Working together, Finastra and HSBC will use Finastra’s FusionFabric.cloud platform to provide HSBC’s foreign exchange (FX) services as a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) offering.
The businesses claim that the tactic would enable mid-tier banks to “directly” inject FX services into corporate and branch channels.
According to them, by pooling their services, member banks would be able to provide a variety of currencies to their customers via branch networks and other retail channels without the need for further technology integration.
According to a statement released jointly by the companies, “It will also give consumers highly automated FX pricing capabilities, allowing banks to process higher FX volumes and stand out while maintaining their unique customer connections.”
“Better pricing and market transparency, enhanced execution simplicity, and simpler currency risk management will help corporate clients.”
When the solution is prepared in the second half of 2022, financial institutions in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region will be the first to adopt it, with deployments in other regions following soon after.
Regional banks and their clients would experience less friction if FX could be integrated directly into corporate treasury platforms, along with competitive pricing and liquidity, according to Angus Ross, chief revenue officer, banking-as-a-service (BaaS), at Finastra.
