CAIB 31st Annual General Meeting


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CAIB 31st Annual General Meeting Conference

• By Lawrence Nervais
• Vice President Mobile

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Situation

• Rapid growth had resulted in disparate systems
  and solutions to handle Bank of St. Lucias voice
  and data communications. At the same time the
  need for employees at all branches to stay in
  contact was rising while the costs of
  communicating were getting out of control. The
  bank had no internal network for branchtobranch
  voice communications or sharing files. It was
  definitely time to bring the banks voice and
  data communications network into the 21st
  century.

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Solution
FRAME RELAY

• BOSL worked with CW to identify cost savings
  associated with an integrated solution versus
  separate PBXs and data routers for the banks
  network. They soon realized that an IPenabled
  fully integrated voice and data communications
  system was the perfect solution.
• How did we do it?
• We utilized our island wide Frame Relay network
• Installed IPenabled PBX at each location
• Integrated their voice data and other
  applications over this single network

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Results

• Voice and data integration over the network
  optimizes bandwidth maximizes costeffectiveness
  and simplifies management
• Simplified network management ensures optimum
  network utilization for greater cost efficiences
• Scalability ensures a future proof and safe
  solution
• Reliability allows the bank to focus on customer
  needs not network problems
• File sharing email voice mail fourdigit
  branchtobranch dialing and other advanced
  communications features improve efficiency and
  reduce costs

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Situation 2

• Executives travel frequently but their knowledge
  and experience is lost to the bank and their
  customers while they are away. In addition Middle
  managers often have to spend long late hours in
  the office on weekdays and weekends impacting
  their quality of life and thus their energy
  levels on the job.

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Solution 2
IPVPN

• The bank installs a secure reliable Internet
  Protocol Virtual Private network

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Results

• Now executives can access the network securely
  from anywhere in the world even while on the
  road. They can use their laptop computer in the
  hotal or simply using their RIM Blackberry or
  P910 PDA/phone to gain secure access to the
  Corporate Email.
• Middle managers can work from home after hours
  being more productive and still having time to
  spend with their families.

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In addition

• You can have your mail read to you and speak your
  reply back while driving.
• Using our advanced voice recognition platform
• You can even have full Video Conferencing
  capability with application sharing from your
  laptop computer in your hotel room using our
  Multimedia Gateway Platform from Nortel Networks
  MCS5000

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Situation 3

• Important Customers have little time to transact
  financial affairs. Resulting in late payment fees
  and penalties and unhappy customers who are
  likley to shift to competitors.

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Solution 3 Internet Banking

• You can now provide your customers with
• An easy to use Online Banking service with
  a logical design and simple menus
• Even the most novice users will be able to
  access their accounts via the web.

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Results

• Reduce customers visit to banks.Customers are
  able to
• View Account Summary Information and
  Detailed History
• Debits and Credits
• Account Aliases
• Minimum Balances
• Running Balances
• Transfer Funds Pending and Recurring
  Transfers Included
• Make a Loan Payment Pending and
  recurring.
• Request a Draft Withdrawal
• Order checks
• Advanced Search
• Stop Payment Request
• Lost ATM Card Notification
• Blocked Accounts
• NonRelated Account Transfer

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Telephone Banking

• With an Audio Response platform from Cable
  Wireless
• Your customers can access their accounts 24
  hours a day every day of the week.
• Gives your customers account information at
  their fingertips.

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Results

• Retrieve Account Balances
• Search Account History
• Search for Specific Items by Check
  Number
• Transfer Funds
• Smart Menus
• Birthday Greetings
• Time and Temperature
• Marketing Messages
• Request a Draft Withdrawal and more
• Eliminates costly onpremise equipment
• Interfaces with your existing data
  processor

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Situation 4

• Bank is concerned by increasing crime threat from
  both internal and external sources. It is also
  concerned about rising Security costs and
  reliability of security firms.

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Solution 4
IP Camera Sample Images

• Install IP cameras throughout your locations.
• They can be viewed from your home on your Video
  Capable Mobile phone such as the Nokia 6620
  available at your nearest Bmobile store region
  wide
• Or from a Control and monitoring center.

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Situation 5

• The bank is concerned about single point of
  failure and disaster recovery at its head office
  especially inlight of Hurricane Ivan and the
  threat of Earthquakes.

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Solution 5 Redundant Infrastructure

• The CW eBusiness Solutions Center eBSC is a
  stateofthe art Data Center designed and
  engineered to WorldClass standards
• The facility provides access to the
  following
• Access to 5 fiber optic cables to the
  USA UK Caribbean and South America
• Uninterruptible Power supply and diesel
  generators
• Climate Control
• Fire Detection Suppression
• Data backup and Secure Media Storage
  Services
• Equipment Hosting

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Results

• Mirror critical business infrastructure
  elements such as routers firewalls severs and
  data termination equipment to ensure the highest
  availability of their critical systems.
• Reduction in insurance premiums etc. and
  Security from loss of data.

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