Working with Migration of Lending Arrangements

Each loan arrangement has to be linked to a customer in the Temenos Transact CUSTOMER application. Every loan has to be captured in the Temenos Transact AL module to ensure that the associated client data is made available in Temenos Transact and the legacy loan data can be associated with the Temenos Transact customer number.

For each customer in a loan arrangement, a corresponding LIMIT record is created in Temenos Transact before creating the arrangement.

A loan can be a long-term contract in the legacy system, which can be ongoing for several years. The usual practice for the takeover of financial contracts is for the contract to be takeover to take place with an effective date that is equal to a scheduled date (for example, interest or principal due date).

The contract is created with principal balance and interest rates at the selected event date as a new contract. Interest rate and principal changes after the event date are loaded into Temenos Transact as future-dated activities. Details of previous history and balances are not used in the contract processing in Temenos Transact.

The date chosen can be the last payment date, which can be a past date.

Existing contracts are analysed to identify the earliest date that can be used to create arrangement in Temenos Transact.

The existing products in the legacy system has to be analysed and products have to be created for the Lending Product Line that provides the same functionality.

The legacy system is unlikely to provide functionality in exactly the same way as Temenos Transact and data may not map directly from the legacy system to Temenos Transact.

Properties, Product Property Conditions and Products have to be created with an effective date that is on or earlier than the earliest contract date for takeover identified in the legacy data.

Products have to be published, including any known future conditions and made available for sale before arrangements can be created.

It is unlikely that the legacy system has the concepts of product inheritance and negotiable attributes as Temenos Transact so the legacy products in Temenos Transact are likely to be supported best by:

• Not using any inheritance in the product structure.
• Making the majority of attributes negotiable for arrangements.

The AA module supports the ability to record arrangement level conditions for information purposes only. Once the arrangement is created, it is possible to load historic conditions if required. Any data loaded prior to the creation date in Temenos Transact are not used for processing and is not a mandatory requirement.

Temenos Transact cannot process the adjustment to loan contracts with an effective date prior to the takeover date. The usual approach is to make the amendment in the legacy system if still available, or manually calculate the adjustment. The adjustment can then be applied to the arrangement in Temenos Transact effective the takeover date.

The value of outstanding bills have to be taken over into Temenos Transact with an effective date equal to the start date of the arrangement in Temenos Transact. Data has to be made available for overdue bills.

The value of penalty interest and charges calculated (accrued) by the legacy system has to be made available as at the effective date of arrangement creation in the Temenos Transact system. It provides the ability to take these balances over.

The following data should be made available (or be able to be derived):

• Temenos Transact Customer number.
• Temenos Transact Product name.
• Effective Date for creation in Temenos Transact.
• Currency of Arrangement.
• Outstanding principal balance as at the Effective Date.

A separate extract of overdue bills for existing arrangements has to be prepared. It includes,

• The bill due date.
• The breakdown of properties and outstanding amount for the bill.
• A legacy contract identifier that should be possible to link to the created arrangement number in Temenos Transact.

Any outstanding penalty interest or charge accrual balances for loans should be prepared and should identify

• The Property name (for example, PENALTYINT)
• The balance amount for the Property.

In order to create the arrangement in Temenos Transact, an AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY transaction is created (usually through OFS – although it is possible to enter such a transaction manually).

The transaction is performed using the LENDING-TAKEOVER-ARRANGEMENT Activity. This is a specialised Activity, which is a variation of the standard LENDING-NEW-ARRANGEMENT used to create the loan arrangement.

The following details are supplied in AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY:

The information regarding current weighted average rate for migrated contracts, can be passed from Legacy to Temenos Transact using a feed. Context name and Context Value is such a feed. AA.CONTEXT TYPE holds the definition of Context name.

For this purpose, Legacy War Rate is released as part of Core to retrieve the data provided in Context Name and Context Value fields and update the PERIODIC.RATE. By having the rate value, the WAR routine can calculate and update the Effective Rate of the contract in the same manner as for the new arrangements.

Read Weighted Average Interest Rate for more information.

Details of values to be applied to the properties of the arrangement are supplied as part of the AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY OFS request, using the associated fields:

• xx<Property
• xx<xx<Field.Name
• xx>xx>Field.Value

Once the transaction has been authorised, the system creates:

• An arrangement contract and number.
• An associated arrangement ACCOUNT record.

The ARRANGEMENT reference allocated is returned as part of the OFS response.

The outstanding bills can be taken over individually to Temenos Transact once the arrangement is created. The bill is created with an effective date equal to the date taken into Temenos Transact but with a bill date of the original issue date.

The AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY application captures the bill details using the AA.ACTIVITY.CLASS LENDING-CAPTURE.BILL-BALANCE.MAINTENANCE Activity.

The following details are supplied in AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY:

The outstanding accrued penalty interest and other charges can be taken over individually to Temenos Transact once the arrangement has been created. The balances should be created with an effective date equal to the date taken over into Temenos Transact.

The AA.ARRANGEMENT.ACTIVITY application is used to capture balances using the AA.ACTIVITY.CLASS LENDING-CAPTURE.BALANCE-BALANCE.MAINTENANCE Activity.