BFSOFT Smart Deal System

Front; Back Office; And Treasury System

With

Forex ; Money Market And Margin Trading

Links To

Reuters; Swift; Telex; And Host

And

Accounting And Nostro Control

Product Specification

 

General

  • Real-time; multi-currency and multi-branch application for Foreign Exchange; Margin Trading;and Money Market.
  • Front; Back Office and Treasury operations including position keeping ; risk management; NOSTRO control and accounting.
  • Deals and rates entry either automatically captured from Reuters using the optional Reuters link or manually entered.
  • Optional link with SWIFT/TELEX system; and automatic reformatting of SWIFT/TELEX messages.
  • Full accounting module and optional link with the host computer.
  • Portfolio and profit centers across several books.
  • Complete security/ administration module that emphasizes the segregation of duties.
  • Queues processing enables each user group to have its transactions stacked in queues, and enables the manager to control the work stream.
  • Free Market operations (for Egypt's Client).

Easy-to-use and Cost-Effective

  • Hardware requirement is just networked PC's.
  • State-of-art Graphical User Interface using Client/Server Architecture; the client works under MS Windows; While the server might be any Relational Database Engine such as SYBASE;ORACLE; WATCOM....
  • On-line Help in addition to a lead through messages.
  • User-Customized and standard reports could be shown on a screen ; printed ; or previewed before printing.
  • Operational parameter

Deal Entry

  • Once the deal is done using Reuters workstation; it is automatically captured into Smart Deal system ; and ticket is printed ; if the deal is just experimental deal; dealer may mark it as "pseudo"; then it has no effect on positions; Otherwise it is "actual" deal and limits and positions are updated ; manual deal entry is also available.
  • Deal is automatically routed to the chief dealer if it needs authorization; or to the back office queue for confirmation.
  • User could enquire about Positions;limits; and other information during data entry.

Limits

  • Limit currency is user defined and might be different from home currency.
  • Automatic limit checking on deal entry.
  • Dealer and / group of dealers FX limits: account for FX over night; day-light limits; and MM placing limit.
  • Counter-Party and / group of counter-parties FX Spot; Forward; and Capital risk limits, and MM Foreign and local placing limits.
  • User defined instruments for each counter-party
  • Country and / group of countries FX and MM placing limits.
  • Currency and / group of currencies FX trading; over-night; and daylight limits are kept for each instrument within the currency.
  • Limit projection
  • Mark to Market revaluation.

Other Features

  • Security and Administration module controls the whole operational environment; any user can do only what is granted to him with complete segregation of duties.
  • Various histories are kept for deal to show any changes; for rates to look back ; for positions; and for other important information.
  • Event log registers any location done since Log-In and Deals Log registers any action that affect the deals.
  • Emergency Recovery and fast restart.
 
 
 

Positions and Cash flow

  • Real Time Foreign Exchange Currency position for each instrument traded showing the position in the subject currency, base currency and home currency.
  • Currency Pairs position instrument wise showing how the currency/instrument position is driven.
  • Global currency position tallying all currency/instrument of this currency.
  • On-line revaluation using live rates and profit and loss calculation.
  • Money Market position and combined Foreign Exchange and Money Market position; showing total exposure.

Margin Trading

  • An optional integrated module that maintains a special position for margin trading customers.
  • Easy way to close the position partially or totally with automatic calculation of margin and profit / loss using the latest market rates as revaluation rate.
  • Automatic calculation of stop-loss and cut rates, and warning when the market rate exceeds the stop-loss rate.
  • Comprehensive set of reports and enquiries including customer statement.

Instrument Supported

Foreign exchange

Spot
Forward
Swap
Tom Next
Spot Next
Overnight
Date Option(optional)

Money Market

Placements
Raising
Certificate of deposits
FRA(optional)

 

Treasury Management

  • Position and cash flows are viewed in different levels with profit and loss calculated in real time mode.
  • Shadow Nostro accounting that automatically posts to the correspondent account any deals belong to him; meanwhile allows manual posting ; so the treasurer may produce on-line Nostro statement of account containing both types.

Optional Modules

Reuters Module

  • Deal Capture from reuters workstations such as reuters 2000.
  • Rates feed from reuters rate system such as Tri-Arch.

Accounting Generation Module.

  • Automatically generates full accounting entries based on double entry concept for each type of transaction.
  • Support both Dual and multi-currency accounting methods.
  • Support Host communication to send the generated accounting entries directly to the host.

Swift/Telex Module

  • Automatically generates Swift/Telex messages such as MT300; MT324; MT202 and all other needed messages.
  • Support communication with different types of Swift CBT to send the auto-generated messages to the CBT and to receive any incoming message from it.

Reports And Enquires

  • ide range of reports are provided to serve all user levels; dealers;back officers; and managers.
  • Reports are shown on the screen in the same format as the printed one.
 

 

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