Deal Entry

The ASPone RTNS (Reuters Trade Notification Service) Deal Entry system is a deal capture and processing system for the publication of trades over RTNS to users of Reuters Trade Affirmation (RTA) and associated position keeping/treasury systems.

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The system is designed using Internet technologies, therefore supporting both locally deployed and hosted implementations. Web browser screens are used by both the front and back office to capture, notify and amend trade details. Together, the combination of front and back office screens support the full RTNS workflow states of trade capture, notification, confirmation, enrichment and amendment.

Supported Instruments

Supported instruments include Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Equities, Options, Fixed Income etc

System Components

Front Office Deal Entry Screen: the Front Office deal capture interface supports the entry of information pertaining to manually executed trades, using custom deal entry screens for each instrument type.

Back Office Administrative Screen: the Back Office administration interface provides the ability to view trades entered by the front-office, amend, enrich and re-notify them as well as a facility to mark trades as “processed” if they are being manually entered into an existing back office support system.

Configuration Screen: the configuration interface is used to edit and maintain reference data files.

Connectivity Interface: the RTNS Deal Entry System can be expanded to provide external system connectivity through an extensible interface. Connectivity Modules:
- RTNS
- Flat File
- DB
- Fax
- E-Mail
- Third-Party Notification/Confirmation Services

Extensibility Interface: in addition to the above interfaces, the deal entry system provides a plug-in architecture capable of supporting a number of additional features to support enhanced back-office functions:

- Brokerage Module
- Accounts Interface Module
- Reporting Module

Supported Functionality

The system provides users with the ability to enter trades for immediate or delayed notification over RTNS and supports the following high level functionality:

Front Office
- Creation, editing and saving of trade information
- Notification of trades to RTNS enabled Banks
- Support for full RTNS affirmation workflow
- Display of trades in Pending, Confirmed and Cancelled tabs

Back Office
- Editing, amendment, enrichment and re-notification of trades
- Archiving of all entered trades
- Viewing of trades
- Ability to mark trades as processed when used in conjunction with existing back office system
- Automatic connectivity with existing back office system (optional)