Products and Solutions

GSN

General Settlement Network

The General Settlement Network (GSN) of EraVision is the new generation of global transfer and settlement network, including cross-border settlement system and financial message forwarding platform. It can provide cross-border foreign currency and local currency transfers, as well as financial services such as letter of credit, collection and letter of guarantee. In addition, GSN has also obtained an EMI license issued by the European Central Bank.


GSN has the capacity to access more than 20,000 financial institutions and manage tens of millions of inter-bank accounts, providing customers with the most extensive domestic and cross-border real-time settlement of domestic and foreign currency funds. GSN also provides financial services for trades between enterprises including letter of credit, collection, letter of guarantee and so on. At the same time, GSN is the world's only all-in-one system capable of providing ubiquitous DVP/ PVP services. Other than Africa, GSN is also widely used in Europe, China and Southeast Asia. In compliance with international standards, GSN meets the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure, ISO 20022 standard, and international standards for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism.


Examples of Application Scenarios



Application scenario:

Domestic or cross-border, local currency or foreign currency interbank fund settlement system.


System capability:

It can provide real-time capital delivery capability for payment and trade finance.


System value:

Meet the domestic or cross-border settlement needs of currency; integrate settlement channels and resources; improve settlement efficiency and security; effectively reduce settlement costs.


Target customers:

Global key banks that need to improve the ability of capital clearing and settlement, and countries whose clearing system needs to be upgraded.

Value for Our Customers

(1) For Financial Institution Participants

1. Independent from SWIFT, it enables simultaneous payment, clearing and settlement.

2. Boost settlement efficiency and deliver optimal remittance path for network participants swiftly and automatically via its flat network structure.

3. Downsize settlement fund liquidity and complete the maximum capital flow with the minimum credit amount.

4. Does not occupy settlement funds but only controls the amount of settlement funds.

5. Substantially cut settlement costs.

6. Full business scenarios of cross-border foreign currency, cross-border local currency, domestic foreign currency and domestic local currency are provided to prepare commercial banks to integrate settlement channels globally.

7. No restrictions on currency and enable participants to develop cross-border local currency settlement.

8. More secure clearing and settlement services.

9. Support integrated DVP/PVP service.

10. Support real-time PVP service to avoid exchange loss.

11. Support independent management of transaction data.


(2) For Bank Customers

1. 7* 24 real-time cross-border settlement service.

2. Remittance received in full amount and the cost is transparent, fixed and predefined.



About Our Product


Product Positioning

As the new generation Global Settlement Network, GSN is an important financial infrastructure for trade settlement and inter-bank transfer. Through the globally deployed network of message forwarding platforms and GSN processing centers worldwide, banks with regional clearing capacity can be upgraded to financial institutions with global clearing capacity.

Based on flat distributed network, block chain and other state-of-the-art technologies, GSN bridges a fast, efficient, low-cost and secure financial highway between countries, and explores the new business of developing regional clearing and settlement network. The aim is to achieve global peer-to-peer (P2P), "7*24" (24 hours a day, 7 days a week), multi-currency, gross fund clearing for cross-border trading enterprises and individuals.

The GSN global clearing network adopts an innovative flat distributed clearing mode, namely, two tiers of settlement banks and commercial banks, which can greatly shorten the clearing path and boost clearing efficiency.


Our Service

Message Forwarding: Provide fast, peer-to-peer (P2P), real-time, and efficient delivery services between cross-border participants.

Main Business Modules: Inter-bank cross-border payments and trade finance among other business services.

Settlement Service: Provide real-time clearing of payment businesses and complete deferred fund delivery between financial institutions with no need to open unified reserve accounts.

Liquidity Risk Control: Draw on international experience and proceed from the management practice of financial institutions, provide functionalities such as clearing window, business queuing and matching and real-time liquidity query. 


GSN Business Ecosystem



Servicing Entities

Clearing Institution: Unique in the network and is initiated and established by several major participants. The Clearing Institution is responsible for intra-network message forwarding, business sorting, clearing, clearing network operation, etc.

Settlement Bank: There are multiple settlement banks in the network, which shall join after being approved by GSN and shall be responsible for the settlement of funds between the reserve accounts of General Participating Banks. The Settlement Banks may also assume the role of General Participating Banks. Settlement Banks are directly connected to the network.

General Participating Bank: There are multiple General Participating Banks in the network, which are directly or indirectly connected to the network. They are responsible for settlement for customers, business message sending and receiving, internal accounting processing, etc.

Indirect Participant: It refers to a commercial bank that has not joined the GSN clearing network but has the unique participant identification code assigned by GSN and can enjoy funds transfer and other services via their corresponding direct participants.


GSN Technological Features

1. Base the division and design of micro-services on DDD (Domain-Driven Design) and establish the mapping relationship between domain objects and code objects. Map and bind the business architecture and system architecture to realize the rapid response to business changes.

2. The system adopts distributed micro-service architecture to meet non-functional requirements such as high performance, high availability, extensibility and easy scaling.

3. Self-established CA, using the digital certificate hierarchical mechanism, transaction sign& verify and encrypted data transmission, ensures transaction security.

4. Based on the consensus blockchain network, the digital signature of transaction information is saved in the blockchain distributed ledger to realize transaction traceability, non-repudiation and tamper-proof.

5. Based on the disaster recovery plan of two places and three centers in the same city, it boasts advantages of Multi-active Across Data Centers while avoids its disadvantages.

6. Inexpensive server with X86 architecture is adopted instead of costly minicomputer, open source rather than commercial message-oriented middleware, together with open source database other than commercial database, etc., are but few exemplars of embracing open source and advocating independence and controllability.