Collateral Management (Collateral)
Registration, valuation and management of collateral against financing or a credit line. It sends memorandum vouchers to the Financial Core for pledge and release, and checks coverage with the Financing service.
- Domain
- Risk and collateral management
- Target customers
- Credit department and collateral specialists, customers through the app
- Main capabilities
- 16 collateral types, valuation and acceptance factor, life cycle from pledge to release, dual control and coverage control
Collateral is an independent microservice for registering, valuing and managing the collateral placed against financing or credit lines at a financial institution. The service has its own dedicated database and, to record a pledge and a release formally, sends a memorandum voucher to AccountingCore; to check coverage, it communicates with the Financing service.
The users of this service are the credit department and collateral specialists, who register, value, approve or reject a customer's proposed collateral, and also customers themselves through the app, who can view or register their own collateral.
Key capabilities
16 collateral types in four categories
Movable (gold, vehicles, machinery, SIM card, warehouse receipt), immovable (land and property), financial (blocked deposit, foreign currency, shares and securities), obligation-based (cheque, promissory note, bank guarantee, salary deduction, guarantor)
Dedicated specification table for each type
Each collateral type has its own specialized fields; for example property specifications, vehicle specifications, or the cheque number and the result of the Sayad inquiry
Three-method valuation
A court-certified official appraiser, a system valuation based on the daily rate (such as gold and foreign currency), or an agreed market price
Acceptance factor (haircut)
A configurable factor per collateral type that can be overridden on any specific collateral; the acceptable value is obtained by multiplying the appraised value by this factor
Secondary currency support
For foreign-currency collateral, the valuation is recorded with a conversion rate
Full life cycle
Initial registration, assessment, approval or rejection with a reason, ready-for-release status after settlement of all the financing covered, and final release
Dual control (maker-checker)
Initial registration by one user and final approval by another user
Memorandum voucher for pledge and release
On approval a pledge voucher is recorded, and on release a reversing voucher; these vouchers have no effect on the official balance sheet and only record the tracking of collateral held in pledge
Collateral fees
Assessment, amendment, inquiry and release fees, each fixed or percentage-based
Upload of collateral documents and images
Coverage control
Prevention of the release of collateral that still covers financing
Customer app API to view and register personal collateral
Service health monitoring dashboard
Business value
Managing collateral by hand and in Excel files hides credit risk and increases the opportunity for misuse. With transparent valuation based on an acceptance factor, dual approval control and full tracking from pledge to release, Collateral allows the institution to measure financing risk with auditable figures rather than estimates.
Use cases
- Securing bank or Qard al-Hasan financing with real estate or vehicle collateral
- Accepting cheques and promissory notes against a commercial credit line
- Gold collateral for retail and consumer credit lines
- Bank guarantees for corporate contracts and tenders
What sets it apart
- Sixteen collateral types, each with its own form and fields, instead of one generic form for all
- The acceptance factor and the secondary currency are built into the valuation process itself, not handled as a side calculation
- Pledge and release vouchers are kept separate from the official Financial Core: complete auditability without contaminating the balance sheet
- Direct connection to financing coverage control, with no need to duplicate collateral data in the Financing service
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