Sentinel is the world's leading pre and post-trade, real-time compliance management system. Sentinel checks for breaches of client and regulatory rules. It enables asset managers to demonstrate robust risk management controls to the most demanding clients and regulators.

Sentinel can manage complex portfolios across all asset classes. The pre-configured rule libraries cover every major regulator around the world.

Rule checking

 * Post-trade across all funds
 * Intra-day or overnight positions
 * Sophisticated drill-down enables instant analysis of the cause of a breach
 * Easy-to-use rule definition using generic rule structure
 * Comprehensive rule logic and data attributes
 * Equity, fixed income, derivatives, money-market, currency restrictions
 * Thorough index relative restriction coverage
 * User-definable data lists, attributes and expressions
 * Assign multiple funds to a single rule, with each fund having its own particular limits

Rule hierarchy

 * Intuitive definition and representation of corporate account structure
 * Ability to apply rules to a fund, group of funds or across the whole organization
 * Multiple fund hierarchies, eg a regulatory hierarchy and multiple portfolio management hierarchies

Rule libraries

Comprehensive set of over 20 regulatory rule libraries, including:

 * US 1940 Act
 * UK FSA - AUT, ICVC and Chapter 5 (UCITS 3)
 * EU UCITS and non UCITS (including Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg,Netherlands etc)
 * German InvestmentGesetz
 * Hong Kong SFC
 * Canada NI 81-102
 * Japan ITA, etc

Management tools

 * Check current fund position against restrictions on-line at any time
 * Internet/Intranet browser-based breach monitoring and resolution workflow
 * Storage and retrieval of client mandate documents
 * Open reporting capability
 * Full audit trail of all restriction checks

Integration

 * Seamless, real-time integration through the LatentZero API, with existing front- and back-office in-house systems or third-party packages
 * Generic data loading adapter enables data mapping and loading from any data source while the system is online
 * Generic adapter processes for real-time feeds of trade data to any other system
 * LatentZero meta-data approach enables unlimited client data attributes/definitions to be loaded
 * Pre-built interfaces to third-party packages

Technology

 * Supports Windows NT/2000/XP desktops
 * Supports NT and Unix server platforms
 * Multi-tier, distributed XML-message-based architecture provides high throughput and scalability
 * SQL Server, Oracle or Sybase database for persistence and reporting
 * ActiveX, Java and C++ APIs enable integration with other systems

Vendor Site:- Latent Zero