Treasury Trades Application - Financial Services Company

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Our client, the treasury department of a financial services company, used a series of spreadsheets to validate proposed treasury trades against compliance rules.Concerned at the ever-increasing amount of time the existing process was taking, DataConsulting was engaged to develop a system to validate proposed treasury trades against pre-defined rules.A secure, robust and flexible application was built - with reporting suite into Excel and PDF - that ensures compliance with company rules, thereby reducing risk.

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DLeaders in data assurance and advisory services

Household-name financial services company

Treasury trades application

James Leigh and Alex Psarras

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About DataConsulting

Project so far

Demo

Agenda

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About DataConsulting

DataConsulting set up in 2007 to provide data analysis services to audit teams and finance departments

– Partners are ex-Deloitte and PwC; employ accountants, auditors and developers

Deep technical expertise in CAATs, continuous auditing, business modelling, spreadsheet assurance and tactical solutions

Wide client base

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Project so far

Commissioned in Sep 2010 to develop tactical application to replace spreadsheet recording of treasury deals

We chose a .NET/SQL CE/WinForms architecture to avoid recognised issues with Excel spreadsheets (and Access databases)

Intended to be lightweight, easy-to-use, robust and reliable – but not full-scale, business critical system implementation

Specification and development started in September

– Should have involved TDW IT sooner...JL off for paternity leave end of September, AP carried on development in absence to meet end of October deadline

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The application

– Validates proposed deals against pre-defined limits for country, counterparty, term and maturity ladder

– Alerts the user to any potential breaches, but allows them to be overwritten

– Automatically generates the required paper work in Excel and PDF

– Provides management reporting

Demo

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Front Office

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Back Office

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Administration

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Administration

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Limits

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Foreign Exchange

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Questions?

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Contacts

James Leigh

james.leigh@dataconsulting.co.uk

07595 022 923

Alex Psarras

alex.psarras@dataconsulting.co.uk

07585 967 438

DDataConsulting Ltd5 Appleton CourtCalder ParkWakefield WF2 7AR

Tel 01924 254 101www.dataconsulting.co.uk

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