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Previous Enhancements

November 2017 Enhancements

Favorites

An advisor can now add issues to a ‘Favorites’ list which allows an advisor to easily retrieve for review a list of preselected bonds.

Select specific cusips from search results and click the ‘Favorites’ drop down and ‘Add Selected’.

Advisor can retrieve the list from same drop down by selecting ‘View Favorites’.

You can also add an item to your favorites from the order ticket.

On the Fly

An advisor can now run an ‘on the fly’ search by selecting the arrow icon which will allow an advisor to create a bespoke search at the same time as their initial search is displayed. Advisors can run multiple ‘on the fly’ searches

New Inventory Indicator

New tool tip to indicate if posted inventory is new, internal or new internal

Quick Reports – Ladder Report added

The Ladder Report has been added to the ‘Quick Reports’ menu option.

User Profile – Fields added for use in report cover pages

Additional fields have been added to the user profile page, and when populated, will be used as default values on report cover pages.

You can still edit the items in the report builder.


June 2017 Enhancements

Customer Proposal – New menu and features

File Save, Create New, or upload a proposal
Edit Add or delete individual items
Update Update market price, undo or clear informational icons
Quick Request Allows the user to create an order for selected items

Order Blotter Pop-up and Bubble Message enhancements


Calculator upgrade

There are 2 new fields added to the characteristics panel: De_Minimis Price & Tax Rate.

Step-Schedule added to reports

Only for corporates and agencies

Bond Comparison, Bond Review, Swap Proposal and Bond Offering reports will now have enhanced information regarding step schedules

The proposal and ladder reports will display the enhanced information in the buy/ladder candidates section


March 2017 Enhancements

Search Results – Sortable by Sales Credit

Customer Proposal Improvements: State Tax Rate Added

  • When Residence is selected, if the State Tax Rate is blank, the Max Rate will default.
  • When Residence is selected, there will be a tooltip available displaying the state selected tax brackets.
  • The Information Icons [Federal & State] links to Federal and State Document pdf’s.

News & Commentary – New State Tax Rate Category: Tax Foundation Organization

  • User clicks on one of the four links in the intended section to open the corresponding document.

Reports – Offering Report Sorting Enhancements

Columns in the offerings report will now display sorted in the same order the search results are.

Reports – Moody’s Rating “WR” added to Advanced Search criteria

If only specifying a Max. Rating, NR will be set as the minimum by default

Reports – Ladder Report – Maturity Date based on Cash Flow added

Security Information – Short Term Ratings Displayed on the Order Ticket and Security Master


February 2017 Enhancements

Home Page – Treasury Benchmark Widget

The widget provides users with a more comprehensive view of the market. In addition to currently seeing relative value and momentum, the new indicators will provide color on overall market direction.

Order Ticket – DeMinimus Rule Check

A rule is triggered for all buy transactions for Municipal Securities when the client price on an order is less than or equal to the De Minimis price of the bond.

Request Bid – Delete item using Trash Can

All Product Search – Basic Search

After selecting a single product type from the All Product Search widget, the Refine button will now navigate you back to the product Advanced Search screen.

Customer Proposal Improvements

  • The maximum number of items added to the proposal has been extended to 500
  • CD Cash Flow Improvement for Customer Proposal
  • Sell Candidates display income/interest for a Trading Flat bond
  • Display items in the same order shown from Market Search. This gives the user full sorting capability.


November 2016 Enhancements

Correct Yield to Sink (Yield to Average Life) – adding support for Yield to Sink.

All Secondary/Step Certificates of Deposit will be treated as price only and not calculable.

Excel download from Order Blotter – Allow an Excel download with 3 columns of data: Quantity, CUSIP and Settlement Date.

MUNICIPAL Only Market Snapshot: Add State as a column.

Add Coupon Detail to Search Results tooltip.

Allow several fields in Order Blotter to copy & paste: Order ID, FA Identifier , Customer Account Number, CUSIP and All text in Customer column.

TREASURY Market Snapshot: Index Ratio is now included in TIP Attributes.

Display pre-refunded price on SecMaster.

Report Enhancements

Proposal Summary – Add disclaimer on Summary page.


September 2016 Enhancements

Advanced Search Improvements

Price field added to All Products Search

YTW & YTM are now distinct parameters instead of either/or across all debt types

New visual indication of newly offered bonds (Not available previous day)

Pre-Refunded bonds will show as ‘PreRefunded’ in maturity column


August 2016 Enhancements

Adjustable Font Sizes available on Search Results page

Muni Bond Obligor now displayed as distinct field in security rating panel

NASDAQ added as news source for material information

Report Enhancements

Bond Offerings Report

  1. Additional fields in Appearance section
  2. Include/Exclude Cover Page
  3. Change Quantity Available

Bond Comparison Report

Bond Review Report


June 2016 Enhancements

New Bond Types Supported

  • Perpetuals – only calculate YTC, not YTW
  • Preferreds
  • Fixed-to-Float – only calculate accrued interest
  • VRDNs
  • (certain bond types or attributes may be excluded by your firm)

Enhanced Ladder Builder

With simple-mode (# of sequential years) as the default


March 2016 Enhancements

Proposals – New Tabbed Interface and Summary Screen

A new dynamic summary screen will reflect the the current totals for the items in your proposal, and you can navigate between the different components of your proposal using the tabs.

Municipals – New Asset Class – Convertible CABs (Capital Appreciation Bonds)

Convertible Municipals can be found using the new search attribute for Convertibles

and can be identified within search results by the ‘CV’ identifier in the attributes column


October 2015 Enhancements

Homepage Redesign

Basic Search removed from Search Menu and embedded in the Homepage

Advanced Search Enhancements

Common search criteria will now carry over as you switch between products. The fields carried over include CUSIP, Description, Quantity, Years, Coupon, YTW, Rating and Price

Search by minimum tradeable size

Available in Agency, Corporate, Municipal and Treasury search

Coupon Frequency, Call Style and Make Whole criteria

Available in Agency & Corporate search attributes

Agency Bond Types added: Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, FFCB, FHLB, TVA and Others

Available in Agency Search

CD Search-Added Coupon Frequency

Sector Filter

Available in Corporates and Municipal Search Characteristics

MBS Types added: Ginnie Mae, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Whole Loan

Municipal Search Attribute terminology change

Changed ETM to Escrow, changed PreRe to PreRefund

Tool tip added to identify incompatible selections and will prompt you to adjust your criteria.

Search Results

New feature – Save current search from Search Results

New feature – Added Priced to Par Call or Priced to Maturity

Indicating offering provider’s price basis

Enhanced Ladder Builder


Enhancements in 14.3

Profile – Default toggle for Basic/Advanced Search

Users can specify the default set of search parameters, either a limited ‘basic’ search or an advanced set of criteria

Search Options – ALL Bonds

You can now search across all asset classes with one set of search parameters. Select ‘All Bonds’ from the Search Submenu

Search Options – YTW or YTM

Searches can be filtered to return results based on Yield to Worst (YTW) or Yield to Maturity (YTM)

Order Ticket – Email the Bond Report to your inbox

From the order ticket, you can now send a mobile Bond Report direct to the email address on file in your profile.

Use the phone icon to send the mobile bond report direct to your inbox.

Range Accrual Enhancements (Corporates, Agencies, CDs)

New attribute will note when a bond is a Range Accrual Note

Shared Saved Searches

Your firm may make available pre-defined searches on the Saved Searches page

Enhanced Analyze (Bond Comparison)

A new look and feel, new frame layout, new icons to indicate user own bonds, matchers and comparable bonds

Report Enhancements – Name Change: Customer Portfolio Report

Now called Customer Proposal Report

Report Enhancements – Quick Reports

For reports that can be generated directly from the market snapshot of search results, there is now a quick reports menu.

Report Enhancements – Improved Customer Proposal Sensitivity Analysis

Report Enhancements – Improved feedback for bonds with insufficient data


Enhancements in 14.2

Primary and Secondary Corporate and CD Inventory

If permissioned, you can now see Primary inventory integrated into the search results for both Corporates and CDs.

You can specify Primary, Secondary or Both from the Advanced Search screen

Enhanced Profile Screen with Search Defaults

Order Ticket – Multi-Account Allocations

Initiate an order and break down the total quantity into separate client accounts

Single Bond Analyzer

Comparative analysis for a single issue based on offering quality, comparable bonds, and offerings from the same root cusip

Order Ticket – Negative Yield Alert

Alert when client price will result in a negative yield

Order Ticket – Security Minimum/Increment Check

Alert when order does not satisfy security minimum or increment denomination values

Bond Ladder – Target Annual Income, Tax Rate and Enhanced Cash Flow display

Enhanced display shows cash flow compared to desired annual income

Saved Searches – Bond Alerts

Up to 5 Saved Searches can now be set as alerts that will generate a daily email of new offerings.

Advanced Search – Enhanced MBS Criteria

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