Showing posts with label SWIFTNet. Show all posts
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Monday, 15 September 2008

Volante Payments Bridge

Volante today unveiled Volante Payments Bridge, its comprehensive solution for corporate treasuries implementing SWIFT messaging and SWIFTNet connectivity. Designed for the challenges of complex legacy environments, extensive banking relationships, high-volume and high-value payment traffic, Payments Bridge provides a cost-effective and quick-to-implement solution for managing payment communications.

Payments Bridge is being demonstrated this week at SWIFT's Sibos conference in Vienna at the Volante Stand B203.
"Payments Bridge cuts through the technical and business complexity faced by large corporate treasuries," said Vijay Oddiraju, CEO of Volante. "Volante is on mission to make the benefits of SWIFT messaging easy to obtain and the challenges of implementation easily overcome. We are glad to extend our solutions to corporate treasuries which are an important part of the SWIFT community."

Volante Payments Bridge is currently in production in the treasury operation of one of the largest corporations in the world. Features of the solution include the following:
-- Support for all SWIFT messaging formats, as well as other payments message standards such as ACH, EDI, BAI2 and TWIST
-- Seamless integration with internal applications, networks and operating systems
-- Complete customizability of messaging to meet unique bank requirements
-- Internal routing logic to direct payments to the correct transport mechanism based on message content
-- Dashboard for monitoring message status, identifying failures, reporting and auditing

Microsoft Deal with SWIFT

Microsoft Corp. today announced at Sibos 2008 that it is signing a global partnership agreement with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions (SWIFT). The announcement signifies a new, higher level of close cooperation between the organizations, under which they will work together to deliver deep industry value and simplify SWIFTNet implementation for customers using Microsoft technology. It is a mutual, commercially based agreement between the organizations and will open further opportunities for financial service providers and midsize to large corporations to quickly and easily connect to SWIFT.

"The dynamics of financial messaging are changing as institutions look toward technology as a competitive differentiator," said Amanda Westwood, global head of SWIFT's customer service division. "SWIFT customers demand flexible messaging platforms that are cost effective to implement and integrate with their existing systems. The continued work Microsoft does to support SWIFTNet integration and SWIFTSolutions partners goes even further toward helping expand these solutions for our customers both within organizations and across boundaries. We expect our global partnership to promote additional adoption of SWIFT connectivity and SWIFTSolutions in the future."

The development of a SWIFT partner ecosystem will be an important aspect of the global partnership. Microsoft is providing a solid and highly secure foundation on which an expanded set of trusted industry partners can build and implement solutions for SWIFT and deliver stronger solutions for customers. It will also increase the choices available to customers, enabling them to better compete through more flexible and scalable financial messaging solutions.

As a respected voice in the area of payments technology, and demonstrating its further commitment to both SWIFT and its international partner ecosystem, Microsoft has, for the fifth year running, achieved the SWIFTReady Financial EAI Label for 2008 for BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT, which will be included in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009.

"We are constantly listening to our customers' feedback, and what we're hearing from the financial services marketplace today is that they are looking to Microsoft, as a respected leader in enabling payments solutions, to provide increased flexibility beyond core SWIFT offerings," said David Vander, worldwide managing director of Banking at Microsoft. "With BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT we are enabling fast and easy system interoperability from bank systems to payments networks, thereby helping ensure that customers receive the best possible solution to their business issues, whatever their approach to payments may be. Microsoft continues to collaborate and invest in a trusted community of partners to develop an ecosystem of payments solutions. A number of these partners are represented here at Sibos, including SWIFT, CashFac, DATALOG, Decillion, EastNets, Expertus, Fiserv NetEconomy, Nimbus, SAGA, SMA Financial, SunGard and XSP, all of which support the development of innovative, cost-effective, mission-critical solutions that will deliver deep industry value for customers and more effectively meet their payments needs globally."