The trading area contains the main functions for entering financial transactions. You can enter transactions, call up information on existing transactions, or make changes to transactions at a later date.

In the Money Market, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives areas, you can also give notice on and roll over transactions.

You have to enter the master data before you can create a financial transaction in the trading area.

In the Money Market, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives areas, this means entering master data for the respective business partner in the role of Treasury partner.

Before you create a securities order, you must enter the issuer, the depository bank, and the securities class data in the Securities area.

The collective processing function simplifies the transaction management process by displaying a list of all the transactions with common selection criteria. From here, you simply click a button to branch to the various processing options.

To speed up processing, there is a Fast entry function in the Money Market and Foreign Exchange areas for the most common transactions. The Money Market area also has a Fast processing function.

The trading area also includes some Utilities:

• Date check (to determine whether the requested due date falls on a workday).
• Option price calculator, which you use to compare the option prices requested with your own calculations based on market data (only in the Foreign Exchange and Derivatives areas).
• Securities account cash flow in the Securities area, which displays all the flows for a security in a particular securities account.

The specific characteristics of certain products call for other activities, which you can carry out in the trading area.

These are order execution and order expiration as well as knock-in/knock-out activities for OTC transactions. In the Securities area, you can exercise different rights (conversion rights, subscription rights, exercise warrants, and detach warrants).