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Function Checklist

Technical Summary

Function 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