Overview

KASTLE™ Treasury is a leading, integrated treasury management solution used by financial institutions worldwide to meet their business objectives. KASTLE™ Treasury:

• Provides organizations with a sophisticated, multi-entity, multi-portfolio, multi-dealing room environment supported by robust risk management, back-office management, and MIS
• Presents a holistic picture of an organization’s financial health
• Covers several key markets such as foreign exchange, money, equity, and their related derivative instruments
• Identifies open positions, measures risks in real time, assists in generating P&L statements, and facilitates settlements

Features

Key features

• Automation and analyses features
  • Wide range of MIS reports
  • Real-time feed integration from multiple service providers for many instruments and currencies
  • Structured portfolio approach enabling simulation analysis
  • Decision support via exhaustive pre- and post-trade support tools and analytics, including pricing and valuation of plain vanilla and complex derivative instruments
  • Intelligent messaging module capable of handling SWIFT, RTGS, and other formats
  • Full-fledged Nostro reconciliation module (Nostroplus)
  • User-friendly interface to capture exchange rates, benchmark rates, scrip rates, and prices of stocks in F&O segment
  • VC++ component library for automated mathematical computations
  • Complete straight-through processing functionality, covering front-, middle-, and back-office MIS and reporting requirements
• Flexibility and customization features
  • Multi-entity system
  • Multi-dealing-room capability
  • Multi-portfolio enabled
  • Multicurrency accounting
  • Platform-independent database
  • Seamless interface with 3rd-party market information systems
  • High level of parameterization—varying requirements can be met by simply changing settings
  • Transaction downloads across various dealing systems (e.g., Dealing 3000)

Differentiators and Benefits

Key differentiators

• Convenient, right-click enabled deal entry and retrieval criteria
• Comprehensive analytics for front-office users
• Extensive limit management
• User-definable accounting policies
• Compliant with SOX, Basel II, IFRS, MiFID, and hedge accounting rules
• Extensive online context sensitive help available at a single click
• Unicode compliant, with language localization for all screens and interfaces
• Modular yet seamless approach (front-, middle- and back-office operations work in an independent yet integrated fashion)

Key business benefits

• 100% accuracy in execution and accelerated decision-making made possible through treasury management tools (real-time information from  multiple sources, MIS, and analytical solutions) and functionalities like historical simulation and “what-if” analyses that enable dealers to respond quickly and accurately to market conditions
• Tailored solutions to real-time business problems via flexible, intelligent, and user-friendly systems and interfaces
• Process efficiency achieved through implementation of best practices incorporated into the solution
• Improved productivity and reduced costs—automated analyses lead to efficient operations with 60% increase in productivity and swift decision-making, while minimizing overheads and cutting costs incurred on salary by 42%
• Enhanced security with user access, control, and administration security features