eToro
By implementing end-to-end automation, our employees have more time to spend on value-added tasks.
Kreeson Thathiah UK Head of Finance & Risk Director at eToroeToro is one of the world’s leading social investment networks. Their platform allows users to buy and sell stocks and, more recently, cryptocurrencies.
Following a considerable growth period, eToro approached AutoRek in 2017 to build out a variety of reconciliations. eToro required a solution to manage large volumes of transactions coming into the platform, often in varying data formats. They also needed support with Payment Service Provider (PSP) reconciliations.
The challenge
As a trading platform, eToro required an automated solution to manage high transactional volumes and the challenges associated with varying data formats. The project with AutoRek sought to implement an automated bank reconciliation with an associated control reconciliation and a further reconciliation to reconcile (PSP) movements with eToro client movements. eToro came to AutoRek during a significant growth phase in which an automated solution would allow them to effectively manage growing volumes of PSP reconciliations and the variety of data formats involved.
The solution
AutoRek’s solution was implemented to help eToro match payments made via their PSPs to their banks and internal ledgering system, as well as to perform external cash reconciliations. Since its implementation, the solution has performed external cash reconciliations daily and PSP reconciliations fortnightly. As AutoRek pulls all of the formats into a common view and automates matching, eToro have more time to focus on true discrepancies
The benefits for eToro
Fully scalable to support company expansion
eToro work with around 30 PSPs in their daily operations and as such, they required a solution to scale freely alongside business growth and allow for easy onboarding of new providers. AutoRek staff also spent a number of days on-site with eToro, teaching them how to create new match rules as required to onboard additional PSPs.
End-to-end automation
Before implementing AutoRek, eToro’s reconciliations were largely manual and performed in Microsoft excel. With a fully automated solution, the firm has reduced the risks of manual errors and freed up employees, who can now focus on more critical areas of the business rather than repetitive manual work.
Comprehensive audit trails & minimised risk of regulatory breaches
As eToro falls under the remit of the FCA, it was vital that any software implementation enhanced the firm’s regulatory compliance. With AutoRek, every action performed by eToro is fully logged and available for auditors, which will greatly simplify the audit process and reduce the costs involved.
Simplified foreign exchange (FX) processes
AutoRek worked alongside eToro to build an FX rate solution as part of their implementation, removing the need to manually apply calculations to each of their transactions. This functionality means that eToro can load historical data for daily FX rates and perform bulk updates of transactions by applying FX values for specific transaction dates.
Data integrity
To help manage high transactional volumes, AutoRek and eToro worked on-site to extend and enhance the data validation capabilities of their solution. This allowed the firm to utilise both double-sided validation and validation of custom data mappings.