The Bolero Ecosystem

At Bolero, our vision is to become the dominant provider of multi-bank trade finance solutions for Corporates, Commodity Traders and Financial Institutions.
Bolero’s success in this fast growing market has been realized through a business model that exploits Bolero’s core competencies – the ability to deliver a world-class trade platform and market-leading SaaS applications – while leveraging select partnerships and alliances with established industry leaders, core infrastructure partners and industry solution providers.

• Aditya Birla Minacs
• Brady plc
• CBA
• CSC
• DOS Dialog Orientierte Software GmbH
• Exidio
• Tradepaq
• Zanders

Aditya Birla Minacs

Aditya Birla Minacs is a leading business solutions company that partners with global corporations in the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance), TIME (telecom, technology infrastructure, media, and entertainment) and manufacturing industries. Minacs IT is SEI CMMI Level 5, ISO: 9001(Quality Management System) and ISO: 27001 (Information Security Management System) accredited. Robust processes are the foundation for delivering superior professional IT outsourcing (ITO) services in Application Development and Management, Product Engineering, Migration, ERP implementation and support, and end-to-end managed services in Testing and IT Infrastructure Management. We build, integrate, and customize technology platforms that power our customer lifecycle services, marketing solutions, finance and accounting, and knowledge and process outsourcing solutions. 15,800 Minacs experts across 3 continents and 30 centers spanning Canada, Germany, Hungary, India, Philippines, the UK and USA power our solutions through a global delivery model that helps our clients enhance revenues, profitability and customer service.

Minacs IT invests in building domain-centered solutions, expertise, best practices, methodologies, frameworks, tools - especially in SOA, Workflow and BPM, Enterprise Solutions, Software Testing and for the Financial Supply Chain. Our TradeFree™ Solutions Suite bundles business functionality with professional solution integration services and a library of versatile components. TradeFree™ includes solutions for critical trade services namely, Trade Finance, Open Account Trade and Factoring. These applications can integrate with existing core banking, cash management or other systems to quick-start a new operation that is reinforced by our robust support services. The TradeFree™ Portal extends the benefits of Web-enabled access to your customers, allowing them and other service providers to access your trade services Front Office over the Internet.

Write to Srikanth.kn@minacs.adityabirla.comfor more information.

ww.minacs.adityabirla.com

BRADY plc

Brady plc is the leading provider of software solutions for global commodity trading. We offer a choice of trading and risk management applications designed to help producers, consumers, financial organisations and trading companies manage all of their commodity transactions in an integrated solution – including pre-deal analysis, trade capture, risk management, foreign exchange, credit risk, logistics, cash management, physical operations, back office financials and treasury settlement.

Brady has more than 25 years of expertise in the commodity markets and over 100 customers worldwide depend on our software solutions to manage risk and deliver vital business transactions across their global operations. Our expert market knowledge, professionalism and proven problem-solving abilities enable us to understand the challenges our clients face and develop tailored solutions that consistently meet and exceed their needs.

In particular, we work with many of the world’s largest miners, refiners and producers, banks, trading companies and a high proportion of the London Metal Exchange (LME) membership, including over 50% of LME Category 1 members. These include Alcan, Aleris, Koch Supply & Trading, Asarco, MAREX Financial, Mitsubishi Corporation, Novelis, Prysmian SpA, Metinvest, Cotton Distributors Inc, Dunavant, Rosbank, Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse SA, Sucden Financial, Standard Bank, Toyota Tsusho Metals, Trafigura and Xstrata Copper.

Commercial Banking Applications AS (CBA) is a dynamic Oslo-based software company offering total solutions for banking and finance, and specialising in payment and trade finance solutions. We have carried out more than 100 successful installations in 45 international banks spread over 15 countries and are proud of consistently delivering on time and on budget.

In October 2009 CBA signed a contract with Fortis Bank (Netherlands) to supply our IBAS GTF – Global Trade Finance Factory. Following an intense project period the bank went live with the newest version of IBAS GTF on 16 November 2009.

In April 2010 CBA signed a Partner Agreement with Bolero. The purpose of the co-operation was to develop the interfaces between IBAS GTF - Global Trade Finance Factory and Bolero, with Fortis Bank (Netherlands) to be the first taker. Phase 1 is for Documentary Credits and will be delivered in June 2010. Phase 2 covers Guarantees and Phase 3 covers Documentary Collections.
www.cba.no

ABOUT CSC

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through its lines of business which include Business Solutions & Services and Managed Services and across all major industry sectors. CSC’s advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. The company has been recognised as a leader in the industry, including being named by FORTUNE magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for Information Technology Services 2010. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.0 billion for the 12 months ended January 1, 2010. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.csc.com.

CSC IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

CSC makes change practical for leading financial services firms around the world. To complement its capabilities in consulting, systems integration, and business process and IT outsourcing, CSC brings deep financial services industry knowledge and experience, a comprehensive portfolio of financial services application software, and an extensive network of industry and technology partners. More than 10,000 CSC employees are dedicated to serving financial services clients, which include more than 1,200 major banks, insurers, and investment management and securities firms. Financial Services is CSC’s largest commercial vertical market, representing nearly 17% of the company's revenue. Learn more about CSC in Financial Services at http://www.csc.com/financial_services.

For further information please contact:

Richard Coward
Client Executive
Financial Services
CSC UK

Tel: 01622-734627
Mobile: 07831-364528
e-mail: rcoward1@csc.com

DOS Dialog Orientierte Software GmbH

DOS is a software house headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Its focus lies in the development of Trade Finance standard software available on all popular open IT system environments for banks, and commercial/industrial companies. DOS's products provide highly effective support in the processing of a broad range of documentary trade finance activities that include:

Letters of Credit

• Collections
• Guarantees
• Reimbursements
• Finance/Discounting
• Forfeiting
• Foreign Payments
• Participations
• Syndications

The Company's products, DOKA 5, which carries the SWIFT Ready Gold Label, and TradeConnect DocX, are modern, scalable multi-platform client/server systems, developed in line with state-of-the-art software ergonomics, using the most reliable methods of software technology.

DOKA, an integrated Trade Finance software solution used in processing all foreign business, has been in use now for over two decades and is currently in operation in 65 banks with more than 2,000 licensed users in fourteen countries. The current release DOKA 5.05 supports the following main features:

• Integrated front-to-back-end solution: DOKA supports the complete electronic workflow of C2B2C communication using (but not limited to) DOS’s own customer front end TradeConnect DocX.
• Multi entity/branch/currency capability
• DOKA improves operational efficiency by supplying the highest level of STP (Straight Through Processing)
• Reduction of manual and paper based processes: During transaction processing, the user has access at all times to the information system containing archived information on direct and linked contracts, full online documentation and help text for individual fields.
• Flexible scalability
• Supports all major types of commission and interest calculations as standard
• A flexible and automatic rights management allows all kinds of existing user rights structures
• DOKA responds to banks' regulatory requirements for audit, risk and compliance

TradeConnect DocX is the bank-independent customer product. It is installed on a corporate customer’s central server and facilitates access for all decentral units.

TradeConnect DocX is used for the electronic exchange of messages in documentary trade finance between banks worldwide and their customers in industry and trade.

Its main features include:

• Support of Bank, Group and Passive Guarantees
• Support of Import/Export L/Cs and Collections
• Multi Bank capability
• Adoption of complex corporate structures
• Powerful credit line management
• Control of external charges and internal cross charges
• Free report generator for any kind of adhoc analysis or automatic report distribution
• Support of worldwide decentralized organizations with centralized management

For further information, please contact:

DOS Dialog orientierte Software GmbH
Saseler Bogen 2
D-22393 Hamburg
Phone +49 (0) 40/60 00 01-0
Fax + 49 (0) 40/60 00 01-23
eMailinfo@dosgmbh.de

www.dosgmbh.de

Exidio is a SaaS provider of solutions for supporting the business-to-treasury activities of large corporations. Exidio’s clientele consists of multinational companies and global banks, which offer the service to their top tier corporate clients as part of their e-commerce offering.

The Exidio B2T solution Trezone enables corporate treasury to provide efficient tools to business units to ensure the transparency of foreign exchange exposures and cash flows combined with automation of internal processes. The service eliminates manual spreadsheet-based workload and provides support to comply with accounting and financial standards like IAS 39 / FAS133 and SOX.

Trezone’s Guarantee management module automates the application and issuance process of bank and corporate guarantees, and uses Bolero as an interface towards the Banking community.

www.exidio.com

TRADEPAQ Corporation

TRADEPAQ Corporation is a global provider of supply chain and financial execution, workflow, document generation and collaboration software as well as web-enabling technology. TRADEPAQ offers an innovative framework of solutions with the products OpenTrade, ERP Extreme Makeover, Enterprise Document Management (EDM), Enable and Trade Risk Management (TRM) and Bolero connectivity. The company delivers solutions to Banks, Enterprises, Logistic Service Providers, Exchanges and to the physical and financial commodity traders, producers and distributors. The TRADEPAQ Bolero workbench has been designed to integrate seamlessly with our Corporate Facing Solutions and also via a new plug in Gateway Interface to the Corporate’s Bank. Our Integration Software automatically integrates Bolero messages with our flagship back office solution, BankTrade. Additionally we provide a special tool to facilitate integration regardless of the Back Office Solution in use by the Bank.

www.tradepaq.com

Zanders Treasury & Finance Solutions

Founded in 1994, Zanders is an independent consulting firm specializing in treasury and finance solutions. Zanders is recognized as a thought leader in its expertise areas of treasury management, risk management and corporate finance. The company employs over 100 experienced consultants. From their offices in The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Zanders services its global client portfolio in the corporate, financial institutions and the public sector. Zanders’ strengths are its specialization and independence. We work solely on behalf of, and in the best interests of, our clients. We can assist our clients from strategy up until implementation.

Zanders is experiencing an increasing demand for advise on Trade Finance issues and Trade Finance Solutions from its corporate clients. From a corporate perspective, Trade Finance has become more important as an (alternative) financing channel. Treasurers see significant fluctuations in their cash flow forecasts, and realize that a substantial amount of cash is locked up in the supply chain. Furthermore, treasurers are looking for more control and efficiency on the Trade Finance instruments they use. Zanders can assist corporates in the evaluation of their financial supply chain and advise on how to efficiently use and embed Trade Finance instruments in the corporate treasury environment.

www.zanders.eu