Aqua Global Solutions e2gen
Corporate overview A long-standing messaging specialist, Aqua Global Solutions focuses on IBM iSeries financial messaging and integration related to payments, cash management, treasury and securities, incorporating integrated reconciliation and matching, with its solution e2gen. UK-based Aqua is a privately-owned company, which was founded in 1983, and has around 50 clients and a relatively small number of staff.
Summary history 1983
2005
Aqua Global Solutions founded.
2010 Work begins on the conversion of e2gen to .Net. 2013
Long-running rewrite of Intercept completed. Launch of e2gen on the cloud.
Overview
e2gen is derived from Aqua’s original Intercept platform. In 2005, the company completed a rewrite of Intercept, a process which took several years as it involved a total revamp of all of the functionality of the old system. The result was Intercept e2gen which was apparently written ‘from the ground up’, although it did remain tied to the IBM iSeries. Among other things, the new version meant that the character-based screens were replaced with a GUI. Aqua also made functional enhancements during the rewrite so, for instance, it added a new data definition layer for the automatic processing of electronic messages. According to the supplier, e2gen provides a ‘modular and fully integrated exception processing environment which gives users complete control over transaction cycles, by eliminating the traditional silo-based approach to payments processing’. The system comprises a messaging and middleware core and support for inward processing for payments, treasury and securities; cash, metal and securities reconciliations; treasury message matching; and sanctions monitoring. More recent developments have responded to the regulatory requirements of SEPA, with the delivery of SEPA Credit Transfer and SEPA Direct Debit processing, Faster Payments for the UK market and Swift Workers’ Remittances.
Product suite
e2gen is a client-server application. The server is the IBM iSeries and the client is any Microsoft Windows operating system PC. Data is stored on the IBM iSeries, using a DB2/400 database. The system is written in ILE RPG and CL for the IBM iSeries Server; the client language is AVR, supplied by ASNA. AVR provides an RPG compiler for Microsoft’s .Net Framework, integrates into Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2003/2005, and compiles to 100 per cent verifiable Microsoft Intermediate Language. The user interface is PC GUI. Support for industry standard message channels is
provided, including Swift, SwiftNet, LCH and client specific transfer mechanisms. Standard interfaces to common iSeries applications, such as Fiserv’s ICBS/Signature, Temenos’ Financial Objects-derived IBIS, Misys’ Midas and Equation,
Microgen’s Milvus and ERI’s Olympic. The various components of the e2gen suite address
different aspects of payment processing: The core e2gen Payment Processing module handles all
Swift FIN payments, providing support for all Swift message types. Aqua claims that the module can integrate with and accept data from any in-house systems to provide a single environment for processing payments, treasury and securities. Real-time integration with general ledger systems is provided. Configurable posting and charging within an exception processing environment means that all inward and outward payment messages can be managed automatically. e2gen translates all inward messages to XML before applying configurable cleaning, validation and processing rules to manage inward posting and outward message production. Any industry standard or proprietary messages and files can
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