Understanding Securities

Deal Management provides securities functionality for use in creating deals. You can attach a specified security to a deal on the Security Header page.

This functionality enables you to:

  • Record general information for a security.

  • Search and record multiple lines of security, market-value information.

  • Download security information and current market values.

Note: This component is designed to provide support for managing interest-bearing securities that trade in the marketplace. Suitable securities for this component include Treasury securities (T-Bills, T-Notes, Treasury bonds), corporate bonds, municipal bonds ("munis"), agency securities (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac), and commercial papers. For managing debt instruments that your firm issues, however, such as commercial paper and line-of-credit facilities, see the Managing Facilities in Deal Management documentation.

For managing stocks, see the Managing Equity Deals documentation.

Note: Many of the fields that are mentioned here are described in more detail in the Capturing Deals and Trade Tickets documentation.

Before creating and processing securities, you must set up deal instrument types.