Contents

1. Preface

  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Audience
  • 1.3 Documentation Accessibility
  • 1.4 Organization
  • 1.5 Related Documents
  • 1.6 Glossary of Icons
  • 2. An Overview of the Foreign Exchange Module

  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Setting up the System
  • 2.3 Organizing Foreign Exchange Deals
  • 2.4 Specifying the Brokerage
  • 2.5 Defining Tax
  • 2.6 Tracking Limits
  • 2.7 Settling FX Contracts
  • 2.8 Retrieving Information Relating to FX deals
  • 3. Maintaining Data Specific to the FX Module

  • 3.1 Static Data
  • 3.1.1 Static Data specific to the FX module
  • 3.2 Branch Parameters
  • 3.2.1 Maintaining Branch Parameters
  • 3.2.2 Maintaining CLS preferences for the branch
  • 3.2.3 Specifying UDF Values
  • 3.3 Forward Rates
  • 3.3.1 Maintaining Forward Rates
  • 3.3.2 Maintaining forward Rates for Currency Pairs
  • 3.4 Discounting Rates
  • 3.4.1 Maintaining Discounting Rates
  • 3.4.2 Specifying UDF Values
  • 3.4.3 Querying Discount Rates
  • 3.4.4 Querying Based on Tenor
  • 3.5 Netting
  • 3.5.1 Netting Details
  • 3.5.2 Maintaining Netting Details
  • 3.5.3 Specifying UDF Values
  • 3.5.4 Maintaining FX Risk Netting Details
  • 3.5.5 Specifying UDF Values
  • 3.6 Confirmation Rule Maintenance
  • 3.6.1 Invoking Confirmation Rule Maintenance Screen
  • 3.6.2 Viewing Confirmation Rule Maintenance Details
  • 3.6.3 Processing FX Confirmation Message Intraday Batch
  • 3.7 Confirmation Message Matching
  • 3.7.1 Invoking Confirmation Message Matching Screen
  • 3.7.2 View Message Button
  • 3.7.3 View Match Details Button
  • 3.7.4 Contract Button
  • 3.7.5 View Message Button
  • 3.7.6 Viewing Confirmation Message Matching Details
  • 3.7.7 Processing of Partially Matched /Unmatched Messages
  • 4. Defining Attributes specific to FX Products

  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 FX Products
  • 4.2.1 Invoking FX Product Definition Screen
  • 4.2.2 Preferences Tab
  • 4.2.3 Additional Tab
  • 4.3 Product Combinations
  • 4.3.1 Maintaining Product Combinations
  • 4.3.2 Creating a Product Combination
  • 4.3.3 Maintaining Product Category Details for Internal Swap Transactions
  • 5. Beginning of Day Operations

  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Forward Rates
  • 5.2.1 Discounting Rates
  • 5.3 Automatic Liquidation of a Contract
  • 5.3.1 A description of the function
  • 5.4 Automatic Rollover of a Contract
  • 5.4.1 A Description of the Function/Procedures
  • 5.4.2 Retrieving Information
  • 6. Contract Processing

  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 FX Deal
  • 6.2.1 Entering an FX Deal
  • 6.2.2 Invoking Foreign Exchange Contract Input Screen
  • 6.2.3 Main Tab
  • 6.2.4 Specifying the ‘Rollover instructions’ Tab Details
  • 6.2.5 Specifying the ‘Netting’ Tab Details
  • 6.2.6 Process of updating of Limit Tracking options
  • 6.2.7 Manual Netting
  • 6.2.8 Automatic and Manual FX Netting Batch
  • 6.2.9 Capturing the ‘Revaluation Details Tab’ Details
  • 6.2.10 Specifying ‘Non-Deliverable Forward’ Tab Details
  • 6.2.11 Saving the Contract You Entered
  • 6.2.12 Processing a Contract Involving a Product Combination
  • 6.2.13 FX Contracts Processing with Netted Limits Tracking
  • 6.2.14 Upload
  • 6.2.15 Amendment of Uploaded Deals
  • 6.2.16 Indicating the Option Period and the Rate
  • 6.2.17 Viewing Event details
  • 6.2.18 Suppressing or Prioritizing Advices
  • 6.2.19 Brokerage Details
  • 6.2.20 Settlement Details
  • 6.2.21 Viewing FX Linkage Details
  • 6.3 Operations on a Contract
  • 6.3.1 Amending deal details
  • 6.3.2 Uploading the contracts for amendment
  • 6.3.3 Identifying Financial and Non-Financial fields for Amendment
  • 6.3.4 Reversing and Rebooking a Contract
  • 6.3.5 Copying contract details
  • 6.3.6 Viewing different versions of the contract
  • 6.3.7 Deleting a contract
  • 6.3.8 Reversing a contract
  • 6.3.9 Putting a Contract on ‘Hold’
  • 6.3.10 Multilevel Authorization of a Contract
  • 6.3.11 Authorizing a Contract
  • 6.3.12 Authorizing Bulk FX contracts
  • 6.3.13 Authorizing the Contracts
  • 6.3.14 Viewing the Errors
  • 6.3.15 Viewing the Settlement Details
  • 6.3.16 Viewing the Details of the Contract
  • 6.3.17 Rolling Over a Contract Manually
  • 6.3.18 Registering the Confirmation for a Contract
  • 6.3.19 Liquidating a contract manually
  • 6.4 The Liquidation and Cancellation Function
  • 6.4.1 Authorizing FX Payment Details
  • 6.5 Reassign Contract
  • 6.5.1 Reassigning a Contract to Another User
  • 6.5.2 Viewing FX Payment Details
  • 6.5.3 Viewing FX Contract
  • 6.6 Online Querying for FX positions
  • 6.6.1 Viewing the details of the individual deals that contribute to the position
  • 6.7 FX Affirmation Input
  • 6.7.1 Invoking FX Affirmation Input Screen
  • 6.8 Internal Swap Transactions
  • 6.8.1 Defining Internal Swap Transactions
  • 6.8.2 Validations for Internal Swap Transactions
  • 6.8.3 Processing Internal Swap Transactions
  • 6.9 Processing Linked FX Contracts
  • 7. Continuous Linked Settlements (CLS)

  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 CLS Preferences
  • 7.2.1 Maintaining CLS Preferences for the Branch
  • 7.2.2 Allowing a Currency to be Settled Inside CLS
  • 7.2.3 Identifying the customer as a CLS Participant and maintaining currency restrictions
  • 7.2.4 Maintaining CLS currency preferences for the branch
  • 7.2.5 Specifying UDF Values
  • 7.2.6 Maintaining Holidays for CLS Bank
  • 7.2.7 Specifying UDF Values
  • 7.2.8 Maintaining the participant type for CLS customers
  • 7.2.9 Specifying UDF Values
  • 7.2.10 Maintaining Settlement Instructions for CLS Deals
  • 7.2.11 Maintaining Alert Preferences for CLS deals
  • 7.2.12 Specifying UDF Values
  • 7.3 CLS deal
  • 7.3.1 Processing a CLS deal
  • 7.3.2 Checking the CLS Eligibility of an FX deal
  • 7.3.3 Processing a CLS deal as a non-CLS deal
  • 7.3.4 Processing a CLS deal
  • 7.3.5 Message Generation for CLS deals
  • 8. FX Advices and Messages

  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Advices
  • 8.2.1 FX Deal Confirmation message
  • 8.2.2 Contract deal slip
  • 8.2.3 Contract brokerage advice
  • 8.2.4 FX Swap Confirmation Advice
  • 8.2.5 Contract amendment advice
  • 8.2.6 Roll-over advice
  • 8.2.7 Reversal advice
  • 8.2.8 Advice of Cancellation (MT292)
  • 8.3 Messages
  • 8.3.1 Generating Payment Messages
  • 8.3.2 Generating Receive Messages
  • 8.3.3 Generating User Ref. No. in Messages
  • 8.3.4 Generating Cancellation Request Messages
  • 9. Annexure A - Accounting Entries and Advices

  • 9.1 Accounting entries for Foreign Exchange
  • 9.2 FX Events
  • 9.3 Amount Tags
  • 9.4 Accounting Roles
  • 9.5 Event-wise Accounting Entries and Advices
  • 9.5.1 BOOK: Booking an FX contract
  • 10. Glossary

  • 10.1 Important Terms
  • 11. Reports

  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 FX Maturity Analysis Report
  • 11.3 Currency Forward Rates Report
  • 11.3.1 Contents of the Currency Forward Rates Report
  • 11.4 FX Currency Analysis Report
  • 11.4.1 Contents of the FX Currency Analysis Report
  • 11.5 FX Tenor-wise Currency Position Report
  • 11.5.1 Contents of the FX Tenor-wise Currency Position Report
  • 11.6 Counterparty Unconfirmed FX Contracts Report
  • 11.6.1 Contents of the Counterparty Unconfirmed FX Contracts Report
  • 11.7 FX Contract Daily Activity Report
  • 11.7.1 Contents of the FX Daily Activities Report
  • 11.8 FX Contract Overrides Report
  • 11.8.1 Contents of the FX Contracts Overrides Report
  • 11.9 FX Brokerage Details Report
  • 11.9.1 Contents of the FX Brokerage Details Report
  • 11.10 FX Daily Exception Report - Automatic Processing
  • 11.10.1 Contents of the FX Daily Exception Report
  • 11.11 FX Discounting Rate Report
  • 11.11.1 Contents of the Report
  • 11.12 Netting Agreement Report
  • 11.12.1 Contents of the Report
  • 11.13 Brokerage Confirmation Journal
  • 11.13.1 Contents of the Report
  • 11.14 Contract Maturity Due Report
  • 11.14.1 Contents of the Report
  • 11.15 Fund Transfer to Foreign Exchange Netting Report
  • 11.15.1 Contents of the Report
  • 11.16 FX to FT Netting Report
  • 11.16.1 Contents of the Report
  • 11.17 Process Exception Report
  • 11.17.1 Contents of the Report
  • 12. Function ID Glossary