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ChathamDirect financial risk management technology

Manage financial risk more effectively and deliver better bottom-line results to your organization

What other strategic initiatives could you advance if managing financial risk were more seamless and automated? Freed from repetitive tasks and armed with analytics, imagine serving as a better partner to your leadership team and business units.

    ChathamDirect makes it all possible

    Our end-to-end cloud platform streamlines exposure gathering, hedge execution, hedge accounting, and executive reporting so you can:

    • Achieve automated, end-to-end financial risk management

    • Make data-driven decisions and inform stakeholders with enhanced analytics

    • Increase earnings protection through robust economic and accounting strategies

    • Seamlessly integrate with other platforms in your technology stack

    With ChathamDirect, you can see a big picture view of your risks and instantly access the details of your cash flow forecasts, balance sheet exposures, hedge requests, and more, so you can:

    • Easily analyze risks and compare them against your risk tolerance thresholds.
    • View recommended trades based on your objectives.
    • Streamline your program with straight-through processing.
    • Demonstrate program impacts with advanced business intelligence tools.

    ChathamDirect makes it easy to manage your exposures, hedging policies, execution, valuations, hedge accounting, and regulatory compliance. A streamlined workflow, complete post-trade automation, and robust exposure analytics make it the preferred tool for global treasury teams.

    The system is built and supported by financial risk experts who can configure it to seamlessly integrate with your existing platforms and processes. With Chatham’s unique mix of advisory, operational support, and technology, you can access all the capabilities necessary to manage the most effective risk management program: treasury risk advisory, hedging, hedge accounting, valuations, compliance, technology, reporting, and more.

    Available modules

    Cash flow exposure management

    Enable your business units to enter their cash flow forecasts directly into ChathamDirect while maintaining the control you need to validate and correct issues before making hedge decisions. ChathamDirect recommends trades to bring your Cash Flow program in-line with desired objectives and seamlessly facilitates the execution of these hedges.

    Balance sheet exposure management

    Automate exposure aggregation from your ERPs and internal systems. Analyze and validate exposures to catch errors. Easily make hedging decisions for each business unit or at the parent level. ChathamDirect recommends trades to align your Balance Sheet program with desired objectives, and smoothly facilitates the execution of those hedges or rolling of the entire program.

    Integration platform

    So you can connect seamlessly with your ERP, TMS, and trading platforms, ChathamDirect offers a robust and extensible integration platform that enables direct processing between multiple systems.

    Valuation and CVAs

    Use Chatham’s integrated market data to value trades, calculate credit valuation adjustments (CVAs), and create shock reports. Both Chatham's valuations and CVAs are covered by our SOC 1 report.

    Hedge accounting

    Save time and effort with automated accounting for the entire trade lifecycle, including the creation of hedge designation memos, hypothetical derivatives, effectiveness tests, OCI releases, journal entries and disclosures.

    Derivatives regulatory reporting

    Automate derivatives compliance reporting for EMIR and Dodd-Frank.

    Integrated business intelligence tools

    Access seamless, customized dashboards, and analytic reports through our integrated business intelligence tools.

    Commodities exposure management

    Take your commodities reporting to the next level with a collection of commodities BI reports embedded within ChathamDirect. Additionally, maintain your commodities hedging program through our BI exposure management tool.

    ChathamDirect makes it easy to manage your exposures, hedging policies, execution, valuations, and hedge accounting compliance. A streamlined workflow, complete post-trade automation, and robust exposure analytics make it the preferred tool for global treasury teams.

    Schedule a demo today

    Experience firsthand how ChathamDirect can transform your financial risk management program.

    Disclaimers

    Chatham Hedging Advisors, LLC (CHA) is a subsidiary of Chatham Financial Corp. and provides hedge advisory, accounting and execution services related to swap transactions in the United States. CHA is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a commodity trading advisor and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA); however, neither the CFTC nor the NFA have passed upon the merits of participating in any advisory services offered by CHA. For further information, please visit chathamfinancial.com/legal-notices.

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