Accelerate Cash Management Digitization
Accelerate Cash Management Digitization
Accelerate Cash Management Digitization
Management Digitization
Finacle Cash Management Suite
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Corporate Banking
Business Today
The business dynamics is fast changing
Consider the following -
Profitability is an issue, and reportedly one in two globally have returns below the
hurdle rate. The shrinking loyalty, and attrition of corporate clientele for want of
tailored, cost efficient solutions is a reality. And to add, the increasing presence of
Fintech competition in transaction banking business, is fundamentally disrupting
the corporate banking value chain. Banks are coming under increasing pressure to
reimagine their service models for corporate customers.
Globally, there are multiple forces propelling the cash and liquidity management dynamics, creating new orders.
Central banks, regulatory bodies worldwide are driving real time payments initiatives.
Market infrastructures such as SWIFT are reimagining the cross border correspondent banking
paradigms, when it comes to payments and liquidity flows. SWIFT gpi, the new standard in global
payments, is a step in this direction which fosters faster frictionless payments, with increased
transparency and enhanced visibility.
The API driven, open banking mandates such as account access services, account aggregation
services are creating new avenues for real-time information flows. Take for example, PSD2’s X2A
service, as a point in case.
As the businesses become more global, the corporate treasurers face a host of challenges, thanks to the structural complexities they deal with -
• As geographical expansions increase, they need to deal with varying macroeconomic conditions
• Comply with regulations, global and local, at minimal costs and penalties
With expanding role, corporate treasurers are expected to take a strategic view of their function. They are prioritizing the following to deliver
what is expected of them
However, most banks have not got their act right across the three tenets and the services rendered by them have remained suboptimal.
The corporates continue to suffer. According to a global survey1 of corporate treasurers by Ovum, a leading analyst firm, the results are fully
evident, and as follows -
Only 13% of
multinational corporates can
see their global cash
position in real time Mobile services remain a
clear development area for banks,
with 42% of mid-sized corporates
Among the largest corporates,
underserved
45% face challenges
with the accuracy of
their cash flow The ability to view real-time
forecasting balance information
on mobile is a clear
requirement for 47% of
39% of the very largest small and mid-sized corporates
corporates face challenges from
manual intervention
in key workflows One size does not fit all
for corporates, and 52%
would consider moving to a provider
with a better fit for their needs
•
Enabling real-time cash flow views for visibility and control
•
Providing global access to accounts across banks on a single sign-on interface offering a unified experience
•
Enabling digital, omni-channel liquidity management for seamless services on-the-go
•
Offering tailored sweeps and pooling structures that are fully contextualized to the corporate’s unique needs
•
Enabling real-time, faster payments
•
Offering innovative liquidity planning and forecasting solutions to improve predictability and investment yields
•
Facilitating flexible ERP integrations for improved account receivables and payables management
•
Offering on-behalf banking for streamlined working capital management
For banks to realize all of the above, we recommend a transformation journey along the ‘Digital cash management continuum’.
The continuum provides a progressive roadmap through which banks can build capabilities closely aligned with the fundamental tenets of
enabling cash visibility, empowering for cash mobility and finally, offering a range of services designed to deliver strategic value. The graphic
below identifies each of the 8 tenets of reimagined cash propositions, across the continuum.
On behalf
banking
Contemporary ask
Global access to
accounts across banks
Flexible ERP
integrations
Omni-channel
liquidity management
Real time faster
payments
Liquidity planning
Realtime and forecasting
cash flow views
Traditional liquidity
products - sweeps, pooling
Must have
Finacle’s proven digital offering which includes Finacle Liquidity Management Solution, Finacle Virtual Accounts Management, Finacle
Payments along with Finacle Corporate Online Banking, Finacle Corporate Mobile Banking and Finacle Digital Engagement Hub helps
banks successfully transform along the continuum.
On behalf
banking
Contemporary ask
Global access to
accounts across banks
Flexible ERP
integrations
Omni-channel
liquidity management
Real time faster
payments Liquidity planning
Realtime and forecasting
cash flow views
Traditional liquidity
products - sweeps, pooling
Must have
Finacle Liquidity Management Solution Finacle Digital Engagement Hub Finacle Payments
The suite’s liquidity management solution offers a comprehensive range of liquidity services enabling corporate clients to identify,
manage and optimize liquidity. The virtual accounts management module empowers corporates to transform their treasury
operations, streamline payments and receivables, and reimagine in-house banking dynamics. The SWIFT certified, enterprise class
payments services hub designed leveraging ISO 20022 standards, enhances the customer proposition with value added services and
tailored payment offerings that improve cash mobility. The solution suite gives corporate customers seamless access to range of cash
management services in digital self-service mode, across channels and through context sensitive APIs.
Finacle has helped corporate banks around the world reimagine their cash management service offerings with digital technologies
to drive new revenue streams. The solution leverages emerging technologies such as blockchain and advanced analytics to offer
impressive benefits to banks and their clients.
Finacle Cash Management meets and exceeds these expectations. A comprehensive, componentized platform of corporate
cash management solutions, it allows you the freedom to choose products that match your bank’s business priorities, and the
flexibility to decide when to deploy or upgrade a particular component. What’s more, Finacle enables your bank to transform at
one go, or in a progressive, phased manner.
With Finacle, your bank gains a wide range of enterprise-level products with rich business functionality that can be delivered
on all channels. No matter how big or complex your business is, Finacle will give it a firm foundation of functional capability,
architecture and delivery readiness.
Virtual Accounts Management - Virtual Accounts | On-behalf liquidity management | Virtual Sweeps | Virtual Pooling
Corporate Digital Engagement Suite -Corporate Online Banking | Corporate Mobile Banking | Open APIs for ERP integrations
Liquidity
Management
Blockchain Virtual
Powered Accounts
Solutions Management
Componentized
suite of
solutions
Corporate Digital
Payments
Engagement
Suite
Digital leaders in corporate banking look towards technology to deliver enhanced propositions across the cash management value chain.
But the archaic technology environment in many banks – complex legacy solutions built on obsolete technology and existing in silos – is not
quite ready to change. This stifles innovation and hampers their ability to create benchmark cash management products. Corporate banks
need to overcome this challenge and adopt a modern platform built on advanced architecture to become agile, flexible and scalable.
The Finacle Cash Management suite, which is built on the most advanced architecture in the industry, offers the above benefits and more:
Enterprise-class components such as liquidity management, Extensibility framework with GUI (graphical user interface) based
virtual accounts management and payments help banks in creating toolkit, extending the product to meet unique needs.
unified processing hubs across business units, thus enhancing
Multi-entity, multi-currency, multi-time zone capabilities,
efficiencies.
standardizing and centralizing operations across international and
Services oriented architecture with a comprehensive suite of domestic subsidiaries.
both fine and coarse-grained services, extending reusability and
Business workflow management capabilities to automate,
increasing business agility.
streamline and optimize processes.
A host of Open APIs across the suite, enabling collaboration with
Progressive cloud journeys, with our partners such as AWS, MS
ecosystem partners as well as integrations with corporate systems.
Azure, Oracle and IBM for improving agility and lowering TCO.
Readymade integration adaptors and compliance with
Scalable, secure and proven technology, consistently rated best-
industry standards, lowering integration costs and enabling
in-class by leading industry analysts.
enterprise-wide straight through processing capabilities.
- Jost Hoppermann, Author of The Forrester Wave™: Global Digital Banking Platforms, Q3 2018
Whether it is a big bang switchover, progressive deployment or complete overhaul, Finacle helps your bank transform at
its own pace. The following tenets simplify the transformation and mitigate its risks:
New-age corporate cash management dynamics call for a digital product engine that will not only host a bank’s own products,
but also widen the scope of offerings to include complementary products sourced from a partner ecosystem. The bank’s
role will change from merely pushing products to recommending contextual offerings built to suit the needs of the industry
segments in which its corporate clients operate.
Finacle’s Approach
• Expanse of liquidity products, such as global sweeps, with • Open APIs for ease of collaboration with partners, FinTech
many variants including zero balancing, target balancing, companies, corporate clients, and the extended developer
range balancing, cover overdraft, reverse sweeps, and ecosystem.
single entity, multi-locational, cross-currency notional
pooling structures, along with virtual accounts including • Blockchain based networks to digitize cross-border
virtual sweeps and virtual pooling. payments.
• Product defined liquidity structures that derive their • Finacle AppCenter, bringing an ecosystem of large
behavior from its parameters, enabling banks to deliver partners and Fintech startups to complement the
tailored liquidity structures, as well as achieve regulatory Finacle solution suite, and providing a marketplace for
compliance with appropriate business rule assignments. accelerating innovation.
External
ecosystem
Structured Product
products templates
Within the
organisation
Corporate cash management is a complex proposition for businesses with global operations, given the structural complexities
they deal with. As companies accelerate the digitization of their business operations, they demand sophisticated digital cash
management solutions from their primary banks to enable them to manage their cash and treasury optimally.
A key expectation is complete visibility and control over the cash management value chain. Specifically, corporate customers
want digital self-service models that empower them to perform bank-like actions while managing treasury operations.
Corporate banks are expected to keep pace, and provide technology and business solutions that best meet such requirements.
For that, they need new operating models that deliver products and services cost effectively across channels and fulfill new
customer needs through innovation.
Finacle’s Approach
• Finacle digital engagement hub gives clients seamless access • Open APIs for flexible ERP integrations enhance automation
to corporate cash management services across channels and and reconciliation outcomes.
devices.
• Tailored, real-time payments services offer enhanced
• Comprehensive digital self-service models empower corporate propositions across corporate channels.
customers to set up sweep structures, and virtual account
hierarchies that best meet their needs.
35% 37%
average reduction in transaction average reduction in product roll-
costs through automation, process out efforts due to flexibility of the
optimizations, and seamless integration solution enabled with extensive
across disparate applications and parameterization and extensibility#
multiple channels#
21% 7.2%
average improvement in time to points lesser cost-to-income ratios, on
serve customers due to a unified an average, than others*
and real-time view of customer and
family relationships, transactions and
interactions#
Celent Model Bank Award for 2018 Juniper Future Digital Awards - 2018
Contact us:
www.finacle.com | finacle@edgeverve.com
Finacle solutions address the core banking, omnichannel banking, payments, treasury, origination,
liquidity management, Islamic banking, wealth management, analytics, artificial intelligence, and
blockchain requirements of financial institutions to drive business excellence. An assessment of the
top 1250 banks in the world reveals that institutions powered by the Finacle Core Banking solution,
on average, enjoy 7.2% points lower costs-to-income ratio than others.
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