Fordsworth Associates is a niche fintech solutions developoment company, we create specialised, secure, robust fintech solutions for a wide range of financial services requirements and providers. We commenced business in 2016 after three
years of designing and working on a solution for its first client in South Africa. Fordsworth Associates is made up of professionals with a good blend of financial and software expertise. Founders have a combined experience of 28 years
providing solutions to the financial services sector in Africa...
Our consultation team has experience of 28 years of providing solutions to financial service providers in Africa. We opt to accelerate your financial digital transformation with the right system implementation.
Our consultations include the following:
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Our consultation team has experience of 28 years of providing solutions to financial service providers in Africa. We opt to accelerate your financial digital transformation with the right system implementation.
Our consultations include the following:
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Business Model Innovations
Using financial technology to bring fintech changes, helps you to find capabilities that benefit your company and your customers.
Together we construct new financial management systems that bring incremental, breakthrough, and disruptive innovation to keep your business moving forward.
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With dedicated business Analysts and Full Stack Developers, our excellence allows you to scale up and scale out your product operations confidentially. Our expertise helps you to meet the day-to-day running of your
business
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With dedicated business Analysts and Full Stack Developers, our excellence allows you to scale up and scale out your product operations confidentially. Our expertise helps you to meet the day-to-day running of your business
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We optimize the existing system to meet modern technologies. Our developers refresh the given systems and add the new existing technologies to the systems. Our innovations allow our clients to be able to meet the new business needs by
focusing mainly on their business.
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Our company approach focuses on bringing a better user interface for our client’s business to meet emerging business environments.
Fordsworth serves to determine the scope, resourcing, and timeframes for a Project Implementation Phase
We deliver the tasks necessary to allow the client’s project to go live and run successfully.
Includes time to be used for ongoing development as well as pure support and maintenance
Fordsworth uses cloud-based Microservices. Hosted on-premise or cloud scalable solution. Driving the highest business value through the latest best in class technologies pinned by a simplified user-friendly approach adhering to Industry standards. The client can rest assured that the data is safe and secure in a state-of-the-art Data Centre and compliant with relevant legislation. .
Wealth Management System
We offer an innovative end-to-end Investment and wealth management solution that utilizes cloud-based technology to provide a functionally rich and versatile platform that supports the Front, Middle, and Back Office Requirements of
both Fund and Wealth Managers. That is; from trade execution, transaction processing, portfolio management reporting, compliance, and performance measurement.
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Unit Trust Management System
Our unit trust system covers units pricing, client’s portal, administration portal, Risk Analysis, and payment gateways. The system makes it easier for clients to individually view their contributions and how their unit values are performing. It also allows the unit trust administrators to manage contributions and withdrawals.
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Insurance Administration System
We offer a cloud-based insurance system that constitutes both the client portal and the administration portal. The modules within the system cover premium payments, insurance advice for clients, claim benefits settlement, and reinsurance. We consider the calculation of risk exposure analysis and actuarial asset management
Private Clients Investment System
We offer a cloud-based investment system that allows financial companies to manage individual investments, which includes shares, investments, ETFs, retirement annuities, offshore investments, and property.
Fordsworth was established by two principal members with a combined experience of 28 years in the financial industry.
An investment manager inherited an asset management business from a leading pan-African bank with a view of modernizing the operation and scaling. Fordsworth was approached to offer a cloud-based administration system that allowed clients, administrators, and portfolio managers to have a full view of their portfolio from the portal
We migrated the client’s portfolios from the old system which was being used into our news system. Our new client’s wealth management system was now up and running
The unit trust management system was established with the role of unitizing and managing unit funds for our existing client.
We launched the unit trust fund for our existing clients Our new project in Insurance Administration was also launched. A new developer and business analyst were hired. The wealth management client portal was added as one of the modules.
We are currently establishing private clients’ investments management system and finishing building the insurance management system.
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Mont Tremblant Estate
959 Inchanga Rd
Craigavon Fourways
2191
Email:clients@fordsworth.com
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Our consultation team has experience of 28 years of providing solutions to financial service providers in Africa. We opt to accelerate your financial digital transformation with the right system implementation.
Our consultations include the following:
FinTech Consulting
• Migration of financial information to new digitally transformed systems
• Financial business models and their easy integration with both new and existing platforms
• New systems for Unit Trust Funds, Pooled funds, Retirement funds, Share Trading, and Asset Management.
Insurance Consulting
• Implementation of new insurance pricing models
• Migration of existing insurance portfolios to new modern Fordsworth Insurance management systems.
• Calculations of Actuarial Insurance risks, and advice on easiest digital systems to use when calculating the risks, premiums, and claim benefits.
System Integration
• Integration of existing systems with payment gateways.
• Data screening
• Integration with other financial tools which gives financial information, e.g., Stock prices, CPI index
Data & AI Transformation
• Data Strategy and Analysis
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Data Science
• Self-Service Analytics
Case Study
Our partner wanted to unitize an existing pooled fund. Our job was to advise on how it can be unitized and integrated with our existing unit trust fund technology. The clients would view their individual contributions and their performance
through a client portal.
We partnered came up with both the administration portal and the client’s portal. Our consultation role was to advise on the emigration of the pooled fund into a unit trust fund and integrate it without the existing unit trust management
system.
Our consultation team has experience of 28 years of providing solutions to financial service providers in Africa. We opt to accelerate your financial digital transformation with the right system implementation.
Our consultations include the following:
FinTech Consulting
• Migration of financial information to new digitally transformed systems
• Financial business models and their easy integration with both new and existing platforms
• New systems for Unit Trust Funds, Pooled funds, Retirement funds, Share Trading, and Asset Management.
Insurance Consulting
• Implementation of new insurance pricing models
• Migration of existing insurance portfolios to new modern Fordsworth Insurance management systems.
• Calculations of Actuarial Insurance risks, and advice on easiest digital systems to use when calculating the risks, premiums, and claim benefits.
System Integration
• Integration of existing systems with payment gateways.
• Data screening
• Integration with other financial tools which gives financial information, e.g., Stock prices, CPI index
Data & AI Transformation
• Data Strategy and Analysis
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Data Science
• Self-Service Analytics
Case Study
Our partner wanted to unitize an existing pooled fund. Our job was to advise on how it can be unitized and integrated with our existing unit trust fund technology. The clients would view their individual contributions and their performance
through a client portal.
We partnered came up with both the administration portal and the client’s portal. Our consultation role was to advise on the emigration of the pooled fund into a unit trust fund and integrate it without the existing unit trust management
system.
Business Model Innovations
• Using financial technology to bring fintech changes, helps you to find capabilities that benefit your company and your customers.
• Together we construct new financial management systems that bring incremental, breakthrough, and disruptive innovation to keep your business moving forward.
Product and Services Innovations
• We help in modifying fintech products and services that reflect your customers changing needs and desires- by identifying the proper strategy for your business.
Case Study
An asset management company inherited an asset management business from a leading Pan-African bank with a view to modernizing the operation and scaling. Fordsworth was approached to offer a cloud-based administration system that allowed clients, administrators, and portfolio managers to have a full view of their portfolios from a portal.
Capitalizing on many years of experience in the financial services sector, Fordsworth Associates offered an innovative end-to-end Investment Solution that utilized cloud-based technology to provide a functionally rich and versatile platform that supports the Front, Middle, and Back Office requirements.
Fordsworth designed a system that allowed the Relationship managers to focus on their clients rather than the administration processes. The solution allowed the manager to have a 360° view for clients’ and funds’ investments monitoring. Clients have 24/7 access to their portfolio investments through integrated web modules. /p>
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At the core of all systems is a robust, secure, scalable data management system.
Microsoft SQL Server is our recommended data platform with our database management skills
spanning SQL Server implementation design, configuration, installation and version upgrades.
Backups and recovery, including disaster recovery practices and governance, all form part of
our standard database administration arsenal.
Performance tuning, environment provisioning and refreshes (for example a User Testing environment), data scrubbing and masking (typically for confidential data) also form part of our service offering.
Our application development and systems implementation experience means we are well suited to fully appreciate the complete world in which your data is managed, whether at rest or in transit!
Junior Full Stack Developer
We’re looking for full-stack developers to work on a new project, building a back-office web application to streamline some of the company’s business processes
Duties:
• Design, code, test, debug and document application
• Build reusable software components and libraries for future use across multiple projects
• Analyze, diagnose and resolve errors related to your applications
• Keep abreast of technical and industry developments
• Add your voice to the company’s community of developers
• Help us improve the way we build software
Competencies:
• Strong sense of professionalism
• Strong C# and Typescript skills
• Experience with modern SPA frameworks (We’re using Angular 9)
• Experience with AWS serverless applications
• Experience working on databases (PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB experience advantageous)
• Experience working as part of an Agile team
• Experience with the tools and techniques of software development: TDD, CI/CD, version control, code reviews, etc.
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Business Analyst
You will possess experience in the following areas:
• Process Analysis & Redesign
• Systems Engineering / Systems implementation
• Business re-engineering
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Process mapping
• Digital Process Mapping
• Journey Mapping
• Basic IP MPLS knowledge
• Business Requirement Specification (BRS) Documentation
• Agile, SCRUM
• TM Forum
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Digital Document Generation
• Project Management
Educational and proficiency level:
• Degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• Recognized Business Analyst Certification
• Project Management Qualification such as Prince II
• Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) or Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA)
The role will include key business stakeholder engagements to elicit key requirements, process mapping, quality, and assurance, consuming of any operational policies and standards, research of best practice to be incorporated in the target state design to meet the strategic objectives of the client
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You can’t navigate the market if you don’t understand it. Fortunately for our clients, our currency control experts have their fingers perpetually pressed to the pulse of the market, and can provide peerless assistance in understanding South Africa’s currency control policies, and what they mean for you when acting in international markets.
With dedicated business Analysts and Full Stack Developers, our excellence allows you to scale up and scale out your product operations confidentially. Our expertise helps you to meet the day-to-day running of your business
Case Study
Our clients introduce more portfolio managers for their Asset management business. Our work is to make sure the system operates according to the different roles of our client’s business. Our major task is to make sure that the system can meet the client’s new hierarchy.
With dedicated business Analysts and Full Stack Developers, our excellence allows you to scale up and scale out your product operations confidentially. Our expertise helps you to meet the day-to-day running of your business
Case Study
Our clients introduce more portfolio managers for their Asset management business. Our work is to make sure the system operates according to the different roles of our client’s business. Our major task is to make sure that the system can meet the client’s new hierarchy.
We optimize the existing system to meet modern technologies. Our developers refresh the given systems and add the new existing technologies to the systems. Our innovations allow our clients to be able to meet the new business needs by focusing mainly on their business.
Case Study
Our unit trust fund client wanted the easiest payment gateway to be implemented on their unit trust system. They would want an automated verification of payments and allow individual clients to make mobile payments when purchasing units.
We integrated a payment gateway with our current unit trust fund system and it was now easier for their client to now make mobile payments.
