Financial Messaging

Stelink highlights

Stelink is a high performance financial messaging solution.
Stelink helps to streamline the flows between business applications and network gateways. It provides an open service-oriented architecture where three main functions can be proposed according to the customer needs: middleware, message entry and network connectivity.

The Middleware EAI function includes multiple back-end connectors to business applications for payments and securities. STELINK middleware delivers added value services such as advanced business rules, routing, complex mapping, XML formatting, business intelligence, long term archiving, AML filtering, bulking and enrichment.

The Network connectivity function is natively designed to support multiple networks (SWIFT, SEPA, FIX, SIC, SECOM, SARIE, Fax, e-mail), STELINK provides a “single window access” to all of the SWIFTNet services (FIN, RMA, FileAct, InterAct).

The Message Entry and all user functions are available with a browser based GUI providing user-friendly message entry/verification (all MT; MX), templates creation, routing, printing, RMA, supervision and monitoring on the intranet. This “thin client” technology substantially eases the deployment of STELINK.

Built on a service oriented backbone and a relational database, STELINK provides comprehensive message tracking and supervision of messages, audit trail, management of status, refined granularity of access rights together with a high availability.

Highly flexible and scalable, STELINK can fit with the Service Bureau architectures, small to medium banks infrastructures, and Tier 1 institutions with the very tight requirements of more than 100’000 messages per hour.

Stelink added-value features
     • Stelink is unique  as it supports  both middleware  functions together with user  functions for  message entry  and repair         through a Thin Client.
     • Stelink  was designed  from the outset for multi-bank operation, facilitating its  implementation in a service bureau or as         a corporate SWIFTNet hub.
     • Stelink  provides  single  window  access  to  the  full  range  of  SWIFTNet  services (FIN, InterAct, FileAct, RMA)  either         directly via SNL or through the SAG.
     • Stelink-FileAct  supports real-time  and store & forward  modes. The use of  FileAct  envelopes  provides  full audit-trail,         search & track functions, and routing inside Stelink For bulk payments, Stelink supports the enhanced header as well as         bulking/unbulking facilities.
     • Stelink-InterAct supports real-time, query-response, store & forward modes. It provides easy implementation of  SWIFT         solutions including Exceptions & Investigations, Cash reporting, Funds.
     • Data is kept secure (with access based on ownership) to protect data privacy and comply with bank secrecy         regulations.
     • A built-in long-term archiving capability allows users to search for and access historical data with no time limits.
     • An embedded Anti-Money-Laundering filter is able to scan inbound and outbound traffic in real time.
     • The Business Intelligence facility produces comprehensive reports and statistics, enabling better control of operations.

Sterci’s complementary suite of SOA solutions for STP including Stematch for reconciliation & exception management and Steform for application integration, KEYdata for market data management.