Siena Front Office

The Siena Front Office is a specialist and purpose built Front Office treasury management solution providing organisations with the finger tip control required to manage their dealing operations. The Siena solution ensures Treasury Managers and Dealers alike have the real time information required to make informed decisions.

Siena fully supports a wide breath of asset classes and instruments and provides a highly intuitive user interface ensuring trade capture is an effortless activity with all blotters, positions, limits and other information displays updated in real-time. 

Key benefits:

• A specialist and purpose built front office solution aimed at supporting Dealers and Treasury Managers alike;
• Product support for a wide breadth of asset class and instrument coverage
• Real time position updates and exposure management;
• Extensive real-time limit monitoring including pre-deal limit checking and end of day revaluations;
• Positional and Cashflow consolidation for internal departments (Trade Finance, Lending, Wealth Management etc);
• Comprehensive cash-flow management & interest rate sensitivity analysis;
• Full, two way & real-time interfaces to middle/back office solutions (including Flexcube, T24 and MIDAS);
• Real time intraday and end of day Revaluations and P & L generation;
• Price feed, rate management, fixings and price distribution services;
• Established interfaces to external execution platforms, trade and price feeds;
• Extensive Report toolset with a full suite of reports and the ability to self create new reports;
• Entry platform to the e-Trading market place using Eurobase’s Siena e-Solution;

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The Siena Front-Office Solution

 1.    Siena Front Office is a functionally rich and highly flexible solution that meets the requirements of any financial organisation regardless of size or location.

2.    Product coverage includes:

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3.    Siena provides extensive position and profitability displays and cash-flows, all updated in real-time.

• Cash-flows can be separated between actual and notional flows, with full projection and drill-down capabilities.
• All position, nostro and cash-flow enquiries can be “peeled off” to spawn additional position displays.
• Each deal can be broken down to its NPV for analysis and reporting purposes.
• Positions can be compared against different curves to provide a sensitivity analysis.
• On-request user-defined position filtering (by any combination of books).
• Automatic position layoff to appropriate desk books by interbook transactions.
• P/L and NPV update in line with rate feeds.

4.    Highly configurable Margining:

• Siena allows organisations to pre-define sales-desk and traders’ margins by highly configurable criteria including for example deal type, currency, tenor, counterparty (and/or trading group), bid/offer and amount band.

5.    The Siena Limits module works in real-time delivering:

• Pre-deal limit checks against Country, Product, Counterparty Group and Counterparty.
• Monitored limits include Net/Gross/CLS settlement, Loan Equivalent Risk, Trading (O/N, Daylight and Stop Loss) and User product limits.
• Intra-day import of limits from external systems.

6.    Siena Front Office supports multiple blotters and allows users to determine the shape, order and blotter content through the use of advanced filters.

• Multiple blotters can be viewed by a powerful “Peel Off" capability.
• Each blotter can be filtered as required according to a wide variety of criteria.
• Frequently used filters can be saved for re-use.

7.    Siena is designed so that all inherent processes apply seamless STP and real-time data transfer both upstream and downstream to other internal/external systems.

8.    Deal Capture windows can be personalised and managed efficiently using:

• ‘Favourites’ lists.
• Deal templates.
• An environment editor to enable and disable features as required.
• All personalised settings are saved and reusable.

9.    Siena Front Office has an extensive range of interfaces that allow it to:

• Import price feeds, external trade capture, limit and static data updates.
• Export to most mainstream back-office systems and other up/downstream systems.

Siena Front Office is also fully integrated with the complete range of Siena eTrader products including the Siena Gateway to multiple trading venues.

10.    Siena Front Office has its own reporting module that allows users to refine reports through the use of filters and then execute that report on-line. The Siena Front Office data can also be accessed via external reporting tools using the Siena Relational Gateway.

 

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