Preface

This manual is designed to help you to quickly get acquainted with the Over the Counter Options (OT) module of Oracle Banking Treasury Management.

• 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
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
OBTR	Oracle Banking Treasury Management
OT	Over the Counter Options
RFR	Risk Free Rates

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 Over the Counter Options	Explains the overview and features of the Options system.
General Maintenance	Explains the necessity of maintaining Branch Parameters, Contract Fair Value details and Limit Tracking details.
Define Attributes Specific to OT Products	Explains the procedure to define attributes specific to OT products.
Process OT Instruments	Explains the details of an OT and describes how you can capture an OT instrument.
Automatic Daily Processing	Explains the Beginning and End of Day functions that are processed by the system.
Annexure A – Event-wise Accounting Entries and Advices for OT	Explains the event-wise list of suggested accounting entries and advices for the module. The advices generated are also documented here.
Annexure B – Examples of Processing Interest Rate and Currency Options in Oracle Banking Treasury Management	Explains the examples of processing actual Interest Rate and Currency options in Oracle Banking Treasury Management.

Related Resources

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

• The Procedures User Manual
• The Core Entities User Manual
• The Settlements User Manual

Symbols and Icons

Table -3 Symbols

Icons	Function
	Exit
	Add row
	Delete row
	Option List