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CGI Trade360 Solution Provides Banks Greater Efficiencies

CGI Trade360 Global Trade Platform is delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) in a secure community cloud, providing banks with enabling technology for end-to-end trade and supply chain solutions, to reduce costs, enhance customer service, and meet bank customers changing needs.

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WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY

Global Financial Institutions Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) and Bank of Montreal (BMO) are realizing benefits with Trade360. At ANZ, the Trade360 platform has been essential in helping us enhance our customer service and operational efficiency, comments the Head of Trade Product Management at ANZ. We have offices not only in Australia and New Zealand but also in Europe, North America and 24 Asia Pacific countries, all running on a single global platform, Trade360, and each with its own special requirements. This is an extremely powerful and critical tool for running a global trade business. BMO Financial Group and Harris have processed all of our trade finance transactions over the Trade360 platform, adds Sara Joyce, Executive Managing Director and Head of International Financial Institutions and Trade Finance for the Bank of Montreal Financial Group. By working cooperatively with CGI and the Trade360 client banks, we are able to leverage our combined knowledge and experience, share development costs and spread risks associated with technology development. Trade360 gives banks the flexibility to adopt the trade processing strategies most appropriate to their needs.

BENEFITS OF THE TRADE360 GLOBAL TRADE PLATFORM

One of the core challenges within the trade services market today, especially in larger banking institutions with a global presence, is the inefficiency associated with older, non-integrated technology. It is not uncommon for a global bank to be operating multiple trade finance systems and versions from different vendors throughout their organizations, making it nearly impossible to run trade as one business across the bank. Worse yet, the technology in place does not easily or inexpensively address the next generation of trade banking solutions increasingly required by customers. While the desire for an end-to-end bank-wide trade platform often exists, the upfront costs associated with achieving this goal have been prohibitive. The CGI Trade360 Global Trade Platform was built to address these challenges. Instead of a myriad of systems being operated and supported throughout an organization, Trade360 provides a single, global, SaaS application with fully integrated components for customer front-end, front-office, middle-office, and back-office support. Because Trade360 operates in a SaaS environment with shared costs across multiple customers, client banks employ this technology at a lower cost and much lower risk in comparison to a bank having to implement and support these services internally.

The Portal for a Banks Customers

Bank customers connect to Trade360 through the Portala secure, intuitive web-based application that provides transaction management, messaging, and reporting capabilities. Some of the key services and related benefits of the Portal include:

Tight functional integration with the Trade360 back-office Trade Processing System,
producing a high degree of Straight Through Processing (STP)

Efficient initiation of trade transactions with minimal errors by copying from existing
instruments or templates

Advanced inquiry and search capabilities for all historical transaction data Automatic LC creation from purchase order uploads, invoices (2012) and cash
management bulk payment uploads

Electronic sharing of annotated imaged documents between the bank and the banks
customers (e.g., discrepant documents)

Predefined and ad-hoc reports, and the ability to download the results into spreadsheet applications

Multi-lingual support and dynamic branding (by using different colors, logos, and
fonts) with either the electronic identity of the customer bank, or that of an insourced bank

Comprehensive and rigid security measures including Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
certificates and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) data encryption

Customer servicing features that allow the bank to view all customer transaction
activity to help resolve support questions quickly

Services added to the Trade Portal on a regular basis as the new solutions are
synchronously introduced across the entire Trade360 platform to meet emerging market demands

The Banks Transaction Processing System

Transactions completed in the Trade Portal or images scanned in by a banks service centers are automatically sent to the banks processing center(s), where they are processed by bank staff using the Trade360 Trade Processing System, built specifically to handle global trade processing. Some of the key services and related benefits of the Trade360 Trade Processing System include:

 Trade360s imaging and workflow technology, which is fully embedded into the trade processing system, provides the ability
for a bank to deploy its front-office (Customer Service Centers) where needed and consolidate its back-office operations to location that provide cost and operating advantages to the bank. The ability to scale operations across the bank alone can produce significant efficiencies and cost reductions, moving operations to low cost locations adds even greater cost savings to these efficiency gains

Handles the consolidated global trade business for even the largest of trade banks, supporting multi-bank, multi-currency,
and multi-lingual processing

Offers extensive built-in functionality to specifically handle insourcing, where work can be processed in an efficient factorybased manner for all insourced bank transactions

Operates on a 24x7 basis allowing banking organizations to process work around the clock without bringing down the system
to run batch activities

Provides a comprehensive multi-lingual document or forms generation facility using MS Word that supports all trade-related
SWIFT formats and over 100 mail formats

Allows fully integrated compliance checking for denied party screening (e.g., OFAC) Provides a fully integrated web-based MIS environment with over 100 base-line reports and the ability to generate and store
ad-hoc reports

The Trade360 Global Trade Platform

Sample Functionality
Commercial LCs with PO processing Standby LCs Guarantees Documentary and direct send collections Automatic LC creation from purchase orders (Trade Portal) Payment and loan requests Negotiations of unadvised export LCs

Documentary and trade acceptance financing

Shipping guarantees and airway releases Advance financing Participations and syndications Reimbursement authorizations Bankers acceptances Letter of indemnity Deferred payments Denied party screening

Open account and supply chain finance

Bank Assisted Open Account Open account payments Receivables financing Approved payables financing PO and Invoice Matching Export Financing Receivables management Cash Mangement

Sample Interfaces
Accounting SWIFT/Telex/Fax MIS feeds Banks existing front end Customer uploads Real-time Limits FedWire

Connecting the Bank to Trade360

To connect the banks to the Trade360 platform is the highly scalable Trade360 middleware, which enables the communication between the Trade360 data centers and the banks internal systems. Standardized messages created using Extensible Markup Language (XML) are transported to Trade360s customers via WebSphere MQ, which maintains a complete audit trail and message confirmations for all interfaces, and assures once-only message delivery.

CORPORATE PROFILE
At CGI, were in the business of satisfying clients. For 35 years, weve operated upon the principles of sharing in our clients challenges and delivering quality services to address them. As a leading IT and business process services provider, CGI has approximately 31,000 professionals operating in 125+ offices worldwide, giving us the competitive advantage of close proximity to our clients. Through these offices, CGI offers local partnerships and a balanced blend of global delivery options including onshore, nearshore and offshore expertiseto provide clients with the combination of value and expertise they require. CGI defines success by exceeding expectations and helping clients achieve superior performance. Website: www.cgi.com

Secure Data Center Operations and Related Services

A fully managed environment in secure, geographically dispersed data centers delivers the platform. The infrastructure and services provided include: High-performance, redundant connections are available to all the major Internet back-bone providers All equipment is provided and serviced by top-tier solution providers, such as Sun, Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, and EMC The entire network and data center operations are monitored 24x7 by expert staff to quickly identify system faults and attempted security breaches From a security perspective, the systems technical architecture features multiple firewalls that filter all unauthorized incoming, external traffic. Each communication link to the bank is secured via VPN technology, encrypting all data From a technology operations perspective, the Trade360 offering has many services, that would otherwise be an expense for the bank to provide for itself The services include: 24x7 technical support help desk 24x7 technical operations and data center engineering support 24x7 application, infrastructure, and security monitoring Application support, including defect resolution Four scheduled software releases a year with new functionality Dedicated customer testing and marketing environments Service level agreements for system availability, incident turnaround, and other key areas Yearly third-party SAS70 certification and disaster recovery testing

CGI AND THE TRADE360 SERVICE OFFERING

With more than three decades of technology know-how and over 27 years of trade finance industry experience, CGI is uniquely positioned to help banks address their global trade services processing needs. We combine trade services knowledge with industry-leading transaction processing and customer self-service software through our Trade360 service offering. CGI allows banks to buy trade services technology as a service, reducing the overall cost of ownership and positioning the bank to stay current and competitive in the market. For more information, send an email to banking.solutions@cgi.com.

August 2011 CGI GROUP INC.

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