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Function Summary Checklist

Investments

  • Fixed rate money market
  • Fixed and floating long term investments
  • Amortising investments and annuities
  • Money market funds
  • Government and corporate bonds
  • Commercial paper
  • Treasury bills and bonds
  • Certificates of deposit
  • Money market report
  • Debt

  • Fixed rate money market
  • Fixed and floating long term borrowing
  • Amortising borrowings and annuities
  • Facility and syndicated facility management
  • Bonds and medium term note issues
  • Commercial paper issues
  • Foreign Exchange

  • FX spot and forwards
  • FX forwards with amortising interest
  • FX swaps
  • Vanilla currency options
  • Knock-in and knock-out ccy options
  • Double barrier currency options
  • Exchange traded currency futures and options
  • Derivatives

  • Interest rate swaps
  • Basic swaps
  • Cross-currency swaps
  • Amortising, balloon and irregular swaps
  • Future rate agreements
  • Swaptions
  • Caps, collars and floors
  • Interest rate futures
  • Exchange traded futures and options including commodities
  • Transaction Administration

  • Integrated workflow and authorisation
  • Daily cash diary
  • Transaction events diary
  • Competitive bids analysis
  • Manual confirmations to user-defined templates
  • Automatic confirmation matching through CMS/FXMatch or Concord
  • Credit Risk

  • User-definable credit policies
  • Exposure weighting by transaction type and maturity
  • Integration with pricing tools for policies against market values
  • Credit ratings management
  • Exposure tracking for both counterparties and counterparty groups
  • Real-time messaging
  • Accounting

  • Multi-entity, multi-currency ledger
  • User-definable accounting rules on transaction types
  • Support for accounting standards, including FRS4, FAS133, IAS39
  • Journal entry
  • Flexible period ends by entity
  • Automated posting of revaluations and accruals
  • Export facilities to external ledger systems
  • Export facilities to reporting consolidation systems
  • Settlements

  • Standard settlement instructions by counterparty and transaction type
  • Support for special settlement instructions
  • Integrated payments workflow and authorisation
  • Payment netting and offset
  • Interfaces to banking EFT systems
  • Integration support for EFT repetitive templates
  • Exports options to standard file formats including EDIFACT
  • Cash Management

  • Cash positions over user-definable time series
  • Daily cash diary
  • Bank and intercompany transfers
  • 3rd party payments
  • Payee administration
  • Interfaces to bank balance reporting systems
  • Ability to import from BAI, MT940 or generic text electronic statements
  • Automatic transaction postings from electronic statements to user-definable rules
  • Integrated bank account reconciliation
  • Market Risk and Pricing

  • Zero coupon curve generation
  • Market pricing to zero coupon curves
  • Pricing for currency options including barriers and double barriers
  • Interfaces to import exchange rates, interest rates and volatilities
  • Full history of market data and transaction pricing
  • Support for multiple market data tables
  • 'What-if' and scenario modelling
  • Seamless integration of FinancialCAD pricing libraries
  • Web Functionality

  • Full security control for data and functions
  • On-line account balances and statements
  • Transfers and 3rd party payments
  • Forecast entry and upload
  • Money market and FX deal entry / orders
  • Integrated workflow and authorisation
  • Reporting

  • Diaries by date, currency, entity, counterparty, transaction type
  • Transaction activity by date, entity, counterparty, currency, transaction
  • Transactions outstanding by currency, entity, counterparty, transaction type
  • Competitive bids by date, currency, entity, counterparty, transaction type
  • FX activity and revaluations by date, currency, entity, counterparty, transaction type
  • Investment and debt reporting by date, currency, entity, counterparty, broker, transaction type
  • Payment activity, detail and authorisations by date, currency, entity, transaction type
  • User-definable confirmations by transaction types and events
  • Cash position worksheets by date, currency, account, entity, bank, region
  • Cash forecasting by currency, entity, account, region, bank, activity types
  • Bank reconciliation activity, exception reporting
  • Trial balance, balance sheet, P&L statements by date, currency, entity, counterparty
  • Audit and Security

  • Secure database access with fully encrypted passwords
  • User groups define security profiles detailing functions available and data visible
  • Password controls include user-defined options on failed attempts before lockout, length of password, password complexity, frequency of password re-use and password changes
  • Audit log of user connections, failed logins and lockouts
  • Optional dual authorisation control on standing data
  • Integrated workflow controls on transaction entry
  • Audit logs of data changes including history of previous values
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