Facilitating the Growth of Thai Multinational Corporations

by Bangkok Bank

Bangkok Bank’s unparalleled domestic presence and overseas network covering 13 countries has resulted in a large number of corporates, both Thai and foreign enterprises, selecting Bangkok Bank as their banking partner of choice. In some cases, particularly Asian domestic and regional companies, these companies may work solely with Bangkok Bank. In other cases, particularly foreign multinationals and Thai companies with a wide international reach, they may work with a variety of different banking partners. Corporates of all sizes and degrees of complexity are typically attracted to our proprietary electronic banking solutions; however, it can be complex to maintain separate electronic banking systems for each bank. Consequently, multi-banked corporates in particular are increasingly taking advantage of SWIFTNet connectivity, enabling them to connect to multiple banks through a single channel.

Supporting customers’ connectivity needs

To support the needs of both our domestic and multinational clients, Bangkok Bank is an innovator in providing highly functional electronic banking capabilities. In addition, we offer a variety of integration options depending on clients’ internal systems infrastructure and the degree of automation that is required for exchanging information. But for more than five years, we have also enabled many of our clients who are Thai subsidiaries of multinational companies to access our services via SWIFTNet. SWIFTNet offers bank-neutral, multi-bank communication for a wide variety of financial messages, including payments (high value and bulk payments) and balance and transaction reporting.

Although SWIFTNet is becoming a popular connectivity channel for multi-banked corporates in particular, and those with high transaction volumes, Thai corporates do not as yet carry out their outward transactions with overseas banks via SWIFTNet. Corporates from overseas do however send inward payment instructions via SWIFT MT 101 to debit their accounts with us and pay their vendors in Thailand. These include global companies that have multiple bank relationships to support their international activities, often in many countries, and who are seeking to connect with their banks efficiently and reliably through a single channel, with a single interface with internal systems, as opposed to maintaining multiple electronic banking systems with different interface requirements.

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