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MyStandards &
SWIFTRef
SWIFT Africa Conference
Louise Mostert

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MyStandards
SWIFTRef
Agenda

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MyStandards
Better standards management for the
community
SWIFT Africa Conference

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Provide Usage Guidelines
Set and follow Market Practice
Provide Usage Guidelines to key
customers (corporates)
Standards Management
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Manage standards
over different areas
in the organisation
Manage Releases
Understand and implement Market
Infrastructure specifications

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How to capture and maintain
the usage guidelines ?
Market practices – the challenges
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Customer
Peer
Member
How to share
information with
my customers?
How to manage
releases?
Do I need to
plough through
endless
documents?
Where can I find
the latest version of
specifications – as
well as the latest
base standards?
How can I
accelerate
implementation?
How to ensure
compliance with
my guidelines?

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MyStandards
Understand and find all
specifications on-line
using a single channel
Formalize and accelerate
creation and maintenance
of guidelines
Share usage guidelines using
a single channel
Automate release and
guidelines analysis
Receive customized and
consistent
documentation for all
specifications
Efficiently
implement specifications
(schema’s)
Improve customer service
Increase internal efficiency
Facilitate compliance
of usage guidelines
Customer
Peer
Member
Market practices – the solution
Increase internal efficiency

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MyStandards how does it work ?
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www.swift.com/mystandards
Implement
Publish
Browse
Individual consumers
Premium Licence Owner
Publish
Analyse
Capture guidelines
Collaborate
Browse
MI FI MPG

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Reduce effort and time to
analyse releases
Consult and analyse guidelines
Automate implementation of
guidelines and standards
Managing releases and analysing guidelines
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Increasing
internal
efficiency
Save cost and time
Reduce risk
Improve quality
Enhance collaboration

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Easy for customers
to access information
Easy to maintain
your guidelines
Easy to stay aligned with
industry guidelines
Enhancing customer service
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Enhancing
customer
communication
Save cost and time
Reduce risk
Improve quality
Enhance collaboration

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Benefits of MyStandards
Efficiency
Gains
Speed analysis and maintenance tasks
Facilitate cross-team and cross entity interactions
Speed implementation time
Quality : reduce errors and eliminate rework
Eliminate duplicate process, tasks, and tools
Business
Enablement
Make your products easier to consume
Lower the total cost of consuming your services
Speed time to revenues
Maintain the link with your clients and your market
Enhance customer experience
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Current Users - MPG
• SADC Southern African MPG
• MPG ABI LAB
• CMPG Russian Corporates
• NMPG RU SR CA
• BSK
• MNPG SE IF
• MNPG GB IF
• MPG ISITC
• NMPG HU Payment MSE
• NMPG DK IF
• NMPG BR IF
• NMPG AU IF
• MDPUG (Market Data Providers User Group)
• NMPG NO IF
• NMPG UK IE CA
• NMPG IT IF
• NMPG TH ETDA
• SMPG

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Premium customers
Financial
institutions
Market
infrastructures
Market
practice
groups
SWIFT for
corporates (CGI and SCORE)
Funds
MPGs

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Available licenses
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Content and basic features
Analytical
framework
PDF generationCollaboration
MT/MX/
ISO 20022
Public &
shared usage
guidelines
Advanced features
Capture &
maintain
guidelines
Browsing
Excel &
schema
generation
Premium
service
Basic
service

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swiftref
SWIFT Africa Conference
swiftref@swift.com
Movie

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Topics covered
SWIFTRef, a
collaborative
platform for
reference
data
Value
proposition
for Financial
Institutions
New in
2013
Good to
know

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Context
ISO
SSI
EBAIBAN
SWIFT BIC
EPC
T2
Licenced
Banks
MT094s
SWIFTRef
All the reference data you need
Worldwide, Accurate, Up-to-date, Any time and from a Single
source!
Bankers
Accuity
Nat IDs -
local ACHs

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Authorised/official data sources
SWIFTRef
SSI SEPA IBAN
Bank
financials
& ratings
Country
economics
IBAN
format
BIC
PAK PAK PAK
ISO 9362ISO 13616
Direct updates as ISO registrar
Data updates via your PAK
(online tool)
Updates via FTP to SWIFTRef
FITCH The
Economist
National
codes
National
codes
National
codes
SWIFTRef data
collection team
& Data Helpdesk
Central banks & banking
associations
Bespoke updates to SWIFTRef
ComSys
Files
Web
Financial Institutions
LEI

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Topics covered
SWIFTRef, a
collaborativ
e platform
for
reference
data
Value
proposition
for
Financial
Institutions
New in
2013
Good to
know

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SWIFTRef – Value proposition
which product to do what?
Bank data
 build your Master Bank
Database
 identify Financial Institutions
 find or cross-reference
identifiers
 validate bank details
 understand bank hierarchy
IBAN/SEPA data
 validate IBANs and BIC codes
 find BICs from IBANs
 find the best routing path for a
beneficiary bank
 find the intermediary banks
 find the adherence to SCT,
SDD-B, SDD-C schemes
SSI data
 find the correspondent bank
 find the intermediary bank
 commercial payments, FX, MM
Bankers World Online (online tool)
 look-up all the data contained in SWIFTRef… and more (i.e. correspondent banking data)
Payments Plus (XML data feeds or TXT files)
Bank Directory Plus
(file)
SSI Plus (file)IBAN/SEPA Plus (file)

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Bankers World Online

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Old versus new services
Old file services New file services
BIC Archive new!
BIC Directory (No change) BIC Directory
BICPlusIBAN Directory (end 2013) Bank Directory Plus new!
IBAN Plus new!
SEPA Routing Directory (end 2013) SEPA Plus new!
SSI Directory (end 2012) SSI Retail new!
SSI Wholesale new!
SSI Plus new!
CCH (No change) CCH
Payments Plus
Old manual web query tools New manual web query tools
BIC Directory Online new!
Online Directories (end 2012) Bankers World Online new!
MT094 Online new!
Old services New services
SSI Diagnostics (No change) SSI Diagnostics
SWIFTRef help desk new!
Daily Automation new!

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Topics covered
SWIFTRef, a
collaborativ
e platform
for
reference
data
Value
proposition
for
Financial
Institutions
New in
2013
Good to
know

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Web Query
tools
Web services -
API
Internet
SWIFTNet ?
File Downloads
Files via FileAct
Internet
Internet
SWIFTRef
Utility
1. New Delivery Options SWIFTRef
TXT
XML
Formatting

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• For File customers
• To automate delivery of files
(monthly or daily)
1. Datafeeds 2. Specific calls
• For Non-file customers
• To make specific calls
Two types of webservices

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BIC
ValidateBic
GetAddress
IBAN Plus
ValidateNationalID
ValidateIban
ValidateIbanBic
GetDetailsFromBic
GetDetailsFromNationalId
DeriveBicFromIban
LinkBic
LinkNationalId
GetConnectedBic
SSI Plus
Get retail SSI (BIC,
currency, country)
Get wholesale SSI
(BIC,currency, country)
Other data
Get website
Get e-mail
Get tel
Get credit ratings
Get broadcastSEPA Routing
Get routing details BIC
Get adherence status
BIC Archive
Get status BIC (valid,
non valid, connected,
non connected)
Get dates added &
deleted
Examples of specific calls

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New format and delivery options
Daily
FileAct
Daily files
Monthly
Automation (API)
1 April 1 July
Daily
Automation (API)
XML format
XML files
via FileAct

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3. Bankers World Online
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• Domestic account number to IBAN conversion
• New National Codes
• Improved financial overviews; bank and country rankings
• IBAN account number structures for all IBAN countries
• Information of a user group for active users for continuous
product improvement
Future Improvements – Planned 01 Sept

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Bankers World Online
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• Shareholder data
• Improved intelligence:
• User guide on all national codes (eg what is a RIB, CNAP code etc….)
• Overview of regulators and central banks, with a link to their website
• Account number structure(s)
• Integration of SWIFTNet data (e.g. corporates using FileAct
only, SWIFTNet service codes)
• Local names for countries
Future Improvements – In investigation

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Topics covered
SWIFTRef, a
collaborativ
e platform
for
reference
data
Value
proposition
for
Financial
Institutions
New in
2013
Good to
know

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Upgrade program
BICPlusIBAN
Directory
SEPA
Routing
Directory
Bank
Directory
Plus
IBAN
Plus
SEPA
Plus
Jan 2012 Dec 2013

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Questions before you migrate
• Which SWIFT products do we have today?
• Which data do we use today?
• Which additional data from SWIFTRef could I
take advantage of?
• In which new products are these data?
• In which formats do I want to receive them?
• With which frequency?
• Through which channel?

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Support
Contacts
support@swift.com first line, old products
swiftref@swift.com product & price information
swiftrefdata@swift.com data content, data collection
swiftrefupgrades@swift.com upgrades

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Material & tools available
• Web site www.swift.com/swiftref
• Factsheets, Tech Specs, Sample files (public)
• Free trial of all Web Query Tools (can be directly
requested from web site)
• Movie

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Thank you