Benelux forum 2014 - Alliance Lifeline & Sanctions Screening

Introducing Alliance Lifeline Stay connected to SWIFT no matter what happens

BNL forum March 2014

Michel Desmet – Technical sales expert

Introducing Alliance Lifeline

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Alliance Lifeline keeps you

connected to SWIFT no

matter what happens

Alliance Lifeline – Highlights


Always ready, activated on demand

All SWIFT message types and standards

Peace of mind with SWIFT’s world-class

security, reliability, service and support

Manual and automated operations

Cost-effective cold standby solution

Alliance Lifeline – Light footprint


1

2

3

Standard broadband Internet connection *Option to connect using VPN

Standard Internet Explorer browser

Standard Windows PC / laptop

4 SWIFT security tokens (USB)

What is Alliance Lifeline?

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Internet Optional:

Alliance Connect

Alliance Lifeline

HSM Interface

MV-SIPN

Connect to SWIFT via

Alliance Lifeline

Browsers

@

AutoClient

Primary / backup / DR infrastructure

at customer site

Alliance Lifeline

light ‘footprint’

at customer site

Application

When your main SWIFT

connection becomes

unavailable

Alliance Lifeline – Key features


Cost-effective ‘cold standby’ connection to SWIFT (based on Alliance Lite2)

Secure Internet connection from any location; option to connect over SWIFT VPN

Global 24/7/365 connection activation on request – GUI always available

Easy-to-use browser-based screens; light footprint

Deployed from SWIFT Operating Centre for maximum availability and resilience

Basic message reconciliation – copy of messages exchanged over Lifeline during

outage, report of last sent messages before outage available upon request

Alliance Lifeline could be right for you if …

• Inability to exchange SWIFT messages for a long period of time

could have severe financial or reputational consequences for your

business

• Inability to send SWIFT messages at the wrong moment (e.g. just

before a cut-off) could have severe consequences

• It takes a time to start up your normal disaster site, and you need

to increase your protection against short outages

• You operate multiple BICs for remote locations (head office) and

you want additional protection in case the connection between the

remote location and the head-office is down

• You need an alternative connection in order to comply with

regulatory requirements

• You like the flexibility of having a subscription-based emergency

connection without the need for additional upfront investment


Two Lifeline flavours

• Standard

– FIN only (& Browse & RMA)

– No support for InterAct or FileAct

– Dormant, customer must request activation to SWIFT to

login/select FIN LT max. 1.5 hours to activate

• This also activates the customer’s ability to initiate a Browse session, and

activates his ability to send & receive RMA messages over Lifeline

• Premium

– Support for all services (FIN, Browse, RMA, InterAct, FileAct)

– Always ready to send zero wait time to activate sending – FIN : dedicated LT always logged in & selected for ‘input’ (for sending)

– InterAct/FileAct : emission profiles always enabled for sending

– Browse : customer operator can always use Lite2 GUI to open Browse session

– Dormant reception, customer must request activation of

reception to SWIFT max. 1.5 hour to activate reception

– Multiple activation scenarios can be pre-defined


Alliance Lifeline – Free use of GUI

• The Alliance Lifeline user interface (Lite2 browser-based screens) is

always available, no need to request activation, no daily usage fee

applies to use the GUI (for Standard and Premium)

• Which means the following activities are always possible, and are

not charged :

– Enter templates

– Import/export RMA records

– Enter messages

• Note: if messages remain in an uncompleted state (e.g. draft, ready-to-send …)

for more than 14 days, they will be automatically aborted (completed)

– Upload or download files (over AutoClient or over the browser)

– Message searching & printing


Alliance Lifeline – Service offering


Analysis

& Design Implementation

Activation

Testing

End-to-end Project Manager

Activation /

Deactivation

Change

Management Testing

Operation & Maintenance Set-up Services

Customer Support

• Requirements assessment and

solution design

• Customisation to your specific needs

• Remote installation

• Initial RMA records import

• Activation testing

• Activation tutorial • End-to-end project management

• Activation/deactivation on request

• Message reconciliation assistance

• Activation testing (twice per year)

• Additional configuration changes*

* Additional charges will apply

Alliance Lifeline Pricing


No surprises,

all inclusive

One-time setup fee

All-inclusive annual subscription fee

Sent messages and files are charged

at standard SWIFT prices

Daily usage fee when service is activated 2 days per year free of charge to allow testing


Integrated

service offering End-to-end solution

Best-in-class SWIFT security,

reliability and

resilience

Cost-effective Insurance in case

of disaster

Light footprint Cloud-based

fallback solution

Peace of

Mind 24/7/365 activation

on request

Full-featured All SWIFT message

types, standards and

Browse services

Thank you


Sanctions Screening

Xavier Kervyn – Sanctions screening product Manager

Your institution

• Screening engine & user interface

• Centrally hosted and operated by SWIFT

• No local software installation & integration

• Real-time

• Sanctions List update service

Sanctions screening over SWIFT

Your correspondents


SWIFT Network

FINcopy

Outgoing transaction

Screening engine

Transaction

is copied

Transaction is delivered

(no hit or false positive)

Decision to deliver (no hit / false positive)

or abort transaction (true hit)

Transaction abort notification (true hit)

1

2 4

5

5

3

Service

user

Sending bank Receiving bank

Sanctions Portal

Managed by SWIFT

Service overview - as sender


Service overview - as receiver

Service

user Managed by SWIFT

SWIFT Network

FINcopy

Outgoing transaction

Transaction

is copied


as-is (no hit or false positive)

1

2

5

3

Sending bank Receiving bank

4 Instruction to deliver

transaction

5


flagged (true hit)

Screening engine Sanctions Portal


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Sanctions

Connector

Back Office

Sanctions

Screening

FIN Interface

Sanctions Screening: FIN - SAF

Back Office

SWIFT

/other network

Interface

FIN

SAF (Screening of Any Format) New

SWIFT

Payment to be screened

“Good” payment

“Rejected” payment

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Sanctions Screening -

Lifeline

What some customers say:


I would rather not send any

FIN traffic than send it

unscreened

Introduction

Normal Operation: FIN

Interface

Sanctions

Filter

Back-office

What if: Outage of SWIFT Connection only?

Outage of SWIFT Connection incl. Sanctions Filter?

Outage of Sanctions Filter only?


Screened

Outage of SWIFT Connection

(incl. sanctions filter):

Not Screened FIN

Sanctions Lifeline v1:

FIN

Sanctions

Screening

Screened Interface

Sanctions

Filter

Alliance

Lifeline

Back-office

Interface

Sanctions

Filter

Back-office Alliance

Lifeline

Normal Operation: Outage Current Lifeline

Solution:


Sanctions Lifeline v1

• Activation by emergency provisioning of Sanctions Screening

• Only linked to usage of Alliance Lifeline

Limitations:

• Activation delay

• Deactivation delay

• Activation/deactivation synchronisation

• Only for send messages

• Activation/deactivation at BIC8 level

• Only Category 1,2,4,7


Outage of SWIFT Connection

(incl. sanctions filter):



FIN

Sanctions

Screening

Screened Interface

Sanctions

Filter

Alliance

Lifeline

Back-office

FIN

Sanctions

Screening

Screened Interface

Sanctions

Filter

Alliance

Lifeline

Back-office

Sanctions

Connect.


V2 vs V1

Advantages

V2 will solve all V1’s issues

Will only screen what goes through Lifeline (as same

BIC8 can send traffic separately.)

Availability:

2015


Outage of Sanctions Filter only

Normal Operations

SAF as Lifeline:

Interface

(SAA)

Sanctions

Filter

Screened Back-office

Sanctions

Screening

Interface

(SAA)

Sanctions

Filter

Screened Back-office

FIN Sanctions

Connect.

Screened

FIN Screened


Sanctions – Release planning

2014 2015 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Sanctions Screening

“Classic” Chinese lists Mass list upload,

time-out extension

Tuning rules

Screening of any formats (SAF) v1: on Alliance Access

Sanctions Lifeline

v1

SAF as lifeline

v2

Confirmed

To be confirmed

With Alliance Lifeline:

For local filter failure:



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