As e-commerce continues to shape the world, financial institutions and corporations will need to deploy integrated electronic transactions platforms that link their internal systems to one another. The result will be greater efficiency in the total financial relationship between them, including document management, transactions, and liquidity management.

Fundtech is leading this emerging field of financial supply chain services, which offers major cost savings to corporations and vast improvements in the working capital management to both sides of a business transaction. For financial institutions, these services create deeper client relationships and additional fee-generating services. Our vision is to expand the traditional role of banks to include participation in the financial relationships between commercial trading partners. We refer to this as end-to-end-to-end or E-to-E2 products and services.

A key component of this strategic direction is enabling banks to monetize the data stream that accompanies transactions. Fundtech is building systems that enable banks to find new value through differentiated value-added services that is derived from invoice and remittance data. With far more visibility into their clients working capital needs, banks are able to provide services that deliver greater financial leverage through just-in-time cash.

Our product strategy is also focused on consolidating and enhancing transaction banking systems. Our payments systems are evolving into payment hubs while our cash management systems are enabling banks to serve all of their clients on a single platform.