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More new players are reaping the benefits of capital markets trading, be it through hedging risks with derivatives or accessing a broader range of instruments to meet specific funding requirements. As this activity steadily increases, implementing the right supporting infrastructure becomes increasingly important to ensure efficiency and diligence. Calypso brings extensive capital markets know-how and packages it in a solution which is delivered with additional supporting expertise.
Rapid responses to requests from various business lines are essential.
Calypso’s software solutions allow you to manage your treasury operations efficiently, including managing different loans, structured loans and cash in different currencies. The Calypso application is the perfect combination of Trading & Treasury by allowing you deal capture, trading blotters, filtering and order status visualisation, generic and bulk order capture, trading of a vast array of financial instruments and real-time P&L. Furthermore, Calypso is a partner that understands your business and can assist in implementing best practice methods.
Real-time risk data enables better risk management.
As a fully integrated solution, Calypso can provide a complete, accurate and timely view of risk exposure. It is critical to stay on top of risk exposures, to achieve this you need real-time risk data to gain a clear understanding of your position. Calypso provides on-demand risk reporting and the ability to drill-down into positions for any product.
Hedging requirements need to be quickly identified and executed accordingly.
The Calypso solutions allow you to hedge your positions in different currencies and products. In addition to being able to understand your risk exposure, you need to be able to respond to it. The purpose of the Calypso hedging functionality is to assist you in establishing and achieving specific hedge goals with an optimal cost to benefit ratio using sound and proven methods.
Strength of integration means a more streamlined approach to trade processing.
Integration is one of Calypso’s core strengths, both vertically and horizontally. Designed from inception as a cross-asset front to back system, the Calypso solutions benefit significantly from this strength of integration. Seamless front to back workflows enable greater degrees of STP. A consolidated view of risk across multiple products in real-time means you have a better understanding of your precise exposure.
Global businesses require multi-currency capabilities for managing cashflows.
Calypso has specific cash management functionality which allows you to perform various tasks associated with running a global trading organisation. Calypso’s Cash Management module enables keeping of cash positions, statement generation and account sweeping, among other functions.
Accounting for hedging instruments can be greatly simplified when automated.
Calypso system provides full support for hedge accounting in compliance with IAS and FAS accounting standards for a broad range of instruments. The Calypso software solution offers a simplified way to complete the required calculations to comply with the standards: producing the necessary book entries, tracking of hedges and also hedge effectiveness testing on an ongoing basis. This allows you to accomplish critical tasks for ensuring compliance and to meet the challenge of operatively integrating hedge accounting processes in a complete, stable and efficient manner.