The Fintrade CTRM platform enables effective cost control and P&L management for commodities traded in physical form. The Fintrade platform is an advanced commodities trading system that focuses on inventory and logistics management for land, sea, and air delivery. It enables both the exchange and over-the-counter trade of metals commodities.
Key Capabilities
Producing
Use Fintrade’s sophisticated tools to capitalize on strategic trading opportunities. By expediting document sign-offs in a single location, you can reduce the potential risks associated with price volatility and maintain a close eye on financial markets with the help of the Market Data Hub.
- Reduce the risks associated with price volatility by facilitating the signing of agreements more quickly by consolidating all documents in a single location.
- Maximize efficiency by strategically determining stock values and COGS and planning deliveries with Fintrade’s advanced tools.
- Utilize Market Data Hub’s real-time updates and comprehensive market insights to enhance your planning and make the most informed trading decisions.
- A more efficient workflow can simplify your operations and mitigate potential hazards. Enhance efficiency by automating time-consuming pre- and post-trade tasks.
Trading
Fintrade provides unparalleled trading functionality. By utilizing robust P&L analysis features, you can acquire valuable performance data regarding your portfolio. Additionally, you can leverage the capabilities of automation and customization to customize the software to meet your specific trading needs.
- Fintrade offers the flexibility to tailor pricing and premiums to your specific requirements, including standard fixed rate, floating, formula-based, or indeterminate premiums.
- Powerful P&L analysis tools provide performance insight into multiple legal entities or trading accounts and clarify complex market fluctuations.
- With precision, capture the intricate details of tangible deals, including those involving concentrates, and seamlessly incorporate multiple contents into a single contract.
- Automatic price calculations are facilitated by our system, which automatically converts between numerous units of measure and utilizes third-party data.
Inventory & Logistics
Fintrade offers a robust solution for the management of products in transit, including the coordination of shipments, the generation of essential paperwork, and the monitoring of their movement. Companies can guarantee the efficient and organized movement of merchandise across borders by utilizing a single platform.
- Perform inventory valuation, including stock, forward, and matched with Fintrade, and manage physical inventory positions, long and short forward positions.
- Businesses can manage and optimize their inventory flow by utilizing Fintrade, which provides a comprehensive overview of each phase of the life cycle, from supplier to depot, silo to customer.
- Easily monitor and track movement and cargoes, as well as prepare critical documents to guarantee efficient transport, all within the Fintrade platform.
- Fintrade simplifies inventory management by permitting users to grade, merge, transform, or divide their inventory.
Risk Management
Fintrade optimizes physical trading and reduces operational risks by consolidating the front, mid, and back offices to simplify trade processing. Access the most comprehensive commodity trading platform that provides both exchange and over-the-counter trade options for metals.
- Fintrade enhances collaboration by bridging the gap between the front, mid, and back offices to ensure that trades are processed promptly.
- Manage all of your purchase, sale, storage, and hedging contracts in a single, central location with Fintrade to expedite the process of signing off.
- Utilize Fintrade’s custom APIs to make strategic transactions by leveraging comprehensive market insights and applying the power of real-time data analysis.
- Fintrade enables you to maintain control over your organization’s risk policy by monitoring and reporting market and credit metrics.
Hedging
Innovative hedging instruments assist in maintaining a competitive edge. Fintrade provides a comprehensive perspective by providing daily pricing reports, reporting on physical and hedging contracts, and sophisticated market exposure monitoring. This provides the necessary tools to ensure that your organization maintains its risk policy while remaining profitable.
- Assess the risk/reward balance using intelligent hedging tools that can assist in the identification of profitable transactions by monitoring market fluctuations.
- Generate daily pricing reports for physical and hedging contracts and manage and report on combined market exposure with Fintrade.
- Position rolling enables you to remain ahead of the market and effectively manage your FX exposure with Fintrade’s spot and forward contracts.
- Accurately monitor trends in P&L over time by gaining a comprehensive understanding of your mark-to-market positions.
Accounting
Transform your financial operations with Fintrade’s integrated accounting module to achieve unparalleled accuracy in invoicing. User permissions ensure the security of data and the accountability of users, while detailed post-transaction analysis and streamlined fiscal entity administration offer razor-sharp insights into performance.
- Ensure the complete accuracy of invoice processing by automating the reconciliation of accounting, trading, and P&L data to streamline your financial operations.
- From within Fintrade, it is effortless to oversee numerous intricate fiscal entities and their distinctive chart of accounts.
- A comprehensive post-transaction profitability analysis can provide invaluable insight into performance, allowing you to identify successes by product, vessel, or location.
- In order to guarantee accountability, user permissions provide access to information to various departments within the organization while simultaneously establishing a permanent audit trail.
Treasury
Fintrade provides you with the ability to exert complete control over your treasury operations. Our cutting-edge technology facilitates the effortless creation and importation of critical documents, thereby promoting efficiency in all phases.
- Maintain close control over your treasury operations by implementing an efficient system to monitor the usage and limits of letters of credit.
- Our state-of-the-art technology simplifies the process of generating and importing critical documents, including bid bonds, bank guarantees, and letters of credit, from SWIFT files.
- Fintrade assists you in maintaining a high level of payment management by overseeing the laborious process of monitoring Letters of Credit presentations.
- Fintrade simplifies the utilization of trade finance instruments by offering precise financing cost calculations.
Key Benefits
- Acquire a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic market risk environment and apply this knowledge to optimize profits from physical transactions while managing expenses.
- Utilize the capabilities of Fintrade software to acquire valuable insights and make cost-effective decisions at any given moment.
- Negotiate optimal warehouse deals and offtake agreements to reduce costs and make wise inventory allocations with associated profits and losses.
- Benefit from the built-in document management and workflow capabilities to secure higher premiums on grades or brands sold, without the concern of financial penalties.