Infocean Commodities Trading Platform is an integrated trading and processing system. It serves more than as a transaction-processing tool - it allows identifying and managing risks efficiently, and caters to diverse product offerings that your clients demand. Broadly, Infocean Trading Platform has the following functionalities:
- Front office dealing / pricing
- Vanilla spot trading
- Forwards
- Loans / leasing products
- Plug-in for futures trading
- Multi product & currency system
- Trade book - outright price risk as well as gaps in forward maturities
- Integrated back-office transaction processing
- Stock/inventory management
- Client exposure management - mark to market, categorization of different types of risks and their respective margin requirements, automated margin calls,
- Risk management - trading positions, customer limits, gaps, stock levels
- Regulatory compliance
- Comprehensive report that provides complete and user-definable views of various aspects of business.
Features
Configurable to your organization structure
The platform is completely configurable in terms of roles, functionality assigned to various roles, access permissions (at branch level or for a set of branches), and therefore is easily adaptable to suit individual organization structure. The product allows centralized as well as decentralized operations depending upon how roles/access has been specified. For eg: Deals could be centralized, while deliveries could be decentralized.
Stock Management
Platform allows you to effectively manage the stocks across various centers. Stocks are managed on a SKU (Store Keeping Unit) basis - a SKU is automatically identified by the system based on host of factors that define individual stock type.
Trade-book management
Platform maintains trade book separately for various products and currencies. It allows clear segregation of pricing risks in various currencies (XAU, XAG, etc are just set of currencies just like USD, EUR, etc). A separate plug-in product, DETRIS, can be integrated with our platform that will trading in futures on leading commodity exchanges such as COMEX, NY.
Asset-liability management
the trade book, Platform has sophisticated ALM tools which allow you to monitor gap exposures in various time maturity buckets arising as a result of mis-matched borrowing / lending or mismatched maturities of pricing transactions.
Product offerings to your clients
Platform allows you to offer the following to your clients:
- Spot / Cash pricings
- Physical delivery of metal out ofconsignment / owned stock
- Leasing / loans out of consignment / owned stock
- Forward pricing for METAL/USD or FX
- Hedging of loan / leasing exposure by way of a forward.
- Borrowing (or deposit) and purchase of metal from your customers.
- Margins can be obtained from customers in the form of cash or securities and are compared on a pool basis with exposures run on the customers.
- Running-cash account of customer where all trades are finally settled and margins recovered from.
Customer Exposure & Risk Management
Mark-to-market of customer exposure is carried out in the system real-time. Customer exposures can be bifurcated into multiple risk-classifications with different types of securities / margins covering each type of exposure. Varying collateralization levels can be specified for exposures in each of the risk-buckets.
MIS Reports
Most reports in the system are user-definable - parameters for the reports are typically user defined, rather than being assumed by the application. All reports in the system can be exported to Word, XL, PDF or HTML formats.
Regulatory Compliance & Reporting
Platform takes care of almost all regulatory compliance and reporting requirements, currently those required in India. As part of customized product localization, it would be easy to add the reports required in other countries
