The retail brokerage industry has undergone significant change. Increased competition, industry convergence, compliance and regulatory requirements and more sophisticated investors have resulted in a revenue squeeze for brokerage firms. Revenue models are also moving from a transaction-based to a fee-based structure and will require a technology infrastructure to support the new business methodology.

Fidelity Information Services Wealth Management (FIS Wealth Management) can assist brokerage firms in building profitable relationships with investors. Our Wealthware™ solution suite is an integrated tool set designed to help advisors deepen their relationship with investors by making it easier to provide value-added services and suppor,t such as collaboration tools and investor direct access.

The Wealthware solution suite also enables the firm to manage enterprise-wide risk more effectively with fully automated, straight-through processing of trades and firm established rules to reduce errors and associated costs. Compliance and regulatory risk are also diverted by providing advisors with accurate, consolidated client information, enforcing industry and firm controls and by enabling supervisory and regulatory vetting. Robust order validation is a key component to each of our order management applications, providing real time notification of fills and a complete audit trail visible to the user.

FIS Wealth Management has been providing a wealth management platform to the financial services industry since 1989. Our extensive securities expertise and our understanding of the advisory model provide our international client list of tier one and two financial services companies with the most comprehensive wealth management solution suite. By supporting new business models and the latest platforms and through continuous R&D, we can quickly deploy the solutions required to maintain market readiness.