3 Process an MM Deal

A product is a specific service that you offer your customers.

For example, amongst other financial services, you may offer an ‘overnight borrowing’ facility to your customers. By defining the overnight borrowing facility as a product - with specific attributes,-you can categorize all overnight borrowings, which share the attributes, defined for the product.

The other advantage of defining a product is that you can define certain general attributes for a product that will default to all contracts (placements or borrowings) involving it.

Note:

When you enter into a deal with a customer, you enter into a ‘contract’. Contracts are customer-specific.
Deals (contracts) inherit the attributes of the product by default. This means you will not have to define these general attributes each time you input a deal involving the product. These general attributes are changed at the time of processing a deal. Besides, these general attributes which a deal inherits from a product - and which is changed for it - there are the specific attributes which you have to define for the deal:
  • The Counterparty (customer) details
  • The deal amount
  • The deal currency
  • The repayment account for the deal, and so on

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