Based On The Mule Esb Bank Prime Brokerage Business System Building In The Middle

The prime finance of Citi bank is a traditional business of commercial banks and investment banks. In the past several decades prime finance has become an increasingly competitive field and an important contributor to investment banking business. Because the prime finance system is combined of a bunch of product systems, it’s getting bigger and bigger with its development. Those distributed product systems have different technique, framework and database. With business getting bigger, it’s also hard to maintain dozens of product systems. It also makes the cost for maintenance and enhancement go high day by day, at the mean time it lowers the responding time for business change. It’s time to do some restructure change and make a universal, integrated system. A centralized middleware business system is the most basic, important key of the whole change.First of all, with Citi bank prime finance unit as background, the current status of its distributed middle tier business handling systems are introduced. Make sure that it is worth to build a centralized middleware business system. Based on it, it discusses why Mule ESB is the right choice for build the centralized middleware business system. Then, the key features transaction handling, reconciliation and portfolio service are analyzed. Next, the functions and system processes of centralized middleware business system are analyzed. Additionally, based on Mule ESB framework, web services and message bus, it’s analyzed the architecture. Meanwhile, the implementation of centralized middleware business system is introduced with emphasis. Finally, the centralized middleware business system is summarized.