Swiftnet Bureau Agreement

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Agreement on The SWIFTNet Service Bureau Offer

This Agreement is concluded under the Global Terms and Conditions available on the Kyriba Website (www.kyriba.com/contracts).

I. Additional Definitions

Term

Definition

BIC

The acronym of Business Identifier Code designates the code attributed by SWIFT to a non-bank participant.

SWIFT

Designates the "Society for Worldwide Financial Telecommunication" SCRL – co-operative society having its registered offices at 1 Avenue Adèle, B1310 La Hulpe, Belgique.

SWIFTNet

Designates the inter-bank network based on IP used by SWIFT since 2004. On this network, transmission of information is encrypted and authentication procedures are very strict. Security is ensured by encryption means.

SWIFT USER

Designates any establishment which has received the approval of SWIFT to exchange messages on the SWIFTNET network from its own SWIFT address (BIC).

SWIFTNet Service Bureau

KYRIBA's offer, based on BRED « PlanetLink » and other BRED's services.

SAA

SWIFT Alliance Access.

SAG

SWIFT Alliance Gateway.

SCORE

Acronym of Standardized Corporate Environment, designates a closed group of users managed by SWIFT enabling member companies and banks to communicate amongst themselves via the SWIFTNet network.

MA-CUG

Acronym of Member Administrated User Group, designates the closed group of subscribers, proposed by a bank in its capacity as a member of SWIFT. The KYRIBA Customer shall be required to sign a contract via the SWIFTNet (MA-CUG) network with each of the banking counterparts with whom it wishes to directly exchange SWIFT messages.

Business Days

Designates business days under the Target calendar.

II. Background

The Customer uses the KYRIBA "SaaS Services", through which it manages and deals with all or part of its cash flow operations, payments, collections and communicate with banks.

The Customer wishes to have access to the "SWIFTNet Bureau Service" in order to communicate, issue and receive messages or files via SWIFTNet with the different banks which have adhered to the "Swift for Corporate" programme, from its own SWIFT address (BIC code).

III. Purpose

The purpose of this Agreement is to determine the conditions under which the Customer, having prior approval as a "SWIFT user", shall have access to the KYRIBA "SWIFTNet Bureau Service".

IV. Preconditions – Suspensive Conditions Linked to the Use of SWIFTNet

The Parties acknowledge all the SWIFT documentation as being applicable to the performance of this Agreement. The Customer declares that it is acquainted with the "Shared Infrastructure Programme - Terms and Conditions" and "SWIFT General Terms and conditions" documents published by SWIFT. These documents are available on the SWIFT website (currently: www.swift.com).

The Parties acknowledge that modifications to the technical parameters and the electronic mail services may be requested by SWIFT. They therefore undertake to work together in good faith and in a reasonable manner before any modification.

The Customer agrees that it must obtain approval from SWIFT as a SWIFT user, this being a precondition of the performance of this Agreement.

V. Content of the Offer

The "SWIFTNet Bureau Service" offer from KYRIBA includes:

  1. the making available of technical and computer resources, both hardware and software "Infrastructures" enabling the Customer, acting on its own account, or on behalf of its subsidiaries, to link up to the SWIFTNet network via the KYRIBA platform, in order to issue and receive messages or files;
  2. the administrative steps with SWIFT in order to obtain a BIC code as well as registration with SWIFT in the MA-CUG of the different banks in the "Swift for Corporate" programme and/or as a SCORE Participant for eligible companies;
  3. technical advice, assistance and tests for linking to the "SWIFTNet Bureau Service" dedicated platform;
  4. corrective maintenance services and technical assistance with SWIFT software, as well as evolutions in SAA and SAG software hosted in the "SWIFTNet Bureau Service";
  5. reception of Customer messages or files via SWIFTNet supplied by banks belonging to the "Swift for Corporate" programme;
  6. the issue of Customer messages or files via SWIFTNet to the banks belonging to the "Swift for Corporate" programme;
  7. Integration into KYRIBA "SaaS Services" of information gathered via the KYRIBA "SWIFTNet Bureau Service" on behalf of the Customer and/or the sending of Customer information included in KYRIBA "SaaS Services" to its partner banks through the KYRIBA "SWIFTNet Bureau Service".

Service

Customers' Time Slots

Closing Time Slots

FIN Messages

From Sunday 5:00am to Saturday 4:50pm (CET)

Messages (sent or received) are stored.

FILEAct Messages via SAG

From Sunday 10:00am to Sunday 9:00am (CET)

Sent messages are stored, received messages are lost.

FILEAct Messages via SAA

From Sunday 5:00am to Sunday 4:50pm (CET)

Sent messages are stored, received messages are lost.

Attention, during the SWIFT network maintenance (ADW: Allowable Downtime Window set forth at https://www.swift.com/ordering-support/operational-status/allowable-downtime-windows), sending Files or Messages via SWIFT should be avoided.

VI. Customer Obligations

The Customer shall respect the rules and obligations which fall to SWIFT Users and, if it benefits from such, to "SCORE Participants".

The Customer shall make its own study and analysis of the "SWIFTNet Bureau Service", and acknowledge the Documentation entitled "Shared Infrastructure Programme - Terms and Conditions" published by SWIFT, as well as the whole of the rules regulating the relationship between SWIFT and the users.

The Customer undertakes only to deal with financial or commercial operations which are related to its activity via the "SWIFTNet Bureau Service".

The Customer has been informed that the issuing banks are responsible for files made available to it through the KYRIBA "SWIFTNet Bureau Service".

VII. Fees Setting

KYRIBA will bill the CLIENT for:

  • the setup cost, which will be paid upon signing this agreement,
  • the monthly cost of using the service for each connected BIC (fixed recurring cost and traffic cost).

These charges will be included in the "SaaS Services" Purchase Order.

The Customer is informed that these rates may change according to the evolution of SWIFT rates, and consequently of BRED rates, and in this case, according to the one-month notice.

VIII. Force Majeure

In no case, shall any Party be liable due to the lateness or failure in the supply of the Service due to force majeure event, under the definition normally retained in case law by the courts having jurisdiction, and in particular, due to any unavoidable event which is external to the parties, for example:

  • failure in electricity supply,
  • administrative or legislative interventions,
  • technical, administrative or other contingencies regarding the transmission lines and networks,
  • war or threats of war, terrorism, sabotage, riots, external strikes, fires, floods,
  • any failure by SWIFT.

In such a case, each of the Parties shall, as soon as possible, inform the other Party of the coming about of such events and propose a substitute solution.

IX. Suspension of the Service in Exceptional Cases

In order to maintain the security and integrity of the systems, the Customer agrees that KYRIBA may, in exceptional cases, suspend performance of the Service, subject to the immediate information of the Customer of such suspension by all possible means. By "exceptional cases", the parties refer, in particular, to acts of piracy or malicious acts.

Should performance of the Service remain suspended 30 calendar days after notification of such suspension, the present Agreement may be terminated by the affected Party by way of a recorded delivery letter, with acknowledgement of receipt, sent by the affected Party to the other Party.

X. Settlement of Incidents

Should any failure be noticed in the technical functioning, each of the Parties undertakes to inform the other by any possible means and to discover the elements of it as soon as possible, to facilitate research into its causes, and to work with the other party as much as possible in order to remedy the issue.

XI. Integrality of the Agreement and Appendixes

The present Agreement, with its Appendixes I and II, which are an integral part of it, constitutes the Parties' full agreement. Any amendment shall only be made after agreement of an amendment duly signed by the Parties, unless otherwise provided in the appendixes.


Appendix 1

Client SWIFTNet Perimeter

TYPE OF MESSAGES CARRIED ON SWIFTNET

FIN Message

☐ yes    ☐ no

FILEAct Messages

☐ yes    ☐ no

Bank, Branch, Country concerned by the planned FILEAct exchanges:
 

CLIENT CONTACTS

SWIFTNet Contacts

 

Technical Contacts for IT aspects

 

Appendix 2

Sponsoring Request to Obtain BIC Code

Signatory Information

I, the undersigned (First Name, Last Name)

 

Acting in my capacity as

 

For (Company Name)

 

Domiciled at

 

Registered on the Trade Register

 

Under number

 

Signed in, on

 

Signatory / Company Stamp

 

– mandate the BRED Banque Populaire domiciled at 18 quai de la Rapée 75012 Paris for the purpose of carrying out registration formalities with SWIFT SCRL - Society for Worldwide Financial Telecommunication, co-operative society having registered offices at 1 Avenue Adèle, B1310 Bruxelles, to obtain the status of SWIFT User;

– designate BRED as Member Concentrator for its connection to the SWIFTNet network organised by SWIFT SCRL via the Kyriba platform.