1. User Guide
  2. Business Rules Administration
  3. Reference Data

5.1 Reference Data

This section explains about the baseline configurations like interest rate curves, Currencies set up, Economic indicators on which Various rules/assumptions can be defined. These configurations are referred across various modules and used in subsequent transfer pricing calculations.

Topics:

  1. Currencies: Currencies module allows you to define and maintain the currencies and currency rates.
    • Currencies: Currencies module supports the definitions and maintenance of currencies.
    • 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.
  2. Interest Rates: 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.
  3. Economic Indicators: 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Behavior Patterns: User Defined Behavior Patterns allow you to define Principal Amortization Schedules for Non-Maturity Products in your portfolio.
  6. Payment Patterns: User defined payment patterns allow you to define custom repayment patterns for products in your portfolio.