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Process · Instruction to authorization

Instruction to authorization

Prepare a typed bank instruction with balanced legs and take one revision through an independent approval.

Step by step

  1. Draft the instruction Treasury Preparer

    Treasury Preparer records the subject, counterparty, amount in US dollars, requested date and value date. The instruction starts as Draft with the preparer as owner.

    • Instruction created at Draft
    • Updates Bank instructions, Financial counterparties
  2. Add legs and documents Treasury Preparer

    The preparer adds the debit and credit legs on treasury accounts, checks that they balance, and attaches the deal ticket and settlement instructions.

    • Debit and Credit legs balanced; documents attached
    • Updates Instruction accounts, Record attachments
  3. Send to review Treasury Preparer

    The preparer moves the instruction to Review. The current revision goes with it.

    • Draft → Review
    • Updates Bank instructions
  4. Decide Treasury Approver

    A Treasury Approver in the same entity, who did not prepare it, checks amount, counterparty eligibility, legs and documents against the expected revision and records Approve, Reject or Return with a reason. Approve authorizes the instruction and raises its revision.

    • Review → Authorized on Approve; receipt written
    • Updates Review decisions, Bank instructions, Operation receipts
    ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.

Where it usually breaks

And how to keep it from happening.

  • Legs do not balance and the instruction reaches review anyway.
  • The counterparty's eligibility note does not cover the product.
  • The instruction is edited after approval and the old decision is relied on.
  • The preparer approves their own instruction.
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