QORT digest for the second quarter of 2022

19 july 2022

Q2, 2022

Dear users of ARQA Technologies software products, we offer to your attention the digest of the main features introduced in solutions based on the QORT software platform in the second quarter of 2022.

New backQORT modules

Payment position control module

The Payment position control module allows creating and editing in backQORT bank’s requirements to support instant liquidity with different currencies and value dates for the bank’s own subaccounts.

Investment advice bookkeeping module

The Investment advice bookkeeping module displays in backQORT information related to investment advices: information on concluded contracts, clients’ investment profile, register of advices, etc.


Automated back-office backQORT — Solution for Banks and Investment Companies


Module of integration with RU DATA

New Functionality

It has become possible to block import of specified issuers from RUDATA.


Spot Market Risk Management

New Functionality

When creating orders to roll over positions, it has become possible to replace a donor code for transmission to QUIK.


REPO

New Functionality

An option was added to specify a negative price in a REPO trade.


Commissions

New Functionality

It is possible to write off an exchange commission from a personal account different from the trade’s payment account.

It has become possible to take account of the term of the broker agreement when determining a commission rate.

During selection of trades to calculate commissions, it is possible to separately take account of the trades’ direction when determining a basic turnover and threshold values of the rate.

There is a setting which adds the amount of blocked funds to a planned balance in the column of the position table.


Integration

New Functionality

The intermediate database (IDB) acquired the ‘Import asset element from instrument group’ table which allows adding/deleting records of the ‘Asset element from instrument group’ table via the IDB.

Quotes for all TOD/TOM FX instruments present in the Quotes table of QUIK are now uploaded to the ‘Exchange rates’ table.


Assets

New Functionality

The back-office can automatically determine the underlying asset for stock options of the Moscow Exchange Derivatives Market.

It has become possible to keep а relevant unredeemed par value directory.


Reconciliation

New Functionality

It is possible to reconcile with the file ‘MOEX FX market: Extract from registry of orders (CUX22, xml)’.

There is a possibility to open results of scheduled reconciliations directly from the terminal.


Limits

New Functionality

An option was added to create limits on cash or securities for reconciliation with positions in QUIK and delete/load positions in QUIK where discrepancies were detected.

When creating limits on securities, it has become possible to exclude positions in assets with the ‘By default’ feature.


Сalculation of Margin Indicators

New Functionality

It has become possible to take account of values of the ‘Blocked balance’ column during the calculation of margin indicators by adding to a planned balance cash/securities reserved for operations.


Reports

New Functionality

Changes were made in the algorithm to calculate the ‘Client securities’ indicator of Subsection 1.1 of OKUD 0420418 report (xbrl) in accordance with taxonomy 4.1 of the Bank of Russia.

There is a new report ‘Loaded prices analysis for securities with open position’.

It is possible to generate the report ‘Internal accounting records for clients’.


System Usability

New Functionality

Quick setting of the client workstation became available for the most frequently used tables by using table templates and saving filter settings for these tables.

QORDON and QORSAR monitoring systems became available both in Russian and English.

It has become possible to use templates of the table of trades generated by other users, share tables and save filter settings in the table’s editor. Previously, only the table design could be saved in the template but now this option is also available for preset filters.

Optimized work is supported for the component which dispatches reports on errors occurred during scheduled tasks. If the volume of a sent email exceeds a preset value, details will be attached to the email. It is also possible to set archiving of such attachments.

Via the ‘Sub-accounts and analytic accounts’ table in the terminal, it is possible to view which analytical subaccounts include a specified subaccount.

It has become possible to change a format to save reports ‘Control of business partners by RFM requirements’ and ‘Additional check for business partners’.


Portfolio Evaluation

New Functionality

For portfolio evaluation, the software supports template and individual settings for a list of classes from QUIK.


Control

New Functionality

The system checks whether the clients – unqualified investors – passed a test when uploading operations to QORT.


Middle-office capQORT — Solution for Asset Management Companies


Module of integration with RU DATA

New Functionality

It has become possible to block import of specified issuers from RUDATA.


REPO

New Functionality

It has become possible to change one type of REPO instructions for any other.

An option was added to set limit on a minimum volume of the elementary order for a group REPO instruction.

When generating a group REPO order for an analytical account, it has become possible to choose a new ‘Maximum available volume’ placement mode for cash and assets which implies random selection of available subaccounts with maximum possible quantity of cash/assets necessary to cover the quantity in the order.

An option was added to specify a negative price in a REPO trade.


Commissions

New Functionality

It is possible to write off an exchange commission from a personal account different from the trade’s payment account.


Integrations

New Functionality

Quotes for all TOD/TOM FX instruments present in the Quotes table of QUIK are now uploaded to the ‘Exchange rates’ table.


Assets

New Functionality

There is a possibility to evaluate positions in metals (gold and silver) by the price of the last Moscow Exchange FX Market trade.

The middle-office can automatically determine the underlying asset for stock options of the Moscow Exchange Derivatives Market.

It has become possible to keep а relevant unredeemed par value directory.


System Usability

New Functionality

Quick setting of the client workstation became available for the most frequently used tables by using table templates and saving filter settings for these tables.

QORDON and QORSAR monitoring systems became available both in Russian and English.

When making groups of instruments, there is a filter ‘Form of issuers’ property’.

An option was added to set a price search algorithm to be applied to evaluation of subaccounts when there is no algorithm type set in their cards.

There is an option to filter business partners included in the issuer group by their ratings.

It has become possible to use templates of the table of trades generated by other users, share tables and save filter settings in the table’s editor. Previously, only the table design could be saved in the template but now this option is also available for preset filters.

Optimized work is supported for the component which dispatches reports on errors occurred during scheduled tasks. If the volume of a sent email exceeds a preset value, details will be attached to the email. It is also possible to set archiving of such attachments.

Via the ‘Sub-accounts and analytic accounts’ table in the terminal, it is possible to view which analytical subaccounts include a specified subaccount.


Portfolio Evaluation

New Functionality

For portfolio evaluation, the software supports template and individual settings for a list of classes from QUIK.


Restrictions

New Functionality

Pre- and post-trade restriction control, which allows blocking any trading operations for the subaccount, was introduced for orders.

For physical accounts the ‘Type of account with placed cash’ feature was added with a possibility to take it into account in restrictions.

In restrictions for the portfolio structure with the ‘Current’ position type, an option was added to simultaneously take account of deposits and cash placed in REPO.

It has become possible to limit the list of restriction types controlled in the rebalancing mechanism.

There is an option to control restrictions for one issuer's stock shares of the issuer capitalization.

Pre- and post-trade restriction control by counterparties is now available for the exchange market.

It has become possible to put restrictions on orders for counterparties.

There is a functionality to add/edit/delete records in the ‘Restrictions’ table with a prior confirmation of relevant changes by another user.


Processing Speed

New Functionality

The dialogue ‘Order generation for group of accounts’ was changed to reduce order generation time.


Order Processing

New Functionality

It has become possible to cancel instructions with a registration date preceding the operation day.



Contacts

For any questions regarding the products, their terms of use and testing, please contact the Sales and Marketing Department of ARQA Technologies: +7-383-2191619, sales@arqatech.com

For all questions on operation of the QORT software, please contact QORT Technical Support Team: +7-383-2191699, qortsupport@arqatech.com


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