This document provides an overview of SuperPort, a treasury management system aimed at corporations and financial institutions. SuperPort provides comprehensive financial oversight and control, including features like accounting, cash flow management, securities administration, reporting, and risk management. It handles many common financial instruments and transactions and integrates with other finance systems. The system is flexible, user-friendly, and automates many daily financial tasks to reduce costs.
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Presentation on High Frequency Trading risks delivered during OpRisk conference in London in June 2012. Content includes an overview of key risks affecting high frequency trading.
1. Failure to meet regulatory and exchange requirements.
2. Removal of human decision making once the algorithms are finished.
3. Extreme market behaviour: Flash Crash (2010).
4. Theft or loss of Intellectual Property.
5. Errors or problems suffered by clients using Direct Market Access and Algo/HFT.
6. Business impact of latency (system errors may increase delays).
7. Limited security controls at the infrastructure level.
8. Failure of hedges. 9. Incorrect/untested strategies.
David Ramirez
IT Audit Director
Algorithmic trading, also called automated trading, black-box trading, or algo trading, is the use of electronic platforms for entering trading orders with an algorithm which executes pre-programmed trading instructions accounting for a variety of variables such as timing, price, and volume.
In The Speed Traders, Edgar Perez, founder of the prestigious business networking community Golden Networking, opens the door to the secretive world of high-frequency trading (HFT). Inside, prominent figures of HFT drop their guard and speak with unprecedented candidness about their trade.
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Philip Green CV
October 2013
Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst in Capital Markets, Derivatives, Equities, Dodd-Frank, Finance, Treasury and FX
Chicago, Illinois Capital Markets
Senior Project Manager, and Senior Business Analyst in requirements gathering and development, in Financial Operations and Technology, Treasury, Front-office trading, clearing, product control, with emphasis on financial services, risk, capital markets, investment management and asset management domain.
Particular strengths include extensive trading systems implementation experience with multi-products and lines of businesses, including global equity finance, treasury, compliance, regulatory initiatives such as Dodd-Frank Title 7 (OTC Derivatives and Swaps), Emerging Markets, EMEA, EMIR, Basel II and Basel III and asset types, product knowledge of Equities, Swaps, Fixed Income, Structured Products, Money Markets, FX, futures & options, commodities, energy-trading risk management (ETRM) and both OTC and exchange-traded derivatives products. Extensive Portfolio Accounting, Risk, Pricing and Performance Management experience in a global US, UK, Europe and EMEA location work history.
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The Financial Management Module incorporates Financial Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts
Payable and Management Reporting.
Salient Features
Integrated General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and MIS Reporting. l
Multi Company and Multi Departmental Accounting and consolidation at company level. l
Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Account at unit level as well as company level. l
Analysis reports by Department. l
Multi currency system enables maintenance of Accounts in foreign currency. l
Post-Dated Cheques Management. l
User-definable summary and detailed formats for Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements. l
Flexible Chart of Account Coding Structure. l
Balance sheet and Profit & Loss Account
classifications are independent of the Account
Codes. This facilitates the shifting of Balance Sheet
or Profit & Loss account heads from one group to
another, without re-coding the main accounts, and
losing the General Ledger history of that account.
Allows for user defined accounting periods. l
l Generalized transaction entry screens to simplify
data entry procedures.
Option of batch posting of transactions. l
VAT and Sales Tax handling. l
Un-posted statistics. l
l Ledger Interface for Purchase & Sales
transactions.
Ratio Analysis. l
Bank Reconciliation statement
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Product folder of the Periotheus Suite - a software suite for energy companies.
Periotheus Suite supports your processes along the entire value chain when trading with electricity, gas and derivatives. Beginning with the planning and acquisition stages, to the operational implementation and monitoring phases, right up to the final assessment and invoicing, with us everything comes from one source.
✔ EPEX autoTRADER
✔ ETRM
✔ SCHEDULE & BALANCING GROUP MANAGEMENT
✔ PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
✔ POWER PLANT MANAGEMENT
✔ SALES
Prospero Asset Management Software by FINARTIS is a solution that helps asset managers stay ahead of the curve by analyzing & trading any kind of financial instrument.
Visit https://www.finartis.com/asset-management/ for more information.
MProfit is an easy to use personal desktop Portfolio Management Software for Indian retail investors and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). It allows you to take control of your investments such as stocks, MFs, ULIPs, insurance policies, property, gold and many other asset classes. And does it securely, since all your personal data is saved locally on your computer.
Philip Green CV
October 2013
Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst in Capital Markets, Derivatives, Equities, Dodd-Frank, Finance, Treasury and FX
Chicago, Illinois Capital Markets
Senior Project Manager, and Senior Business Analyst in requirements gathering and development, in Financial Operations and Technology, Treasury, Front-office trading, clearing, product control, with emphasis on financial services, risk, capital markets, investment management and asset management domain.
Particular strengths include extensive trading systems implementation experience with multi-products and lines of businesses, including global equity finance, treasury, compliance, regulatory initiatives such as Dodd-Frank Title 7 (OTC Derivatives and Swaps), Emerging Markets, EMEA, EMIR, Basel II and Basel III and asset types, product knowledge of Equities, Swaps, Fixed Income, Structured Products, Money Markets, FX, futures & options, commodities, energy-trading risk management (ETRM) and both OTC and exchange-traded derivatives products. Extensive Portfolio Accounting, Risk, Pricing and Performance Management experience in a global US, UK, Europe and EMEA location work history.
Calypso, Murex, Blackrock Aladdin, Endur, Findur, Wall Street Systems, Charles River and SAP FX & Treasury
accounting, Adobe, Advent Geneva, algorithm, Amsterdam,automated trading, banking, Basel II, Basel III, Blackrock Aladdin, bonds, Brussels, business requirements, Calypso,Chapter 7 Dodd Frank, Charles River, Chicago, CME,collateral management, commodities, consultanty, Credit Default Swaps, credit risk, data migration, Derivatives,documentation, Dodd-Frank, DTCC, EMEA, emerging markets, EMIR, energy trading, FATCA, financial exchange,financial markets, fixed income, fixml, foreign currency, fpml,Frankfurt, front office, futures, FX, Global One, Green, Green Package, ISDA, London, money markets, NYSE, Openlink Endur, Openlink FINDUR, options, Philip, Philip Green,Philip Green CV, PnL, project management, project manager, reporting, requirements gathering, resume, risk analysis, RUP, SAP, SDR, SEF, senior business analyst,SimCorps Dimension, spreads, Swaps Data Repository,Swaps Execution Facility, swaptions, trades, trading,transactions, Treasury, Treasury Desk, UML, Wall Street Systems, Zurich
The Financial Management Module incorporates Financial Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts
Payable and Management Reporting.
Salient Features
Integrated General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and MIS Reporting. l
Multi Company and Multi Departmental Accounting and consolidation at company level. l
Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Account at unit level as well as company level. l
Analysis reports by Department. l
Multi currency system enables maintenance of Accounts in foreign currency. l
Post-Dated Cheques Management. l
User-definable summary and detailed formats for Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Statements. l
Flexible Chart of Account Coding Structure. l
Balance sheet and Profit & Loss Account
classifications are independent of the Account
Codes. This facilitates the shifting of Balance Sheet
or Profit & Loss account heads from one group to
another, without re-coding the main accounts, and
losing the General Ledger history of that account.
Allows for user defined accounting periods. l
l Generalized transaction entry screens to simplify
data entry procedures.
Option of batch posting of transactions. l
VAT and Sales Tax handling. l
Un-posted statistics. l
l Ledger Interface for Purchase & Sales
transactions.
Ratio Analysis. l
Bank Reconciliation statement
1. SuPerPort
treaSury maNagemeNt SyStem
INtroductIoN
SUPERPORT is a professional Treasury
Management System, aimed primarily at
corporations and small to medium-sized
financial institutions wishing to gain over-
view of and better control in handling their
financial positions and cash flow. SUPER-
PORT is typically part of the company’s
total ERP solution.
read more about SuPerPort
at www.aloc.com
You will find our references plus client
statements and much more.
2. SuPerPort Introduction
SuPerPort
At ALOC we specialize in – YOUR dAILY fInAnCIAL ChECk-UP
developing software for
financial management. This SUPERPORT is a standard system meeting all your requirements for financial
is the means. The goal is to control, whether you are working as financial manager or treasurer of a
strengthen the competitive corporation or as portfolio manager with a financial institution:
position of our clients.
■ Registration
■ Rendering of accounts as well as reporting
■ Internal Bank and loan management
■ Managing foreign exchange transactions
■ Portfolio management and performance measurements
■ Risk management
■ Cash management
SUPERPORT has been developed over more than 10 years in co-operation with
leading experts and is today the most widely used Treasury Management System
in denmark. Our customers are businesses, banks, brokers, asset managers,
insurance companies and funds - we refer to our customer list.
With SUPERPORT as the pivotal point of your work, you get:
■ Comprehensive view of positions, yield and risks
■ User-friendliness, flexibility and automation of daily routines
leading to cost reduction
■ Effortless and quick implementation and support
■ handling of all common types of instruments and financial transactions
as well as import of commercial cash flows
■ Security and control through the option of follow-up on all transactions,
audit trails, transactions and logs
■ Option of full integration with financial systems/ERP systems
■ Modular standard system with a large number of individual set-up options,
ensuring that the customer invests only in the necessary modules
■ Continual development i.a. through strategic co-operation agreements.
This ensures that our users are always up-to-date with the latest functions
3. geNeral featureS
Set-up Import/export of data – integration with
The system can, if so desired, be locked enabling finance systems
a strict division of front/back office and controller SUPERPORT is an open system with a well-defined
function. The system can also be locked, disallowing interface, allowing export as well as import of data.
corrections and deletion of transactions once they The system also has integrated links to Excel and
have been approved by the system. Access.
The basic module contains a number of features of SUPERPORT can be linked to both finance and
which we would like to emphasize: trading systems, thus eliminating double work and
reducing the error margin.
Basic data
The basic module allows the user to establish and SUPERPORT contains integrated update of prices
administer customers/portfolios/ on bonds and shares, basic data, exchange rates
companies, counterparts, accounts, depositories, Id and interest rate on the inter-bank market from SIX
and currency codes, prices/rates, groups etc. finansinformation A/S. data can also be retrieved
from other data suppliers, such as Reuters,
Bloomberg etc.
Graphical analyses
The basic module also contains Graphical analyses,
allowing the user to analyse historical data from
SUPERPORT’s internal database. Analyses on prices,
true yield duration and turnover can be made. It is,
among other things, possible to calculate prices/
rates and interest rate spreads, indexed
development, moving average, RSI and
momentum.
INStrumeNt tyPeS
SUPERPORT can handle all relevant securities ■ Bonds and shares
and financial instruments as well as associated ■ Exchange – spot and forward contracts
transactions in all relevant currencies: ■ futures and options – all underlying assets
■ Money market – deposit/fixed-term loans,
fRAs and repo/reverse
■ Long-term deposits/loans and swaps
■ Leasing
4. SuPerPort Introduction
INterNal baNk
An increasing number of groups of companies gather their cash flow and financial
risk in one central internal bank – central finance function. SUPERPORT supports
the internal bank function by means of:
■ Accounts management – such as rebill accounts in currency of choice
■ Calculation of interest on intra-group accounts
■ Lists of positions at group and company level
■ Automatic print of statements for all financial transactions
■ Print of account statements and reports directly via e-mail
SUPERPORT furthermore contains advanced facilities for establishment,
administration and management of loan portfolios.
The Cash Management Module gives the option of both numeric and graphical
presentation of future cash and liquidity flows broken down by account or ISO
code. for each customer, those payments to which the current transactions give
access are shown as well as any movements in the customer’s budget accounts
(commercial transactions).
5. rePortS
The system gives access to a number of reports,
of which we emphasize the following:
■ Management reporting with key figures from
the profit/loss statements and statements of
securities accounts
■ detailed profit/loss statements for financial
and treasury departments
■ Performance calculations
■ Statements of securities accounts showing Performance statement
interest rate risk (duration list)
■ Statements of securities accounts showing
currency risk (per ISO code)
■ Audit trails with detailed documentation
of the individual transactions
■ Transaction lists of all registered trades
(the system’s daybook)
■ List of due dates of all transactions with
expiry dates (money market transactions,
futures, options etc.)
■ Cash flow settled per ISO code and in one
common currency
■ Graphical analysis of price/rate history etc. Reports can be displayed on-screen, printed directly or
exported to Excel and Access, other spread sheet format
or directly as an e-mail in html format
accouNtS
SUPERPORT supplies all relevant and necessary data SUPERPORT supports all standard accrual rules
and reports for the financial reports. SUPERPORT and accounting principles (such as fIfO, average
contains transactions and log lists as well as audit acquisition price, and the inventory principle).
trails, thus meeting the requirements of an audited
accounting system, among other things, via the
system’s ability to generate unique transaction
numbers.
6. SuPerPort Introduction
SecurItIeS admINIStratIoN
All relevant types of bonds and shares can be registered and handled by
SUPERPORT – spot and forward contracts. All related transactions are handled:
interest coupons, draws, sale of drawn bonds, dividend, coupon tax, share split,
commission etc.
The Statement module enables automatic print of statements for all transactions
as well as release notes when the securities are settled via the danish Securities
Center or EuroClear.
rISk maNagemeNt
Calculation and management of risks have become mandatory according to the
Annual Accounts Act. SUPERPORT enables the user to calculate interest rate risks,
currency exposure, counterpart and credit risks.
Interest rate risk
This facility enables the user to calculate interest rate risk and duration at
security or portfolio level - official duration (McCauley’s), modified duration,
adjusted duration (delta weighted) and adjusted by using the danish fSA’s
deduction factors.
for more advanced key figures, risk measurements, and estimations, please see
description under the Middle Office modules, Simulation and horizontal Analysis.
Currency exposure
Enables calculation of currency exposure per currency (ISO code).
Counterpart and credit risks
Enables the user to manage credit lines for either counterparts (mostly
businesses) or customers (mostly banks) based on different risk percentages
and the duration method and on advanced netting and set-off rules.
7. PerformaNce techNology aNd data
StatemeNtS
SUPERPORT runs in Windows 98, Windows nT 4.0,
SUPERPORT is also equipped for Windows 2000 and Windows XP and can be used
portfolio management and can calculate as one-user or multi-user versions.
performance according to several
different models, such as: SUPERPORT’s basic principle is that ”raw data”
is stored in a way that enables reconstruction/
■ Yield as a percentage of the average calculation of reports at any given time – step back
invested capital for the period in time and print historical reports for a chosen
■ Yield as a percentage of the date or period.
average invested capital per year
■ Yield in relation to opening
invested capital
ServIce aNd hotlINe SuPPort
A service contract is part of the SUPERPORT SUPERPORT courses are held regularly. These
purchase. This contract gives unlimited access to courses are also used as an opportunity to introduce
upgrade of software, on-line help files etc. via the the newest facilities and features of the system.
Internet. The agreement also gives unlimited access
to hotline support, handled by our developers.
INterNet
It is possible to establish an Internet solution for The solution can be established both with direct
SUPERPORT by using standard components from access via the Internet or as a VPn solution,
Windows 2000 or Windows nT: where the company uses the Internet as a secure
connection between geographically separate
This means that SUPERPORT is subjugated the user’s branches.
general security level for Internet use. naturally,
SUPERPORT’s standard access control will also
apply.
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ALOC A/S ▪ Product introduction GB ▪ DEC 2007