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Establish a single source of truth

Eliminate disparate systems. Use First Rate to aggregate your data from multiple sources and deliver it in a consistent format.
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Are your data processes holding you back?

We’ve talked to a lot of firms, and they’re all facing at least one of these challenges. Are you?
Struggling to collect, assemble, and deliver data on time
Relying on time-consuming and error prone manual procedures
Spending more time, effort, and money on ops than on scaling
Using disparate systems to collect structured data and unstructured data

Bring order to your data and clarity to your clients

Take advantage of First Rate’s pre-trained engine, ArtIE, to automate data aggregation and feed it wherever you need it.
Receive timely and accurate data acquisition processes you feel confident in
Consolidate data from multiple sources (structured and unstructured)
Gain a modular technology that grows with your firm over the long term
Spend more time growing your business ad serving clients and not pulling data together

What it Looks Like

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How it works

First Rate provides an end-to-end data strategy for structured and unstructured data elements

STEP 1

Onboard

LOAs, Portals and emails containing statements, capital calls and notices
2500+ Fund Managers
1000+ Portals
25000+ Statements

STEP 2

Extract

Fund metric data, reported documents and feeds
ArtIE Technology
Discover and classify data
Apply relevant labeling

STEP 3

Validate

Source specific normalization of Documents and Data
Data Verification
Outlier Report
Quality Control
Exceptions handling

STEP 4

Distribute

File output agnostic into any downstream system
Golden source recon
Performance
IBOR
General Ledger
Data Warehouse
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Import any source...

ArtIE, our financial aggregation engine, can acquire data from all the necessary sources in any format provided, including PDF statements, images, websites, and more.
Custodians
Alternative assets
Held-away accounts
Accounting platforms
We also work with regional partners who provide clean, raw data. To ensure data integrity, we do not aggregate non-raw data.

...and deliver it anywhere

First Rate features output agnostic integrations with existing enterprise platforms. Send your data to any accounting or financial book of record via flat files, SFTP, APIs and more.

We became the experts in data agg, so you don't have to

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We at First Rate have been there ourselves. We know how frustrating it is to deal with manual processes and a higher risk of non-compliance, forcing you to spend more time, energy, and money on operations than on developing your business.

To solve this problem for ourselves, we developed a financial aggregation engine, ArtIE. ArtIE is pre-trained on 15 years’ worth of financial data, so it can quickly aggregate and digitize data from any source.

In addition, we know it’s stressful to onboard custodians to a new system. When you work with us, you’ll have a white-glove onboarding team to handle all custodian and account connections, as well as LOAs.

Use Cases

The most important piece of the financial aggregation process is to source, extract, and validate all data fields before sending them into downstream systems. From there, reporting, insights, and further innovation is possible.
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Asset Management

Relationship Type: Direct

Challenge: The firm has a very manual and time-consuming process to consume and validate alternative investment information from the bank’s internal oversight and external fund managers. Quarterly documents can exceed 25,000.

Outcome: Data Services is automating the statement-gathering process monthly, reconciling these documents, and providing the client with a back-office dashboard for review before going into downstream investment systems.

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Family Office

Relationship Type: Direct

Challenge: The FO can’t trust the data they are receiving as part of an all-in-one solution. There are numerous errors in the data normalization and reconciliation process, making downstream analysis and insight impossible without manual intervention.

Outcome: Data Services sources, validates, and reconciles all data fields in order to provide an extract into downstream systems—99.8% error-free automation process with a  human in the loop providing oversight.

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Capital Management

Relationship Type: Direct

Challenge: The firm is unable to provide timely performance and reporting capabilities to their entire book of business because of disparate technology solutions.

Outcome: Data Services provides 20 e-feeds direct to custodians, pulls all account information, handles daily calculations according to client specifications, and normalizes all data files in to specific outputs for consumption into their IBOR. The firm now utilities one system, not three.

Better data is just a few steps away

1

Connect

The first step is a conversation to understand your needs. This will help us determine if Vistarra is a good fit for you. There's no pitch and no commitment.
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Whiteboard

We'll demonstrate how Vistarra can tell your clients' wealth stories through automated reporting.
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Work Together

Once we agree on a solution, we'll present a detailed timeline to make it reality. And once implemented, we'll train you on how to use our platform and be on call if you need support.
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