Wire Transfer(Remittance) is an important service in a bank. It provides a convenient channel for a person to quickly and directly transmit money to a recipient anywhere in the world. Today, wire transfer is not only a necessary income generation service for a bank, but also helps banks expand their customer bases.
Simple, basic, and common a bank¡¯s remittance service may look, the transaction processing is very complicated. It requires the Operation department, the Remittance department and the Accounting department to closely work together and to process large amount of data among departments. In addition, the bank staffs need to know their bank¡¯s core banking system, the SWIFT system, the Chinese character processing skill, the telegraph code translation, and BSA and FDIC regulations. The entire remittance transaction process is a labor-intensive, error-prone, and time-consuming.
¡¡¡¡ ASTI/REMS (REMittance System) was designed to process, monitor, and manage all wire transfer transactions in accordance with the OFAC and your bank¡¯s Anti-Money Laundering Policy. The REMS system covers all necessary tasks in the remittance processing and can also be easily tailored to meet your bank¡¯s special remittance requirements. As a business operation assistant, ASTI/REMS helps bank officers eliminate or relieve a lot of tedious manual work in the remittance transaction processing. It increases their productivity and expands their business operations greatly.
¡¡¡¡ Major functions cover:
¡¡¡¡ ¡öE-form based system to speed up the process
¡¡¡¡ ¡öCustomer remittance information collection with the database support
¡¡¡¡ ¡öSpeed up/skip data entry task for existing customers/payees with data recall
¡¡¡¡ ¡öSeamless interface with core banking system
¡¡¡¡ ¡öMultiple level workflow control processing and monitoring
¡¡¡¡ ¡öRole-based system security control and management
¡¡¡¡ ¡öSupport OFAC and Anti-Money Laundering check based on the regulations
¡¡¡¡ ¡öProcess multi-languages and Tele code conversion
¡¡¡¡ ¡öInterface with the SWIFT system
¡¡¡¡ ¡öIntegrate with General Ledger of core banking system to post transactions
¡¡¡¡ ¡öSupport flexible account reconciliation batch processing
¡¡¡¡ ¡öGenerate reports for bank management and government

Key benefits include:
¡¡¡¡ ¡öIncrease customers satisfaction
¡¡¡¡ ¡öReduce man power needed to handle remittance transaction processing
¡¡¡¡ ¡öEnsure the compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering policy and regulations
¡¡¡¡ ¡öEliminate data reentry and reduce errors in the remittance transaction processing
¡¡¡¡ ¡öMulti-language support and auto Chinese characters ????Tele code conversion

Platform & System Requirements:
¡¡¡¡ ¡öNetwork infrastructure: TCP/IP based network environment
¡¡¡¡ ¡öServer machine: MS Windows 2000 or XP Professional, Unix, Linux
¡¡¡¡ ¡öDatabase: MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle
¡¡¡¡ ¡öClient machine: MS Internet 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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