====== ACTUS ====== [[public:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:start|Go up to Terms and Definitions]] ===== Discussion ===== ACTUS expands to **Algorithmic Contract Types Unified Standards**. It provides a standardized, machine-readable representation of financial contracts based on their contractual terms, states, events, and cash-flow-generating behavior. ACTUS organizes financial contracts into contract types that share common behavioral and cash-flow patterns. Each contract type defines deterministic logic for deriving contract events and expected cash flows from the contract terms and applicable risk-factor scenarios. The approach separates the known contractual structure from uncertain external factors, such as interest rates, foreign-exchange rates, market indexes, counterparty behavior, and other risk factors. This separation supports consistent contract processing, scenario analysis, valuation, accounting, risk management, and regulatory reporting. ===== Definition ===== open standard that represents financial contracts through standardized algorithmic contract types from which expected cash flows can be computed for specified risk-factor scenarios ===== Source ===== * [[https://documentation.actusfrf.org/docs/standard/overview|ACTUS Financial Research Foundation, ACTUS Standard Overview]] * [[https://documentation.actusfrf.org/docs/Introduction/Overview|ACTUS Financial Research Foundation, Introduction to ACTUS]] * [[https://www.actusfrf.org/taxonomy|ACTUS Financial Research Foundation, ACTUS Taxonomy]] ===== Note ===== ACTUS classifies a financial contract by its cash-flow-generating behavior rather than solely by its legal name, market label, or implementation technology. ACTUS defines the contractual logic and the relationship between a contract and applicable risk factors. It does not define the future values of those risk factors. ===== Example ===== A bond, term deposit, and bullet loan may share the same ACTUS contract type when they exhibit the same underlying principal-repayment and periodic-interest cash-flow pattern. ---- © 2026 Dido Solutions, Inc. and Jackrabbit Consulting, Inc.