RUBIKON Treasury
Rubikon Treasury is a web based service-oriented treasury, securities & derivatives solution with comprehensive STP front to back office capabilities, cross-product processing of a wide range of financial instruments. In an integrated system, it can process simple and complex derivatives, fixed income, and equity and treasury trades.
Core treasury
Rubikon Treasury system encompasses all characteristics of a bank’s treasury operations including FX & MM- from deal capture and confirmation, settlements and accounting.
Processing FX includes spots, forwards, swaps, option takedowns and non deliverable forwards. Exchange traded derivatives functionality can be integrated to the core treasury suite including, exchange of physicals, interest rate, currency, bond and commodity
futures and options processing.
For MM, Rubikon Treasury supports fixed and short term maturity loans and deposits, fixed and variable rates, CDs along with standard fixed income and Repo agreements for US treasuries, corporate bonds, discount, amortising and coupon bearing instruments.
Trading & back office processing
Rubikon Treasury gives traders the necessary tools to manage their dealing operations more effectively. The web based solution provides deal pricing, deal entry, position keeping and risk management in a real-time dealing room environment.
Rubikon treasury delivers an integrated, front to back office solution to meet the demands of a straight through processing environment.
Capital markets
Rubikon Treasury supports a wide variety of standard government and corporate securities within the global markets.
The web based solution supports standard debt instruments including discount coupon-baring, amortising instruments, and multi-currency instruments.
Rubikon treasury also supports proprietary trading with automated real-time feeds of equity trades and prices from an exchange, automated dealing or other external systems.
Instruments processed within this product environment include fixed income, equities, sell/buy backs, repurchase agreements and securities lending.
Cash management
Middle office risk & control
The system has the ability to analyse and monitor risk and P&L and is fundamental to any financial institution. Rubikon Treasury allows traders and risk managers to monitor P&L, and position exposures.
The system’s blotters can track P&L, interest rate gaps and currency positions across asset classes.
Market data analysis & trade pricing
Rubikon Treasury supports market data from both internal and external sources. Market data is published and distributed and includes yield curves, volatilities, FX rates, securities, equities and futures prices along with interest rates, money market rates.
Limits monitoring
Rubikon Treasury is able to give financial institutions the power to gain control and centralise the monitoring of regulations, policies or any other user-defined restriction. Real-time, seamless integration includes portfolio, trade, position and reference data.
Rules can be defined to be monitored intra-day, on demand or at a frequency of your choosing, or at close of business. Users can be notified automatically of any breaches. Using the component-based definition functions, users can easily define a wide range of limits from the simple to the extremely complex – without the need for technical knowledge or coding.
Back office operation
Central to the Rubikon Treasury solution is the Workflow Manager - a real-time, cross-product, cross-entity utility that manages pre-defined or user-defined operations workflow.
Settlements & confirmations
Rubikon Treasury enables banks to effectively manage their settlement activity from treasury, derivatives and capital markets trading. The system features flexible instruction maintenance and application, stringent authorisation controls and embedded logic to create and transmit various SWIFT message types.
Accounting
Rubikon Core offers a full multi-entity, multi-currency general ledger, giving financial institutions the flexi- bility to define their own accounting structure and posting rules.
The system automatically generates and posts revaluations, accruals, and profit/loss entries. Rubikon Treasury can produce all the standard accounting reports required such as balance sheets, trial balances and income statements.
Regulatory compliance
One of the key strengths of the Rubikon Treasury STP Workflow is that it can be specifically designed to help eliminate operational risk. Also the ability of a highly flexible rules engine and real-time monitoring within Rubikon Treasury alerts of breaches and can assist in continuous monitoring of regulations, highlighting
issues before they become a problem.
As a result, Rubikon Treasury can address many of the regulatory requirements being asked of financial institutions, such as Basel II, SOX and MiFID.
Reporting & enquiries
Rubikon Treasury Inquiries allows users to closely monitor transactions and position activity. The solution enables users to conduct a wide range of inquiries, as well as construct SQL queries from the database.
Rubikon Treasury contains a comprehensive set of standard inquiries and reports, and the solution’s open database structure allows for immediate access to any data views. The solution includes pre-defined reports covering the entire product suite. Users can easily export to Excel, and the system provides seamless integration with third-party reporting applications such as Crystal Reports.
The workflow manager enables users to monitor transactional processing, enabling operations management to proactively meet customer needs.