Our third generation of our products leans on a new framework, completely designed and developed by our teams.
Designed according to business standards handling a wide variety of vanilla and exotic instruments,
and compliant with the needs of multiples actors and their market practices, the Spheres suite is fully configurable and
on-site customizable and cover all trade lifecycle events through a flexible Straight through processing workflow.
Destined to all categories of participants in organized markets (ETD) and over-the-counter (OTC), this new range offers products for a specialized management
LIFECYCLE | Front to Back Processing
Provide a full management of the entire trade lifecycle with a flexible schedule of all steps.
Accounting: standard events report and/or final entries from the entity accounting schemes
Status: provide and manage multiple custom status (checking, matching, processing, ...)
Reports: standard and custom reports using open tool, output PDF, Excel, Text, Web, ...
CONNECTIVITY | See Pattern
EDITIONS | See daily summary report model
AUTHENTICATION & SECURITY | Users, Roles and profiles
Authentication: software, rdbms, active directory, LDAP
Roles: administrator, user, client, guest...
Profiles: time slots, restrictions to access menus, actions, data...
MONITORING & AUDIT | Exhaustive capabilities
Monitoring: controls the execution and result of each Straight through processing (Success, Warning, error, ...), raise exception and send alerts
Audit: tracks any change on trade or repository, including its author,hostname, time
Analysis: compare several versions of a trade or repository and display their difference
SYSTEM INTEGRATION | Normalized open architecture
Deployment: easy integration in your information system, with a high level of exchange and scalability
through our Spheres I/O component or any external component
Input: trades, market data, repositories... for Front-to-Back and Straight through processing solution
Output: trades, P&L, accounting, financial reports... to feed risk management and compliances systems
User interface: full design or customization of windows layout and reports
Business: invoke Spheres business services from external system (Biztalk, Control-M, WebSpheres...)
Interoperability: interact with multiple web services (FlyDoc, Gateways, Market data, In-house...)
Data: available from open database (MS SqlServer, Oracle, ...) which can be shared with other applications and enriched if necessary
REPOSITORY | Business normalized and customizable
Multi-entity and accounting: unique multi-entity repository for all instruments, market data, clearing and settlement systems...
Financial reporting and multi-accounting standards shared or specialized by entity (Local, GAAP, IFRS...)
Actors/Books: exhaustive management of n-level hierarchical and transversal relationships between actors to fit each organization
(counterparties, correspondents, clients, brokers,traders, sales,desks, clearing houses...)trades, market data, repositories... for Front-to-Back and Straight through processing solution
Multilingual: adjustable management ata very fine level - user, correspondent, office,
according to the adressee and the type of document sent (en-GB, en-US, es-ES, fr-BE, fr-FR, it-CH, it-IT ...)
ISO and standard codes: available on any data simplifying dialog with all external systems (BIC, IBAN, MIC, ISIN, AII, FIX, 15022, 20022...)
Customizable: external link, notepad and attachments available on any data to centralize all necessary information on relevant elements
(External references, formula, notes, master agreements, confirmations, fax ...).
Fully customizable on site including additional data, mandatory/optional/restricted value, default value, additional repository...
REPOSITORY | See examples
KEY FEATURES
Main functional and technical advantages
Rich, evolving and open database
Conformity of instruments to the ISDA®, FIX®, ISO-20022... definitions
Native integration of the new standards FpML®, FIXML®...
Fully compatible to SWIFT® and to the ISO communication standards
Up-to-date technology
Evolving system
Security and ever-lasting technological choices
Flexible to use
Main technical aspects
Web technology, no software installation is required on the user machine
Hightly interaction between process and systems thanks to XML
Easy to use and communicate thanks to STP concepts
Conformity of instruments to the ISDA®, FIX®, ISO-20022... definitions
Integrated software solution for the management of all types of financial instruments OTC derivatives: Swap, Cap/Floor, Forward, Equity, CFD, CDS... Exchange traded derivatives: Futures, Options, Strategies... Securities: Bonds, Bills, Stock, Repo... Cash: Spot, Loans, Deposits, Certificate of deposits...
The security provided by a common standard language OTC market
1998/2005 FX and Currency Option Definitions
2000/2006 IRD, Currency Swap, Option Definitions
2002/2011 Equity Derivatives Definitions
2003/2009 Credit Derivatives Definitions. Other specific recommendations (ex.: Credit Support, Netting, Novation, Risk Management, ...)
The interoperability provided by FIX®, standard common to the ETD and Securities
Market Data, Trades, Positions
Native integration of communication standards
Storage formats trades: FpML®, FIXML® or XML
Data modeling and market risk in accordance with FpML® and FIXML®
Full Compatibility ISO 20022/UNIFI (trade and repository)
Full Compatibility SWIFT® (all messages 7775, 15022 and 20022)
Flexibility
Menus complying with the requirements and clearances of each operator
Multiple screens capture for each instrument, fully redesignable by user
Screens customizable reports and consultation by a simple parameter adjustment
Multi-language: English, French and Italian are available