1. User Guide
  2. Business Rules Administration

3 Business Rules Administration

This chapter introduces you to the following topics.

  1. Currencies: Currency module supports the definitions and maintenance of currencies.
  2. Dimension Management: Dimension Management facilitates you to categorize data into a single object as a Member; define levels and aggregate data to form the Hierarchies, and distinguish each member by defining the required Attributes.
    • Members: Dimension Members refer to the individual items that constitute a dimension when data is categorized into a single object such as Product, Organization, Time, and so on.
    • Attributes: Attributes refers to the distinguished properties or qualifiers that describes a Dimension Member.
    • Hierarchies: Hierarchies refer to Dimension Members that are arranged in levels, with each level representing the aggregated total of the data from the level below. One dimension type can have multiple hierarchies associated with it.
  3. Preferences: This section covers the procedures to set the Global Preference Settings and User Preference Settings.
  4. Currency Rates: Currency Rates module uses the currencies defined and activated in the Currency module to support the creation and maintenance of Historical Exchange Rates.
  5. Interest Rate Curve: The Interest Rate Curve in PBSM Cloud Service allows you to define and manage complex Yield Curve definitions using multiple Rate Formats and other Rate Attributes to give you data storage capabilities appropriate to your market. The Interest Rate Curve supports the creation and maintenance of Historical Rate Data for each Yield Curve you define.
  6. Economic Indicator: An Economic Indicator is any economic statistic such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI), growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment rate, Purchasing Managers Index, indices of consumer confidence, and so on.
  7. Holiday Calendar: A Holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or some religious groups have deemed that observance is warranted and thus no business is carried on this day.
  8. Behavior Pattern: User Defined Behavior Patterns allow you to define Principal Amortization Schedules for Non-Maturity Products in your portfolio.
  9. Management Ledger Configuration: This section covers the procedure to define the Functional Currency and the Fiscal Year Start Month for each registered Management Ledger Table.
  10. Break Identification Configuration: This section covers the procedure to configure the Break Identification.
  11. Replicating Portfolio: Replicating Portfolios are a special type of Non-Maturity Behavior Patterns and are created and managed directly through Replicating Portfolio UI.
  12. Propagation Patterns: The Propagation Pattern allows you to define Source Tables and Lookup Terms required for propagating Transfer Rates and Add-On rates for any applicable Instrument Table from a prior period.
  13. Transfer Pricing Rules: Transfer Pricing Rules allow you to specify methodologies for Transfer Pricing your Product Portfolio.
  14. Add-On Rate Rules: Add-on Rate Rules allow you to specify Methodologies to calculate Add-on Rates and Breakage Charges for the relevant products in your portfolio.
  15. Prepayment Rules: A Prepayment Rule contains methodologies to model the prepayment behavior of various amortizing instruments and quantify the associated Prepayment Risk.
  16. Prepayment Models: Prepayment Mod­els can be referenced by a Prepayment Rule to Model Prepayment Behavior of instruments based on a range of instrument level attributes.
  17. Alternate Rate Output Mapping Rules: In Oracle Funds Transfer Pricing, you either can output Transfer Pricing Results to the default columns of the application, or to the seeded alternate columns or placeholder alternate columns selected using the Alternate Rate Output Mapping Rule.
  18. Filters: Filters allow you to select data using the defined expressions.
  19. Standard Transfer Pricing Process: The Standard Process allows you to calculate Transfer Rates and Add-On Rates.
  20. Break Identification Process: The Break Identification Process allows you to determine the data that you want to process, specify the parameters for the process, and execute or run the Break Identification Request and generate results.