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Global Processing Solution An Overview May 2002  Table of Contents I. The Marketing Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 II. The Settlement Engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 III. Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 IV. The Product Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 V. Initial Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 VI. Components of a Global Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 VII. Component Interfaces and Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 VIII. Products and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 14 IX. Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 15 Questions and comments should be forwarded to the attention of: Mr. Konnie Kontoleon Automatic Data Processing 2 Journal Square Plaza Jersey City, N.J. 07306 201-714-8105 Email: Kontolek@ Additional information on the elements of GPS is available upon request. Global Processing Solution (GPS) I. The Marketing Strategy GPS is an outgrowth of ADP’s decision in the mid-nineties to extend the products and services we traditionally offered in the North American marketplace to a worldwide market. Our strategy was to bolster the very strong capabilities of the Brokerage Processing System (BPS), used by the majority of U.S. and Canadian broker/dealers that elected to outsource their transaction processing and clearance and settlement data processing functions to a service bureau provider, with more robust fixed income and international instrument product coverage. While our flagship product, BPS, has multi-currency capabilities and processes trades in domestic and international se