TAS Service Bureau

Outsourced connectivity to SWIFTNet

The easiest and most cost-effective way
to connect to the Financial Networks

TAS Service Bureau is a complete, straight-through processing (STP) solution that provides a secure
single channel for interbank and corporate-to-bank connectivity. The solution delivers a unified
platform and real-time access to current and past cash positions.

Outsourcing the connectivity to TAS Group costs significantly less than managing financial networks
access in-house and ensures compliance with minimum impact to all mandatory changes introduced by
SWIFT, both the annual ones (November Change) and the strategic ones (e.g. CSP Program)

TAS Service Bureau offers an entire range of value-add services that can be activated at the customer’s
request.

Among these services the most popular are:

• SWIFTNet standard for funds, based on InterAct and ISO 20022

• SEPA Instant Payments based on AGI to reach both EBA RT1 and TIPS
• SEPA Credit Transfers (SCT) and SEPA Direct Debits (SDD)
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) filtering to prevent, detect and report illegal money laundering activities

Your Business, PSP, Financial Institution, Company ...

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Your Data ERP Your Bank Other Bureau PSP Corporate Financial
Repository Applications Back Office Institution
Systems
Certified services at a reduced cost

Outsourcing financial network connectivity to TAS Service

Bureau allows users to benefit from our highly specialized
resources, thus reducing both infrastructure and support
costs.

TAS Service Bureau is an accredited SWIFT Service

Bureau. All activities are managed on time by certified
experts and do not involve any specific training or internal
service costs for the customer. TAS Service Bureau
ensures maximum flexibility. Thanks to the integration with
TAS Network Gateway, clients can easily send and receive
SWIFT traffic via multiple integration methods (API, sFTP,
MQ, …), use additional network protocols, increase or
decrease their pre-assigned traffic band and incorporate
optional powerful business services.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (DR)

requirements are fully covered by TAS Service Bureau’s
technological infrastructure and organizational processes,
ensuring each customer’s internal auditing requirements
can be met at no additional cost. The same is also valid
for the annual security requests of the SWIFT Customer
Security Program (CSP): the 16 mandatory and 11
advisory security controls are covered by TAS Service
Bureau.

If you are a financial institution

TAS Service Bureau is ideal for any financial institution needing to access financial networks without making
any investment to internally set-up a SWIFTNet Gateway, or point-to-point connections. Outsourcing the
connectivity to TAS Service Bureau costs significantly less than managing SWIFTNet access in-house
and offers you a single point of access to multiple value-added services.

You will also benefit from our decades of experience as a major service provider of SWIFTNet
connectivity, integration projects and professional services. By connecting to TAS Service Bureau, you
can focus on your core business competencies, freeing up internal resources, cutting costs and offloading
the risks and liabilities of maintaining and managing your own connectivity infrastructure. You will rely on a
SWIFT-Certified Service Bureau with SWIFT-Certified professionals.

Services available from TAS Service Bureau include standard SWIFTNet Services – FIN, InterAct, FileAct,
AGI and Secure Browse – value-added business services for SEPA, T2, T2S, FUNDS, SCORE and all the
instruments for a soft migration from MT to ISO 20022 messages for cross-border payments following the
SWIFT CBPR+ standards, along with other SWIFT and bank-specific services.
 Your Business

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Your Data Your Bank Other Bureau PSP Corporate Financial
Repository Applications Back Office Institution
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If you are a corporate

Managing transactions and accounts via your banks’ electronic services becomes more complicated as
you work with more banks. Multiple systems, multiple logins and proprietary user interfaces are complex to
manage and often a source of issues. Switching or adding new banks for any reason is a real challenge.

For these reasons, almost 70% of corporates connect to SWIFTNet through a service bureau,
maximizing the cost-effectiveness and eliminating the need for highly specialized in-house SWIFT experts.

TAS Service Bureau gives you a unified, economic and easy interface for all your banks’ interfaces,
automating your payments and reporting. Our Service Bureau delivers the benefits of a single connection
to the SWIFT financial network without the investment necessary to support your own multiple
connections or comply with the evolving regulatory framework.

Services available from TAS Service Bureau include standard SWIFTNet Services – FIN, InterAct, FileAct,
AGI, Secure Browse – business services for SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT and SCTInst), SEPA Direct Debit
(SDD), Cross border payments (CBPR+), SCORE and account reporting along with SWIFT and corporate-
specific services.

Your Business

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TAS
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Your Data ERP Treasury Bureau PSP Corporate Financial
Repository & Other
Applications Institution
Services and Specifications
Integration Value-added services
• Network integration • Message Management: provides functions for
• Connection to all types of ERP data entry, verification, authorization, messaging
• External / Internal Routing (On-Us) for correction and management
inclusion of an external / internal application • Graphical Interface (GUI): gives users a
for process flows (treasury, STP, Anti-Money configuration tool for monitoring the system and
Laundering (AML) applications) file management
• Translation/adaptation of all message • Control Panel for verifying the outcome and
formats message status
• Mapping to/from a set of predefined messages • Database and archive storage of sent and
• FIN to XML transcoding and vice-versa received messages
• Management of multiple channels for • Account Reporting: displays account balances
simultaneous transmission and reception and lists transactions registered on various
accounts
Security • Management of SEPA Credit Transfer
Repository for storing files, messages and related (SCT, SCTInst) and SEPA Direct Debit (SDD)
events in a proven safe area messaging standard
• Management of SWIFTNet standard for funds
Flexibility including format translations
• Ability to edit business rules for the dynamic • Anti-Money Laundering (AML) filtering to
routing of files to specific back-office or network prevent, detect, and report illegal money
applications laundering activities
• Workflow Manager: configures paths for • Bulking & Unbulking: allows aggregation
messages, files or transactions, defining or disaggregation of files for verification,
standard flows, multiple paths, routing criteria, modification and matching
activating applications or external programs • Support for the SWIFT MT – ISO 20022
coexistence period for cross-border
Economic efficiency and service levels payments: the end date defined by SWIFT is
Customers can choose the most appropriate service November 2025. During the coexistence period
level for their needs. Service levels can be adapted TAS Group will provide a translation capability to
over time to meet changing business requirements enable interoperability between ISO 20022 and
without any technical impact. MT users following the standard SWIFT CBPR+
conversion rules
• Exceptions & Investigations: manages
message workflows (validations, manual
authorizations, messaging correction,
conversions and application of delivery rules)

TAS Group provides services and technological applications for cards,

payment systems and financial markets. We operate globally, delivering innovative www.tasgroup.eu
solutions to empower our customers’ business. [email protected]