Preface

This manual is designed to help you to quickly get acquainted with the Foreign Exchange module of Oracle Banking Treasury Management.

This preface has the following topics:

• Audience
  
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
  
• Conventions
  
• List of Topics
  
• Related Resources
  
• Symbols and Icons
  

Audience

This guide is intended for Back Office Data Entry Clerk, Back Office Managers/ Officers, Product Managers, End of Day Operators, and Financial Controller users.

Acronyms and Abbreviations

The acronyms and abbreviations are listed in this below table:

Table -1 Acronyms and Abbreviations

Abbreviations or Acronyms	Definition
AEOD	Automated End of Day
AIF	Alternative Investment Fund
CLS	Continuous Linked Settlement
CIF	Customer Information Files
DV	Derivatives
Dr	Debit
EOFI	End of Financial Input
EOD	End of Day
FS	Foreign Exchange Settlements
FX	Foreign Exchange
GL	General Ledger
IRS	Internal Revenue Service
ICCB	Interest Commission Charge and Fee
LCY	Local Currency
LIBOR	London Interbank Offered Rate
MM	Money Market
NDF	Non-Deliverable Forward
OBTR	Oracle Banking Treasury Management
OT	Over the Counter Options
RFR	Risk Free Rates
UDF	User Defined Fields

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Table -2 Conventions and Meaning

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

List of Topics

This guide is organized as follows:

Topics	Description
Overview of Foreign Exchange Module	Explains an overview of the Foreign Exchange (FX) module, giving a snapshot of the features that the module provides.
Data Maintenance in FX Module	Explains the details of data maintenance in FX module which explains maintaining information required to begin operations with the FX module.
Define Attributes Specific to FX Products	Explains how to define attributes specific to FX products.
Beginning of Day Operations	Explain the details of the operation to begin at the start of the day which explains the maintenance functions that need to be performed before operations with the module begin for the day.
Processing of Contract	Explains how to process the FX contract.
Continuous Linked Settlement	Explains the details of Continuous Linked Settlements (CLS) which describes the maintenance and processing details for CLS deal
FX Advices and Messages	Explains the details of FX Advices and Messages that the FX module can generate.
Accounting Entries and Advices	Explains an event-wise list of model accounting entries for the FX module.

Related Resources

For more information, see these Oracle Banking Treasury Management resources:

• The Core Services User Manual

• The Products User Manual

Symbols and Icons

Table -3 Symbols

Icons	Function
	Exit
	Add row
	Delete row
	Option List