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Société Générale Group migrates French domestic payments traffic to Swift

Société Générale Group migrates French domestic payments traffic to Swift

Payments,
14 October 2015 | 4 min read

The French banking group will use Swift FileAct to send domestic payments to STET, the European automated clearing house.

Singapore, 14 October 2015 -Société Générale will use Swift to send its domestic payments messages to STET, the European automated clearing house (ACH) that has almost 52% market share of the euro transactions processed in clearing systems and the largest market share of all European currency transactions.

Pascal Augé, Head of Global Transaction & Payment Services at Société Générale, says, "There are clear benefits for us in using Swift to send payment messages to STET. Re-use of our Swift infrastructure to process domestic as well as international payments will help to streamline our infrastructure, reduce total cost of ownership and offers economies of scale. Additionally, it builds a good foundation for future products and services for our customers such as real time payments."

This latest partnership underpins the cost, efficiency and security benefits that can be achieved within domestic markets using Swift.

Alain Raes, Chief Executive of EMEA & APAC, Swift says, "This shows the importance of   domestic payments to Swift's strategy. Societe Generale choosing to migrate its traffic to FileAct to exchange its domestic payments with STET is another major step forward in our strategy to support domestic payment markets. Partnerships such as this - along with initiatives like Go Local India and the New Payments Platform that we are currently developing in Australia - will continue to strengthen our position in the domestic payments market and help us to better support our community."

STET was launched by six major French banks in 2004 in response to the development of the Single European Payment Area (SEPA) and the challenge that SEPA harmonization was going to represent to the European payments industry.  It is now used by the French and Belgian financial communities for both SEPA and non-SEPA transactions and in 2014 processed more than 15 billion transactions.

Jean-Marie Vallée, CEO of STET, says: "The payments environment in Europe is evolving rapidly and innovative approaches are required in order for the financial services community to be able to serve their customers. The combination of a cost-effective ACH like STET and the secure and reliable messaging of Swift is a strong partnership that can unlock more strategic opportunities for market participants in Europe and particularly in France. We are delighted to Société Générale as the first bank to migrate to SwiftNet for STET."

Fabrice Denèle, Board Member of STET and a Board Member of Swift, says: "The partnership between STET and Swift makes strategic sense. The French financial services community represents one of the largest payments markets in Europe and its automated clearing house was created to provide an innovative response to European payments evolution.  The collaboration between STET - a reliable, cost effective ACH for the EU market - and Swift, the global messaging network, offers potential for further innovation."

About Swift
Swift is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,800 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in over 200 countries and territories. Swift enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. Swift also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.

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About STET
STET S.A.S is owned by five major banks: BNP Paribas, BPCE, Crédit Agricole, Banque Fédérative du CréditMutuel and Société Générale. STET is one of the leading processors in Europe providing Clearing and Settlement services in Real-Time for the full range of payment instruments including Cards transactions. Our annual processing is in excess of 15 billion transactions representing more than 52% share of euro payments cleared multilaterally in CSMs. A technical infrastructure to support PSPs in delivering innovating services to the European market.

To learn more about STET services, visit: http://www.stet.eu/ or contact us at Business@stet.eu / +33 (0) 1 49 00 23 00

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