The RIBS4 Treasury module provides complete support of trading and back office operations for the purchase and sale of currencies, both spots and forwards, including outrights, swaps, discounted papers, forward rate agreements and interest rate swaps. The covered Money Market instruments are time and call deposits, short and medium term loans and mortgage type loans. The derivative functions supports hedge trades and normal trades as well.

In addition, RIBS4 offers a powerful and fully integrated treasury management solution with the risk management, financial analysis and global profitability analysis products suite RiskPro™ from our sister company IRIS integrated risk management AG.

Major characteristics of the module are :

On-line position keeping by currency and instrument type
On-line limit control which is adaptable to user requirements
On-line payments and confirmations via SWIFT record or paper
Flexible bookkeeping concept
Accrued interest calculations with optional posting
Straight through processing


Front Office Functions

User friendly with on-line help and search facilities, default values and standard settlement
Instructions controlled by parameter to customize the data entry
Wide usage of function keys
Standard calculation functions accessible during deal input
Flexible inquiries options available during deal input
Access to trade date information, counterpart positions and limits


Back Office Functions

Previously entered deals may be modified or reversed
Input of fees and commissions in any foreign currency is available
Complete straight through follow-up processing exists for all deal types (postings, printing of confirmations, money transfers and statistics)
Standard payment instruction sets as default values or manually entered payment instructions
Interfaces to other dealing systems (Kondor+ from Reuters)
Pooling of trader input
Customized reports generator


Inquiries Functions

Liquidity Position
Currency Position
Money Market Position
Call Deposit Position
FX Transaction Limit
Money Market Transaction Limit


Instruments covered

Following list does not include all deal types that RIBS4 can process.

Foreign Exchange (FX):

Spot Deals
Outright
Swaps


Money Market (MM):

Time Deposit
Call Deposit
Forward rate agreement (FRA)
Interest rate swap (IRS)
Cross currency swap (CCS)


Options:

Foreign Exchange Options
Caps
Floors
Collars