Public Sector Debt Management System

Create Transparency. Manage Risk.
Improve Governance. Drive Efficiencies.

The public sector is under pressure to improve governance and achieve efficiencies at a time when complexity and uncertainty are increasing. sals.a can help meet these challenges.

Create transparency

sals.a’s broad coverage allows you capture, monitor and manage your Funding, Investment and Derivative transactions in one platform. This provides a consolidated view of risk in a consistent format.

sals.a’s powerful reporting and collaboration capabilities make it easy to share relevant information with relevant people in a timely manner.

Manage risk

The consolidation of business wide information allows you to analyse your profile to identify concentrations in interest rate, currency or counterparts which may represent an unacceptable risk.

The ability to view financing and hedging together provides valuable transparency on their relationship and performance relative to market movements.

“Risk management, like the quantification of risk, must take the portfolio into consideration, in order to adequately represent correlations between the individual risks. But, in roughly 55.5% of municipalities, debt management decisions are primarily based on an isolated view of each transaction.“

Kai Birkholz: Active public-sector debt management – the path to greater efficiency in public borrowing. Haupt Verlag, Berne 2008 (original title: Aktives kommunales Debt Management - Wege zu mehr Effizienz bei der kommunalen Fremdfinanzierung.)

sals.a’s powerful analytics help you identify trends, while the combination of limit system and market data feeds will highlight exceptions in real time.

Improve governance

sals.a’s benchmarking capability allows you to compare your portfolio against peers or regulator defined targets, encouraging good governance and efficient use of resources.

The ability to send relevant, easy to understand data on a deal or portfolio basis with a single click allows you to communicate quickly and effectively. 

sals.a’s collaboration function can be used to allow colleagues to review or verify work, while user defined access and an unalterable audit trail ensure appropriate safeguards.

Creating future scenarios based on public curves or your own assumptions allows you to develop an in-house view and validate the advice given by external advisors.

Drive efficiencies

The ability to plan future receipts and payments of principal and interest allows you to optimise liquidity and interest expense.

Automation eliminates standalone spreadsheets, reduces errors and the time required to complete tasks, freeing management to focus on growth or improvements.

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