Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services

Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services is the solution that enables banks, broker-dealers, investment managers, and market infrastructures in payments, securities, treasury and trade to optimize financial sector process integration—both internally and with external enterprises and communities—for secure end-to-end management of financial data exchange.

This product leverages components of Sterling B2B Integrator to enable file transfer and translation capabilities using financial-industry transport types and messaging formats. Enhanced reporting and notification tools provide improved insight into business processes, furthering your goal to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Available components include pre-built support for financial standards and protocols, services, adapters, code lists, pre-loaded DTDs and schemas in the Map Editor, and tools such as Reporting Services and the SWIFT Editor.

With Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services, you can integrate existing systems with a gateway solution offering visibility and simplified error/exceptions management, including routing of files and messages into legacy systems. This complete and streamlined automation of processes can help you reduce costs, increase revenue, and improve customer satisfaction while leveraging Sterling B2B Integrator security features to provide secure, non-repudiated exchange of B2B information.

Depending on your needs, Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services can be a simple file transfer solution for financial documents, a translation engine supporting financial standards and those of your back office systems, or a complex full gateway solution involving all types of file transfer, intelligent routing, translation, and transmission activities. Your solution can be configured to be fully convertible between payments networks, platform agnostic, and deployed behind the corporate firewall. If needed, IBM® Support can help you customize Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services to enable full payload inspection and customized visibility into documents processed. Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services is highly scalable to suit your evolving needs.

Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services makes process continuity of business finance part of your organization's integrated value chain, shared by the business partners and financial institutions that make up your B2B communities. The following diagram illustrates this concept:

In a full Sterling B2B Integrator for Financial Services gateway scenario, the financial value chain is linked as illustrated in the previous example with the physical supply chain for the most seamless, efficient cycle possible. When your have optimized the financial value chain with suppliers, vendors and service providers, keeping pace with market demands and government regulations is simpler to manage