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Curriculum Cross Border Payments Presentation
The cross-border payments curriculum consists of three courses that take you step-by-step from the basic to the advanced concepts related to cross-border payments. You get precious information and tips to provide a great contribution to any cross-border payment project.
Curriculum Cross Border Payments Objectives
Discover and apply a strategy to easily understand how cross-border payments work, get familiar with the related SWIFT MT and MX ISO 20022 messages, and learn valuable tips on how to add value and successfully deliver your cross-border payment projects.
Master the 4 key strategies to understand how cross-border payments work (Organization of market infrastructures, Account relationships and Correspondent Banking, The SWIFT network and standards, Introduction to FX markets) and become familiar with SWIFT MT and MX ISO 20022
Understand how corporations and financial institutions use SWIFT MT and MX messages. Explain the differences between cover and serial payments. Decompose and analyze the value chain of cross-border payment processing (Payment acquisition and reporting, Payment order management, Payment exchange)
Understand Standing Settlement Instructions (SSI) and how banks get them, Settlement path determination, Foreign exchange and the different charge options related to cross-border payments. Then see how they impact the processing of payment instructions.
Get familiar with important concepts related to accounting, intraday balance management, graphical user interfaces, user rights and actions, debit and credit legs processing, payment engines and the applications they are interfaced with in the bank’s IT System
COURSE CONTENT
Course 1 : Initiation to Cross-Border Payments (10 modules)
- What is a Cross-border payment?
- The « six party model » for cross border payments
- The four key strategies to understand how cross-border payments work
- Strategy #1 – Understand the principles behind the organization of market infrastructures in the different countries of the world
- Payment systems models – Open loop models
- Open loop models – Payment systems anatomy
- Payment market infrastructures in France (EUR)
- Payment market infrastructures in the USA (USD)
- Payment market infrastructures in Australia (AUD)
- Payment market infrastructures in South Africa (ZAR)
- Payment market infrastructures in UK (GBP and EUR)
- Payment market infrastructures in Sweden (SEK and EUR)
- Payment market infrastructures in Norway (NOK and EUR)
- Payment market infrastructures in China (CNY/RMB)
- Payment market infrastructures in Japan (JPY)
- Payment market infrastructures in Canada (CAD)
- Payment market infrastructures in India (INR)
- Answers to key questions of Strategy #1
- Assessment Quiz
- The Strategy 2 to understand how cross border payments work
- Banks need to send and receive payments in foreign currency
- Banks and correspondent accounts
- Correspondent banking – unilateral account relationship
- Correspondent banking – Nostro, Vostro, Loro accounts
- Unilateral account relationship and mirror account
- Bilateral account relationship
- How mirror accounts are used
- Funds in currency are kept on correspondent accounts
- Transfers in currency and the correspondent account
- The correspondent network
- Different types of currencies
- Opening of correspondent accounts – direct deposit
- Answers to key questions of Strategy #2
- Assessment Quiz
- The strategy 3 to understand how cross border payments work
- The situation before the SWIFT Network
- SWIFT addresses security and automation
- SWIFTNet is a highly secure Network
- SWIFT standards enhance the communication
- SWIFT standards enable automation
- SWIFTNet interconnects banks and corporations
- SWIFTNet is a messaging system
- SWIFT and the BIC code
- Assessment Quiz
- The Strategy 4 to understand how cross border payments work
- Cross border payments and currency exchanges
- FX Markets are used by banks and their customers
- Foreign exchange – Introduction and definition
- ISO 4217: the Standard for currency codes
- FX – Fixed Exchange rate and Floating Exchange rate
- Foreign exchange – Currency pairs
- BID price and ASK price for banks and customers
- Foreign exchange – Example of a currency quote
- Foreign exchange – Direct and Indirect Quotation
- Foreign exchange – Currency tenor
- Foreign exchange – The Float
- Liquidity management (in cross border payment context)
- When do banks go the FX markets?
- Adjustments on the FX account(s)
- Assessment Quiz
- What is a Cross-border payment?
- The « six party model » for cross border payments
- CC Transfer to a customer of the correspondent bank
- CC Transfer to a customer of the correspondent
bank’s subsidiary - FI Transfer to the correspondent bank’s subsidiary
- CC Transfer to a customer of another bank in the monetary zone
- FI Transfer to another bank in the monetary zone
- CC Transfer to a customer of a major bank’s subsidiary in the monetary zone
- FI Transfer to a major bank’s subsidiary in the monetary zone
- CC Transfer from a customer of a major bank’s subsidiary to a customer of another major bank’s subsidiary
- FI Transfer from a major bank’s subsidiary to the subsidiary of another major bank
- CC Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have the same correspondent in the country of the currency of transfer
- FI Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have the same correspondent in the country of the currency of transfer
- CC Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have the same correspondent and subsidiaries are involved
- FI Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have the same correspondent and subsidiaries are involved
- CC Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have different correspondents in the country of the currency of transfer
- FI Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have different correspondents in the country of the currency of transfer
- CC Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have different correspondents and their subsidiaries are involved
- FI Transfer – Bank 1 and Bank 2 have different correspondents and their subsidiaries are involved
- Assessment Quiz
- SWIFT Messages standards
- The main spaces in cross border payments
- How to get the messages overview?
- SWIFT MT Messages for Customer transfers
- SWIFT MT Messages for Financial Institution transfers
- Bank roles in Cross border payments
- SWIFT MT Message Identifiers
- Structure of a SWIFT MT Message
- SWIFT MT Message structure example
- MT Message field structure
- List of SWIFT Messages Types
- MT Messages in the Customer-to-bank Space
- SWIFT MT Messages for Customer transfers
- MT Messages in the Bank-to-correspondent Space
- SWIFT MT Messages for Financial Institution transfers
- Assessment Quiz
- SWIFT Messages standards
- Advantages of SWIFT MX standards
- SWIFT migration to MX messages – The calendar
- The different spaces in cross border payments
- How to get the messages overview?
- SWIFT MX Messages for Customer transfers
- SWIFT MX Messages for Financial Institution transfers
- MT and MX ISO 20022 have different vocabularies
- SWIFT MX message names
- Structure and meaning of SWIFT MX message names
- SWIFT MX Message Definition Reports and Schemas
- SWIFT MX Message structure
- Difference between ISO 20022 and SWIFTNet MX messages
- MX Messages in the Customer-to-bank space
- SWIFT MX Messages for Customer transfers
- MX Messages in the Bank-to-correspondent space
- SWIFT MX Messages for Financial Institution transfers
- Assessment Quiz
- Basic MT103 Transfer with Direct Account Relationship
- MT103 Transfer with optional fields 53B, 70 and 71G // Pacs.008
- MT103 Transfer with fields 52a, 57a // Pacs.008
- Message 1 from Bank to correspondent
- Message 2 from correspondent to Creditor Agent
- Transfer with Currency conversion
- MT103 from bank to correspondent // Pacs.008
- MT950 from correspondent to Bank // Camt.053
- MT202 FI Transfer // Pacs.009
- Message 1 from FI debtor to correspondent
- Message 2 from correspondent to Creditor Agent
- Assessment Quiz
- Serial and Cover Methods – Introduction
- Customer Credit Transfer – Cover Method
- Customer Credit Transfer – Serial Method
- Cover method analysis (MT and MX messages)
- Customer instruction: MT101 // Pain.001
- MT 103 // Pacs.008 Announcement
- First MT202 COV // MX Pacs.009
- Second MT202 COV // MX Pacs.009
- MT910 // Camt.054 Credit Notification
- Serial method analysis (MT and MX messages)
- First MT103 // MX Pacs.008
- Second MT103 // MX Pacs.008
- Third MT103 // MX Pacs.008
- Assessment Quiz
- SWIFT MT Messages structure
- SWIFT MT Message overview
- Structure of a SWIFT MT Message
- SWIFT MT Message structure example
- SWIFT MT 101 Text block structure
- SWIFT MT 104 Text block structure
- SWIFT MT 103 Text block structure
- SWIFT MT 102 Text block structure
- SWIFT MT 202 Text block structure
- SWIFT MT 202 COV Text block structure
- SWIFT MT 204 Text block structure
- SWIFT MX Messages structure
- SWIFT MX Messages overview
- Syntax and semantics in the standard ISO 20022
- MX pain.001.001.11 message structure
- MX pain.008.001.09 message structure
- MX pain.002.001.11 message structure
- MX pain.007.001.11 message structure
- MX camt.053.001.02 message structure
- MX pacs.008.001.10 message structure
- MX pacs.009.001.10 message structure
- MX pacs.010.001.05 message structure
- MX pacs.004.001.11 message structure
- MX pacs.007.001.11 message structure
- Assessment Quiz
- Overall over 160+ quiz questions and answers in the course
- Each module ends with an evaluation quiz of 10+ questions
- At the end of the course, you can take a 40-question assessment and earn a certificate
Course 2 : Master Cross-Border Payments (11 Modules)
- Prerequisites for exchanging messages on SWIFTNet
- SWIFTNet Identifiers
- Steps to get SWIFT Identifiers and become a SWIFTNet user
- Connectivity to SWIFTNet
- Cloud-based solutions
- Alliance Kits
- Alliance connect packages
- SWIFTNet Link: the connectivity software
- Alliance connect implementation process
- Security on SWIFTNet
- SWIFT Public Key Infrastructure
- Certificates distribution
- Security on SWIFTNet
- Certificates and the HSMs
- Functions performed by the SNL and by the institution
- Protocols and services on SWIFTNet
- Subscription and access rights
- The Closed User Groups (CUG)
- The Relationship Management Application (RMA)
- Recap – actions before message exchange
- SWIFTNet transactional modes
- Typical architecture for a direct connection to SWIFT
- Assessment Quiz
- SWIFT MT 101 Text block structure
- MX pain.001.001.11 message structure
- How corporations use the MT101 / MX Pain.001
- MT101/MX Pain.001 with two domestic transactions
- MT101/MX Pain.001 usage to pay from multiple debit accounts
- MT101/MX Pain.001 usage to pay from a subsidiary account
- MT101/MX Pain.001 usage by parent company to pay on behalf of subsidiaries
- MT101/MX Pain.001 usage for funds repatriation
- Assessment Quiz
- Model where Bank 1 and Bank 2 have different correspondents and their subsidiaries are involved
- Customer credit transfer where six banks are involved (Method 1 with a third reimbursement institution)
- The announcement: MT103 / MX Pacs.008
- The MT202COV / MX Pacs.009 to the sender’s correspondent
- The MT205COV / MX Pacs.009 in the USD zone
- The second MT202COV / MX Pacs.009
- Customer credit transfer where six banks are involved (Method 2 using an Account with Institution)
- The announcement: MT103 / MX Pacs.008
- The MT202COV / MX Pacs.009 to the sender’s correspondent
- The MT205COV / MX Pacs.009 in the USD Zone
- The MT910 / MX Camt.054 to the Receiver’s Main office
- Customer credit transfer where six banks are involved (Can a MT 103 serial be used ?)
- First MT103 / MX Pacs.008 with the serial method
- MT103 Core and MT 103 STP
- MT103 Core and MT 103 REMIT
- Assessment Quiz
- Financial Institution Credit Transfer with MT200 / MX Pacs.009
- Financial Institution Credit Transfer with cover method
- The MT202 / Pacs.009 announcement
- The first MT202 COV / Pacs.009
- The second MT202 COV / Pacs.009
- The third MT202 COV / Pacs.009
- The MT910 / MX Camt.054
- The MT 204 / Pacs.010 Financial Institution Direct Debit
- Assessment Quiz
- Original transactions and related transactions (R-transactions)
- The main related transactions
- Example of MT103 Reject
- Example of MT103 Return
- Cancellation request in the Cover method
- Cancellation request from Customer (MT192 / MX Camt.055)
- Cancellation request MT192 / MX Camt.056 on announcement
- Response to Cancellation request MT196 / Camt.029 (Pending)
- Response to Cancellation request MT196 / Camt.029 (Cancelled)
- Cancellation request MT292 on MT202COV / MX Camt.056 on MX Pacs.009
- First MT 202 COV Return / MX Pacs.004 Return after accepting a cancellation request
- Cancellation Request Process in the MX ISO 20022
- Payment Reversal
- Customer Payment Reversal through domestic CSM
- SWIFT GPI tracker and Universal payment confirmations (MT 199)
- Assessment Quiz
- Standing settlement instructions
- Getting SSI data: the two main options
- FULL and DELTA versions of SWIFTRef Directories
- How SSIs are used during payment processing
- Algorithm to determine the settlement path
- Many parties can be provided in the SSI
- How to send currency to a small Creditor Bank?
- Updated algorithm to determine the settlement path
- Assessment Quiz
- FX Markets are used by banks and their customers
- BID price and ASK price for banks and customers
- Foreign eXchange – Example of a currency quote
- Foreign eXchange – Currency tenor
- Foreign eXchange – The Float
- FX main process steps
- 1. Find out if a FX conversion is required
- 2. Determine the rate type
- 3. Determine the rate
- 4. Apply the rate
- Assessment Quiz
- The charge options
- MT103 Serial with charge option BEN
- MT103 Serial with charge option SHA
- MT103 Transfer with charge option OUR prepaid
- MT103 Serial with charge option OUR non-prepaid
- MT202 charge model
- MT202: collection of charges
- Usage of MTn90 (Advice of Charges)
- Usage of MT191 (Request of Charges)
- Query and Answer related to the MT191
- Usage of MT191 with Account with Institution
- Assessment Quiz
- Payment processing value chain (from bank’s perspective)
- Payment processing value chain – Inside the bank
- Payment channels
- Third Party Providers channels
- File Transfer channels
- The Worldwide host-to-host channel
- File Transfer channels and the communication protocols
- Security in file transfer channels – the main challenges
- Security is achieved through the use of cryptography techniques
- Asymmetric encryption mechanisms use pairs of keys
- Asymmetric encryption mechanisms – how it works
- Asymmetric mechanisms – combination of hash functions and keys
- Asymmetric mechanisms – the reality (is a bit more complex)
- Digital Certificate or public key certificate
- Summary of encryption mechanisms
- SWIFT Personal token and End entity certificates
- SWIFT Secure Signature Key or 3SKey
- Assessment Quiz
- Payment processing value chain (from bank’s perspective)
- Payment processing value chain – Inside the bank
- Payment order management – Introduction and generality
- Payment order management for Cross-border payments
- Single-beneficiary and Multi-beneficiary payment orders
- POM Payment processing steps
- POM functions and services
- Payment parsing and validation
- IBAN/BBAN account validation
- IBAN/BBAN Account verification
- NAR validation and enrichment
- Dates and the related controls
- Dates – Processing time, Calendar and Business days
- Dates – Open Business days
- Duplicate checks
- POM functions and services
- Processing agreements
- Service Debit/Credit Notification
- Service FX Margin
- Service Account substitution
- Service Late modification
- Service Value date
- Service Authorization to debit account
- Service Specific charges Account
- Charge option validation & application
- Specific country or regional validations
- Settlement path determination
- Pending order management
- FX conversion
- Balance check
- Routing and issuing
- Processing agreements
- Assessment Quiz
- Payment processing value chain (from bank’s perspective)
- Payment processing value chain – Inside the bank
- Payment Exchange Platform (PEP)
- Payment exchange platform – A focal point
- PEP functions and services
- Sanctions screening
- PEP and Routing directories
- XCT Validation, Routing and SSI Directories
- Participation directories versions
- Payment Exchange Platform – Bulking and Debulking
- Assessment Quiz
- Overall over 100+ quiz questions and answers in the course
- Each module ends with an evaluation quiz of 10+ questions
At the end of the course, you can take a 40-question assessment and earn a certificate
Course 3 : Secrets for your Cross-Border Payment Projects (11 modules)
- Correspondent banking – unilateral account relationship
- Correspondent banking – bilateral account relationship
- Correspondent banking – Loro accounts
- Recap: Shadow and mirror accounts
- Illustration with an account relationship between bank and its correspondent
- Real and Mirror accounts in end-to-end the processing of cross-border transfers
- Why mirror accounts are needed
- Reconciliation of real and mirror accounts
- Example of reconciliation with single booking between a bank and its correspondent
- Example of reconciliation with batch booking between a bank and its correspondent
- Challenge of Nostro account management
- Nostro account management: the solutions
- Introduction to Booking
- The double entry bookkeeping principle
and accounting events - Examples of accounting events to illustrate the double entry principle
- Different types of bank accounts
- Customer Credit Transfer – Serial Method
- The Customer instruction MT 101 / Pain.001
- Rate and accounting events to debit an account in currency
- Debtor bank credit transfer – pain.001/MT101 and pacs.008/MT103 booking
- Correspondent of Debtor bank – Pacs.008 / MT 103 booking
- Correspondent of Creditor bank – Pacs.008 / MT103 booking
- Debtor bank MT103 return / pacs.004 booking (1/2)
- Customer Credit Transfer – Serial Method
- Debtor bank MT103 return/pacs.004 booking (2/2)
- Incoming customer credit transfer in currency
- Rate and accounting events to credit a beneficiary account
- Creditor bank pacs.008 / MT103 credit transfer booking (1/2)
- Creditor bank pacs.008 / MT103 credit transfer booking (2/2)
- Creditor bank pacs.004 / MT103 Return booking
- Creditor bank pacs.004 / MT103 Return from a customer account
- Customer Credit Transfer – Cover Method
- Creditor bank pacs.008 / MT103 (announcement) booking
- Assessment Quiz
- Purposes of Account balance management
- Challenge 1 of account balance management
- Challenge 2 of account balance management
- Customer account balance management : the ideal and the reality for banks
- Balance Management System (BMS)
- Intraday balance and account balance
- Challenge 1 with a BMS system
- Challenge 2 with a BMS system
- Purposes of Nostro account balance management
- Structures of Nostro accounts
- Challenge of Nostro account management
- Nostro account management: the solutions
- Results of the Proof of Concept for SWIFT gpi Nostro DLT
- Assessment Quiz
- Introduction to payment engines
- Payment engines interact with many systems in the bank
- Payment engines and Payment Services Hubs
- Payment engines and the payment processing value chain
- Finding the Payment engines in your projects
- Example 1 of payment engines application architecture
- Example 2 of payment engines application architecture
- Example 3 of payment engines application architecture
- Example 4 of payment engines application architecture
- Options for Payment engines Implementation
- Main actors of PE implementation projects
- Few payment engines for the processing of Cross-Border Payments
- Assessment Quiz
- Payment engines interact with many systems in the bank
- Interfaces
- Interfaces play a crucial role in payment processing
- Synchronous messaging (or communication)
- Asynchronous messaging (or communication)
- 2-way asynchronous communication
- Challenges of asynchronous communication
- Batch Mode
- Transactional Mode
- Surrounding systems of a payment engine (POM)
- Authentication & rights
- Channels
- CSM and SWIFT Directories
- Customer Referentials
- Fraud detection
- Foreign Exchange Systems
- Surrounding systems of a payment engine (POM)
- Accounting systems
- Audit log or Audit Trail
- Pricing & Billing
- Archiving
- Reporting
- Data warehouse & Statistics
- Monitoring
- The Scheduler
- Investigations
- Surrounding systems of a payment engine (PEP)
- Screening
- Intrabank and Interbank Networks
- Assessment Quiz
- Introduction to Graphical User Interfaces
- Navigation menu on the left of the page
- Navigation menu on top of the page
- Payment instruments and the GUI
- Payment engines GUI – Naming and organizing the menu items
- Payment capture – Key principles
- Cross-border payments capture – Best practices
- Payment information displayed on the GUI
- Examples of pain.001 and pacs.008
- Original transactions and related transactions (R-transactions)
- Original transactions and R-transactions on the GUI
- Reconciliation of R-transactions
- Linking original and r-transactions on the GUI
- The 3270 terminal screens
- Assessment Quiz
- User actions – introduction
- User rights, user roles and users – the overview
- User rights and user roles
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and User roles
- Illustration of user role and RBAC on menu items
- The search and search criteria
- Generic search steps
- Tips and suggestions about search screens
- The worklist items (WLI)
- The worklist items should be pushed
- The worklist items (WLI) should be exhaustive
- Prioritization of worklist items
- Messages on the worklist items
- Messages on the worklist items – Clarity, training and documentation
- Audit log or audit trail – Logging of actions
- Settings and parameters
- Assessment Quiz
- Introduction to State machine diagrams
- Examples of State machine diagrams
- The light bulb
- The door
- The entities of a payment message
- Process flows of the payment entities
- Message – State machine diagram
- Order – State machine diagram
- Transaction – State machine diagram
- State diagrams and booking
- Assessment Quiz
- Debit and credit legs for credit transfers
- The options for transaction validations
- Process/functions and exceptions
- Debit and credit legs for Customer Credit Transfers
- Debit leg processing – MX Pain.001/MT101 Customer Credit Transfer Instruction flow
- Credit leg processing – MX Pain.001/MT101 Customer Credit Transfer On-Us Transaction flow
- Credit leg processing – MX Pain.001/MT101 Customer Credit Transfer Not on-Us Transaction flow
- Debit and credit legs for FI to FI credit transfers
- Debit leg processing – MX Pacs.008/MT103 FI to FI Credit Transfer Instruction flow
- Credit leg processing – MX Pacs.008/MT103 FI to FI Credit Transfer On-Us Transaction flow
- Credit leg processing – MX Pacs.008/MT103 FI to FI Credit Transfer Not on-Us Transaction flow
- Debit and credit legs for Customer Direct Debits
- Credit leg processing – MX Pain.008/MT104 Customer Credit Transfer Instruction flow
- Debit leg processing – MX Pain.008/MT104 Customer Credit Transfer On-Us Transaction flow
- Debit leg processing – MX Pain.008/MT104 Customer Credit Transfer Not on-Us Transaction flow
- Debit and credit legs for FI to FI Direct debits
- Credit leg processing – MX Pacs.003/MT104 FI to FI Direct Debit Instruction flow
- Debit leg processing – MX Pacs.003/MT104 FI to FI Direct Debit On-Us Transaction flow
- Debit leg processing – MX Pacs.003/MT104 FI to FI Direct Debit Not on-Us Transaction flow
- Assessment Quiz
- Understanding what your XCT project is about
- Cross-border payment messages and your project
- Message categories in cross border payments
- The main spaces in cross border payments
- Bank roles in Cross border payments
- Bank role-based analysis method
- SWIFT MT Messages for Customer transfers
- Messages in the customer-to-bank space
- The Originator bank interbank messages
- The originator bank’s correspondent messages
- The receiving bank’s correspondent messages
- The receiving bank messages
- SWIFT MT Messages for Financial Institution transfers
- The ordering institution messages
- SWIFT MX Messages for Customer transfers
- SWIFT MX Messages for Financial Institution transfers
- Payment processes – few key concepts
- Typical processes in scope of an XCT project
- The processes in your XCT project
- The applications in scope of your project
- The geographical scope
- Internal and external customers
- Assessment Quiz
- Why the architectural approach
- The challenges
- The objectives
- The Architectural approach – What is it?
- How the architectural plans relate to each other
- The process architecture
- The functional architecture
- The functional architecture with sub-functional blocks
- Functional architecture – a payment exchange platform
- The Application architecture
- Application architecture – data flows
- Application architecture – Integration tools
- The technical architecture
- Technical architecture – Load balancing and high availability
- Assessment Quiz
- Overall over 100+ quiz questions and answers in the course
- Each module ends with an evaluation quiz of 10+ questions
At the end of the course, you can take a 40-question assessment and earn a certificate
"I am passionate about payments and their history. I have more than 16 years of experience in the field, acquired by working on more than twenty projects in France and abroad. Blogger and author, I have written an acclaimed book on the SEPA credit transfer. It currently has a 4.8 out of 5 rating on amazon, and I recently join the Payments academy in London as Instructor."
Jean Paul MEGUE
Instructor
Who can take this course?
Payments professionals (Business Analyst, Consultant, Project Manager, Architect, Quality Engineer) beginners or experienced who want to master the basics of payments and payments systems
What are the prerequisites?
Before taking this course, the participant should take the course payments fundamentals