Corporate Treasurers face these and other challenges when it comes to investing excess capital. So, how do you manage these issues without increasing costs, staff or investment risk? The FIS Short-Term Cash Management [STCM] can help.

STCM provides solutions for multinational corporations looking to diversify their short-term investments, enhance returns, mitigate currency risk, and better manage cash holdings across the organization. The STCM portal enables corporate treasurers to research, analyze, trade, settle and report on an ever increasing number of short term cash management funds through a single connection. With its provider-neutral, multi-fund trading platform, STCM allows accounting and audit teams to seamlessly monitor trades, track and report on outstanding holdings.

Through a fully disclosed trading model, STCM helps ensure that clients are able to retain their relationships with the fund providers.

• Provides direct access to the fund company
• Removes intermediary risk between the clients bank and fund company in the purchase and redemption process

• Enables administrators to set compliance rules, concentration limits and fund ownership restrictions at the user, portfolio and corporate level
• Calculates fund ownership positions on a daily basis, and provides monthly statements of aggregate holdings and robust reporting capabilities for tracking balance, accrued interest and dividend data
• Centralizes transaction and holding data for immediate audit retrieval across the firm

• Offers access to a broad range of Euro, Sterling, U.S. Dollar, and non-U.S. domiciled funds to allow for greater diversification of holdings and to help identify the best funds to meet your objectives
• Provides dynamic research tools to search offerings by credit rating, cut-off time, fund type and asset classification
• Displays prospectus, account application, wire instructions and fact cards and portfolio holdings on all funds for easy reference
• Manages credit and liquidity risk by easily identifying counterparty exposure

• Integrates with treasury management systems, eliminating the need to re-key daily rate and trade confirmations
• Provides automated settlement instruction capability between the investor and the settling bank
• Enables order entry in multiple accounts or funds using a single trade ticket

• Provides Web-based, instant access to accounting, compliance, performance and risk information
• Minimizes manual input by providing a consolidated reporting engine for multinational corporations with assets in multiple locations
• Measures, quantifies and reports on the risks in your portfolio
• Streamlines investment processes and reconciliation to provide a stronger control framework