SEPA Corporate Suite

migrate
to SEPA payments
and reap the benefits

Transactional services. Powering progress

The SEPA context SEPA Corporate Suite
A unified environment for payments A solution designed to lower the threshold
SEPA Key figures Aimed at creating an integrated EU payments market, the SEPA project has led to the introduction of of adopting SDD and SCT
two new payment instruments:
The Single European Payments Area (SEPA) SEPA Corporate Suite is a solution for companies and corporate banks (white labeling). It is available
encompasses more than 4500 banks, in 32 either as a service or as licensed software. It aims at minimising the impact on your information
The SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT), introduced in 2008, provides a pan-European transfer
countries, 490 million citizens, representing systems and workflows and at facilitating a smooth migration towards these new instruments.
infrastructure and reduces costs associated with cross-border transactions.
more than 95% of Euro payments in Europe
Based on a modular architecture, SEPA Corporate Suite encompasses three main services
2008: introduction of SCT The SEPA Direct Debit (SDD), launched in 2009, provides a pan-European collection infrastructure
that supports cross-border direct debits for both B2C (for consumers) and B2B (for businesses) SEPA mandate management
2009: introduction of SDD collections.
SEPA Direct Debit and SEPA Credit Transfer management
2014: migration end date for both SCT Those new instruments imply new business rules and file formats in corporate-to-bank
and SDD communications. Whereas the SCT implies few changes for companies, the SDD introduces new Online signature services
responsibilities for creditors, such as managing the mandate’s lifecycle, creating a unique mandate
reference, enriching debit instructions with mandate related data, notifying customers, or ensuring
the security of customer sensitive data.
Main functionality
Self-regulatory efforts have so far proven insufficient to drive forward concerted migration to SEPA
on both the supply and demand sides. In order to ensure that SEPA benefits are achieved rapidly and
that the duplicate costs of running both legacy and SEPA products in parallel can be eliminated, the SEPA mandate management e-SEPA
European Commission defined a binding end-date, February 2014, for both SCT and SDD – making Migration of existing mandates Online mandate completion
the migration to these instruments mandatory.
Full mandate lifecycle Online signature
Ready for e-SEPA Paper mandates flows e-mandate ready
Complementing SEPA core services, e-SEPA is the future of SEPA in the fields of e-payment and
online retailing with the use of advanced information and communication technology. For example, Digital and physical archiving General
the e-mandate will allow debtors and creditors to issue, sign, amend and cancel a mandate through
electronic means. The creditor will be able to ask the debtor’s bank to authenticate the client’s bank
Transactions Full compliance with SEPA rulebooks
account and to confirm that the payment can be initiated, completely electronically. Translation of domestic into SEPA transactions Multi-channel notifications to debtors
Meanwhile, EBA CLEARING has launched MyBank initiative, a pan-European e-transaction initiation Direct debit enrichment with mandate data Multi-language support
service, compliant with legal and regulatory requirements, to support the new e-SEPA Direct Debit
and Credit Transfer schemes. Flexible collections generation Multi-creditor, multi-country, multi-bank support
r-transactions management Real-time reporting

Credit transfers processed in SEPA format

Volume of SCT % of SCT transactions

Modular offering
transactions (Millions) over total transactions
180

160 30
Administration Notifications
140 25
Digital archiving and reporting and alerts
120
20 Paper mandates SEPA mandates
100 collection and and transactions Online payment
15
dematerialisation management
80
Multi protocol Multi channel
60 communication File format electronic signature
10
platform conversion of mandates
40
5
20

0 0
Feb July Feb July Feb July Feb July Feb July
2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012
Credit transfers processed in SEPA format have doubled over the last months
Source : http://www.ecb.europa.eu

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SEPA mandate management Ready for e-SEPA
Existing mandate Mandate lifecycle Paper mandate The e-SEPA feature enhances the role played by banks in the e-authorization process. It introduces
two new services: the Routing Service on the seller bank’s side and the Validation Service on the Electronic
migration management management debtor bank’s side. The Routing Service enables the merchant to redirect his client to his bank when signature platform
he is about to pay. Then the authentication of the client, the authorization of the transaction or the
SEPA Corporate Suite is based on a central SEPA Corporate Suite helps you manage your SEPA Corporate Suite provides a comprehensive
mandate database into which your existing mandates’ lifecycle in full compliancy with the service around paper mandates
signature of the mandate are handled by the debtor bank’s Validation Service. Reporting screens Atos Worldline’s signature platform
mandate data can be easily imported and European Payments Council’s rulebooks:
enable a real time monitoring of collections and payments, facilitating accurate treasury forecasts. encompasses:
Mass printing and sending of mandates Rejected and returned payments management is also facilitated by real time alerting dashboards.
migrated to SEPA mandates, following domestic A dedicated OTU certificate authority
migration rules. It manages BBAN to BIC and Comprehensive list of statuses to track SEPA Corporate Suite is e-SEPA ready, enabling sellers to be interfaced to their bank’s Routing
IBAN conversion and creates the unique exactly mandates position in their lifecycle Order of mandates templates (empty or Service. As a leading actor in the field of e-commerce and routing services, Atos Worldline offers this
already prefilled) A signature front service, using existing
mandate reference (UMR) based on your option as an added-value service to our online payment platform (Sips e-payment solution). certified components
customized settings. Generation of a unique mandate reference
(UMR) based on a customised algorithm, and
linked with an existing creditor reference
PDF mandate generation and sending to
debtors by email Online signature Signature key generation and certification
This migration process will be fully automated
and based on your existing customer data. Your As e-mandates will only be available in the near future, the SEPA Corporate Suite provides bridging Time stamped signature creation
Online mandate data collection Collection of signed paper mandates mechanisms to manage SEPA mandates online right away, such as online collection of debtor data
current information system does not need to
be adapted to store this new SEPA mandate- (real time and asynchronous) and mandate online signature. Proof management
Mandate amendment and cancellation Scanning and dematerialisation
related data. Additionally, SEPA Corporate Suite Atos Worldline is a Trusted Certificate Service Provider and meets the highest level of certification Archiving service
provides you with tools to help you issue B2B Debtor bank reachability management Paper archiving requirements in Europe through its Public Key Infrastructure.
mandates based on your existing mandates.
Mandates voiding after 36 months SEPA Corporate Suite offers several online signature solutions for SEPA mandates, depending on
SEPA Corporate Suite can also manage the your business and processes. The most appropriate solution for you will be based on a balanced
notification process to your customers by mail, Secure electronic archiving of scanned assessment of risk, payment guarantee and ergonomics for your customers. Neither existing
e-mail or SMS. mandate images and immediate access customers nor new clients need to print the mandate, sign it and send it back to you. Mandate
through the user interface creation, amendment and cancellation processes become fully electronic, bringing you convenience
and significant costs savings.
Requests for copies of mandates
Authentication
Detailed audit trail of all mandate changes
Visualization of
Signature the document
SEPA Corporate Suite also comes with request
special features to handle specific needs, Merchant Signature Signature
such as a merger between creditors, mandate service
renumbering, etc. Signature or Proof constitu-
signed document tion / reporting
Document
archiving

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Transactions Your SEPA project
management and routing A solution tailored
to your needs
Benefits
SEPA Corporate Suite
SEPA Corporate Suite lessens the burden of adapting your current IT and Thanks to its modular architecture, SEPA SEPA Corporate Suite gives access to SEPA benefits
workflows to the new SEPA payment instruments, imports your current Corporate Suite is easily interfaced with instruments in 32 SEPA countries using existing
payment files and translates them into SEPA payment files that your banks File formats managed your existing information systems (ERP, domestic workflows and formats. Using a
Easy adoption of SEPA
will accept. SEPA Corporate Suite can accept your treasury management, electronic document transactional solution such as SEPA Corporate instruments
existing transactional formats and convert management system, multi -channel notifications Suite avoids implementing a new payment
Reduced impact on your IT systems and
Management of both Direct Debits and Credit Routing of PAIN files to you or to your banks them into SEPA PAIN format: solution, bank communication platform, etc.) scheme in your existing workflows and tools, business processes
Transfers using SWIFT, EBICS or proprietary protocols based on open files formats. minimizes your up-front investment and reduces
Domestic file formats operational risks. Effortless migration of existing mandates
Belgium The solution comes with a user friendly web-
Control and validation of payment flows Management of R-transactions based on based interface, but is also fully accessible Atos Worldline removes all the complexity of Re-use of existing domestic collection
PAIN.002 / CAMT.054 received files France through file transfers and web services for large migrating your existing mandate database and formats
Translation into SEPA transactions Germany volumes of transactions or improved integration . initiating SEPA transactions with your banks.
Conversion of r-transactions into domestic It thus enables you to manage your full SEPA Atos Wordline facilitates a smooth and Short time-to-market
Enrichment of SDD payment requests with return file formats Italy activity from a single, centralized platform. progressive migration towards XML payments.
mandate related data Netherlands Online signature and e-SEPA features will facilitate Security
Reception and management of CAI (change SEPA Corporate Suite is multi-country, multi-
online contracting and the development of new
Scheduler-based generation of payments account information) files Spain bank and multi-entity. It also offers powerful Sensitive bank account data stored at
payment usages.
configuration options to adapt its workflows, data centers with the highest security
International file formats control and validation rules and best match your Thanks to this, you can focus on streamlining certifications
Flexible grouping of transactions into Generation of event reports for your
collections accountancy and treasury systems SAP organization and needs. your collection systems, grow your international
EDIFACT business and reap SEPA benefits more quickly. High-availability and redundant platforms
SEPA Corporate Suite also comes with a flexible
Configurable validation steps at transaction Notification to your clients, using a large pricing model. It can be delivered in a Solution as
and collection levels choice of communication channels (SMS, Oracle
a Service (SaaS) mode, or as a licensed software,
Return
mail, etc) with a guaranteed reversibility between both
Generation of PAIN files Additional file formats are added regularly. Minimum up-front investment
modes.
Pay per use

Economies of scale due to centralization of

SEPA transactions Payment requests Push e-mail operations
Service de Editique
SEPA Corporate Suite
notifications
BANK r-transactions Cancellations and reversals
Push SMS
Company

SEPA transactions
Banks Web services GUI Web Gestion des Signature
mandats et électronique
r-transactions transactions
Fichiers Référentiel

Paper mandates Mandates creation / updates

Routage
Mandates copies Communication des Archivage
Pre-notifications bancaire e-mandats sécurisé

Migration notifications Secured Web GUI Web services

Debtors
Banque Validation
Créditeur service Plateforme
de déma-
térialisation

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About Atos
Atos is an international information technology services company with
annual 2011 pro forma revenue of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees
in 48 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers hi-tech transactional
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About Atos Worldline

Atos Worldline brings together Atos core expertise in Hi-Tech Transactional
Services (HTTS) with 40 years of experience and recognized know-how in
the payment industry. A leader in end-to-end services for critical electronic
transactions, Atos Worldline is specialised in electronic payment services
(including issuing, acquiring, terminals, and card and non-card payment
solutions & processing), eServices for customers, citizens and communities
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