Funding an Account
Account | Account Transactions

Funding an account refers to the process of adding funds to a specific account or a financial instrument. It may involve various methods depending on the type of account and the financial institution or service provider.

Block or Unblock Funds
Account | Account Transactions

Banks can block funds fully or partially on an account for a specific or indefinite period of time. This topic explains the service operations and their APIs involved in initiating, updating, and reversing a fund block. It also explains the APIs to fetch fund blocking information.

  • Creates a funds reservation with details such as account number, block or reserve amount, period of hold transaction, reason for holding. Funds reservations are created to block or reserve funds which restricts any debit movements affecting the account balance below the blocked amount for the specified period on an account.

  • Update funds reservation with details such as account number, block or reserve amount, period of hold transaction, reason for holding. Funds reservations are created to block or reserve funds which restricts any debit movements affecting the account balance below the blocked amount for the specified period on an account.

  • Cancels the funds reservation of an account. Funds reservations are created to block or reserve funds which restricts any debit movements affecting the account balance below the blocked amount for the specified period on an account. On removal of the funds reservations, the blocked or reserved amount is now available for usage.

  • Retrieves the reserved funds details such as reason, amount and period of reservation of the account

Standing Order
Account | Account Transactions

A standing order is a type of financial instruction that allows an account holder to authorise a fixed amount of funds to be automatically transferred from their account to another account, typically on a regular basis. The transfer can occur weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or on any other regular interval specified by the account holder.

Account Sweep
Account | Account Transactions

Account sweep is a financial service that automatically transfers funds between different accounts to maximise the use of available funds and minimise idle cash balances. It can also be used to pay down outstanding balances on lines of credit or loans. Account sweeps can be performed on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, depending on the needs and preferences of the account holder.

Creating a Bundle
Cash Management | Creating a Structure

Creating a cash management structure (bundle) has three stages.Draft, Preliminary, Live

Creating Internal FX
Cash Management | Creating a Structure

You can define an intra-cash pool transaction between transaction Accounts that are in different currencies without affecting the currency top accounts balances using the exchange rates set as Internal FX. In AA, a new product is created under the “Relationship Pricing” product line called, Internal FX. Under this product, the user can define the exchange rates for each currency pair that is used when the system performs intra-cash pool transactions. Internal FX will allow the corporate customer to perform cross-currency movements without affecting the bank’s currency positions.

Account Sweep
Cash Management | Manage Transactions

Account Sweeps are a movement of funds from one virtual account to another targeting to maintain the defined minimum or maximum amount of account balances. With this functionality, you can set up balance sweeps among virtual accounts that are part of the same structure and currency. You can also perform sweeps among accounts in a cash pool group.

Update Settlement Instructions
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

You can define the settlement process of the defined interest conditions between the bank and the customer. The settlement instruction includes credit and debit interest, settlement accounts, settlement mode, and so on for pay-in and pay-out activities.

Manage Interest
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

You can define the fixed and floating interest rates for credit balance, debit balance, and penalty charges for summary accounts and currency summary accounts. The interest conditions defined for the summary accounts are inherited from their underlying virtual accounts.

Manage Payment Schedule
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

You can define the conditions for the schedule and frequency of pay-in and pay-out transactions when the structure is in the live stage. You can also define the schedule for individual summary accounts within the structure (provided they are in the live stage).

Block or Unblock Accounts
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

You can temporarily deactivate either an entire structure or individual virtual accounts, thereby preventing both the structure and its associated virtual accounts from conducting transactions during that specific period.

Update Internal FX
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

You can choose to set an Internal FX rate for each customer, and these rates can be applied across different structures for the same customer within the bank.

Secondary Limit
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

You can set secondary limits for an account that has one or more child accounts. A primary limit is the minimum and maximum limit of a parent account (for example, a summary account or currency summary account) whereas a secondary limit indicates the minimum and maximum limit of the virtual accounts under the parent account. For instance, if a summary account with two transaction accounts has a primary limit of 10000 EUR, you can set the secondary limit for each transaction account at 5000 EUR.

Closure
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

You can close the entire structure at any stage, which eventually closes all its underlying virtual accounts.

Bundle Restructure
Cash Management | Account Maintenance

The bundle is restructured by changing the parent or pool for a particular account provided with the same currency.

  • Structural changes of virtual accounts in live status - for example, removing one virtual account from a sweep group to another sweep group triggered by the bank user

  • Structural changes of virtual accounts in live status - for example, removing one virtual account from a sweep group to another sweep group triggered by the bank user

Interest Accruals
Cash Management | Enquiries

Interest accrual is the accumulation of interest on funds that are deposited into an interest-bearing account over a period. It can occur daily, monthly, quarterly, or annually depending on the account terms. The below service operations are used to retrieve the interest accrued for various time frames.

Sweep
Cash Management | Enquiries

Sweeps are a movement of funds from one virtual account to another targeting to maintain the defined minimum or maximum amount of account balances. You can set up balance sweeps among virtual accounts that are part of the same structure and currency. You can also perform sweeps among accounts in a cash pool group.

Balances
Cash Management | Enquiries

Finances of a cash management structure has the following balance information.

Account Details
Cash Management | Enquiries

Account details include displaying of transaction account summary and the details of the accounts individually under a bundle.