Solutions for Financial Commodity Trading and Risk Management

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Trade more profitably and manage risks in a single solution

To be successful in commodity markets today, you need to:

Take advantage of the most comprehensive financial trading capabilities in the market today

Wide contract coverage from standard contracts including forwards, futures, options and averages to complex derivative instruments.

Whether you trade in metals, ags or softs, are a start-up or large multinational firm, we have a solution for you. Choose a front-to-back trading to physical delivery solution, or stand-alone capabilities to work with your existing IT environment, on-premise or via the cloud.

Get up and running in weeks with pre-configured ‘quick start’ deployment to match your specific business needs.

Key functional areas

Fully automated or manual deal capture OTC and listed derivatives

Trade management, confirmation, reconciliation and statements

Credit and market risk management

Understand the cost per trade and when to expect revenue

Assess the impact of constantly changing market risk factors on the portfolio

Make optimal margin allocation decisions

Achieve cost efficiencies throughout the trading lifecycle processes

Comply with financial regulatory requirements

Multi-currency exposure management

Compliance and regulatory reporting

Profit and loss monitoring

Treasury management

Finance and accounting

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Business benefits

We help you to maintain profitable trading net margins

Assess market risk factors and their impact on trading strategies

Understand income and costs including margin requirements

Gain real-time visibility of your mark-to-market positions and P&L, to react to changes throughout the day

Analyse optionality in financial contracts to make optimal trading decisions

Make more informed hedging strategies based on current market conditions

Measure and report on risk metrics to comply with your organisation’s risk policy

Apply stress testing to understand the impact of shocks in price, delta, foreign exchange and interest rates to the P&L Perform VaR simulations to ascertain the maximum potential loss on a portfolio over a specific time period and confidence level

React to an adverse counterparty credit situation quickly

Justify business decisions by reporting the impact of trade events or market data changes to the overall trading P&L

Perform detailed analysis on P&L to explain fluctuations with drill down to counterparty, portfolio and trader level.

Automate commission and brokerage calculations for multiple commodities, exchanges and brokers to reduce risk of error in charges

Manage initial and variation margin requirements to avoid unnecessary funds being paid to counterparties

Brokers - manage the generation and distribution of client communications efficiently to save time

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We help you to reduce operational risks with automated workflow

We help you to protect your reputation and shareholder value

Reduce manual tasks across pre and post trade processes

Achieve closer collaboration between the front, mid and back office to minimise delays in trade processing

Incorporate internal and external market data into calculations from complex IT environments with Brady’s custom APIs

Communicate with exchanges to avoid missing opportunities from delays in sending or receiving critical information on trade status

Comply with the reporting requirements of regulations such as MIFID II, REMIT and EMIR and to avoid financial penalties

Be transparent. Obtain full audit trails to check all financial movements

Restrict access to different users for compliance

Eliminate spreadsheets to avoid the risk of manual errors leading to financial loss

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Gain a complete picture of all your financial positions and risk exposures in Brady’s solution

A single point of truth

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Key features at a glance

Price options and trading strategies

Import market data real-time or intraday from 3rd party sources

Attain real time mark-to-market calculations

Perform detailed P&L analysis

Report on and manage commodity and FX exposure

Run multiple stress tests scenarios

Import executed trades from order management systems and exchanges

Trading

Operations

Manage a trade throughout its life cycle based on standard workflow

Define default commission and brokerage rules

Generate and distribute trade confirmations internally and externally

Interface directly with specific global exchanges

Manage warrant and physical inventory from traded positions

Quickly calculate margin requirements including initial and variation margin

Aggregate trades and allocate/give-up the position(s)

Closeout positions on a FIFO and LIFO basis

Automatically reconcile live data with 3rd party systems

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Risk

Compliance

Set-up and monitor limits by various criteria

Monitor and report on limit breaches

Calculate VaR risk figures moves using historical, parametric or Monte Carlo models

Run stress testing reports and conduct what-if scenarios

Monitor market risk on a portfolio and counterparty basis

Calculate and report on FX exposure

Attain a consolidated view of risk exposures across physical and derivatives transactions

Reliable tools to help meet internal and external processes and obligations

Supports regulatory reporting requirements such as MiFiD and EMIR

Enables full audit trail for any changes made to data by users

Restrict functions for data usage and access to areas to particular users and groups

Easy access to extract trading data to allow up to real-time monitoring of trading activity

Settlement

Create Standing Settlement Instructions for counterparties

Define default settlement netting rules

Produce settlement invoices

Produce cash flow summary reports

Generate and distribute client statement on a regular basis

Automatically feed daily postings via the General Ledger Interface

Compared to our old in-house system and other commodity trading and risk management applications on the market, Brady’s metal derivative

trading solution is first-class and I’d certainly recommend it.

LME Options Dealer Assistant at Marex Financial

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Brady’s proven know-how

With over 30 years’ experience of delivering multi commodity trading, risk and logistics solutions to leading global organisations and a workforce including ex traders, technology innovators and sector specialists, you can rely on Brady’s deep expertise in commodities.

Let us help you gain a competitive edge in your trading activities today.

Brady’s solutions cover 15+ countries globally.

Each year, businesses around the world depend on Brady systems to transact trillions of USD worth of trades.

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Why businesses love working with Brady

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Investing in a new software system platform is an important decision, which is also associated with a degree of risk. To meet the challenges

we face in the complex markets in which we operate, we are confident that we have sufficiently mitigated that risk by selecting a solution that

can support the full requirements of the metal processing value chain. The Brady team affords the most thorough understanding of

the metals markets in the CTRM space.

- Markus Meurer, Head of MMC Norilsk Nickel’s Global Sales

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As the leader in their field and an existing supplier to us, the selection process was relatively simple. We have every confidence in the solutions

and support that Brady provides, as well as their ability to deliver the right set of tools on time and within budget.

- Craig Dean, CEO at Gerald Group

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Speak to a Brady Commodity Expert today and discover how our financial commodity trading software can support your business activities.

marketing@bradyplc.com

+44 20 3301 1200

www.bradyplc.com