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CorporateSWIFT Access
RoundtableSponsored by Dresdner Bank
in association with Financial-i
February 1st 2007
Frankfurt
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List of participants:
Moderator: Anita Hawser, managing editor, financial-i
Manfred Fleckenstein, head, globalcash management, Dresdner Bank.
Dirk Braun, assistant vice president, global cash manage-ment, Dresdner Bank
Berit Walter, vice president, globalcash management, Dresdner Bank
Matteo Rizzi, senior business manager, corporate connectivity,Continental Europe, SWIFT
Jens Romaus, senior director, customer solution & operations,EMEA, SAP
Peter Schneider, sales team, EFiS,SWIFT service bureau, Frankfurt
Andreas Elberg, treasury & relationship management, cashmanagement, T-MobileInternational (Europe and USA),Bonn
Chris van Tieghem, group treasurer, Wienerberger, Vienna
Verena Siedl, product & projectmanager, payment, bwin.com,Vienna
Left to right:1 Manfred Fleckenstein, 2 Matteo Rizzi, 3 Jens Romaus4 Anita Hawser5 Chris van Tieghem6 Andreas Elberg7 Heiko Rode8 Peter Schneider9 Dirk BraunSeated:10 Verena Siedl11 Berit Walter
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Anita Hawser: What is the strategicimportance of SWIFTNet corporateaccess for the banks?
Manfred Fleckenstein: My team and I
are convinced of two trend-setting
issues in terms of the re-structuring of
cash management. Many corporates
have already or intend to set up so-
called ‘payment factories’, which
means centralising the treasury and
cash management activities of their
respective subsidiaries and groups, and
this is also being inspired by SEPA.
Secondly, 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.
Dirk Braun: Particularly in the context
of projects regarding cash and treasury
management functions, being able to
communicate with banks worldwide in
a standardised fashion is a challenge
for the corporate-to-bank-space.
Furthermore, because of regulations
like SEPA, products provided by banks
to their corporate customers have
become even more comparable,
particularly in the transaction banking
business. A payment is a payment is a
payment. There are possibilities of
differentiation like speed, control,
tracking, reporting, matching and so
on, which can be described as
‘additional services’.
In this context, connectivity between
corporates and banks is an additional
service. For us as a commercial bank,
corporate SWIFT access is an
opportunity to differentiate ourselves
from our competitors. As the market is
young and we are involved in
developing several projects, we can act
as a ‘trend-setter’. SWIFTNet enables its
participants to achieve real straight-
through processing of payments. It
acts as a single financial window for
corporates because it provides the
payments and the receivables. Also,
every other financial business can be
processed within this solution.
Hawser: How have corporatesestablished a business case forimplementing SWIFT connectivity?
Andreas Elberg: SWIFT and also SEPA
is an interesting topic for us. In
February we went live with our
payment factory, and SWIFT is really
important because we have companies
in different European countries, and
we have many different formats and
systems, and with the high volume of
payments – nearly 120 million
payments per year – which is only for
our mobile activities, we have 15
different bank connections to maintain.
It is also difficult to review all activities
from a Sarbanes-Oxley perspective.
That was one reason why we decided
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On the 1 February 2007, Dresdner Bank in association with financial-iinvited corporates, ERP vendors and SWIFT to Dresdner’s boardrooms inFrankfurt to debate the merits of corporates accessing SWIFTNet.
CorporateSWIFT Access
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Since the late 1990s, SWIFTprovided the treasury counterpartymodel, which allows corporates toexchange treasury dealconfirmations with any financialinstitution on SWIFT. This wasfollowed in 2001 by MemberAdministrated Closed User Groups(MA-CUGs), and more recently, theStandardised CorporateEnvironment (SCORE) model.Today, there are approximately
8,000 banks and 180 corporatesactive on SWIFTNet. In terms ofthe new SCORE model, around15,000 corporates are eligible toparticipate. When it comes toconnectivity with SWIFT,corporates can connect directlyusing their own infrastructure(hardware, software,communication) or indirectly via aMember/Concentrator bank orservice bureau.
The different forms of SWIFT corporate access
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to use SWIFT – to have one channel
for T-Mobile’s whole payments
business in Europe and, hopefully in
the coming years, with the USA as
well. From a cost perspective, we will
save at the beginning of our project
approximately EUR 1 million and just
two banks will handle all of our
European business. Once the payment
factory is in place, it will give us the
possibility to save more money and
reduce technical interfaces.
Hawser: Have you built your ownproprietary SWIFT infrastructure in-house?
Elberg: Yes. We have a payment
factory in place for our in-house
activities. That means all our in-
house payments will be handled by
our central payment factory. We are
also looking at cash management so
that we can have a total view in our
cash bank over our financial
activities across Europe and the USA.
The last step is to centralise our
external payments and direct debit
activities. T-Mobile will be the first
company with direct SWIFT
connectivity and more than 120
million bulk payments over SWIFT.
Hawser: Chris van Tieghem ofWienerberger, could you tell ushow your company established abusiness case for SWIFTconnectivity?
Chris van Tieghem: Wienerberger had
a co-ordination centre in Belgium,
which performed cash management
for Western Europe, and we also had a
payment factory in those countries.
Due to the change in regime of the
co-ordination centre in Belgium, we
centralised everything in Vienna.
In Vienna, there was a long-term
financing operation for the companies,
but no cash management and so we
were confronted with the situation of
maintaining six different banking
software systems, and we wanted to
extend it to Eastern Europe, so we will
have approximately 17 different
countries that we have to implement
cash management and our payment
factory for. This is how we arrived at
SWIFT connectivity. In terms of our
payment factory, we don’t centralise
all payments and send them from one
point. We make the payments from
the different accounts from the
different companies, but via the
existing bank software.
We manage to have a view on the
liquidity on the payments that are
completed, and this information is
transferred to cash management and
used for funding purposes. All file
transfers including payments and
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T-Mobile International, Bonn –The leading international mobilephone operator, which is astrategic business unit ofDeutsche Telekom, implementedan in-house payment factory,which has direct connectivitywith Dresdner Bank’s SWIFTNetMA-CUG. T-Mobile is in the goinglive phase to become the firstcompany with direct SWIFTconnectivity to send more than120 million bulk payments viaSWIFTNet.
Wienerberger, Vienna – Amanufacturer of bricks androofing systems, Wienerberger iscurrently in the design andconception phase regarding its useof SWIFTNet for all
communications concerningpayments and bank statementswith its banks in five countries. Ituses a service bureau, Atos, toconnect to SWIFTNet. It is alsoconsidering the new SCORE modelfor accessing SWIFT, which allowscorporates to leverage a singleMA-CUG for communicating withmultiple banks.
bwin.com, Vienna – One ofEurope‘s leading online gamingand entertainment companies,bwin.com is in the test phase ofleveraging its own internal SWIFTinfrastructure to connect to MA-CUGs so it can replace proprietarybanking solutions, fully automatethe payment process and reducebank transfer times and costs.
Corporates on SWIFT
"Everyone in the corporate sectoris looking for secure, quick,reliable and the moststandardised access to theirbank. These facts and therequirements of our customerslead us to SWIFT corporateaccess."
Manfred Fleckenstein,
head, global cash management,
Dresdner Bank.
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direct debits are done via the bank
software, and all this will be taken
over in the new payment factory and
with SWIFT management.
Hawser: Verena Siedl of bwin, canyou tell us how you arrived atSWIFT corporate connectivity?
Verena Siedl: Bwin is an online
entertainment company. Focusing
on Continental Europe, we support
over 20 core markets, including
Canada and Mexico. The most
important thing is to enable
customers to be able to pay in and
pay out to their gaming accounts.
One of the most important payment
methods is bank transfer. We have a
self-developed payment service and
we are working with very different
files and exchanging files in
different ways. In our banking
services team, there are many
manual tasks necessary to upload
and download files from the
different banking online service
tools.
We use SWIFT connectivity to
automate the whole bank transfer
process. Another major issue for us
is to have single window access to
all of our banks. Having one
connection to all of them will be a
big advantage for us. Secondly, we
hope that with SWIFT and good
partner banks, we will be able to
collect different bank statements and
have an overview of our bank
accounts and cash details.
Hawser: Did you want to seeother corporates go live onSWIFTNet first before you tookthe plunge?
Siedl: SWIFT was always in the
loop, so as soon as it was possible,
we said: ‘Yes, okay, now we will do
it.’
van Tieghem: It [SWIFT] is a brand
new world we are coming to. It was
not easy to sell the idea of SWIFT
connectivity into the group. I have
sold it more as a concept, as a new
communication platform. For the
moment, we are using SWIFT for
cash management and for the
payment factory, but it can be
extended and it is a kind of
investment in the future.
Elberg: We have, since 2001,
focused on centralising activities. So
we started with internal payments,
internal cash management and the
third part, SWIFT, was not difficult
for us. Our early idea was to have
only one channel, and we thought
SWIFT was a possibility for that.
From the beginning we said it was
only one more channel to transfer
payment activities, but all
participants quickly learned that it
was more than that. Now we have a
solution in place that will handle all
our business in Europe in a
convenient way.
Hawser: What are SWIFT’sambitions in terms of gettingmore companies on SWIFTNet?
“SAP generates all the formatsand it has tremendousflexibility. However, when youcome up with the file that issent to SWIFT, it has to beadapted. We need tohave that middleware.”
Chris van Tieghem,
group treasurer,
Wienerberger, Vienna
“Getting rid of [proprietarybanking solutions] entailed acost reduction on the one hand;on the other it made handlingthe business easier.”
Verena Siedl,
product & project manager, payment,
bwin.com, Vienna
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Matteo Rizzi: At the end of 2006,
the number of corporates registered
to use SWIFTNet was 181. Among
them, approximately 120 are live
already. The reason for that is that
once corporates are registered on
the network, it takes some months
before they start exchanging the first
message. We also say that, ‘It takes
six months to connect the first bank
and six minutes to connect the
second one’. Once companies are
live on the network, they can reach
their banking landscape in a much
easier way.
Among the 180 corporates, 60% more
or less are in Continental Europe and
the rest are divided between 30% to
40% in the US and the rest of the
world. The reason for that is that
there is a European market maturity
for corporate treasury culture. We
have been able to start faster here
than in other parts of the world,
although several large American
corporates like General Electric,
contributed a great deal to what the
solution is like today.
Corporates are a high priority in our
strategy for 2010. Our ambition is to
connect around 100 corporates a
year over the next five years. That is
why the new model SCORE was
introduced on 9 January. Our aim is
to select the corporates that are able
to join this new model. That is why
we selected only listed corporates in
Financial Action Taskforce countries.
Our members, the banks, had to
define some criteria and scope for
eligibility of corporates.
Hawser: Why did SWIFT developSCORE?
Rizzi: The first advantage of SCORE
is that we are simplifying the
complexity of subscribing to several
MA-CUGs with probably several
different contracts, depending on
the financial institution, and also
within the MA-CUG concept we did
not really have a common approach.
The real advantage of SCORE will
come in the next months, first
because the take-up of the number
of financial institutions to SCORE
only commenced on 9 January.
Today there are many more banks
offering MA-CUG rather than
SCORE, but it is only a matter of
time before this changes.
SCORE does not add further
expense to a corporate that joins.
We kept the pricing in the same
place as before, but 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.
For the first time in corporate-to-
bank connectivity, we now have
rule books.
Before, in the MA-CUG, the bank
was in charge of defining the
service to be offered to the
corporates. In SCORE it is entirely
different. SWIFT manages that
process. There are rule books for
the different SWIFT messaging
services to standardise the way we
offer it to corporates. This is a very
tangible advantage of using SCORE.
We are not cannibalising MA-CUG
or even the treasury counterparty
model. These three are
complementary.
Hawser: What about SWIFTconnectivity from a servicebureau’s perspective?
Peter Schneider: EFiS was the first
private German SWIFT service
bureau, founded in 1998. Our first
customer was a small Volksbank on
the border of Germany. We learned
with it and decided to be a major
SWIFT service bureau. In 2001, MA-
CUG arrived. Also that year I arrived
from Hoechst AG to EFiS. My first
order was: ‘Please bring us customers
from the industry.’ We needed more
than four years to achieve that as,
initially, it was prohibited for
industrial customers to use SWIFT.
“When they [corporates] haveimplemented two, three orfour MA-CUGs, it becomes easier tomanage. But if they are at thebeginning, it is more difficult.”
Berit Walter,
vice president,
global cash management,
Dresdner Bank
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SWIFT was bank-owned, and we saw
that B2B was not business-to-
business, but bank-to-bank. That is
precisely our problem today, but in
the meantime, because of changing
currencies, Europe had only one
currency, the euro, and this meant
that corporates began questioning
how many banks they needed in the
different countries. The same idea
came about with SEPA, and you
know the definition of SEPA could
be ‘Single Euro Payment Access’.
That is exactly what SWIFT offers.
Hawser: Was there an initialperception among companies thatSWIFT was only for the big multi-nationals that were multi-banked?
Schneider: Yes, I think so. At first
it was for the big companies.
SCORE is very good, but in
Germany, it is not accessible for
companies like Bosch because they
are not listed on a stock exchange.
These companies have tended to
establish multiple MA-CUGs, which
is not the best idea in my opinion.
Hawser: To what extent isvolume of corporate users onSWIFT important?
Braun: If there are more corporates
on SWIFTNet, they will get a voice
within the SWIFT community.
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.
Schneider: 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.
Braun: Of course, but there will
definitely be a corporate voice
within the SWIFT community within
the next few years.
Rizzi: Corporates today already have
a voice within SWIFT. In France, for
instance, corporates are participating
in the SWIFT user group which was
not an easy step because the banks
were quite cautious. At Sibos last
year in Sydney, we had a plenary
session just for corporates on
corporate connectivity.
Hawser: What role can ERPvendors like SAP play in makingSWIFT connectivity not justsomething for big companies butfor mid-tier and perhaps lowerlevel companies as well?
Jens Romaus: Mid-market
companies have the same issues that
global companies have as business is
global. A small privately owned
company may not have 15
proprietary banking channels, but it
still faces the same problems. We are
working on this issue, together with
SWIFT, and we are working for both
the large and the small market.
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.
If they have eight, nine or 10
channels, this is a lot of money to
pay. Our customers asked us to
reduce this complex environment.
Elberg: For us, it is really important
to have a company like SAP on
board. All our companies in Europe
are using SAP, and that is a great
advantage for us because it was
very easy for us to get connectivity
between the different SAP systems
in Austria, the Netherlands and so
on. I am happy to hear that SAP is
also working on middleware,
because SAP already has a treasury
system module in place.
But for a global company like T-
Mobile it has not been convenient
enough during the last few years.
SAP hasn’t offered any middleware
“In the SCORE model it is notpossible to buy shares ofSWIFT. If you don’t have a share,you are not a member of aboard.”
Peter Schneider, sales team,
EFiS, SWIFT service bureau, Frankfurt
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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. I
also see that problem with other
customers. It would be good if SAP
could give us a convenient solution
on the middleware side.
Romaus: We are developing this
integration package, reducing the
channels, and we are developing a
bank relationship management tool.
We have begun the pilot phase,
which is called ‘Ramp Up’ at SAP.
Every company has a unique
environment, and so it is not a case
of simply selling software, plug and
play and everything is good. We are
learning, and it is necessary to work
together with a handful of pilots.
Our goal is to make this bank
relationship management
enhancement software solution
available at the end of 2007 for all
companies, and it is based on mySAP
ERP 2005.
Hawser: How do other corporatesperceive SAP’s involvement?
van Tieghem: Without SAP we
would not have a SWIFT project.
SAP standardises a lot of procedures
and I agree that there is some
middleware missing, and so that is
why we bought it externally. SAP
generates all the formats and it has
tremendous flexibility. However,
when you come up with the file
that is sent to SWIFT, it has to be
adapted. We need to have that
middleware. Could I ask a question
of SWIFT? Matteo Rizzi said it takes
six months to join a new MA-CUG.
But then the problems happen,
problems in the way that a simple
Request for Transfer (SWIFT format
MT101 for credit transfers) can have
different variants if you want to
send it to different banks. We have
to test it every time. Will the
SCORE model bring us some relief
in that?
Rizzi: What the FIN rule book will
set up first is the classes of messages
that all the banks will have or have
the possibility to offer within SCORE.
In the rule book you will read that
MT101 is the method for payments
which is strongly recommended.
Concerning the way in which a bank
today is processing the payments, it
is true that especially for non-
mandatory fields there are some
banks which are shaping the
messages in different ways.
van Tieghem: Within SCORE,
will it come to a kind of
standardisation or will each bank
still have its mandatory fields?
Rizzi: In SCORE there are guidelines
for mandatory and non-mandatory
fields. It is up to banks and
corporates to decide how to use
them.
Berit Walter: Dresdner Bank has a
long history of working with standards
in handling formats and connectivity.
We always try to adapt to market
standards, and this is why we have
always used SWIFT formats. And when
we use single format fields in a
different way, this is just to make them
useful for local clearing requirements
abroad where we also work with these
formats. This underlines that there is
definitely a need for standardisation.
SEPA will act as a catalyst for
standardisation.
From a bank’s perspective it is always
a temptation to develop your own
systems, because it gives you a feeling
of binding your client closer to your
institution. On the other hand, it is a
risk because there is definitely a
requirement for standardisation in the
market.
Rizzi: One of the strongest value adds
of FIN is the semantical and
syntactical validation of the message,
which means that once the message
arrives at the SWIFT interface, there is
a commitment to deliver to the
destination. When corporates say the
“Corporates are using severalcommunication channels intothe bank, or at least into theSWIFT environment.We found that for each channel,they need to budgetapproximately USD 50,000 peryear.”
Jens Romaus,
senior director, customer solution &
operations, EMEA, SAP
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MT101 is different from one bank to
another, it will still be validated, the
message will be processed, but some
information which is not mandatory
can be different.
Elberg: It is necessary that we attain a
higher standard in managing financing
activities. SEPA will be the next step
for us, and hopefully it will give us
the possibilities to not only have ‘one
cash format’, as the euro provided,
but also to have ‘one technical
format’. It would be good if we could
have only one channel, SWIFT, and
only one format in Europe. I do not
think it will happen in the next year,
but we are on the right path to
achieving it in the next three to five
years.
Hawser: To what extent is having toimplement multiple MA-CUGs anissue for corporates?
van Tieghem: Regarding MA-CUGs,
we already have a kind of
standardisation with the banks. We
are not confronted with totally
different cultures. We will end up
with the SCORE model, but as we
have quite strict implementation
dates, we will evolve to SCORE. We
were told that the contracts with
MA-CUGs would be a tremendous
thing to handle, but it turned out
to be reasonable.
Walter: It depends at what stage of
the project companies are in. When
they have implemented two, three
or four MA-CUGs, it becomes easier
to manage. But if they are at the
beginning, it is more difficult.
Hawser: What are the challengesfor a major company like T-Mobile in terms of having to setup multiple MA-CUGs?
Elberg: As we discussed with
SWIFT about MA-CUG, it said that in
the middle of 2006 it would have a
new solution. Unfortunately, we
were not able to use this new
solution called SCORE. I think
SCORE will have a lot of benefits
for us. It has the possibility to send
messages to different banks that
participate in SCORE, but there is
also the question of pricing. That
was the main reason why we
decided to use the old MA-CUG and
not the new SCORE model.
With SCORE we are not able to use
the pricing tier of our house bank.
We have more than 120 million
payments, and when we discussed it
with the bank, we were one of the
biggest SWIFT customers. I thought
okay, we could go to SWIFT and we
could say: ‘We have 120 million
postings, we can use Tier 1.’ And
then I wondered how many
postings we needed to get to Tier
2, and we were not able to reach
that. Maybe a company like T-
Mobile or other big players in
Europe are not able to reach Tier 2
or Tier 3 pricing. On the other hand,
I do not think it is right to give
companies the same pricing as a
bank, because it is very different.
Hawser: How should companiesmeasure the return oninvestment (ROI) of SWIFTcorporate access?
van Tieghem: It depends on how
creative you are. In our case, we
found out that there are a lot of
hidden costs. Running the software
of a bank, you have to keep it up
and running, you have different
security systems. You have to
maintain all these things, and these
costs are not obvious.
Siedl: We also had proprietary
banking solutions. Getting rid of
them entailed a cost reduction on
the one hand; on the other it made
handling the business easier.
Rizzi: In terms of ROI, I agree that
the most difficult part when you
handle a SWIFT project is to
calculate the quantitative return on
investment. I will give you an
example from one of SWIFT’s
“Today, the SWIFT Board andworking groups comprise onlybankers. If more and morecorporates join SWIFT, however,perhaps we will see somecorporates on the Board andrepresented in these groups.”
Dirk Braun,
assistant vice president, global cash
management, Dresdner Bank
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customers which is already live.
Arcelor declared that once it was on
SWIFT, the average of the money it
borrowed decreased by USD 10
million per bank. Why? Because it
had a much better view of where its
cash was. Every corporate will have
the creativity to evaluate the ROI of
SWIFT according to its environment.
It depends on the number of
countries you run operations in and
how automated you are. Certain
corporates for instance can establish
the quantitative benefit of joining
SWIFT because they have an
enormous number of daily treasury,
currency and FX deals that need to
be confirmed.
Hawser: Looking ahead, willcorporates have more say within SWIFT?
Rizzi: Since 2001, when MA-CUGs
first came to the market, corporates
have been a priority for SWIFT. The
reason is simple. SWIFT is a co-
operative. That means the more the
network is used, the less it will cost.
For SWIFT it is more a matter of
reach, rather than of revenues.
We have governance structures at the
national level in order to ensure that
each user, including corporates, can
provide feedback and influence the
SWIFT strategy. Today we have a
limited number of corporates yet
SWIFT pays close attention to their
requirements.
Hawser: What about corporate-to-corporate connectivity on SWIFT?
Rizzi: Corporate-to-corporate traffic is
not allowed over the SWIFT network.
I think that rather than corporate-to-
corporate, what is going to be very
useful for SWIFT is to explore new
landscapes in corporate-to-bank, let’s
say financial flows like trade services,
for instance. This is where corporates
will really benefit from new solutions.
We do want to focus our resources
on the corporate-to-bank field where
a lot of value can be created for both
corporates and banks. //
10 Financial i · Q1 · 2007
Roundtable
“SAP hasn’t offered anymiddleware for SWIFTconnectivity so far. The problemis we have the information inSAP and we are not able to sendit out of SAP directly to a bank ordirectly over SWIFT to a bank.”
Andreas Elberg,
treasury & relationship management,
cash management, T-Mobile
International (Europe and USA), Bonn
“We intend to standardise asmuch as possible everythingconcerning the contract, the kindof messages and the way toexchange messages betweencorporates and banks withinSCORE.”
Matteo Rizzi,
senior business manager, corporate
connectivity, Continental Europe,
SWIFT
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