R16AMR ReleaseHighlights
R16AMR ReleaseHighlights
R16AMR ReleaseHighlights
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Table of Contents
Release Information 4
Overview 4
Application Framework 5
Core 5
Banking Framework 6
Accounts 6
Accounting Unit 6
Collateral 7
Common Reporting Standards 7
Delivery 7
FATCA 8
IFRS 8
Interest and Charges 8
European Union Financial Transaction Tax (EU FTT) 8
System Tables 8
Limits 9
Loan Loss Provisioning 9
Payment Order 9
Standing Orders 9
Business Intelligence 10
Insight 10
Insight Risk 10
DW.EXPORT 11
Channels 12
Internet Banking 12
Mobile Banking 13
Corporate 14
Bills 14
Letters of Credit 14
Miscellaneous Deals 14
Syndicated Lending 14
Temenos Connect Internet Banking - Corporate 14
Enterprise Frameworks 16
Multi Tenant 16
Integration Framework 16
T24 External BPM 16
Payments 17
Funds Transfer 17
Temenos Payments Hub (TPS) 17
SEPA 20
Retail 21
Arrangement Architecture - Core 21
Private Wealth 23
Derivatives 23
Repo 23
Securities Trading 23
Structured Products 25
Treasury (T24) 26
Forex 26
Interest Rate Swaps 26
Position Management 26
OTC Clearing 26
Treasury Trader 27
Overview
The Release Highlights lists the new functionality that has been introduced into T24, for each major release. It is broken
down by Product Stream.
The enhancements listed in this document are also present in the R16 AMR documentation pack (available with Dis-
tribution Team). Readers can access the 'What's New in R16 AMR' section of the documentation pack to read the
detailed release highlights.
Core
Accounts
Accounting Unit
Collateral Exclusion
This enhancement provides a facility to exclude the collaterals i.e. not consider a collateral’s value based on the Coun-
try, Currency, Security, Industry and Issuer..
Delivery
It provides options for handling correspondences—that have been held—at the end of the holding period. It checks:
IFRS
EU FTT
This enhancement enhances the core tax framework in T24 so that the following relevant modules can support FTT:
l SECURITIES (SC)
l DERIVATIVES (DX)
l FOREX
l FRA
l SWAP
System Tables
Payment Order
The Payment order information will be captured and the necessary processing logic will be applied, after which, a pay-
ment order event will be emitted. This results in a message for execution by the target Payment system.
Standing Orders
Insight
Insight Risk
Probability of Default
Insight Risk, under the IRB approach, now supports the Probability of Default (PD) functionality.
DW.EXPORT
Internet Banking
Mobile Banking
Bills
Letters of Credit
Export Transferable LC
When transferring a documentary credit, MT720 will be sent to the advising bank. Option is also available to define the
advise through bank.
Miscellaneous Deals
Syndicated Lending
The Corporate Dashboard displays all the transactions which are in the respective user's work list based on the user enti-
tlements and also displays the limit details at the product level.
Import LC Amendment
Export LC Advising
Export LC advised by the bank is available in the queue of the Corporate customer and can view the transaction/inward
messages.
Export LC amendment advised by the bank is available in the queue of the Corporate customer and can view the trans-
action/inward messages.
Import Drawings
Corporate customer can view the details of documents presented under Import LC and give appropriate instruction to
the bank through Internet banking.
Export Drawings
Corporate customer can initiate submission of documents under Export LC through Internet Banking.
Miscellaneous Deals
Guarantees advised by the bank is available in the queue of the Corporate customer and can view the trans-
action/inward messages.
Issuance of Guarantee
Corporate customer can initiate request for issuance of bank / shipping guarantee through Internet Banking.
Amend Guarantee
Corporate customer can initiate request for amendment to a bank guarantee through Internet Banking.
Corporate customer can view the details of the claim received under the guarantee and respond through Internet Bank-
ing.
Multi Tenant
MT Tenant Off-boarding
To facilitate the off-boarding of a Tenant which is moved to another MT server/release or no longer a part of MT sys-
tem, the MT.TENANT.CLEANUP application has been added in the MT Product.
MT Replicate Console
An additional option in the MT.REPLICATE.CONSOLE application is added for allowing the MT operator to send selected
field data for a record, to one or more Tenants with only the fields selected being sent across. The
MT.REPLICATE.CONSOLE now allows the users to select a full record to be sent or just the update of the selected fields.
Integration Framework
Funds Transfer
FT Split Commission
Commission, charges and tax amounts in a Funds Transfer transaction are posted separately to the customer account.
In this way, the customer can get details of the charges, commission and tax, through the separate description in the
account statement.
Rerouting of Payments
Rerouting of customer and bank transfers is possible now.
FX Threshold Limit
STP for the Foreign currency payments exceeding the threshold limit.
SWIFT Changes
The beneficiary details in the new Tag 59F can be mapped and introduced currency restriction for the currencies XAU,
XAG, XPD, XPT in Tag 32 to restrict the payment.
Forward Entries
Raising forward entries for finalised and parked payments is possible.
Sanction Screening
Users can now manually approve/send the payments to external screening application.
Inclusion of 53B
TPS supports generation of outgoing messages with Tag 53B if external account number is specified for the given
Nostro.
Reversal of Payments
Now, TPS has the ability to reverse a transaction in case of any errors or mistakes.
SEPA
SEPA Productisation
This enhancement is primarily a technical clean-up to standardize the SEPA code and make it fully operational as a
CORE offering
Accelerated Payment
Canadian Accelerated Payment amount calculation is now supported in AA.
Reward Schemes
A new Product Line named Rewards is now introduced to enable the customers to collect reward points based on their
online activities.
Payment Holiday
AA now allows the banks to offer payment holidays to customers when they are in need.
AA can now be configured to post the income from Interest and Charges to an internal account instead of PL.
Joint Customers
Joint Customers are now allowed in AA, and there can be multiple owners for an account and other customers who have
some other role in the administration of the account.
AA PM Integration
AA Deposits (AD) and AA Loans (AL) modules are linked to Position Management (PM) in T24.
Account Closure
This enhancement enables Simulation of AR Account Closure, capitalisation of Charges (Scheduled Charges, Periodic
Charges and Deferred Activity Charges) and back dated Closure.
Redemption Simulation
Simulation process can now be transacted rather than a live activity when a full redemption is initiated.
Marketing Catalogue
This Marketing Catalogue will give the opportunity to the user/customer to compare different product based on cri-
teria/fields defined by the Marketing Administrator of the bank.
Derivatives
Repo
Securities Trading
Structured Notes
T24 can now support various types of structured notes like the Equity linked notes, Airbag certificates, Twin Win cer-
tificates and the Bonus notes. New fields are added in SECURITY.MASTER application, to capture the various attributes
of the note – underlying, barrier, strike, and so on. The final pay-out in the case of a Structured Note, as compared to a
conventional fixed income security, is based on the performance of the Underlying(s). T24 now has the functionality to
record the pay-out details and process the same.
Suppression of Swift
T24 now supports suppression of Swift messages (MT540-543, MT515 and MT 518) for instruments, where ISIN is not
available. The feature is helpful in the case of new instruments (IPOs) and Structured Notes, where the ISIN is available
only after a certain time. When the ISIN is available, the instructions can be released by the Back office staff.
Withholding Tax
Withholding tax functionality is enhanced to handle specific bonds like the Italian and Belgian bonds; wherein the with-
holding is applicable on accrued interest/discount.
Structured Products
Valuation
T24 now supports third party valuation of Structured Product contracts.
Corporate Actions
The terms of a Structure Product contract changes when the Underlying equity undergoes a Corporate Action. The SY
framework is enhanced to automate the bulk update of the terms.
Forex
Uneven Swaps
FX Swap functionality is enhanced to capture deals where the Swap Base CCY amount of First and second legs is not the
same, that is, uneven.
Position Management
AA PM Integration
AA Deposits (AD) and AA Loans (AL) modules are linked to Position Management (PM) in T24.
OTC Clearing
OC Module
'OTC (Over-The-Counter) Clearing’ module has been developed in response to the regulatory requirements imposed on
derivative players across the world, more specifically to cater to EU established banks under European Market Infra-
structure Regulation (EMIR) to fulfil the reporting requirements. OC module is expected to be further enhanced to cater
to clearing functionality for standardized OTC instruments and margining requirements for non-centrally cleared OTC
instruments based on the implementation schedule by the regulators.
Forex
Uneven Swaps
FX Swap functionality is enhanced to capture swap deals where the amount entered in 2nd leg Currency 1 field, is dif-
ferent from the 1st leg Currency 1 field, that is, Constant Currency amount is not even in the legs.
Multi Entity
Now, TT can support centralised treasury operations for a group of bank entities (also called companies) that are loc-
ated in different locations/countries using Multi company.
Servers