QORT digest for the second quarter of 2017
Q2, 2017
Dear users of software products from ARQA Technologies, we are offering you the digest of significant features introduced in solutions based on QORT software platform in the 2d quarter of 2017.
Events
A joint seminar of Bloomberg and ARQA Technologies took place in the Bloomberg office in Moscow on May 18. The cases of Bloomberg and ARQA Technologies product integration with regard to targets they help to achieve were shown to existing and potential clients.
Among other issues, examples of using Bloomberg data in QORT solutions were discussed during the presentation and questions and answers session. Presentations of the seminar in the pdf format may be found here.
Middle-office midQORT and back-office backQORT — solutions for banks and investment companies
Main improvements made in midQORT and backQORT software in Q2 of 2017 include:
Automation and group operations
New functionality |
Supported in |
Wholesale deleting from the ‘Trades’ table is possible for unprocessed trades. |
midQORT, backQORT |
When forming agreement stages it is possible to form the final stage for several trades chosen in the corresponding table manually. |
backQORT |
The ‘Volume in payment currency’ field is now always editable when editing the OTC trades to buy or sell securities and REPO trades. Also when editing fields ‘Cross rate date’ and ‘Days before payment’ the field ‘Volume in payment currency’ is automatically recalculated. |
midQORT, backQORT |
Commissions
New functionality |
Supported in |
The option which allows to see splitting of commission settled by settlement bases was added. |
backQORT |
At exchange commission write off for MOEX trades settled in a foreign currency the system firstly automatically places a rouble cash or multiple currency account in the ‘account’ field. (The cash account is defined by payment and delivery trade accounts). |
midQORT, backQORT |
It has become possible to account commissions in generated SWIFT messages of general transfer. |
backQORT |
Price search order specified by a system user is supported at commission accounting. |
backQORT |
A new commission settlement base was introduced for loan trades – for IBC assets the commission is accrued for the full loan period |
backQORT |
Instruments
New functionality |
Supported in |
The ACI for bonds is provided in market data in the par value currency without recalculations in QUIK. |
midQORT, backQORT |
Reports
New functionality |
Supported in |
It has become possible to generate client reports in the XLS format. |
backQORT |
In the calculation of PIT investment deduction is taken into consideration in case of three-year securities holding (in accordance with article 219.1. (paragraph 2) of RF Tax Code ‘Investment tax deductions’). |
backQORT |
If the trade discount was specified it is added in the report on REPO trades to the NSD Repository. |
backQORT, ‘Reporting to the NSD Repository’ module |
When generating ‘PIT Register’ and ‘Form 6-PIT’ reports a new feature ‘By IIA accounts’ is available. It allows to form reports by ‘ordinary’ client subaccounts or by IIA subaccounts. |
backQORT |
A new report ‘Clients’ debts on PIT’ contains:
The report may be emailed to a designated address on schedule. |
backQORT |
System usability
New functionality |
Supported in |
Now it is possible to choose a calendar to send automatic margin calls to clients. For instance, they may be sent only on working days. |
midQORT, backQORT |
Address details of business partners (country, region, city) may be completed independently from one another. |
backQORT |
It has become possible to choose a type or types of qualified investors to send reminders about status confirmation necessity. |
backQORT |
The version for forex-dealers displays the time of trades execution with millisecond accuracy. |
backQORT |
Security and performance
New functionality |
Supported in |
The improvements were made in the mechanism which restricts users’ rights to form client reports. When a user has a role restricted somehow then these restrictions apply to the user himself. |
backQORT |
The TLS protocol is supported when sending messages by email. |
midQORT, backQORT |
PnL calculation was optimized to accelerate report generation. |
midQORT, backQORT |
Integrations
New functionality |
Supported in |
Reconciliation with the following reports is supported: ‘PJSC SPB: Report on clearing participant’s obligations by commission (MFB15, xml)’, ‘PJSC SPB: Collateral report (MFB99, xml)’. |
backQORT |
Terminal tables ‘Trades’ and ‘Orders’ acquired new fields: ‘Trader’s ID in QUIK’ and ‘Trader’s code’. These fields may be imported and exported via Intermediate data base from/to QUIK. . |
midQORT, backQORT |
When clients are registered on the Moscow Exchange it is possible to reconcile with exchange reports on status of clients’ registration. Clients have the status ‘on registration’ until the reconciliation is done. |
backQORT |
Middle-office capQORT — solution for asset management companies
The list of capQORT developments in Q2 of 2017:
Pool orders
New functionality |
A new field ‘Execution %’ was added to the ‘Order pools’ table. Also the ‘Status’ field was changed: now the field value coincides with the order status which is displayed in the portfolio organizer. |
New fields were added to the pool order form to show volume of bid and offer. |
The pool orders table may now consist active orders forwarded in previous days. |
The new filtering functionality simplifies the choice of portfolios for a certain operation, for example, selection of all portfolios containing a certain instrument in a certain quantity; or selection of all portfolios with a certain instrument for group operations to delete an instrument from a portfolio or reduce its share up to a preset value. |
Instruments
New functionality |
The ACI for bonds is provided in market data in the par value currency without recalculations in QUIK. |
Group operations
New functionality |
Wholesale deleting from the ‘Trades’ table is possible for unprocessed trades. |
The changes were made in the operation algorithm for generated sell orders: now the system generates sell orders but does not send them automatically for execution. The orders may be edited until they are executed or cancelled. |
Limits control
New functionality |
The letters sent automatically by the system after the restriction check now include information not only about breaches but also about the structure of the breach source. |
It has become possible to make limited pre-trade checks for clients with risk management configured in the external system. |
Commissions
New functionality |
At exchange commission write off for MOEX trades settled in a foreign currency the system firstly automatically places a rouble cash or multiple currency account in the ‘account’ field. (The cash account is defined by payment and delivery trade accounts). |
Price search order specified by a system user is supported at commission accounting. |
Automation
New functionality |
The ‘Volume in payment currency’ field is now always editable when editing the OTC trades to buy or sell securities and REPO trades. Also when editing fields ‘Cross rate date’ and ‘Days before payment’ the field ‘Volume in payment currency’ is automatically recalculated. |
Security and performance
New functionality |
The TLS protocol is supported when sending messages by email. |
PnL calculation was optimized to accelerate report generation. |
Integrations
New functionality |
The new features are added in the integration with RU DATA database (Module of integration with RU DATA should be in the configuration):
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Terminal tables ‘Trades’ and ‘Orders’ acquired new fields: ‘Trader’s ID in QUIK’ and ‘Trader’s code’. These fields may be imported and exported via Intermediate data base from/to QUIK. |
A new loading algorithm is supported for coverage ratio of short positions. The algorithm was modified because of changes in the structure of files with correlation ratios made by the Moscow Exchange. |
When Bloomberg DataLicense QORT Program Interface is used the source of price information may be specified explicitly in Bloomberg service. |
If there are any errors while uploading data on trades to Avancore back-office software they are shown in the system. Also the system checks completeness of essential parameters for trades with bonds. |
System usability
Trader-manager has a new convenient form to view data – portfolio organizer. The latter represents a few windows reflecting the structure of a selected portfolio, its parameters, aggregated indexes, limits and working orders.
The functionality of portfolio organizer is under further development:
New functionality |
It has become possible to execute portfolio organizer orders from the pool orders table |
When performing restriction checks users with certain rights may set the order status ‘Control passed’ even if the order results in violation. |
All elementary orders connected with the needed order may now be viewed in the current orders table. |
The current orders table acquired a menu parameter ‘Copy’ which allows to make a new trade order with parameters copied from the current order (‘price’, ‘quantity’, etc.). All these parameters may be edited. |
When generating OTC trades with bonds based on a portfolio organizer order it is now possible to specify volume of ACI. |
The table of trade orders opened from a portfolio organizer displays additional information on available cash: tables ‘Available to buy’ and ‘Available to sell’ were added. These tables include the account number and maximum quantity of securities available to buy or sell. The planned position for executed orders is taken into consideration. |
Traders’ and asset managers’ order forms are highlighted so visually they are more user-friendly: if the ‘Buy’ button is chosen the area around has a red color, if ‘Sell’ – it is green. Not selected area is not highlighted. |
Contacts
With all questions about products, terms of use and testing, please contact the Sales and Marketing Department at ARQA Technologies:
+7-383-2191619, sales@arqatech.com
With questions about product use please contact QORT Support Service:
+7-383-2191699, qortsupport@arqatech.com
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