The document discusses treasury operations and testing challenges. It notes that treasury operations involve effective cash management including capital funding, liquidity management, and regulatory reporting. Treasury transactions are initiated through the front office, controlled by the middle office, and settled by the back office. Technology plays an important role by integrating business units, customers, and service providers. Global treasury organizations focus on automating processes, upgrading systems for compliance, managing master data, implementing data warehousing/BI systems, and leveraging ERP systems. Key testing challenges include requirements from regulatory changes, complex instruments, integrating multiple interfaces, computing cash flows/risk analytics, and ensuring data quality.

1. T r u s t t h e E x p e r t s
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The treasury operation in any organization is a function of effective cash management, which involves capital funding and the
management of liquidity, risks such as interest rate risk and forex risk, assets, liabilities, transfer pricing etc. Business intelligence
and regulatory reporting are its integral parts. The treasury department of a Bank also focuses on meeting the Central bank
guidelines for liquidity & reserve requirements.
Transactions in a treasury organization are initiated through the front office, controlled & monitored by the middle office and settled
by back office. Technology plays an important role in integrating the business units, customers and service providers with the
treasury department.
Process simplification and cost reduction through invest in
technology
Global Treasury organizations are seized with: -
• Wing to wing treasury-business process automation,
involving new product installations/transformation
• Upgradation of IT systems for regulatory compliance
involving complex process/data management
• Master data management for centralized maintenance of
reference data
• Data warehousing & BI systems implementation for MIS, tax
or regulatory reporting
• Leveraging on ERP systems to integrate Treasury
operations
• Cloud based systems in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
model
Testing Challenges
• Defining the requirements emanating from regulatory
changes
• Complexities associated with wide range of asset class
and trading instruments
• Testing the integration of multiple interfaces used for
end-to-end operations
• Computing the expected results for cash flows & risk
analytics
• Ensuring the quality of large amount of data acquired
from different transactional systems into data
warehouses for business intelligence reports &
analytics

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T r u s t t h e E x p e r t s
Thinksoft’s credentials
3 Thorough understanding of the trade life cycle of a wide range
of instruments including Debt, Derivatives, Forex, Commodities,
Equities, Mutual funds and Structured products
3 Knowledge on the regulatory requirements applicable to the
geography of the client businesses
3 A strong team of investment bankers who have in-depth
understanding of Treasury business processes in any corporate
or a bank like securities & derivatives trading, valuations, cash
flow forecasting, hedge management, liquidity management,
payments & settlements, accounting, interest rate risk
management, asset liability management, credit risk
management, transfer pricing, MIS and regulatory reports
3 Well trained and knowledgeable testing teams specializing in
Corporate treasury functions like Short Term Funding, Long
Term Funding, FX Hedging, Commodity Hedging and Match
Funding
3 Hands-on experience in Treasury services offered by Banks
like Cash Management, Trade Finance, Short Term Funding,
Working Capital Solutions, Payments & Receipts Management
3 Track record in testing leading products like Wall Street Suite,
Kondor+, ATOM, Temenos T24, iDeal Credence, 360T, FXAll,
Reuters RET-AD, Sungard Bancware BDI, Midas Plus, Intellect
Treasury and more
How Thinksoft can help
• Requirements assurance including FAS 133, FATCA, Dodd Frank Act, SEPA, MIFID
compliance
• Instruments /Transaction based test data management
• Calculators for cash flows & risk analytics
• Risk based testing using Risk Prioritization Matrix
Domain Focus
• Thinksoft’s test automation framework ARTEMIS that requires minimal
maintenance effort
• In-house tools for testing Data Warehousing & BI systems
• Wall Street Suite (WSS) upgrade testing expertise using SkyReport tool
Automation
• Ready-to-use Treasury testware covering front-to-back operations
• Free-up business users’ time spent on testing
• Global delivery model with flexi-time support
Time to market
With over a decade in testing Banking, Treasury & Capital
markets systems, Thinksoft has built time-tested
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global corporates & banks.
Track Record
Thinksoft Treasury clientele includes: -
• US Fortune 500 companies & banks
• Leading Banks in the Europe, Middle East and Asia
• Leading Commercial Bank and Rural Development Bank in
India
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