B2 Channel Connect enables a bank's corporate customers to connect their ERP systems to the bank payments network quickly and cost effectively for domestic and global payments

1. Payment Solutions
B2 Channel Connect
Client Integration Solution Overview
B2 TDI Limited, 60 Lombard Street, London EC3V 9EA, T: +44 203 178 5910 E: info@b2-tdi.com

2. Content
• B2 TDI - Client Integration Vision & Strategy
• Enabling Technology
• Delivery Options
• Business Model

3. B2 Channel Connect
Strategic Vision for Client Integration
• To radically reform the process of
integrating corporate customers to a
bank’s global transaction network

4. B2 Channel Connect
Strategy for Client Integration
• To reduce the timescales for client
integration from months to weeks or days
• To significantly reduce the costs of
customer integration
• To provide a single integrated channel
between a bank and its customers for all
cash management and other electronic
value added e-business services
• To support all current and future
standards (SEPA, ISO20022 etc.)

5. B2 Channel Connect
How Are Cost & Time Savings Achieved?
• Very high levels of re-usability
• Ability to process file formats the client uses now
• 10 years of payments & ERP knowledge & experience
encapsulated in the B2 Client Integration offering
• Leverages proven FX technology where integrations take
days not weeks
• Advanced graphic development tools enable rapid adaptor
development
• B2 TDI’s structured methodology

6. B2 Channel Connect
Enabling Technology for Client Integration
• B2 Firebird messaging & workflow platform
• Asset class agnostic
• 4th Generation Messaging Technology
• Massively scalable
• Highly resilient
• ‘Lego Brick’ reusability
• Graphical adaptor development tools
• Supports current & future standards
The Firebird platform is significantly deployed in the FX
and Funds markets carrying large volumes of mission
critical transaction each day

7. B2 Channel Connect
Delivery Options for Client Integration
• One stop software as a service (SaaS) & client integration
consultancy services – fixed monthly fee
• On site license with or without client integration consultancy
services – fixed monthly fee
• Traditional software licenses plus training and support

8. B2 Channel Connect
Where Does the Hub Technology Fit In?
• Between the customer and the bank
• Behind the bank’s channels
• As part of the bank’s infrastructure

9. B2 Channel Connect
Delivery Options: - Client Connection to the B2 GTS Hub

10. B2 Channel Connect
Delivery Options: - Bank Connection to the B2 GTS Hub

11. B2 Channel Connect
Delivery Options: - B2 Firebird Technology Integrated into
Bank Infrastructure

12. B2 Channel Connect
Delivery Options – SaaS Data Centers
• B2 Hub CSSF* regulated
• Dual live/live data centers
• Gigabit fiber link between
centers
• CSSF regulated data centers
• Full Luxembourg banking data
security
*The CSSF is the Luxembourg financial regulator, similar to the FSA and the SEC.
B2 Hub’s operations are considered to be systemically important to the financial
services community and are subject to regulatory control in Luxembourg

13. B2 Channel Connect
Delivery Options – SaaS Data Centre Architecture
Data Centre 1 Data Centre 2
Agents UI FIX Others
Data Centre 1 Data Centre 2
Communications Infrastructure
Interface Interface Interface Interface
Multi server architecture
for scalability, designed to Clustered Messaging Bus
work across multiple data
centres.
Messaging Messaging Messaging Messaging
Clustered Database Access
VMWare ESX Database Database

14. B2 Channel Connect
Integration Scenarios
1. Customer already has integration with another bank
2. Customer requires complex SAP/Oracle integration
3. Client uses multiple ERP systems over a number of locations
4. Customer requires SEPA or other standards compliance

15. B2 Channel Connect
Scenario – Client Has Existing Bank Integration
• Client sends their existing format payment files to the hub
• The Hub transforms these to Standard Bank format
• The Hub receives statement files and transforms/enriches them to
match the format the client expects from their previous bank
• The client makes only data changes
• Integration process is very quick

16. B2 Channel Connect
Scenario - SAP/ORACLE Integration
• Thin ERP Integrator layer sends/receives files in standard format
• The Hub performs country/payment type specific transformations
• Client side process ‘lighter’ than standard approach
• High levels of re-usability
• Integration process is quicker and cheaper than standard
approach

17. B2 Channel Connect
Scenario – Multiple Site Integration
• Each site is integrated individually
• Hub can receive and consolidate balance data from subsidiaries
for cash management purposes
• Allows the client to build a central ‘payment factory’

18. B2 Channel Connect
Scenario – SEPA Standards Conversion

19. B2 Channel Connect
Comparison with Conventional Integration
Conventional B2 TDI
Time to complete integration Months Weeks
Typical cost for large corporate >$100k up front $70k over 3 years
Re-usability level Minimal >90%
Client resource requirement Significant for on site solution Minimal using any file in/out
facilities
File formats supported Limited to Bank supported Any file format in/out
formats
Support for other bank’s No Yes
formats
Support for other value added Typically no Yes
service messages/files

20. B2 Channel Connect
Benefits
• Instant access to a market leading range of integration services and
experience
• Rapid migration of clients from other banks
• Fixed integration costs
• Lower integration costs
• Shorter time to market
• Significant competitive advantages
• Eases client and bank resource constraints
• Increased client integration capacity
• Provides a channel for other value added services in future

21. B2 Channel Connect
Business Model
• Customer Integration Service Contract
• Software License & Support
• Bank Support Contract

22. B2 Channel Connect
Business Model – Customer Integration Service (CIS)
B2 TDI Provides Cost
Integration of up to an agreed maximum The contract is based on a fixed monthly
1 2
number of clients using the hub. fee over a 3 year period, which includes:
This is an end-to-end service from initial • Project scoping
client engagement through to on-going • Integration set-up
production support. • On-going support
• Operating cost
The bank provide logistical services such • Project Management
as account opening and testing facilities
(There are no up front integration or
licencing costs in addition to this)

23. B2 Channel Connect
Business Model – Software License and Support
B2 TDI Provides Cost
License to use the B2 Firebird software Annual license and support charge
1 2
as part of the Bank’s IT infrastructure dependent on the number of clients
licensed and the level of integration
Implementation support support required
BA Training
Remote Support
Client Integration Support

24. Contact:
B2 TDI +44 203 178 5910
info@b2-tdi.com