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Corporate
SWIFT Access
 Roundtable
   Sponsored by Dresdner Bank
  in association with Financial-i
        February 1st 2007
             Frankfurt
Roundtable




                                                                                         Left to right:
                                                                                         1 Manfred Fleckenstein,
                                                5 6                                      2 Matteo Rizzi,
                                           4               7        8      9             3 Jens Romaus
              1           2       3                                                      4 Anita Hawser
                                                                                         5 Chris van Tieghem
                                                                                         6 Andreas Elberg
                                           10         11                                 7 Heiko Rode
                                                                                         8 Peter Schneider
                                                                                         9 Dirk Braun
                                                                                         Seated:
                                                                                         10 Verena Siedl
                                                                                         11 Berit Walter




         List of participants:
         Moderator: Anita Hawser,                Matteo Rizzi, senior business        Andreas Elberg, treasury &
         managing editor, financial-i            manager, corporate connectivity,     relationship management, cash
                                                 Continental Europe, SWIFT            management, T-Mobile
         Manfred Fleckenstein, head, global                                           International (Europe and USA),
         cash management, Dresdner Bank.         Jens Romaus, senior director,        Bonn
                                                 customer solution & operations,
         Dirk Braun, assistant vice              EMEA, SAP                            Chris van Tieghem, group
         president, global cash manage-                                               treasurer, Wienerberger, Vienna
         ment, Dresdner Bank                     Peter Schneider, sales team, EFiS,
                                                 SWIFT service bureau, Frankfurt      Verena Siedl, product & project
         Berit Walter, vice president, global                                         manager, payment, bwin.com,
         cash management, Dresdner Bank                                               Vienna



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Corporate
SWIFT Access
On the 1 February 2007, Dresdner Bank in association with financial-i
invited corporates, ERP vendors and SWIFT to Dresdner’s boardrooms in
Frankfurt to debate the merits of corporates accessing SWIFTNet.



Anita Hawser: What is the strategic        tracking, reporting, matching and so        Hawser: How have corporates
importance of SWIFTNet corporate           on, which can be described as               established a business case for
access for the banks?                      ‘additional services’.                      implementing SWIFT connectivity?

Manfred Fleckenstein: My team and I        In this context, connectivity between       Andreas Elberg: SWIFT and also SEPA
are convinced of two trend-setting         corporates and banks is an additional       is an interesting topic for us. In
issues in terms of the re-structuring of   service. For us as a commercial bank,       February we went live with our
cash management. Many corporates           corporate SWIFT access is an                payment factory, and SWIFT is really
have already or intend to set up so-       opportunity to differentiate ourselves      important because we have companies
called ‘payment factories’, which          from our competitors. As the market is      in different European countries, and
means centralising the treasury and        young and we are involved in                we have many different formats and
cash management activities of their        developing several projects, we can act     systems, and with the high volume of
respective subsidiaries and groups, and    as a ‘trend-setter’. SWIFTNet enables its   payments – nearly 120 million
this is also being inspired by SEPA.       participants to achieve real straight-      payments per year – which is only for
Secondly, everyone in the corporate        through processing of payments. It          our mobile activities, we have 15
sector is looking for secure, quick,       acts as a single financial window for       different bank connections to maintain.
reliable and the most standardised         corporates because it provides the
access to their bank. These facts and      payments and the receivables. Also,         It is also difficult to review all activities
the requirements of our customers lead     every other financial business can be       from a Sarbanes-Oxley perspective.
us to SWIFT corporate access.              processed within this solution.             That was one reason why we decided

Dirk Braun: Particularly in the context
of projects regarding cash and treasury
management functions, being able to          The different forms of SWIFT corporate access
communicate with banks worldwide in
                                              Since the late 1990s, SWIFT              8,000 banks and 180 corporates
a standardised fashion is a challenge
                                              provided the treasury counterparty       active on SWIFTNet. In terms of
for the corporate-to-bank-space.              model, which allows corporates to        the new SCORE model, around
Furthermore, because of regulations           exchange treasury deal                   15,000 corporates are eligible to
like SEPA, products provided by banks         confirmations with any financial         participate. When it comes to
                                              institution on SWIFT. This was           connectivity with SWIFT,
to their corporate customers have             followed in 2001 by Member               corporates can connect directly
become even more comparable,                  Administrated Closed User Groups         using their own infrastructure
particularly in the transaction banking       (MA-CUGs), and more recently, the        (hardware, software,
                                              Standardised Corporate                   communication) or indirectly via a
business. A payment is a payment is a         Environment (SCORE) model.               Member/Concentrator bank or
payment. There are possibilities of           Today, there are approximately           service bureau.
differentiation like speed, control,


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                                                                                          "Everyone in the corporate sector
                                                                                          is looking for secure, quick,
                                                                                          reliable and the most
                                                                                          standardised access to their
                                                                                          bank. These facts and the
                                                                                          requirements of our customers
                                                                                          lead us to SWIFT corporate
                                                                                          access."

                                                                                                         Manfred Fleckenstein,
                                                                                                head, global cash management,
                                                                                                               Dresdner Bank.




     to use SWIFT – to have one channel         Chris van Tieghem: Wienerberger had       countries that we have to implement
     for T-Mobile’s whole payments              a co-ordination centre in Belgium,        cash management and our payment
     business in Europe and, hopefully in       which performed cash management           factory for. This is how we arrived at
     the coming years, with the USA as          for Western Europe, and we also had a     SWIFT connectivity. In terms of our
     well. From a cost perspective, we will     payment factory in those countries.       payment factory, we don’t centralise
     save at the beginning of our project       Due to the change in regime of the        all payments and send them from one
     approximately EUR 1 million and just       co-ordination centre in Belgium, we       point. We make the payments from
     two banks will handle all of our           centralised everything in Vienna.         the different accounts from the
     European business. Once the payment                                                  different companies, but via the
     factory is in place, it will give us the   In Vienna, there was a long-term          existing bank software.
     possibility to save more money and         financing operation for the companies,
     reduce technical interfaces.               but no cash management and so we          We manage to have a view on the
                                                were confronted with the situation of     liquidity on the payments that are
     Hawser: Have you built your own            maintaining six different banking         completed, and this information is
     proprietary SWIFT infrastructure           software systems, and we wanted to        transferred to cash management and
     in-house?                                  extend it to Eastern Europe, so we will   used for funding purposes. All file
                                                have approximately 17 different           transfers including payments and
     Elberg: Yes. We have a payment
     factory in place for our in-house
     activities. That means all our in-           Corporates on SWIFT
     house payments will be handled by
     our central payment factory. We are          T-Mobile International, Bonn –          communications concerning
                                                  The leading international mobile        payments and bank statements
     also looking at cash management so
                                                  phone operator, which is a              with its banks in five countries. It
     that we can have a total view in our         strategic business unit of              uses a service bureau, Atos, to
     cash bank over our financial                 Deutsche Telekom, implemented           connect to SWIFTNet. It is also
     activities across Europe and the USA.        an in-house payment factory,            considering the new SCORE model
                                                  which has direct connectivity           for accessing SWIFT, which allows
     The last step is to centralise our                                                   corporates to leverage a single
                                                  with Dresdner Bank’s SWIFTNet
     external payments and direct debit           MA-CUG. T-Mobile is in the going        MA-CUG for communicating with
     activities. T-Mobile will be the first       live phase to become the first          multiple banks.
     company with direct SWIFT                    company with direct SWIFT
                                                  connectivity to send more than          bwin.com, Vienna – One of
     connectivity and more than 120               120 million bulk payments via           Europe‘s leading online gaming
     million bulk payments over SWIFT.            SWIFTNet.                               and entertainment companies,
                                                                                          bwin.com is in the test phase of
                                                  Wienerberger, Vienna – A                leveraging its own internal SWIFT
     Hawser: Chris van Tieghem of                 manufacturer of bricks and              infrastructure to connect to MA-
     Wienerberger, could you tell us              roofing systems, Wienerberger is        CUGs so it can replace proprietary
     how your company established a               currently in the design and             banking solutions, fully automate
                                                  conception phase regarding its use      the payment process and reduce
     business case for SWIFT                                                              bank transfer times and costs.
                                                  of SWIFTNet for all
     connectivity?


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   “Getting rid of [proprietary
   banking solutions] entailed a
   cost reduction on the one hand;
   on the other it made handling
   the business easier.”




                          Verena Siedl,
    product & project manager, payment,
                     bwin.com, Vienna




direct debits are done via the bank       collect different bank statements and   extended and it is a kind of
software, and all this will be taken      have an overview of our bank            investment in the future.
over in the new payment factory and       accounts and cash details.
with SWIFT management.                                                            Elberg: We have, since 2001,
                                          Hawser: Did you want to see             focused on centralising activities. So
Hawser: Verena Siedl of bwin, can         other corporates go live on             we started with internal payments,
you tell us how you arrived at            SWIFTNet first before you took          internal cash management and the
SWIFT corporate connectivity?             the plunge?                             third part, SWIFT, was not difficult
                                                                                  for us. Our early idea was to have
Verena Siedl: Bwin is an online           Siedl: SWIFT was always in the          only one channel, and we thought
entertainment company. Focusing           loop, so as soon as it was possible,    SWIFT was a possibility for that.
on Continental Europe, we support         we said: ‘Yes, okay, now we will do     From the beginning we said it was
over 20 core markets, including           it.’                                    only one more channel to transfer
Canada and Mexico. The most                                                       payment activities, but all
important thing is to enable              van Tieghem: It [SWIFT] is a brand      participants quickly learned that it
customers to be able to pay in and        new world we are coming to. It was      was more than that. Now we have a
pay out to their gaming accounts.         not easy to sell the idea of SWIFT      solution in place that will handle all
One of the most important payment         connectivity into the group. I have     our business in Europe in a
methods is bank transfer. We have a       sold it more as a concept, as a new     convenient way.
self-developed payment service and        communication platform. For the
we are working with very different        moment, we are using SWIFT for          Hawser: What are SWIFT’s
files and exchanging files in             cash management and for the             ambitions in terms of getting
different ways. In our banking            payment factory, but it can be          more companies on SWIFTNet?
services team, there are many
manual tasks necessary to upload
and download files from the                                                       “SAP generates all the formats
different banking online service                                                  and it has tremendous
tools.                                                                            flexibility. However, when you
                                                                                  come up with the file that is
We use SWIFT connectivity to                                                      sent to SWIFT, it has to be
automate the whole bank transfer                                                  adapted. We need to
process. Another major issue for us                                               have that middleware.”
is to have single window access to
all of our banks. Having one
connection to all of them will be a                                                                Chris van Tieghem,
big advantage for us. Secondly, we                                                                    group treasurer,
hope that with SWIFT and good                                                                   Wienerberger, Vienna
partner banks, we will be able to


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                                                                                      “When they [corporates] have
                                                                                      implemented two, three or
                                                                                      four MA-CUGs, it becomes easier to
                                                                                      manage. But if they are at the
                                                                                      beginning, it is more difficult.”




                                                                                                               Berit Walter,
                                                                                                             vice president,
                                                                                                   global cash management,
                                                                                                             Dresdner Bank




     Matteo Rizzi: At the end of 2006,        to join this new model. That is why     For the first time in corporate-to-
     the number of corporates registered      we selected only listed corporates in   bank connectivity, we now have
     to use SWIFTNet was 181. Among           Financial Action Taskforce countries.   rule books.
     them, approximately 120 are live         Our members, the banks, had to
     already. The reason for that is that     define some criteria and scope for      Before, in the MA-CUG, the bank
     once corporates are registered on        eligibility of corporates.              was in charge of defining the
     the network, it takes some months                                                service to be offered to the
     before they start exchanging the first   Hawser: Why did SWIFT develop           corporates. In SCORE it is entirely
     message. We also say that, ‘It takes     SCORE?                                  different. SWIFT manages that
     six months to connect the first bank                                             process. There are rule books for
     and six minutes to connect the           Rizzi: The first advantage of SCORE     the different SWIFT messaging
     second one’. Once companies are          is that we are simplifying the          services to standardise the way we
     live on the network, they can reach      complexity of subscribing to several    offer it to corporates. This is a very
     their banking landscape in a much        MA-CUGs with probably several           tangible advantage of using SCORE.
     easier way.                              different contracts, depending on       We are not cannibalising MA-CUG
                                              the financial institution, and also     or even the treasury counterparty
     Among the 180 corporates, 60% more       within the MA-CUG concept we did        model. These three are
     or less are in Continental Europe and    not really have a common approach.      complementary.
     the rest are divided between 30% to      The real advantage of SCORE will
     40% in the US and the rest of the        come in the next months, first          Hawser: What about SWIFT
     world. The reason for that is that       because the take-up of the number       connectivity from a service
     there is a European market maturity      of financial institutions to SCORE      bureau’s perspective?
     for corporate treasury culture. We       only commenced on 9 January.
     have been able to start faster here      Today there are many more banks         Peter Schneider: EFiS was the first
     than in other parts of the world,        offering MA-CUG rather than             private German SWIFT service
     although several large American          SCORE, but it is only a matter of       bureau, founded in 1998. Our first
     corporates like General Electric,        time before this changes.               customer was a small Volksbank on
     contributed a great deal to what the                                             the border of Germany. We learned
     solution is like today.                  SCORE does not add further              with it and decided to be a major
                                              expense to a corporate that joins.      SWIFT service bureau. In 2001, MA-
     Corporates are a high priority in our    We kept the pricing in the same         CUG arrived. Also that year I arrived
     strategy for 2010. Our ambition is to    place as before, but we intend to       from Hoechst AG to EFiS. My first
     connect around 100 corporates a          standardise as much as possible         order was: ‘Please bring us customers
     year over the next five years. That is   everything concerning the contract,     from the industry.’ We needed more
     why the new model SCORE was              the kind of messages and the way        than four years to achieve that as,
     introduced on 9 January. Our aim is      to exchange messages between            initially, it was prohibited for
     to select the corporates that are able   corporates and banks within SCORE.      industrial customers to use SWIFT.


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   “In the SCORE model it is not
   possible to buy shares of
   SWIFT. If you don’t have a share,
   you are not a member of a
   board.”




            Peter Schneider, sales team,
   EFiS, SWIFT service bureau, Frankfurt




SWIFT was bank-owned, and we saw           within the SWIFT community.              companies have the same issues that
that B2B was not business-to-              Today, the SWIFT Board and               global companies have as business is
business, but bank-to-bank. That is        working groups comprise only             global. A small privately owned
precisely our problem today, but in        bankers. If more and more                company may not have 15
the meantime, because of changing          corporates join SWIFT, however,          proprietary banking channels, but it
currencies, Europe had only one            perhaps we will see some                 still faces the same problems. We are
currency, the euro, and this meant         corporates on the Board and              working on this issue, together with
that corporates began questioning          represented in these groups.             SWIFT, and we are working for both
how many banks they needed in the                                                   the large and the small market.
different countries. The same idea         Schneider: In the SCORE model it         Corporates are using several
came about with SEPA, and you              is not possible to buy shares of         communication channels into the
know the definition of SEPA could          SWIFT. If you don’t have a share,        bank, or at least into the SWIFT
be ‘Single Euro Payment Access’.           you are not a member of a board.         environment. We found that for each
That is exactly what SWIFT offers.                                                  channel, they need to budget
                                           Braun: Of course, but there will         approximately USD 50,000 per year.
Hawser: Was there an initial               definitely be a corporate voice          If they have eight, nine or 10
perception among companies that            within the SWIFT community within        channels, this is a lot of money to
SWIFT was only for the big multi-          the next few years.                      pay. Our customers asked us to
nationals that were multi-                                                          reduce this complex environment.
banked?                                    Rizzi: Corporates today already have
                                           a voice within SWIFT. In France, for     Elberg: For us, it is really important
Schneider: Yes, I think so. At first       instance, corporates are participating   to have a company like SAP on
it was for the big companies.              in the SWIFT user group which was        board. All our companies in Europe
SCORE is very good, but in                 not an easy step because the banks       are using SAP, and that is a great
Germany, it is not accessible for          were quite cautious. At Sibos last       advantage for us because it was
companies like Bosch because they          year in Sydney, we had a plenary         very easy for us to get connectivity
are not listed on a stock exchange.        session just for corporates on           between the different SAP systems
These companies have tended to             corporate connectivity.                  in Austria, the Netherlands and so
establish multiple MA-CUGs, which                                                   on. I am happy to hear that SAP is
is not the best idea in my opinion.        Hawser: What role can ERP                also working on middleware,
                                           vendors like SAP play in making          because SAP already has a treasury
Hawser: To what extent is                  SWIFT connectivity not just              system module in place.
volume of corporate users on               something for big companies but
SWIFT important?                           for mid-tier and perhaps lower           But for a global company like T-
                                           level companies as well?                 Mobile it has not been convenient
Braun: If there are more corporates                                                 enough during the last few years.
on SWIFTNet, they will get a voice         Jens Romaus: Mid-market                  SAP hasn’t offered any middleware


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                                                                                       “Corporates are using several
                                                                                       communication channels into
                                                                                       the bank, or at least into the
                                                                                       SWIFT environment.
                                                                                       We found that for each channel,
                                                                                       they need to budget
                                                                                       approximately USD 50,000 per
                                                                                       year.”

                                                                                                               Jens Romaus,
                                                                                         senior director, customer solution &
                                                                                                      operations, EMEA, SAP




     for SWIFT connectivity so far. The      why we bought it externally. SAP          Rizzi: In SCORE there are guidelines
     problem is we have the information      generates all the formats and it has      for mandatory and non-mandatory
     in SAP and we are not able to send      tremendous flexibility. However,          fields. It is up to banks and
     it out of SAP directly to a bank or     when you come up with the file            corporates to decide how to use
     directly over SWIFT to a bank. I        that is sent to SWIFT, it has to be       them.
     also see that problem with other        adapted. We need to have that
     customers. It would be good if SAP      middleware. Could I ask a question        Berit Walter: Dresdner Bank has a
     could give us a convenient solution     of SWIFT? Matteo Rizzi said it takes      long history of working with standards
     on the middleware side.                 six months to join a new MA-CUG.          in handling formats and connectivity.
                                             But then the problems happen,             We always try to adapt to market
     Romaus: We are developing this          problems in the way that a simple         standards, and this is why we have
     integration package, reducing the       Request for Transfer (SWIFT format        always used SWIFT formats. And when
     channels, and we are developing a       MT101 for credit transfers) can have      we use single format fields in a
     bank relationship management tool.      different variants if you want to         different way, this is just to make them
     We have begun the pilot phase,          send it to different banks. We have       useful for local clearing requirements
     which is called ‘Ramp Up’ at SAP.       to test it every time. Will the           abroad where we also work with these
     Every company has a unique              SCORE model bring us some relief          formats. This underlines that there is
     environment, and so it is not a case    in that?                                  definitely a need for standardisation.
     of simply selling software, plug and                                              SEPA will act as a catalyst for
     play and everything is good. We are     Rizzi: What the FIN rule book will        standardisation.
     learning, and it is necessary to work   set up first is the classes of messages
     together with a handful of pilots.      that all the banks will have or have      From a bank’s perspective it is always
     Our goal is to make this bank           the possibility to offer within SCORE.    a temptation to develop your own
     relationship management                 In the rule book you will read that       systems, because it gives you a feeling
     enhancement software solution           MT101 is the method for payments          of binding your client closer to your
     available at the end of 2007 for all    which is strongly recommended.            institution. On the other hand, it is a
     companies, and it is based on mySAP     Concerning the way in which a bank        risk because there is definitely a
     ERP 2005.                               today is processing the payments, it      requirement for standardisation in the
                                             is true that especially for non-          market.
     Hawser: How do other corporates         mandatory fields there are some
     perceive SAP’s involvement?             banks which are shaping the               Rizzi: One of the strongest value adds
                                             messages in different ways.               of FIN is the semantical and
     van Tieghem: Without SAP we                                                       syntactical validation of the message,
     would not have a SWIFT project.         van Tieghem: Within SCORE,                which means that once the message
     SAP standardises a lot of procedures    will it come to a kind of                 arrives at the SWIFT interface, there is
     and I agree that there is some          standardisation or will each bank         a commitment to deliver to the
     middleware missing, and so that is      still have its mandatory fields?          destination. When corporates say the


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   “Today, the SWIFT Board and
   working groups comprise only
   bankers. If more and more
   corporates join SWIFT, however,
   perhaps we will see some
   corporates on the Board and
   represented in these groups.”




                               Dirk Braun,
      assistant vice president, global cash
            management, Dresdner Bank



MT101 is different from one bank to           Walter: It depends at what stage of      postings we needed to get to Tier
another, it will still be validated, the      the project companies are in. When       2, and we were not able to reach
message will be processed, but some           they have implemented two, three         that. Maybe a company like T-
information which is not mandatory            or four MA-CUGs, it becomes easier       Mobile or other big players in
can be different.                             to manage. But if they are at the        Europe are not able to reach Tier 2
                                              beginning, it is more difficult.         or Tier 3 pricing. On the other hand,
Elberg: It is necessary that we attain a                                               I do not think it is right to give
higher standard in managing financing         Hawser: What are the challenges          companies the same pricing as a
activities. SEPA will be the next step        for a major company like T-              bank, because it is very different.
for us, and hopefully it will give us         Mobile in terms of having to set
the possibilities to not only have ‘one       up multiple MA-CUGs?                     Hawser: How should companies
cash format’, as the euro provided,                                                    measure the return on
but also to have ‘one technical               Elberg: As we discussed with             investment (ROI) of SWIFT
format’. It would be good if we could         SWIFT about MA-CUG, it said that in      corporate access?
have only one channel, SWIFT, and             the middle of 2006 it would have a
only one format in Europe. I do not           new solution. Unfortunately, we          van Tieghem: It depends on how
think it will happen in the next year,        were not able to use this new            creative you are. In our case, we
but we are on the right path to               solution called SCORE. I think           found out that there are a lot of
achieving it in the next three to five        SCORE will have a lot of benefits        hidden costs. Running the software
years.                                        for us. It has the possibility to send   of a bank, you have to keep it up
                                              messages to different banks that         and running, you have different
Hawser: To what extent is having to           participate in SCORE, but there is       security systems. You have to
implement multiple MA-CUGs an                 also the question of pricing. That       maintain all these things, and these
issue for corporates?                         was the main reason why we               costs are not obvious.
                                              decided to use the old MA-CUG and
van Tieghem: Regarding MA-CUGs,               not the new SCORE model.                 Siedl: We also had proprietary
we already have a kind of                                                              banking solutions. Getting rid of
standardisation with the banks. We            With SCORE we are not able to use        them entailed a cost reduction on
are not confronted with totally               the pricing tier of our house bank.      the one hand; on the other it made
different cultures. We will end up            We have more than 120 million            handling the business easier.
with the SCORE model, but as we               payments, and when we discussed it
have quite strict implementation              with the bank, we were one of the        Rizzi: In terms of ROI, I agree that
dates, we will evolve to SCORE. We            biggest SWIFT customers. I thought       the most difficult part when you
were told that the contracts with             okay, we could go to SWIFT and we        handle a SWIFT project is to
MA-CUGs would be a tremendous                 could say: ‘We have 120 million          calculate the quantitative return on
thing to handle, but it turned out            postings, we can use Tier 1.’ And        investment. I will give you an
to be reasonable.                             then I wondered how many                 example from one of SWIFT’s


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           “SAP hasn’t offered any
           middleware for SWIFT
           connectivity so far. The problem
           is we have the information in
           SAP and we are not able to send
           it out of SAP directly to a bank or
           directly over SWIFT to a bank.”



                                Andreas Elberg,
            treasury & relationship management,
                     cash management, T-Mobile
           International (Europe and USA), Bonn




      customers which is already live.            Hawser: Looking ahead, will               SWIFT pays close attention to their
      Arcelor declared that once it was on        corporates have more say                  requirements.
      SWIFT, the average of the money it          within SWIFT?
      borrowed decreased by USD 10                                                          Hawser: What about corporate-to-
      million per bank. Why? Because it           Rizzi: Since 2001, when MA-CUGs           corporate connectivity on SWIFT?
      had a much better view of where its         first came to the market, corporates
      cash was. Every corporate will have         have been a priority for SWIFT. The       Rizzi: Corporate-to-corporate traffic is
      the creativity to evaluate the ROI of       reason is simple. SWIFT is a co-          not allowed over the SWIFT network.
      SWIFT according to its environment.         operative. That means the more the        I think that rather than corporate-to-
                                                  network is used, the less it will cost.   corporate, what is going to be very
       It depends on the number of                For SWIFT it is more a matter of          useful for SWIFT is to explore new
      countries you run operations in and         reach, rather than of revenues.           landscapes in corporate-to-bank, let’s
      how automated you are. Certain                                                        say financial flows like trade services,
      corporates for instance can establish       We have governance structures at the      for instance. This is where corporates
      the quantitative benefit of joining         national level in order to ensure that    will really benefit from new solutions.
      SWIFT because they have an                  each user, including corporates, can      We do want to focus our resources
      enormous number of daily treasury,          provide feedback and influence the        on the corporate-to-bank field where
      currency and FX deals that need to          SWIFT strategy. Today we have a           a lot of value can be created for both
      be confirmed.                               limited number of corporates yet          corporates and banks. / /




                                                                                            “We intend to standardise as
                                                                                            much as possible everything
                                                                                            concerning the contract, the kind
                                                                                            of messages and the way to
                                                                                            exchange messages between
                                                                                            corporates and banks within
                                                                                            SCORE.”



                                                                                                                     Matteo Rizzi,
                                                                                               senior business manager, corporate
                                                                                                 connectivity, Continental Europe,
                                                                                                                           SWIFT




10   Financial i · Q1 · 2007
With around 960 branch offices and 29,000 full-time staff, the Dresdner Bank Group is active
in over 50 countries. In terms of assets and the number of customers, Dresdner Bank is one
of the leading banking groups in Europe. Since July 2001, Dresdner Bank has been part of
                the Allianz Group as the centre of competence for banking.

The Corporate Banking division offers its customers an on-the-spot support organisation plus
   the capital market expertise of Dresdner Kleinwort. The service portfolio ranges from
    transaction banking and international business via conventional loans to treasury and
                    securities, corporate finance and insurance products.

Cash Management is key to ensuring your firm's liquidity. We help you to manage your cash
  with tailor-made solutions relating to account management and payment transactions that
include an extensive range of international services. You can therefore rely on our expertise
 in analysing and optimising internal and external processes in areas closely related to pay-
ment flows. We can also help you to ensure liquidity within the firm and provide you
                   with the tools for an individualised cash management.

Whether SWIFT Corporate Access, Virtual Accounts, Payment Factory, Direct Debit Service
or sophisticated pooling structures like Margin Compensation, whatever topic you address;
                               we have the solution for you!

                                         Contacts

                                   Manfred Fleckenstein
                             Head of Global Cash Management
                                Phone: + 49 69 263-69298
                                Fax:     + 49 69 263-60009
                     E-mail: Manfred.Fleckenstein@Dresdner-Bank.com

                                          Dirk Braun
                    Assistant Vice President / Advisory Cash Management
                                  Phone: + 49 69 263-63739
                                  Fax:    + 49 69 263-60009
                           E-mail: Dirk.Braun@Dresdner-Bank.com

                                         Berit Walter
                        Vice President / Advisory Cash Management
                                 Phone: + 49 69 263-60093
                                 Fax:     + 49 69 263-60009
                          E-mail: Berit.Walter@Dresdner-Bank.com

                                    Dresdner Bank AG
                                    Corporate Banking
                                    Cash Management
                                   Jürgen-Ponto-Platz 1
                                D-60301 Frankfurt am Main
                                        Germany
What does STP mean to you –
Stress, Trouble & Pain or
Straight Through Processing?
Dresdner International Cash Management –
Tailored to suit you!
We have the right solutions for payment transactions and all aspects
of cash management.

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Financial i: Roundtable Corporate SWIFT Access

  • 1. Corporate SWIFT Access Roundtable Sponsored by Dresdner Bank in association with Financial-i February 1st 2007 Frankfurt
  • 2. Roundtable Left to right: 1 Manfred Fleckenstein, 5 6 2 Matteo Rizzi, 4 7 8 9 3 Jens Romaus 1 2 3 4 Anita Hawser 5 Chris van Tieghem 6 Andreas Elberg 10 11 7 Heiko Rode 8 Peter Schneider 9 Dirk Braun Seated: 10 Verena Siedl 11 Berit Walter List of participants: Moderator: Anita Hawser, Matteo Rizzi, senior business Andreas Elberg, treasury & managing editor, financial-i manager, corporate connectivity, relationship management, cash Continental Europe, SWIFT management, T-Mobile Manfred Fleckenstein, head, global International (Europe and USA), cash management, Dresdner Bank. Jens Romaus, senior director, Bonn customer solution & operations, Dirk Braun, assistant vice EMEA, SAP Chris van Tieghem, group president, global cash manage- treasurer, Wienerberger, Vienna ment, Dresdner Bank Peter Schneider, sales team, EFiS, SWIFT service bureau, Frankfurt Verena Siedl, product & project Berit Walter, vice president, global manager, payment, bwin.com, cash management, Dresdner Bank Vienna 2 Financial i · Q1 · 2007
  • 3. Roundtable Corporate SWIFT Access On the 1 February 2007, Dresdner Bank in association with financial-i invited corporates, ERP vendors and SWIFT to Dresdner’s boardrooms in Frankfurt to debate the merits of corporates accessing SWIFTNet. Anita Hawser: What is the strategic tracking, reporting, matching and so Hawser: How have corporates importance of SWIFTNet corporate on, which can be described as established a business case for access for the banks? ‘additional services’. implementing SWIFT connectivity? Manfred Fleckenstein: My team and I In this context, connectivity between Andreas Elberg: SWIFT and also SEPA are convinced of two trend-setting corporates and banks is an additional is an interesting topic for us. In issues in terms of the re-structuring of service. For us as a commercial bank, February we went live with our cash management. Many corporates corporate SWIFT access is an payment factory, and SWIFT is really have already or intend to set up so- opportunity to differentiate ourselves important because we have companies called ‘payment factories’, which from our competitors. As the market is in different European countries, and means centralising the treasury and young and we are involved in we have many different formats and cash management activities of their developing several projects, we can act systems, and with the high volume of respective subsidiaries and groups, and as a ‘trend-setter’. SWIFTNet enables its payments – nearly 120 million this is also being inspired by SEPA. participants to achieve real straight- payments per year – which is only for Secondly, everyone in the corporate through processing of payments. It our mobile activities, we have 15 sector is looking for secure, quick, acts as a single financial window for different bank connections to maintain. reliable and the most standardised corporates because it provides the access to their bank. These facts and payments and the receivables. Also, It is also difficult to review all activities the requirements of our customers lead every other financial business can be from a Sarbanes-Oxley perspective. us to SWIFT corporate access. processed within this solution. That was one reason why we decided Dirk Braun: Particularly in the context of projects regarding cash and treasury management functions, being able to The different forms of SWIFT corporate access communicate with banks worldwide in Since the late 1990s, SWIFT 8,000 banks and 180 corporates a standardised fashion is a challenge provided the treasury counterparty active on SWIFTNet. In terms of for the corporate-to-bank-space. model, which allows corporates to the new SCORE model, around Furthermore, because of regulations exchange treasury deal 15,000 corporates are eligible to like SEPA, products provided by banks confirmations with any financial participate. When it comes to institution on SWIFT. This was connectivity with SWIFT, to their corporate customers have followed in 2001 by Member corporates can connect directly become even more comparable, Administrated Closed User Groups using their own infrastructure particularly in the transaction banking (MA-CUGs), and more recently, the (hardware, software, Standardised Corporate communication) or indirectly via a business. A payment is a payment is a Environment (SCORE) model. Member/Concentrator bank or payment. There are possibilities of Today, there are approximately service bureau. differentiation like speed, control, 2007 · Q1 · Financial i 3
  • 4. Roundtable "Everyone in the corporate sector is looking for secure, quick, reliable and the most standardised access to their bank. These facts and the requirements of our customers lead us to SWIFT corporate access." Manfred Fleckenstein, head, global cash management, Dresdner Bank. to use SWIFT – to have one channel Chris van Tieghem: Wienerberger had countries that we have to implement for T-Mobile’s whole payments a co-ordination centre in Belgium, cash management and our payment business in Europe and, hopefully in which performed cash management factory for. This is how we arrived at the coming years, with the USA as for Western Europe, and we also had a SWIFT connectivity. In terms of our well. From a cost perspective, we will payment factory in those countries. payment factory, we don’t centralise save at the beginning of our project Due to the change in regime of the all payments and send them from one approximately EUR 1 million and just co-ordination centre in Belgium, we point. We make the payments from two banks will handle all of our centralised everything in Vienna. the different accounts from the European business. Once the payment different companies, but via the factory is in place, it will give us the In Vienna, there was a long-term existing bank software. possibility to save more money and financing operation for the companies, reduce technical interfaces. but no cash management and so we We manage to have a view on the were confronted with the situation of liquidity on the payments that are Hawser: Have you built your own maintaining six different banking completed, and this information is proprietary SWIFT infrastructure software systems, and we wanted to transferred to cash management and in-house? extend it to Eastern Europe, so we will used for funding purposes. All file have approximately 17 different transfers including payments and Elberg: Yes. We have a payment factory in place for our in-house activities. That means all our in- Corporates on SWIFT house payments will be handled by our central payment factory. We are T-Mobile International, Bonn – communications concerning The leading international mobile payments and bank statements also looking at cash management so phone operator, which is a with its banks in five countries. It that we can have a total view in our strategic business unit of uses a service bureau, Atos, to cash bank over our financial Deutsche Telekom, implemented connect to SWIFTNet. It is also activities across Europe and the USA. an in-house payment factory, considering the new SCORE model which has direct connectivity for accessing SWIFT, which allows The last step is to centralise our corporates to leverage a single with Dresdner Bank’s SWIFTNet external payments and direct debit MA-CUG. T-Mobile is in the going MA-CUG for communicating with activities. T-Mobile will be the first live phase to become the first multiple banks. company with direct SWIFT company with direct SWIFT connectivity to send more than bwin.com, Vienna – One of connectivity and more than 120 120 million bulk payments via Europe‘s leading online gaming million bulk payments over SWIFT. SWIFTNet. and entertainment companies, bwin.com is in the test phase of Wienerberger, Vienna – A leveraging its own internal SWIFT Hawser: Chris van Tieghem of manufacturer of bricks and infrastructure to connect to MA- Wienerberger, could you tell us roofing systems, Wienerberger is CUGs so it can replace proprietary how your company established a currently in the design and banking solutions, fully automate conception phase regarding its use the payment process and reduce business case for SWIFT bank transfer times and costs. of SWIFTNet for all connectivity? 4 Financial i · Q1 · 2007
  • 5. Roundtable “Getting rid of [proprietary banking solutions] entailed a cost reduction on the one hand; on the other it made handling the business easier.” Verena Siedl, product & project manager, payment, bwin.com, Vienna direct debits are done via the bank collect different bank statements and extended and it is a kind of software, and all this will be taken have an overview of our bank investment in the future. over in the new payment factory and accounts and cash details. with SWIFT management. Elberg: We have, since 2001, Hawser: Did you want to see focused on centralising activities. So Hawser: Verena Siedl of bwin, can other corporates go live on we started with internal payments, you tell us how you arrived at SWIFTNet first before you took internal cash management and the SWIFT corporate connectivity? the plunge? third part, SWIFT, was not difficult for us. Our early idea was to have Verena Siedl: Bwin is an online Siedl: SWIFT was always in the only one channel, and we thought entertainment company. Focusing loop, so as soon as it was possible, SWIFT was a possibility for that. on Continental Europe, we support we said: ‘Yes, okay, now we will do From the beginning we said it was over 20 core markets, including it.’ only one more channel to transfer Canada and Mexico. The most payment activities, but all important thing is to enable van Tieghem: It [SWIFT] is a brand participants quickly learned that it customers to be able to pay in and new world we are coming to. It was was more than that. Now we have a pay out to their gaming accounts. not easy to sell the idea of SWIFT solution in place that will handle all One of the most important payment connectivity into the group. I have our business in Europe in a methods is bank transfer. We have a sold it more as a concept, as a new convenient way. self-developed payment service and communication platform. For the we are working with very different moment, we are using SWIFT for Hawser: What are SWIFT’s files and exchanging files in cash management and for the ambitions in terms of getting different ways. In our banking payment factory, but it can be more companies on SWIFTNet? services team, there are many manual tasks necessary to upload and download files from the “SAP generates all the formats different banking online service and it has tremendous tools. flexibility. However, when you come up with the file that is We use SWIFT connectivity to sent to SWIFT, it has to be automate the whole bank transfer adapted. We need to process. Another major issue for us have that middleware.” is to have single window access to all of our banks. Having one connection to all of them will be a Chris van Tieghem, big advantage for us. Secondly, we group treasurer, hope that with SWIFT and good Wienerberger, Vienna partner banks, we will be able to 2007 · Q1 · Financial i 5
  • 6. Roundtable “When they [corporates] have implemented two, three or four MA-CUGs, it becomes easier to manage. But if they are at the beginning, it is more difficult.” Berit Walter, vice president, global cash management, Dresdner Bank Matteo Rizzi: At the end of 2006, to join this new model. That is why For the first time in corporate-to- the number of corporates registered we selected only listed corporates in bank connectivity, we now have to use SWIFTNet was 181. Among Financial Action Taskforce countries. rule books. them, approximately 120 are live Our members, the banks, had to already. The reason for that is that define some criteria and scope for Before, in the MA-CUG, the bank once corporates are registered on eligibility of corporates. was in charge of defining the the network, it takes some months service to be offered to the before they start exchanging the first Hawser: Why did SWIFT develop corporates. In SCORE it is entirely message. We also say that, ‘It takes SCORE? different. SWIFT manages that six months to connect the first bank process. There are rule books for and six minutes to connect the Rizzi: The first advantage of SCORE the different SWIFT messaging second one’. Once companies are is that we are simplifying the services to standardise the way we live on the network, they can reach complexity of subscribing to several offer it to corporates. This is a very their banking landscape in a much MA-CUGs with probably several tangible advantage of using SCORE. easier way. different contracts, depending on We are not cannibalising MA-CUG the financial institution, and also or even the treasury counterparty Among the 180 corporates, 60% more within the MA-CUG concept we did model. These three are or less are in Continental Europe and not really have a common approach. complementary. the rest are divided between 30% to The real advantage of SCORE will 40% in the US and the rest of the come in the next months, first Hawser: What about SWIFT world. The reason for that is that because the take-up of the number connectivity from a service there is a European market maturity of financial institutions to SCORE bureau’s perspective? for corporate treasury culture. We only commenced on 9 January. have been able to start faster here Today there are many more banks Peter Schneider: EFiS was the first than in other parts of the world, offering MA-CUG rather than private German SWIFT service although several large American SCORE, but it is only a matter of bureau, founded in 1998. Our first corporates like General Electric, time before this changes. customer was a small Volksbank on contributed a great deal to what the the border of Germany. We learned solution is like today. SCORE does not add further with it and decided to be a major expense to a corporate that joins. SWIFT service bureau. In 2001, MA- Corporates are a high priority in our We kept the pricing in the same CUG arrived. Also that year I arrived strategy for 2010. Our ambition is to place as before, but we intend to from Hoechst AG to EFiS. My first connect around 100 corporates a standardise as much as possible order was: ‘Please bring us customers year over the next five years. That is everything concerning the contract, from the industry.’ We needed more why the new model SCORE was the kind of messages and the way than four years to achieve that as, introduced on 9 January. Our aim is to exchange messages between initially, it was prohibited for to select the corporates that are able corporates and banks within SCORE. industrial customers to use SWIFT. 6 Financial i · Q1 · 2007
  • 7. Roundtable “In the SCORE model it is not possible to buy shares of SWIFT. If you don’t have a share, you are not a member of a board.” Peter Schneider, sales team, EFiS, SWIFT service bureau, Frankfurt SWIFT was bank-owned, and we saw within the SWIFT community. companies have the same issues that that B2B was not business-to- Today, the SWIFT Board and global companies have as business is business, but bank-to-bank. That is working groups comprise only global. A small privately owned precisely our problem today, but in bankers. If more and more company may not have 15 the meantime, because of changing corporates join SWIFT, however, proprietary banking channels, but it currencies, Europe had only one perhaps we will see some still faces the same problems. We are currency, the euro, and this meant corporates on the Board and working on this issue, together with that corporates began questioning represented in these groups. SWIFT, and we are working for both how many banks they needed in the the large and the small market. different countries. The same idea Schneider: In the SCORE model it Corporates are using several came about with SEPA, and you is not possible to buy shares of communication channels into the know the definition of SEPA could SWIFT. If you don’t have a share, bank, or at least into the SWIFT be ‘Single Euro Payment Access’. you are not a member of a board. environment. We found that for each That is exactly what SWIFT offers. channel, they need to budget Braun: Of course, but there will approximately USD 50,000 per year. Hawser: Was there an initial definitely be a corporate voice If they have eight, nine or 10 perception among companies that within the SWIFT community within channels, this is a lot of money to SWIFT was only for the big multi- the next few years. pay. Our customers asked us to nationals that were multi- reduce this complex environment. banked? Rizzi: Corporates today already have a voice within SWIFT. In France, for Elberg: For us, it is really important Schneider: Yes, I think so. At first instance, corporates are participating to have a company like SAP on it was for the big companies. in the SWIFT user group which was board. All our companies in Europe SCORE is very good, but in not an easy step because the banks are using SAP, and that is a great Germany, it is not accessible for were quite cautious. At Sibos last advantage for us because it was companies like Bosch because they year in Sydney, we had a plenary very easy for us to get connectivity are not listed on a stock exchange. session just for corporates on between the different SAP systems These companies have tended to corporate connectivity. in Austria, the Netherlands and so establish multiple MA-CUGs, which on. I am happy to hear that SAP is is not the best idea in my opinion. Hawser: What role can ERP also working on middleware, vendors like SAP play in making because SAP already has a treasury Hawser: To what extent is SWIFT connectivity not just system module in place. volume of corporate users on something for big companies but SWIFT important? for mid-tier and perhaps lower But for a global company like T- level companies as well? Mobile it has not been convenient Braun: If there are more corporates enough during the last few years. on SWIFTNet, they will get a voice Jens Romaus: Mid-market SAP hasn’t offered any middleware 2007 · Q1 · Financial i 7
  • 8. Roundtable “Corporates are using several communication channels into the bank, or at least into the SWIFT environment. We found that for each channel, they need to budget approximately USD 50,000 per year.” Jens Romaus, senior director, customer solution & operations, EMEA, SAP for SWIFT connectivity so far. The why we bought it externally. SAP Rizzi: In SCORE there are guidelines problem is we have the information generates all the formats and it has for mandatory and non-mandatory in SAP and we are not able to send tremendous flexibility. However, fields. It is up to banks and it out of SAP directly to a bank or when you come up with the file corporates to decide how to use directly over SWIFT to a bank. I that is sent to SWIFT, it has to be them. also see that problem with other adapted. We need to have that customers. It would be good if SAP middleware. Could I ask a question Berit Walter: Dresdner Bank has a could give us a convenient solution of SWIFT? Matteo Rizzi said it takes long history of working with standards on the middleware side. six months to join a new MA-CUG. in handling formats and connectivity. But then the problems happen, We always try to adapt to market Romaus: We are developing this problems in the way that a simple standards, and this is why we have integration package, reducing the Request for Transfer (SWIFT format always used SWIFT formats. And when channels, and we are developing a MT101 for credit transfers) can have we use single format fields in a bank relationship management tool. different variants if you want to different way, this is just to make them We have begun the pilot phase, send it to different banks. We have useful for local clearing requirements which is called ‘Ramp Up’ at SAP. to test it every time. Will the abroad where we also work with these Every company has a unique SCORE model bring us some relief formats. This underlines that there is environment, and so it is not a case in that? definitely a need for standardisation. of simply selling software, plug and SEPA will act as a catalyst for play and everything is good. We are Rizzi: What the FIN rule book will standardisation. learning, and it is necessary to work set up first is the classes of messages together with a handful of pilots. that all the banks will have or have From a bank’s perspective it is always Our goal is to make this bank the possibility to offer within SCORE. a temptation to develop your own relationship management In the rule book you will read that systems, because it gives you a feeling enhancement software solution MT101 is the method for payments of binding your client closer to your available at the end of 2007 for all which is strongly recommended. institution. On the other hand, it is a companies, and it is based on mySAP Concerning the way in which a bank risk because there is definitely a ERP 2005. today is processing the payments, it requirement for standardisation in the is true that especially for non- market. Hawser: How do other corporates mandatory fields there are some perceive SAP’s involvement? banks which are shaping the Rizzi: One of the strongest value adds messages in different ways. of FIN is the semantical and van Tieghem: Without SAP we syntactical validation of the message, would not have a SWIFT project. van Tieghem: Within SCORE, which means that once the message SAP standardises a lot of procedures will it come to a kind of arrives at the SWIFT interface, there is and I agree that there is some standardisation or will each bank a commitment to deliver to the middleware missing, and so that is still have its mandatory fields? destination. When corporates say the 8 Financial i · Q1 · 2007
  • 9. Roundtable “Today, the SWIFT Board and working groups comprise only bankers. If more and more corporates join SWIFT, however, perhaps we will see some corporates on the Board and represented in these groups.” Dirk Braun, assistant vice president, global cash management, Dresdner Bank MT101 is different from one bank to Walter: It depends at what stage of postings we needed to get to Tier another, it will still be validated, the the project companies are in. When 2, and we were not able to reach message will be processed, but some they have implemented two, three that. Maybe a company like T- information which is not mandatory or four MA-CUGs, it becomes easier Mobile or other big players in can be different. to manage. But if they are at the Europe are not able to reach Tier 2 beginning, it is more difficult. or Tier 3 pricing. On the other hand, Elberg: It is necessary that we attain a I do not think it is right to give higher standard in managing financing Hawser: What are the challenges companies the same pricing as a activities. SEPA will be the next step for a major company like T- bank, because it is very different. for us, and hopefully it will give us Mobile in terms of having to set the possibilities to not only have ‘one up multiple MA-CUGs? Hawser: How should companies cash format’, as the euro provided, measure the return on but also to have ‘one technical Elberg: As we discussed with investment (ROI) of SWIFT format’. It would be good if we could SWIFT about MA-CUG, it said that in corporate access? have only one channel, SWIFT, and the middle of 2006 it would have a only one format in Europe. I do not new solution. Unfortunately, we van Tieghem: It depends on how think it will happen in the next year, were not able to use this new creative you are. In our case, we but we are on the right path to solution called SCORE. I think found out that there are a lot of achieving it in the next three to five SCORE will have a lot of benefits hidden costs. Running the software years. for us. It has the possibility to send of a bank, you have to keep it up messages to different banks that and running, you have different Hawser: To what extent is having to participate in SCORE, but there is security systems. You have to implement multiple MA-CUGs an also the question of pricing. That maintain all these things, and these issue for corporates? was the main reason why we costs are not obvious. decided to use the old MA-CUG and van Tieghem: Regarding MA-CUGs, not the new SCORE model. Siedl: We also had proprietary we already have a kind of banking solutions. Getting rid of standardisation with the banks. We With SCORE we are not able to use them entailed a cost reduction on are not confronted with totally the pricing tier of our house bank. the one hand; on the other it made different cultures. We will end up We have more than 120 million handling the business easier. with the SCORE model, but as we payments, and when we discussed it have quite strict implementation with the bank, we were one of the Rizzi: In terms of ROI, I agree that dates, we will evolve to SCORE. We biggest SWIFT customers. I thought the most difficult part when you were told that the contracts with okay, we could go to SWIFT and we handle a SWIFT project is to MA-CUGs would be a tremendous could say: ‘We have 120 million calculate the quantitative return on thing to handle, but it turned out postings, we can use Tier 1.’ And investment. I will give you an to be reasonable. then I wondered how many example from one of SWIFT’s 2007 · Q1 · Financial i 9
  • 10. Roundtable “SAP hasn’t offered any middleware for SWIFT connectivity so far. The problem is we have the information in SAP and we are not able to send it out of SAP directly to a bank or directly over SWIFT to a bank.” Andreas Elberg, treasury & relationship management, cash management, T-Mobile International (Europe and USA), Bonn customers which is already live. Hawser: Looking ahead, will SWIFT pays close attention to their Arcelor declared that once it was on corporates have more say requirements. SWIFT, the average of the money it within SWIFT? borrowed decreased by USD 10 Hawser: What about corporate-to- million per bank. Why? Because it Rizzi: Since 2001, when MA-CUGs corporate connectivity on SWIFT? had a much better view of where its first came to the market, corporates cash was. Every corporate will have have been a priority for SWIFT. The Rizzi: Corporate-to-corporate traffic is the creativity to evaluate the ROI of reason is simple. SWIFT is a co- not allowed over the SWIFT network. SWIFT according to its environment. operative. That means the more the I think that rather than corporate-to- network is used, the less it will cost. corporate, what is going to be very It depends on the number of For SWIFT it is more a matter of useful for SWIFT is to explore new countries you run operations in and reach, rather than of revenues. landscapes in corporate-to-bank, let’s how automated you are. Certain say financial flows like trade services, corporates for instance can establish We have governance structures at the for instance. This is where corporates the quantitative benefit of joining national level in order to ensure that will really benefit from new solutions. SWIFT because they have an each user, including corporates, can We do want to focus our resources enormous number of daily treasury, provide feedback and influence the on the corporate-to-bank field where currency and FX deals that need to SWIFT strategy. Today we have a a lot of value can be created for both be confirmed. limited number of corporates yet corporates and banks. / / “We intend to standardise as much as possible everything concerning the contract, the kind of messages and the way to exchange messages between corporates and banks within SCORE.” Matteo Rizzi, senior business manager, corporate connectivity, Continental Europe, SWIFT 10 Financial i · Q1 · 2007
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