Empowering Banks with Advanced Financial Messaging Automation

Modernise your financial messaging with Aqua’s advanced, flexible and quick to deploy Messaging hub that centralises and automates financial message processing across Swift (FIN and MX), local clearing, bespoke formats and electronic banking. 
 
The messaging hub simplifies message processing while enhancing control, efficiency, and regulatory alignment to meet the complex demands of today’s banking industry.

Automated Message Routing

Inbound and outbound messages are automatically queued and typically routed to a specific department based on the receiving institution ( entity), message type and any of the message content such as sender, currency sub-service (e.g. TARGET2 etc.). Each message will be assigned a state, status and optional sub-status that can be used to initiate workflow processes.

Message Orchestration

New messages or changes to the state, status and sub-status of messages allows the orchestration layer to automatically initiate workflows to control any processing that the institution requires.

Error & Incident Handling

Aquila can detect many different types of exception and can adapt to new or evolving requirements by configuration.

Aquila supports highly flexible incident management processing to highlight and control the status of exceptions following predefined resolution paths. This includes granular control over every action for individual users to ensure full “4-eyes” compliance at each step.

Escalation paths based on no user action for a specific period of time is also available.

Real-Time Tracking & Management

User dashboards are available to monitor message flow by message type, currency and the message status, sub-status and booking status at a glance. This allows users to see what has been done, what is still outstanding and what specific exceptions such as duplicate messages, restricted currencies/countries and sanctions problems by way of example. Sophisticated search facilities and filtering allows users to pinpoint specific messages quickly and easily.

Native ISO 20022 processing

Aquila’s Messaging Hub supports ISO 20022 as well as Swift ISO 15022 (FIN) Most financial institutions will rely on supporting both these Swift standards for some years and our solution can consume or produce either format based on business requirements 

From trade inception to settlement gain visibility and control of the entire end-to-end transaction flow.

Automatic and resilient processing for Swift, ISO 20022, local clearing, bespoke formats and electronic banking. The messaging hub is flexible and agile to stay ahead pf the everchanging regulatory landscape

Messaging Hub

Fully compatible with existing core systems and third-party applications the messaging hub integrates messaging workflows across internal and external platforms. With cloud-native architecture and multiple deployment options including cloud, on-premises, or hybrid the platform minimizes architectural complexity while maximizing flexibility. Message Management integrates securely with sanctions, AML, CoP, and reference data sources, all while keeping message processing centralised and streamlined. 

Message Standards

Changes to industry standard messages are supported by Aqua Global with updates typically released at least four months prior to the golive date. These can be applied in advance of the standards coming into effect and are adopted automatically 

No-code Business Intelligence

This technology allows a fine degree of control over the processing and manipulation of transactions. This configurable interface provides the ability to easily add new message formats and accommodate new business logic without the need for extensive re-engineering. 

Incident Management

Aquila’s Messaging Hub has configurable incident management that tracks events and controls analysis, corrective action, and incident closure with full audit.

Leverages the benefits of Swift Essentials APIs.

As an accredited partner in the Swift Enabler Program, the messaging hub significantly boost an organisation’s Swift messaging capabilities by utilising Swift’s Pre-Validation, gpi, and SwiftRef services with Aquila.

Core Features.

Decouple with expensive core and legacy systems to cut costs

Multi-entity, multi-currency solution offering 24/7 capabilities

Seamless Integration to electronic messaging systems

Seamless integration into existing infrastructure

Multiple deployment options

Dedicated support providing updates to industry changes months before the go-live

Annual Swift Message Standards updates included in the Annual Subscription

Frequently Asked Questions related to the Messaging Hub

What is a financial messaging hub?

A financial messaging hub centralises and automates processing of inbound and outbound financial messages, including SWIFT FIN, ISO 20022 (MX), local clearing and bespoke formats, increasing operational efficiency and control across a bank’s transaction flows.

Can the Messaging Hub process ISO 20022 messages?

Yes. The Messaging Hub natively supports ISO 20022 as well as SWIFT ISO 15022 (FIN) and other formats, enabling banks to automate messaging workflows regardless of message standard.  

The Messaging Hub automatically queues and routes messages based on rules like sender, currency or message type, initiates workflows for processing, and provides state and status tracking for real-time visibility and automation control. 

Yes. It supports flexible incident and exception management, allowing configurable resolution paths, audit logging, escalation rules and granular user control to ensure compliant and efficient problem resolution. 

Yes, Aqua Global offers 24/7 processing and support.

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