Currency Management

Currencies and their rates (quotes) are managed by navigating to Currency Management in the System Data menu.

If your user is designated as system administrator you will see the Settings-section on the top of the page.



New currencies can be added by clicking (1) below and existing currencies can be edited by clicking the action menu for each currency and the dialogue (2) below will show.

The properties that can be set are the following.

Property

Description

Property

Description

Decimals

These are the number of decimals that will be used as the maximum currency units. For example, if the value is 2 the minimum unit for USD will be 0.01 (1 cent), if the value would be 1 the minimum unit would be 0.1 USD (10 cents).

Default Execution Interface

This is the default selected trade route (Execution Interface) for currency exchange where the selected currency is involved.

Custody account

This is the default custody account used for storing the currency positions.

Status

The status sets the availability of the currency according to the table below.



Acc. Type Limit.



The second tab in Currency Management is called Currency Rates and here the quotes for the currencies in relation to the system base currency is managed.

In the example above the system currency is set to EUR.

The spot quotes are collected automatically each night from here: http://www.riksbank.se/en/Interest-and-exchange-rates/search-interest-rates-exchange-rates/

Currency rates can be added or edited with the following properties.

Property

Description

Property

Description

Key

Enter the same value as the related currency short name

Code

Enter the same value as the related currency short name

SortOrder

Is used where currency rates are listed.

Status

The status can be set to any of the following values.





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