Sibos 2008 Vienna — SWIFT@Sibos
> Monday 15 September 2008
| Your best route to Euroclear: CCI via SWIFTNet |
> Monday 15 September - 11:00-11:45
How will you migrate to Euroclear's Single Platform? You need to make a decision soon and this session is designed to help. During the panel discussion with representatives of Euroclear, Société Générale, SWIFT and UBS, we will explore ways to keep your communication and project management costs to a minimum for this mandatory project. We will look at the benefits of Euroclear's harmonisation project, why you should use SWIFTNet to make the move and, most importantly, the opportunity this presents to dramatically improve your automation levels.
Speakers: - Charles Bichemin, IT Architect, Société Générale Securities Services
- Kevin Gidden, Senior Manager, Securities Market Infrastructures, SWIFT
- Ben Parker, EMEA Regional Head of Relationship Management, UBS AG Investment Bank
- Jennifer Parker, Regional Head, Relationship Management, Euroclear SA/NV
Moderator: - Charles Welham, Head of Securities and Treasury Initiatives, EMEA SWIFT
Top of page | SWIFT offering for Payment Market Infrastructures |
> Monday 15 September - 12:00-12:45
From connectivity and messaging to service levels and agility - Discover how SWIFT helps Fortis deliver the next generation of payments services SWIFT is a global provider of secure financial messaging services - an increasing number of Market Infrastructures and their participants are relying on SWIFT for the secure messaging, connectivity and common message standards essential to their smooth and cost efficient operations on high and low value payments. Join us to get an overview of the building blocks and key benefits of the SWIFT offering for banks and payments market infrastructure, and learn how Fortis has leveraged the SWIFT portfolio to successfully transform its payments processing capabilities and deliver leading edge payments services to the market place. Speakers: - Jean-François Denis, Global Head of Electronic Payments, Fortis
- Stephane Ernst, Product Manager, High-Value Payment Market Infrastructures, SWIFT
- Vincent Questiaux, Product Manager, Low-Value Payment Market Infrastructures, SWIFT
Top of page > Monday 15 September - 16:00-17:00
Join us for SWIFT’s state of the union. A look at what we’ve achieved together over the last 12 months, and what you can look forward to from SWIFT in the years ahead. Your cooperative’s CEO, Lázaro Campos, and its Chairman, Yawar Shah, will share their perspective on some of our industry’s key challenges and their vision of the role that SWIFT can play in addressing them. The session will also give you a unique preview of the many new products and initiatives being covered during the week by SWIFT at Sibos.
Top of page > Tuesday 16 September 2008
| SWIFT's expanding supply chain portfolio: the art of co-operation |
> Tuesday 16 September - 10:00-10:45
The sleepy trade world of has awakened with a vengeance, as corporates become aware that the physical and financial supply chains directly affect their working capital requirements, and banks work together to meet the challenge.
SWIFT helps automate trade and supply chain messaging and their associated processes. This session highlights three parts of SWIFT’s expanding portfolio: - Invigorating the present: Corporate to bank messaging over SWIFT for traditional trade, providing standards and SWIFT security.
- Creating the future: The Trade Services Utility (TSU) now allows a Bank Payment Obligation and a Notice of Intent to Pay.
- Anticipating the changes: Momentum is building for e-invoicing.
Speakers: - David Hennah, Senior Product Manager, SWIFT
- Mike McDonough, Vice President, Global Trade Product Management, Bank of New York Mellon
Top of page | SWIFT's solutions for securities pre-settlement: beyond FX, and beyond matching |
> Tuesday 16 September - 11:00-11:45
This session gives an overview of the recent and upcoming evolution of SWIFT's solutions in the pre-settlement space. These solutions have until recently comprised standards, messaging and matching, with matching being almost exclusively focused on confirmations for FX and some OTC derivatives. During this session you can learn how SWIFT is extending the coverage of its Accord matching application to include, for example, securities confirmations, and how matching will be increasingly complemented by the automation of other pre-settlement processes.
Speaker: - Jan Dings, Manager, Solutions Management Broker/Dealers and Pre-settlement Services
Top of page | Turning Exceptions and Investigations into competitive advantage: the time is now |
> Tuesday 16 September - 12:00-12:45
Thinking of using SWIFT for Exceptions and Investigations? Join this session to find out why the time to do so is now. The migration timeline is one obvious reason to make the move but an even more compelling one is the business case. In addition to substantial cost reductions, it now includes customer demand and a response to new regulatory requirements.
We'll explore the drivers for corporates to adopt the Exceptions and Investigations solution and how it could become a differentiator for service providers. We will also look at how Exceptions and Investigations can help alleviate the pain caused - both for banks and their customers - by the lack of standardisation in the FATF7-SR7 implementation. Finally, the panel discussion will address how benefits can be multiplied by a local initiative, and whether the solution could become one of next new ancillary services offered by ACHs.
Speakers:
- Catherine Banneux, Senior Product Manager, SWIFT
- David Bergeron, Advisor International Payments Systems, Banque Nationale du Canada
- Thomas M. Fricke, Manager Business Development Payments, EQUENS SE
- Linda Koperda, Vice President, Global Payment and Trade Services, Bank of New York Mellon
- Erik Palumbo, Project Director, Treasury Department, L'Oréal
Top of page | SWIFT"s connectivity and messaging for customers with low traffic requirements |
> Tuesday 16 September - 14:00-14:45
How well have SWIFT’s products and services adapted to the increasing diversity of our customer base? Have we understood the requirements of customers - new and existing - with less than 1,000 messages a day? Join us in this session and learn about the different initiatives we have launched to attend to the needs of this particular segment. This session will include an overview of Alliance Lite, the newest and easiest way for low-volume customers to connect to SWIFT.
Speakers: - Kosta Peric, Head of Product Innovation, SWIFT
- Peter Vander Auwera, Product Innovation, SWIFT
Top of page > Tuesday 16 September - 15:00-15:45
Launched just 12 months ago, swiftcommunity.net - the free, online collaborative platform, powered by SWIFT - already counts 8,000 members and more than 100 communities where those members regularly meet, debate, share best-practice, network and advance the critical dialogue that empowers us all. An enhanced, smarter, more interactive and networking-driven version of the platform will be launched at Sibos this year. In this session, we will present concrete case studies of successful communities, share practical tips on how to best leverage this platform and explain the benefits of membership to you. In the spirit of collaboration, this session starts now. Join us on swiftcommunity.net before Sibos to let us know what you would like to discuss during the session.
Speakers: - Peter Hinssen, CEO, A-cross
- Matteo Rizzi, Head of Community Channels, SWIFT
Top of page | Leveraging operational best practice — Business Assessment Programme |
> Tuesday 16 September - 16:00-16:45
Walt Kelly's comic character, Pogo, famously said "We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunity". Many operations professionals can no doubt sympathise with the sentiment. You know there are improvements that would deliver bottomline value to your business. The only problem is finding time away from your mission-critical day-to-day activities to identify them. SWIFT's Business Assessment Programme is here to help.
Working in partnership with you, a team of SWIFT specialists examines your business and identifies ways to improve your operational efficiency. Whether it's automating fund order flows, implementing industry best practice in custody and asset servicing operations, or reviewing architecture to support new SWIFT services and standards, our specialists will get to the heart of it.
Bank of New York Mellon and Fortis Bank have both recently benefitted. In this session, they will tell you how using the Business Assesment Programme enabled them to make more effective and efficient use of SWIFT messaging, deliver improved end-client service and align infrastrcuture and business processes.
Speakers: - Robin Arita, Managing Director and Head of Global Custody and SWIFT Product Management Business Unit, Bank of New York Mellon
- Pierre Blum, Business Assessment Programme, SWIFT
- Gilbert Kolbach, Head of Service Providers and Infrastructures, Fortis
- Yves Smeyers, Business Assesment Programme, SWIFT
Top of page > Wednesday 17 September 2008
| Integrating your business applications with SWIFT |
> Wednesday 17 September - 09:00-09:45
Enabling your business applications for SWIFT is not always an easy task. But SWIFT and its network of certified Partners are here to help. They provide a broad variety of integration and service solutions, covering broad requirements related to standards translation, reference data access, technology platforms cooperation and multi-network environments. This session outlines the different options in this area, addressing the main issues you might face in different integration projects.
You will learn about SWIFT's own integration services expertise; our SWIFTReady EAI partner framework; and our new Alliance Integrator product. We will position these different solution components of our integration framework, and how you can best use them to address your specific requirements, both short-term and longer-term.
Speakers: - Victor Abbeloos, Senior Manager Product Innovation, SWIFT
- Alain Drese, Head of Integration Services, SWIFT
- Patrik Neutjens, Head of Partner Management, SWIFT
Top of page > Wednesday 17 September - 10:00-10:45
The coexistence of MTs and MXs is a significant challenge for the SWIFT community. This session will provide a review of the landscape of activities that surround this important topic and present what SWIFT is doing to make coexistence easier for everyone.
Speakers: - Malene McMahon, Business Manager, Standards, SWIFT
- Adam Moulson, Senior Product Manager, Standards, SWIFT
Top of page | SWIFT’s connectivity and messaging: innovation and evolution for existing customers |
> Wednesday 17 September - 14:00-14:45
SWIFT's messaging and connectivity products continue to evolve to meet your business and technical requirements. If your firm exchanges less than 40,000 messages a day, join this session to learn what's new in our product portfolio.
Speakers: - Victor Abbeloos, Senior Manager Product Innovation, SWIFT
- Luc Van Bergen, Head of Interfaces Product Management, SWIFT
Top of page | How you benefit from SWIFT's new Partner model |
> Wednesday 17 September - 15:00-15:45
Is SWIFT mission critical to your business? If so, then choosing the right supplier to integrate SWIFT with your business and back-office applications is a mission critical decision for you. But how do you select the right supplier, not only with the right technology, but also with the right expertise, right connectivity, right integration services? In short, the right 'total solution' for you? There are so many factors to consider. What are these factors and who will help you check them? This session will give you some of the answers and outline the value of SWIFT partners in this process.
Speaker: - Aydin Erol, Head of Global Partner Programme, Customer Service, SWIFT
Top of page | SWIFT's solution for Workers' Remittances: ready for roll-out |
> Wednesday 17 September - 16:00-16:45
Workers' Remittances is a new SWIFT solution for cross border, person-to-person payments. It comprises market practice rules, messaging, and reference data services, tailored for this market. It provides a low-cost, efficient platform for banks to support person-to-person payment services with their bilateral counterparts. Join this session to find out more and how it could improve your remittances business.
Speaker: - Arthur Cousins, SWIFT Board Member and Chairman of the Workers' Remittances Advisory Group. Director, Strategy & Product Development, The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd.
- Michael Whyte, Senior Product Manager, Workers' Remittances, SWIFT
Top of page > Thursday 18 September 2008
| How SWIFT can be your partner for OTC derivatives and loans processing |
> Thursday 18 September - 09:00-09:45
A few years ago, to facilitate automation in the alternative investment space, industry players created an XML-based standard called FpML. FpML has since become the de facto standard in this industry. SWIFT is now leveraging these industry efforts and offering solutions that enable the exchange of FpML messages over its network. Join this session to hear from a buy-side and an asset servicing firm how using SWIFT improves their processing of OTC derivatives and loans transactions. They will explain how automation - enabled by their use of SWIFT - delivers scalability and reduces both risk and operational costs.
Speakers: - Marie-Paule Dumont, Market Manager, Pre-settlement Programmes, SWIFT
- Steve Goswell, Principal, Barclays Global Advisors
- Ahmad Sharif, Managing Director, Global Product Manager - Derivatives, Bank of New York Mellon
Top of page | Reaping the benefits of real-time cash reporting |
> Thursday 18 September - 10:00-10:45
Timely account information is critical in today’s business environment. Does my company have transparency into cash and across accounts when it is needed? What is my position, right now, in this currency? Can I make this deal? Do I need to invest surplus assets overnight? As greater focus is placed on optimising liquidity management in the cash management industry, the quality of the data used to make decisions is key. With SWIFT's solution for Cash Reporting, you get real-time intraday information in an automated and standardised way from your various banks. You will see in this session why the solution is essential for corporate treasurers to achieve their cash management goals and how a major bank addresses the real-time reporting needs of corporation and broker-dealer customers. The session also highlights the key trends shaping the cash management industry. Speaker: - Nancy Atkinson, Senior Analyst, Aite Group
- Louise Gorman, Managing Director, Product Executive, Account and Information Services, J.P.Morgan
- Isabelle Volckaert, Product Manager, Cash Reporting, SWIFT
- Andreas Unterste, Director of Financial Operations, Compliance and Technology, Dow Chemical
Top of page | How to really make SWIFT pay: hard work and huge savings |
> Thursday 18 September - 11:00-11:45
Making the most of SWIFT is not always as easy as the marketing collateral would have you believe. In this ‘warts and all’ session, two leading figures in the SWIFT community will share their candid views on how to make a SWIFT project pay. The Standard Bank of South Africa believes it will save ZAR 51 million in 5 years using SWIFT. DnB NOR Bank has estimated that its SWIFT projects will yield EUR 17 million in 6 years and at least EUR 5-6 million every year thereafter. Join this session to find out how you can emulate this level of success: what the key ingredients are to build momentum for a solution within your community, how to go about planning and implementing it within your firm, and what the potential pitfalls are.
Through the use of a broad selection of real-life examples – internal, domestic and international messaging projects in areas like central bank reporting, domestic ACHs, TARGET2, corporate to bank – you’ll learn how initiatives like SWIFT’s community and fixed-fee pricing mean there’s never been a better time to really make SWIFT pay.
Speakers: - Arthur Cousins, Director, Strategy & Product Development, The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd
- Finn Otto Hansen, General Manager SWIFT and Settlement Systems, DnBNOR
- Christian Sarafidis, Head of Sales Services, SWIFT
Top of page | Beyond the standard: improving corporate actions data quality |
> Thursday 18 September - 12:00-12:45
Corporate actions messaging standards are only part of the automation story; market practice is vital to ensure each participant deploys the standards in a consistent manner. Because these standards must handle the complexities of many different event types, global market practice has been defined to significantly enhance the process-ability of the messages. But how can we effectively implement this market practice? Over the years, different flavours and interpretations of the messages have generated an abundance of well-intentioned and seemingly useful market practice guidance. We should, as a community, turn this guidance into significant improvement in automation, STP, and risk reduction.
With a central point of reference, the Securities Market Practice Group guidelines can be consistently implemented. SWIFT's Simulation Testing and Qualification Service (STaQS) for Corporate Actions is now available to support customer self-policing for conformance to market practice.
Speakers: - David Grant Duff, Senior Officer, Corporate Actions, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
- Max Mansur, Senior Product/Market Manager, SWIFT
- Sonda Pimental, Vice President, Brown Brothers Harriman
- Ted Rothschild, Executive Director, J.P.Morgan
Top of page | SWIFT’s connectivity and messaging: delivering value to high volume customers |
> Thursday 18 September - 14:00-14:45
Institutions with large traffic volumes have specific requirements in terms of capacity, availability and integration capabilities as well as reporting and business intelligence. Join this session to hear about the different projects that SWIFT is undertaking to address this particular market segment.
Speakers: - Paolo Bernini, Head of Information Products, SWIFT
- Tony Daly, Head of Interfaces Product Development, SWIFT
- Willy Verhanneman, Head of Messaging, SWIFT
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