Finastra’s Fusion Essence core system savours Saudi success
Saudi Arabia’s Agricultural Development Fund has chosen Finastra’s core banking solution, Fusion Essence, for its lending services.
ADF advances with Finastra
The governmental credit institution will use the platform – “traditionally used by banks for retail” – to provide its customers with new services and shorter loan approval times.
Muneer bin Fahad Al-Sahli, general director for Agricultural Development Fund, explains: “It’s crucial for us to offer our clients – farmers and other players in the agricultural space – a seamless digital experience which enables them with their endeavours. With Fusion Essence, we will be able to increase automation through our loan portal, which will lead to reduced timeframes for loan approvals and improved operational efficiencies.”
The fund is specialised in financing various fields of agricultural activity in Saudi Arabia, to develop the sector and increase its productive efficiency.
Its services allow farmers to obtain Shari’ah compliant loans for agricultural machinery and equipment.
The new system is part of the “information technology initiative”, one of the fund’s ten transformation programmes, which seeks to achieve the fund’s objectives in line with the Kingdom’s vision for the future.
The fund, which has until now used a legacy system (an “in-house developed system”), aims to go live with the solution within the next year. The system will also enhance the credit risk management practice in the fund.
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This is just the sale is completed. Implementation is yet to commence. As far as i know Fusion banking Essence and Islamic are failed products. Many implementations were not successful. A few banks went live with these products. They are either struggling to survive (because of product quality issues and at the risk of loosing banking licenses) or moved out to other products.
Is the implementation completed now?
No. adf is struggling.