How to Assure Payments Efficiency AND Compliance
Companies face two significant challenges when it comes to payment transactions: First, payments should be handled efficiently, meaning direct costs such as transaction fees and indirect costs such as personnel or IT expenses should be scaled back as much as possible. Second, payments should be handled securely to assure compliance. Commonly, payment management projects are only considered successful if they meet both of these challenges.
In order to make payments more cost-effective and secure, treasurers usually aim to process all transactions centrally through a fully-automated and documented process. Here are two examples showing how technology enables treasurers to achieve efficiency and compliance at the same time:
1. Bank Account Screening: Leveraging treasury technology, payment execution can be monitored based on the information in bank account statements, which are automatically loaded into the treasury system from partner banks or via SWIFT. Using search rules to check account information for irregularities, potential fraudulent activities such as unauthorized cash withdrawals can be determined automatically. Furthermore, tolerance analyses help to identify gross differences in payment amounts.
2. Payment Factory: Treasurers might favor bank account screening for its simplicity. But as controls and corrective measures can only be set after the payments have been made, they should consider techniques preventing fraud upfront. Setting up of a payment factory offers an attractive, preventive solution. The high degree of centralization of the payment factory allows efficient processing and monitoring at the same time. In this case, potential fraud cases can be prevented through central user administration and embargo list checks. At the same time, workflow automation, payment method optimization and the introduction of on-behalf of payments assures cost-effectiveness.
Leveraging modern technology, compliance and efficiency form a perfect symbiosis in modern payment management .
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Patrick Cannon is Executive Vice President, Client Services at Reval, where he oversees global professional services and client support teams. He is responsible for providing excellence in post-sales Client Services, through the delivery of industry-leading best practices. Patrick brings over 16 years of experience in client-facing roles, having led key project and relationship management initiatives for start-up and growth-stage companies.
Willibald Rieder studied Technical Mathematics at the Technical Vienna University of Technology and then worked as a software developer. From 1980 to 1983 he was Managing Director of Polydata GmbH in Munich. In 1984 Willibald established ecosoft in Vienna. In 2001 the company merged with ZOSO to form ecofinance Finanzsoftware & Consulting GmbH. In addition to his responsibilities as Managing Director, Mr. Rieder also acts as an expert speaker at the Research Institute for Banking at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, and is co-author of the book “Cash Pooling. Modern Liquidity Management for Financial, Legal and Fiscal Purposes”.
Jiro Okochi is CEO of Reval, a company he co-founded in 1999 to bring an Internet technology solution to the underserved market of corporate derivative end-users. Under his leadership, Reval introduced a true Software-as-a-Service solution, which has since evolved from a best-of-breed financial risk management offering to a next generation, all-in-one SaaS for enterprise treasury and risk management.
Dino Ewing is Chief Financial Officer at Reval with responsibility for financial, human resource, legal and administrative management. He has over 20 years of experience in financial management, operations and analysis. Prior to joining Reval in 2000, Mr. Ewing was Chief Financial Officer of HealthFirst, Inc., where he was responsible for business planning, financial reporting, and medical risk management. Previously, he worked as an investment banker at CS First Boston, a strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and as the Director of Budget & Analysis for the New York City Department of Transportation. Mr. Ewing holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford University.
Philip Pettinato is Chief Technology Officer at Reval with responsibility for managing the company’s research and development activities across three core operating groups: product management, product engineering and information technology. Mr. Pettinato has more than 25 years of experience managing and developing technology solutions for treasury, trading, risk management, accounting and post-trade processing of derivatives and capital markets products.
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John Mitchell heads up Reval’s Global Sales organization, where he is building a world-class, high-performance sales team focused on industry-leading growth. Mr. Mitchell brings over 25 years of global sales experience across large, public enterprises, growth companies, and nascent start-ups. His leadership with companies in the UK, US and APAC regions includes achieving high-double-digit growth for Asset Control, a Fidelity Ventures company with focus on capital markets data management, for which he expanded its geographic and segment footprint as Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing; establishing and growing sales teams across the Americas and in Japan for Fortent, an anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorist funding solution for the world’s top 50 banks, where he sold each of Japan’s mega banks as Vice President Sales, Americas and Japan; and taking database tools software company Bradmark Technologies into 20 new countries as Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Marketing.
Kirsten Behncke Colyer is Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Reval, where she oversees and guides Human Resources and Administration globally. Reval is the fourth financial technology company at which Ms. Behncke Colyer has successfully applied her leadership. With over 20 years of establishing and reshaping global HR departments, Ms. Behncke Colyer brings a strong track record of aligning business practices with corporate goals, strategies, and values. Prior to Reval, she built a leading-edge, global HR function for Lab49, a capital markets IT consulting company, where she focused on employee performance, retention and HR infrastructure.
Peter Haberler brings over two decades of entrepreneurial expertise to his role at Reval, where he helps banks deepen their relationships with corporate treasury clients by using innovative treasury services technology. In 1992, Mr. Haberler co-founded ZoSo GmbH, where he also served as CEO. There, his visionary technology product won him recognition as an early pioneer of software development for mobile handheld devices.
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