The 2015 edition of the AFP SWIFT Buyer’s Guide features a series of articles that look at how today’s corporate treasurers are connecting to SWIFT. With the rise of Alliance Lite2 and Alliance Remote Gateway, many treasury departments are connecting to SWIFT directly. Nevertheless, SWIFT service bureaus are still very relevant and the preferred choice of many treasury functions.

We speak with SWIFT, as well as Brad Vollmer, treasurer for Gilead Sciences, and Chris Hanson, assistant treasurer and director for Brocade Communications Systems, on why treasurers are using Alliance Lite2. We also hear from Scott Lambert, treasury senior director for Cigna; John Boudreau, treasurer for NCR; Wayne Whitaker, vice president, treasury for Oxbow; and others on why they favor SWIFT service bureaus.

Also in this issue, Janko Hahn, head treasury operations for Autoneum, explains his organization’s payment factory implementation, and Usama DeLorenzo, director of Asia policy and advocacy for SWIFT, discusses regional payments systems integration in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).

Download the 2015 AFP SWIFT Buyer's Guide.