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The platform, stage by stage
One trade, seven places it goes wrong.
A Calypso configuration is not eight separate systems. It is one trade moving through seven stages, each inheriting what the stage before it decided.
01CaptureFront office
Where it breaks
A product modelled wrong here is inherited by every number downstream
What happens here
Trade booked against product, book, counterparty, and static data
Built from
- Product definition
- Book
- Counterparty
- Static data
Depends on
The product model, legal entity, and book hierarchy already being right
Hands on
Every valuation, risk, and accounting number the trade goes on to produce
What the work produces
The problems these engagements address, and the products they are applied across.
Earnings and audit
Where accounting treatment decides what the numbers say.
Designation, effectiveness testing, and the documentation that has to hold when a reviewer pulls the file. The framework decides which period a gain lands in, so a design that is merely defensible on paper still moves earnings if the system implements it differently.
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Earnings and audit
03 programsWhere accounting treatment decides what the numbers say.
Delivery and migration
03 programsWhere the platform changes hands or changes shape.
Capital and regulatory
02 programsWhere a booking decision becomes a reported one.
Earnings and audit
Hedge accounting framework design
Designation, effectiveness testing, and the documentation that has to hold when a reviewer pulls the file. The framework decides which period a gain lands in, so a design that is merely defensible on paper still moves earnings if the system implements it differently.
Applied acrossSix product domains
- 01Interest-rate derivatives
Swaps, caps, floors, and swaptions, and the curves behind them.
- 02FX
Spot, forwards, swaps, and options across currency pairs.
- 03Fixed income
Bonds and repo, with the accrual and settlement behaviour they carry.
- 04Money markets
Short-dated funding, deposits, and liquidity instruments.
- 05Commodities
Physical and financial exposure, and the delivery terms attached to it.
- 06Equity derivatives
Options, futures, and total return structures on single names and indices.
How the work is scoped
Most Calypso engagements arrive as one of four shapes. What separates them is not the technology involved but where the risk concentrates, and which office ends up carrying it when a date moves.
- 01
Calypso implementation
Architecture · Configuration · DeliveryImplementation risk concentrates where a decision taken for the front office quietly changes the ledger. The design has to hold all three offices at once.
- 02
Platform migration
Mapping · Validation · CutoverMigration risk concentrates at the first close after cutover. A migration that reconciles on day one can still fail at month end.
- 03
Lifecycle-led testing
SIT · UAT · RegressionTesting risk concentrates in the events nobody scripted. Happy-path coverage passes, and the exception breaks the close.
- 04
Operational readiness
Controls · Ownership · SupportReadiness risk concentrates in the handover. A system that works is not the same as an organization ready to run it.
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