Speaker: Neil Gray, Regional Manager, Corporates Business – UK & Ireland, SWIFT

Topics discussed included:

(i) SWIFT for Corporates: enabling corporates to communicate with their multiple banking partners (e.g. for payments, treasury and cash management) through one single, standardised and secure channel

(ii) SWIFT Global Payment Initiative (GPI) for Corporates: improving the corporate-to-bank experience in the world of international payments and collections;

(iii) SWIFT Know Your Customer (KYC) for Corporates: helping corporates to simplify the maintenance and process of exchanging KYC data with banks via the cloud based SWIFT KYC registry platform

(iv) Alternative payment platforms using Application Programming Interface (API) and digital payments

(v) Case studies / best practice and discussion of use of payment/communication platforms for corporates