Baton’s new low-code Integration Manager streamlines data aggregation and increases availability across business lines, providing a foundation for real-time decision-making, comprehensive risk management, and optimised intraday liquidity management.
5th March 2025 – Baton Systems, a global leader in post-trade, payments, and settlements technology, has announced the launch of its Integration Manager. This innovative, low-code solution is designed to tackle longstanding challenges associated with data silos and outdated legacy systems by enabling financial institutions to consolidate fragmented and inconsistent data quickly and efficiently.
With Baton’s Integration Manager, financial institutions can reduce data integration timelines from several days to hours. The tool enables banks to seamlessly aggregate and standardise internal and third-party data streams, ensuring structured and traceable data flows across systems that the bank can use to fuel automated workflows in multiple business lines.
The launch of the Integration Manager comes at a critical time as regulators, including the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) intensify their focus on data aggregation and intraday liquidity risk. The PRA’s January 2025 Priorities Letter and the ECB’s November 2024 Guidance underscore the pressing need for financial institutions to improve capabilities that ensure comprehensive and accurate data consolidation, help mitigate risk, and enhance resilience.
By improving data accuracy and availability, multiple business units across financial institutions can leverage the consolidated data produced by Baton’s Integration Manager to generate real-time insights. This enables more informed decision-making, supports holistic risk management, boosts operational efficiencies, and improves intraday liquidity management when used with Baton’s recently enhanced Balance Manager.
“Many banks face significant challenges with siloed systems and fragmented data, creating blind spots that elevate risk.” Commented Arjun Jayaram, Founder and CEO of Baton Systems. “With markets demanding real-time risk and liquidity management, legacy systems and siloed data are holding banks back. Our Integration Manager empowers banks to implement the capabilities they need to overcome these challenges faster – eradicating time-consuming, costly, and error-prone data integration processes and providing risk, business, and treasury teams with the high-quality, reliable data needed for confident decision-making and increased control.”
Many banks lack real-time visibility of their account balances across various institutions due to siloed systems, varying data formats, and access protocols. This is an example of a significant problem that Baton’s Integration Manager helps to solve. Bank data sources often refresh at different intervals, and many rely on once-a-day batch-based processes to aggregate this information. This can result in the generation of business-specific insights based on inconsistent and outdated information, leading to suboptimal risk and liquidity management decisions, inefficient overdraft use, missed interest opportunities, and poor resource allocation.
When paired with Baton’s recently enhanced Balance Manager, which provides complete real-time oversight of account balances, the Integration Manager enables banks to easily add new accounts to the aggregated oversight provided and accommodate changes in data delivery from existing providers without requiring significant technical resources.
The Integration Manager’s low-code interface supports rapid scalability and deployment while offering extensive format and protocol support for seamless data ingestion. By efficiently connecting legacy systems, nostro accounts, and credit lines, Baton’s Integration Manager drives operational accuracy, increases real-time visibility, and offers the potential to transform how institutions manage intraday liquidity.