Dr. Ludger Meyer (Siemens CT) and Prof. Dr. Dehua Ju (ASTI Shanghai, China). Klaus Dehmel (Delphi Grundig) has been elected to the board as well.
Within the registered association iNTACS e.V., representatives of consultancies, automotive industry, finance and supply industry come together as well as scientists and researchers. The association is based in Berlin. One of its tasks is to provide for a worldwide standardised training for SPiCE assessors.
Prof. Hindel had initiated the official foundation after he had been pushing the idea of this standard training together with former representatives of the Bootstrap Institute and the SPiCE user group since 2003.
The International Assessor Certification Scheme (iNTACS) has been developed in response to requests from industry for the purpose of education and certification of process assessors compliant to ISO/IEC 15504.

ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE Computer Society recognize Dehua Ju for Outstanding Contributions to the Software Engineering Community as Conference Coordination Committee Co-Chair of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006)

Prof. Dehua Ju won the Lifetime Achievements Award for Software Engineering Excellence from United Cultural Convention, U.S.

In Global Year of Science 2006, Prof. Dehua Ju has been officially awardedThe Archimedes Award for significant contributions to Software Engineering Research and Education, given by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.
Prof. Dehua Ju accepted an honor invitation to be the founding member of the International Assessor Certification Scheme (iNTACS) Association and elected as a board member of iNTACS, to jointly promote the international standard for software process improvement SPiCE/ ISO 15504.

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