FA Back 3.26 - Release notes

"Buy and sell today (this option corresponds to the way rebalancing worked before)" – Create trade orders with today's transaction date.

"Buy when sells are settled" – Create all sell trade orders so that they have the same settlement date. Create buy orders so that the settlement date that is later than the settlement date of sells.

"Settle buys and sells on the same day" – Create buy and sell trade orders with the same settlement date.

The pledging functionality was updated to address an issue where, in portfolios using the Recalculate values setting, the pledging window incorrectly included positions from subportfolios. This could result in re-pledging already pledged positions. Now, the pledging window only displays positions directly held in the selected portfolio.

The Unpledge button is now always enabled in the unpledging window, regardless of whether all selected positions have an original portfolio. If you try to unpledge positions and any required information is missing, you will see a notification that indicates what is missing. You can complete pledging after you provide the information.

The pledging functionality now uses the security-type-specific decimal count to display amount values.

The success notification for pledging and unpledging positions now includes a summary table showing the affected positions, including security names and amounts.

To improve usability, we moved the portfolio and date selectors in the unpledging window above the positions table. The new placement aligns better with the typical workflow: you set the fields before reviewing the information in the table.

Rebalancing now doesn't create trade orders for pledged subportfolios while still considering their market value for rebalancing targets. Available cash in pledged portfolios is also excluded from rebalancing. This ensures pledged subportfolios are treated similarly to locked portfolios, improving accuracy for FA Platform users who manage portfolio rebalancing.

You can no longer open the transaction, trade order, or contract creation windows for a pledged portfolio by right-clicking it in the Overview. Previously, you could open these windows but were prevented from saving due to the portfolio's pledged status. This change helps prevent confusion and ensures pledged portfolios are consistent with locked portfolios. If you have the correct rights, you can still import transactions into pledged portfolios.

For better clarity and design, we renamed several fields in the Rebalance window, without changing their function. Rebalance method is renamed to Buy with (options: Current cash only. Cash from sells only, Current cash and cash from sells, Current cash, cash from sells and from orders). The options in the Filter out small trade orders based on dropdown are renamed as follows: Diff %pt, Diff %, Trade amount, Model min/max share. Calculate fees to trade order is renamed to Apply fees to trade orders (options: No fees, Portfolio-specific fees, Fixed fees). Learn more: Rebalance window.

We added new fields and settings for contacts, securities, and portfolios to support calculation of capital gains tax. You can define taxation information such as the taxation number for contacts in a new tab, mark securities and portfolio types as CGT applicable, and configure CGT structures in the system preferences. While these settings are available now, the full capital gains tax tracking functionality will be developed later. Learn more: Contact window, Security window, Preference - Portfolios, Preference - Taxation.

Overview now shows all accounts of the contact or selected portfolio, even if the accounts are empty.

Fixed an issue with the offset days validation in the Portfolio window, Accounts tab, Interest details section. Previously, it was possible to save an invalid value by clicking OK on the error notification. Now, invalid values are not saved.

Fixed an issue that resulted in an error message if trying to save a portfolio with linked contacts, if the contacts names take more than 255 letters altogether.

Renamed the group creation buttons in the Groups view to reflect their actions better. The Show result button is renamed to Save and show results, to indicate that it both saves the changes and displays the result.

Fixed an issue that prevented the user from mass-modifying trade orders if one of them had a receive date but no payment date and the receive date was selected as a column in the Trade orders view.

Fixed an issue where the purchase value without costs incorrectly included taxes.

Added support for cross-currency transactions involving currencies with different decimal counts.

Fixed an issue where the original unit price was updated incorrectly in a pledge transaction. The original unit price included fees from the original purchase lot. Now, the fees are included only in the trade amount, not in the unit price.

It is now possible to select all checkboxes when pledging without an error that happens if the portfolio has a position with an ongoing trade order that reduces the amount.

Made minor user interface adjustments related to pledging functionality to improve usability.

When pledging you will now see in unpledging window the original purchase date for the purchase lots. Previously, you saw the date when the purchase lot was pledged.

We blocked the possibility to create FX contracts to a pledged portfolio.

A user with view-only rights for transactions and trade orders can now see the versions on transactions and trade orders, and the Cancel button is now active for these users.

Users with view-only access to trade orders can now open Trade order window by double-clicking in the Trade order view.

We added security holiday calendar to security versions and security view as a selectable column.

A newly created security is now automatically added to a suitable dynamic security group when saved.

Fixed an issue that caused FA Back to stop working if users entered invalid data in some preference fields. For example, entering a dot instead of a text character.

It is now possible to sort columns in default tax rate table and to search results in the Portoflio type and Portfolio tag columns.

Transaction type code can't be edited anymore after the transaction type is saved.

Benchmark index configuration: resolved issue where interpolation of shares between dates was not functioning correctly in some cases.

Fixed an issue where the "Linked security" grouping option in Analytics+ didn't work properly.

Fixed an issue where the settlement-based accrued interest valuation worked incorrectly.

Fixed an issue with the market value calculation for Private equity holdings when the FX rate is 1.

Changed the response to the startProcess mutation. Now it returns an error if the user starts a non-existing process.

Fixed an issue in the tasks API. The API returned an error when requesting task attachments, if any of the returned tasks didn’t have an attachment.

Removed some pledging-related constants that weren’t used.

Rules are now correctly triggered after a security is imported in a CSV file.

Security import now validates the given holiday calendar, so it isn't possible to import an invalid calendar code anymore.

It is now possible to filter Corporate action table separately with Dividend or Dividend as share types.

Resolved issues related to corporate actions when generating coupons for index-linked and amortising bonds.

In the Rebalance window, the Help button is now visible if the Aggregate positions in the rebalance window setting in preferences is disabled.

Rebalancing now always shows account balances as clean price. Accrued account interest isn't included anymore.

Fixed an issue in scheduling trade order reports to trade order documents in case the report package included multiple reports.

Fixed an issue with the "P/L Position by Purchase Lots" report, where duplicate numbers were generated for lots and the numbers were not displayed in a logical sequence.

Fixed an issue that occured when scheduling a query-based report. Negative values were incorrectly changed into positive. Now, negative values remain unchanged. Also, zero values are shown as zero (not as blank).