Banking Interface

[former_member271795]

Hi

My company has bank accounts with Santander and lloyds which I'm trying to link to SAP FI via PI

I've been researching the interface, but so far I cannot find an automated process to do this

the only method seems to be to manually download the account detiails into CSV then process the csv file through PI

The banks aren't being very helpful

Does anyone have any documentation of how to interface directly with the above banks

thanks 

[former_member184681 · Accepted solution]

Hi Geoff,

The worldwide standard for secure banking is called SWIFT, most probably these two banks you mentioned comply to it. You can google on "SWIFT" to find a lots of useful information. But you cannot get 100% sure if you don't confirm that with them, so you have to insist on getting some information from the banks.

Regards,

Greg

[former_member271795 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Greg,

There is lots of interesting info on swift

but I was looking for a webservice that I could use to access my companies the financial transactions

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2 · Accepted solution]

Webservice is a standard architecture to interact with systems safe and secured. PI supports all standard authentication for the communication. You can use SOAP adapter to consume webservice on the financial side. Similarly you can also host webservice on PI to let third party or client to consume your webservice. If you are looking for SOAP adapter related scenarios there are plenty available in SDN.

refer below link ...

http://www.riyaz.net/sap/xipi-a-guide-to-using-sap-xi-soap-adapter/113/

If you are in need to access financial institution webservice, you just need to use soap receiver adapter. You have to get WSDL from financial institution, import in PI , create ESR objects and in the soap receiver configure the webservice URL to point the financial institution webservice. Very simple

refer also this link which uses soap receiver (similar to your requirement)

http://www.saptechnical.com/Tutorials/XI/RFCtoSOAP/page1.htm

Hope this helps.

[rajasekhar_reddy14 · Accepted solution]

Web service is not recommeneded approach because SWIFT message formats are different(not XML) .

When you want to use SOAP adapter both the systems should be in a postion to support web service calls but SWIFT case i dont think so..So you have two options

1)use standard file adapter to connect SWIFT FTP and use Adapter modules to convert SWIFT message to XML.

2)Buy third part adapters like IWAY to deal with SWIFT messages,but it involves licence cost.