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HSBC GLOBAL PAYMENTS AND CASH MANAGEMENT
Asia-Pacific Hospitality and
Lodging industryBanking Solution Suite
PREPARED FOR: ASP PCM DATE: February 2009
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Contents
1. Research Background
2. Hospitality and Lodging Industry The Basics
3. Trends and Opportunities
4. Banking Requirements
5. Solution Suite
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1.Research Background
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1. Research Background
In view of cash management opportunity based on two recent wins in the sector (JW Marriot Sky City and StarwoodGroup), this project was commissioned with the objectives to:
Understand better how the Hospitality and Lodging industry operates
Review major trends / issues affecting the industry
Perform opportunity analysis of the top ten hotel operators in the region
Design packaged solution for Hotel Operators in a combined proposition across Cash, Merchant CardAcquiring, and Personal Financial Services (PFS - Co-branded cards and ATM service)
Researches comprising significant breath and depth was conducted to collate the necessary information and analysisinto this Asia-Pacific Hotel Industry Cash Management Suite:
Primary research, interviews with:
Industry consultants
Group Treasurer of the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG)
Secondary research, information from:
Hotel Groups Annual reports and press releases
External reviews and analysis from various media (press, internet, etc.)
Internal reviews, reports, business analysis and industry experiences
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2. Hospitality and Lodging
Industry The Basics
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CUSTOMERS
2.1 Industry Players
HOTELS
TRAVEL
AGENTS
INTERNET
MARKETS
VENDORS /
SUPPLIERS
Business
Vacation
Operator Owned Hotels (5%)
Operator Managed Hotels (10%)
Franchised Hotels (85%)
Energy,Catering,Cleaning,Toiletries...... etc.
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2.2 The 3 Business Models
Operator Owned Hotels (less than 5%) Flagship hotels that Hotel Operators (e.g. IHG) own and manage (e.g. Intercontinental Hong Kong)
All cash management / back office management are run by operators
Highly capital intensive for Operators
Operator Managed Hotels (10-15%) Owned by 3rd party owners separate from the operator or potentially joint ventures with a local player
Typical owner profile can vary from large property developer to individual entrepreneur/owner/group of investors
Operators typically provide management including the General Manager, Financial Controller, and other back office processes such asa finance team and other hotel management expertise while the owners provide the capital funding and local operating expertise andknowledge
Franchised Hotels (85-90%) Owned by 3rd party owners separate from the operator
Independently operated via certain rules and guidelines stipulated in franchise agreement
Operator provides brand and access to international reservation system, which can generate up to 1/3 of all bookings revenue for thefranchised hotel
Franchisees own and operate on their own with little interference from operators
OWNING, MANAGING & FRANCHISING A Case Study of Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG)
Brand Marketing & Distribution Staff Ownership Capital IHG Income
Owned IHG IHG IHG IHG High All Revenue
Managed IHG IHG IHG supply General
Managers as a minimum
Third Party Low/none Fee% of total revenue
plus % of profit
Franchised IHG IHG Third Party Third Party None Fee% of rooms revenue
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2.3 Transactional flow structure
Management Fees (LCY / USD / EUR) Royalty Fees (LCY / USD / EUR)
System Fees
Management Fees (LCY / USD / EUR) Royalty Fees (LCY / USD / EUR)
Centralised Liquidity Funding / Defunding
Customer receipts(Credit Card, cash, cheques)
Local travel agents
Local Vendors Overseas Vendors Cost of Sales expenses Payroll Energy etc.
Fundamentally, the operating model in a cash management context is sound and runs fairly smoothly, especially at the Hotel
Operator level where sophisticated cash management techniques are engaged including cash pooling arrangements with banks,
internal house bank for FX management and leading/lagging and other netting techniques are employed globally
Operator OwnedHotel
Hotel Owner
(Managed Hotel)
Hotel Owner(Franchised Hotel)
Hotel Operator
E.g. IHG
External Capital Funding Receipts from global 3rd party
travel agent
Dividends, share repurchase Taxes CapEx Centralised cost of sales
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3. Trends and Opportunities
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3.1 Major Market Trends
WHATS POSITIVE
Across the industry 1 million additional rooms
required by 2012.
Hotel operators divesting in owned hotels and
focusing on growth through franchises and
management fees
New markets travelling e.g. China, Russia, Macau:
China to grow into biggest in-bound traveltraffic in the next 10 to 15 years whileoutbound trips will grow tenfold in the next10 years (from 10 million to 100 million)
Gaming revenues in Macau continue togrow rapidly, posting a 52% growth rateduring the eight months ended August 2008
Branded hotels growing at three times the pace of
non-branded hotels while bargain hunters go downvalue chain to look for lower tier hotels
Growth in internet usage is making travel more
accessible
WHATS CHALLENGING
Global recession to hit vacation travel demand hard
and many pipeline projects on hold as supply is
being reared in due to slowdown in demand globally
Tightening credit environment will hamper hotelgrowth plans as capital markets dry up
From perspective of hotel operators, franchise and
management contracts with real estate / propertyowners may become less favourable as operatorswill need to compete for equity capital from hotelowners
Trademark protection an issue in countries with lessdeveloped legal system (e.g. China, India)
The Chinese government tightening visa restrictionsin recent months, which threatens to stifle the rapidgrowth in Macau.
Increasing use of third party online reservationchannels will put pressure on hotel bottom line
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3.2 Industry Statistics
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200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1,400,000
1,600,000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Aust ralia China
Hong Kong India
Indonesia JapanMalaysia New Zealand
Pakist an Philippines
Singapore South Korea
Taiwan Thailand
Viet nam$0
$500,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,500,000,000
$2,000,000,000
$2,500,000,000
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total Sales in Asia Pacific Revenue Per Available Room in Asia Pacific
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3.3 Top 10 Players in Asia Pacific Hospitality and Lodging
(in US$000) Category Estimated ASPWallet Annualized ASPPCM OI (2008) % of OI againstWallet
Accor Gold 1,225 1,246 101.69%
Intercontinental Hotel
GroupSilver 1,000 54 5.40%
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Silver 732 184 25.09%
Global Hyatt Corporation Silver 521 18 3.45%
Hilton International(1) Unprioritised 460 0 0.00%
Marriot International Gold 419 674 161.11%
Wyndham Worldwide Unprioritised 413 62 15.09%
Choice Hotels International - 307 0 0.00%
Carlson Hotels Worldwide - 307 0 0.00%
Best Western - 266 0 0.00%
(1) Hilton International is marked as former client on CV.
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3.4 Opportunity Focus Operator Owned Hotels
From a corporate banking opportunity perspective, it is in our opinion that the majority of ouropportunity will come from Operator-owned Hotels, although they account for a relatively lowpercentage of the total hotels in operation (~5%)
Managed hotels are typically owned by property developers who have strong existing bankingrelationship on a group/company level, which would not be the most effective point of entrance
Franchised hotels are typically locally owned, with strong relationships with local bankers whichhave likely provided the financing to build the hotel initially, and breaking into this relationship would beextremely difficult, given the operators limited ability to influence Franchisees bank of choice
Around 90% of franchised hotels are single-owner owned, and at onset it may seem there could bea quick win opportunity in providing a simple packaged product (such as core cash), the amount of effortand investment in educating this subset would likely significantly reduce the attractiveness of thisopportunity, without consideration into the difficulties of breaking into these relationships for abovementioned reasons and franchisee owners have 100% veto towards which banks they choose as theiroperating bank
Additionally, many managed hotels hold accounts jointly with their Operator, where the Operator, withincertain limits, is able to draw out funding for fees owed in the form of franchising and overhead fees, sothis could be a good relationship entry point
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4. Banking Requirements
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4.1 Banking Requirements
BANKING
APPROACH
Global overlay bank with regional bank coverage and local banks to fill in the gaps
As hotel operators run finances very centrally, payments and receipts are both fairly straightforward
Number of transactions (e.g. incoming and outgoing TT) could be quite large in volume (e.g. with
the 4000 hotels of IHG, at minimum one transfer per month or more for the different fees assessed)
For the daily revenue feeds from managed/franchised hotels, all transactions are routed through
back office accounting system that routes daily revenue feeds to H.O., which needs to reconcile this
data on a monthly basis to incoming electronic payments. These processes are typically outsourced
to shared service centers
Payments:
Tax authorities (LCY)
Dividend payments mostly
USD/EUR)
Limited vendor payments (LCY)
Payroll (LCY)
Other overhead payments (LCY)
Collections
Managed and Franchised Hotels:
Franchise fees (mostly USD/EUR)
Systems fee (mostly USD/EUR)
Royalties (mostly USD/EUR)
Daily Revenue feeds (mostly USD/EUR)
3rd party travel agency - most hotel operators
work with 1 global partner (mostly LCY)
Travelers (mostly LCY)
PAYMENTS
&
COLLECTIONS
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4.1 Banking Requirements (contd)
Further study: Operators and Owners Dynamics
Certain levels of bureaucracy and distrust exist between the Hotel Operators and Owners dueto the differing agendas and conflicts of interest
Operators have limited access to draw out fees from the Hotel owners operating accounts.
However this process is not always completely well defined. In many cases Owners will
defund the account to prevent this (this may have been a JV structure employed in China)
At the owners level:
There exist many layers of authorizations required before a payment is processed. For
example, an invoice coming through for a payment, managed hotel finance staff and
financial controller will approve it but then evaluation and approval is needed again from
the operator
Inconsistent payment tools utilised (paper / cheques are very prevalent)
PAYMENTS
&
COLLECTIONS
This is extremely important for hotels and the hotel industry as over 90% of customer receipts is in
credit card payments. From a hotel operators perspective, a good proposition needs to be provided
for their franchisees and managed hotels
The speed of the POS (point of sales) Service device is not essential for hotels as there arenumerous administrative steps occur concurrently while the hotel staff is dealing with payment
arrangements
FOREX at reasonable rates is important as hotel guests bear the cost of the exchange
Pre-authorisation of credit cards artificially draw hotel guests credit card limit to ensure payment
when the guest checks out. It can take up to a month to uplift the limit earmark due to batch
processing of these offline payments
CARD
ACQUIRING
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4.1 Banking Requirements (contd)
GLOBAL LIQUIDITY STRUCTURE
Global hotel operators and large regional players control funding very centrally
IHG as an example, has already achieved full visibility of its cash flows, and has the cash pooling
and concentration structures in place across Europe, US, and Asia to achieve near same day value
for most funds
Global operators are able to do this because they manage very few hotels world wide, and most
franchising fees are conducted in USD and other freely tradable currencies and are received as
incoming telegraphic transfers as opposed to drawing money out of an entity which brings forth
many taxation and other regulatory issues Fundamentally, a liquidity management solution with Head Office multi-currency accounts sitting in
a friendly domiciled location for pooling / cash con would be fairly effective for most hotel operators,
although further analysis of each hotel operator should be conducted at a more bespoken level
DOMESTIC LIQUIDITY REQUIREMENTS
If hotel is new, typically cash hotel is cash strapped as it is funding debt repayments from initially
building of the hotel, so first few years of liquidity management will be aimed towards lowering costof debt, which a simple cash concentration structure can provide
As hotel pays off its debts, and becomes more cash rich, focus changes to repatriation of funds to
owner, or to actively manage and ensure operating funds are making a return
LIQUIDITY
MANAGEMENT
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5.Solution Suite
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5.1 Integrated Payment Solutions
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Head office are cost centers, while owned hotels are profit centers
Funding and defunding between head office and owned hotels
Both head office and owned hotels require various payments capabilities
Payment volumes and values are higher for owned hotels
Number of users will be higher for owned hotels
Vendors Suppliers Payroll Overheads Tax
Dividends, share repurchase
Tax CapEx Centralised payments Overheads Payroll
Payments at a glance
Centralised Liquidity Funding / Defunding
Operator OwnedHotel
Hotel Owner(Managed Hotel)
Hotel Owner(Franchised Hotel)
Hotel Operator
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HSBCs Integrated Payment Solutionsfullysupporteverypaymentneedofhoteloperators, atboth headoffice andoperation levels
Dividends, Share Repurchase Tax CapEx Centralised Payments Overheads Payroll
Hotel Operator
Payment types Beneficiary Method HSBC
Dividends /
share repurchase
Shareholders TT
ACH Tax Tax authorities ACH
CapEx Owned Properties TT
Inter-account Transfer
Centralised payments Vendor /
Suppliers
TT
Cheque
RTGS
Overheads ACH
Payroll Staff ACH
TT
Funding / defunding Owned Properties TT
Inter-account Transfer
OperatorOwned Hotel
Vendors Suppliers Payroll Overheads Tax
Funding / Defunding
Payment types Beneficiary Method HSBC
Outsourcing Vendors Cheque
ACH
Purchasing Suppliers Cheque
ACH
Payroll Staff ACH
Overheads ACH
Tax Tax authorities ACH
Funding /defunding HO TT
Inter-account
Transfer
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Payments Summary
HSBCnetis HSBCs global internet banking platform,
which can be accessed across multiple geographies
through internet browser
Real-time information available on the platform
Integration capabilities with systems such as
enterprise resource planning (ERP) and treasurymanagement system (TMS)
Payments of different currencies, from different
account and of different payment types all in one
instruction file
International
Wire transferBook transfer
Cheque OutsourcingServices
(CO, DD, etc.
)
Domestic
RTGS
ACH
Book transfer
Overheads
Suppliers
Tax Authorities
Vendors
Shareholders
Employees
HotelOperator
OperatorOwned Hotel
HSBCnetprovide a single log-in to ALL payment types
for ALL countries
Flexible payment authorisation matrix can be set up for
control purpose
Remote payment authorisation capability to give
convenience
HSBCnetalso provides access to other value-added
services like Cheque Outsourcing Service and
Payments Advising
Paymentadvising
Paymentadvising
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Cheque Outsourcing ServiceStreamliningyourcheque paymentprocedures tofree youfrom intensive manualtasks
Cheques can be labour intensive, time-consuming and expensive.
HSBCs Cheque Outsourcing Services (COS) enables you to outsource your local and foreign currency chequepayment production and issuance to HSBC
1. Input &upload data
Print & mail to the beneficiaryor back to the hotel
3. Processing
2. Authorise &send file
HSBCs backoffice system
COS delivers:-
Cheque items printed withcompany logo
Payments warehousing,
allowing payments to be future-dated
Automated accounts payablereconciliation
Comprehensive online enquirycapabilities
An online stop-cheque servicesubject to local regulations
Benefits
Reduce administrative effort andcosts
Increase internal control
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Payment AdvisingDelivering comprehensive information toyoursuppliers, vendors and employees
Hotel operators makes a significant number of payments to suppliers and vendors for their goods and services
HSBCs Payment Advising solutions ensure delivery of comprehensive information to your beneficiaries
Payments Advising offers:-
Customised advicesincorporating enrichedremittance information
Multiple invoce advising tosupport delivery to multiplerecipients (3-6 advices pertransaction)
Real-time advice issuance viaemail (fascimile and mail)
Benefits
Better credit relationship with
suppliers and vendors
Goods and services forwardedearlier
Reduce time spent onanswering payee queries onpayment status
Short Advice
Payment Amount
Charges Details
Value Date
Remitter
Remitting Bank
HSBC
TransactionReference
Other Reference
Long Advice
Additional payment
details in free text or
tabular format
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Payments Capabilities Summary
Countries
Electronic Payments (via HSBCnet) Paper-based Payments
Payment
Advising(via HSBCnet)
Cross-Border
TelegraphicTransfers
Domestic Real
Time Payments(RTGS)
Domestic batched
payments (ACH /Giro)
Cheques
Outsourcing(via HSBCnet)
Paper ChequeBook
Australia
Bangladesh N/A In-house
Brunei N/A In-house -
China
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan -
Korea -
Macau - In-house
Malaysia
Mauritius N/A In-house -
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam N/A In-house -
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5.2 Integrated Receivables Solutions
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Collections at a glance
Management Fees (LCY / USD / EUR) Royalty Fees (LCY / USD / EUR)
System Fees
Management Fees (LCY / USD / EUR) Royalty Fees (LCY / USD / EUR)
Funding / Defunding
Customer receipts(Tourists / Companies)
Local travel agents Rental Fees (Shops)
Operator OwnedHotel
Hotel Owner(Managed Hotel)
Hotel Owner(Franchised Hotel)
Hotel OperatorE.g. IHG
External Capital Funding
Receipts from global 3rd partytravel agent
Head office has simple collection requirements it receives mainly electronic payments from various parties
Owned hotels, as profit centers, have more complex collection requirements receipts predominantly cash and
credit cards
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HSBCs Integrated Receivables Solutionfullysupporteverycollections needofhoteloperators, atboth headoffice andoperation levels
Management Fees Royalty Fees System Fees Global Travel Agent Receipts
Hotel OperatorE.g. IHG
Collections type From Method HSBC
Management Fees Managed /
Franchised hotels
TT
Royalty Fees Managed /
Franchised hotels
TT
System Fees Managed hotels TT
Global Travel Agent
Receipts
Global Travel
Agents
TT
OperatorOwned Hotel
Customer Receipts Local Travel Agent Receipts Rental Fees
Collections type From Method HSBC
Customer Receipts Tourist /
Companies
Credit Card Card Acquiring
Cash Cash Pick-up /Deposit
Cheque Cheque Pick-up
/ Deposit
Local Travel Agents
Receipts
Local Travel
Agents
RTGS
ACH
Rental Fees Shops Cheque Cheque Pick-up
/ Deposit
ACH
Surplus revenue
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At Corporate Head Office Level
Corporate office receives revenue
feeds, management fees, royaltyfees and system fees from owned /managed / franchised hotels alloverthe region
Also receives funds from global 3rd
party travel agencies
Transactions by cross-bordertelegraphic transfers
Incoming TT fully supported byHSBC in the region
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At Local Operation Level
Your collections a/c
Tourists
Business travelers
Travel agencies
Shops
(within the hotel)
Operator-owned hotel
Creditcard /Cash /Cheque
Cheque
Electronicpayments (e.g. ACH)
Electronicpayments(e.g. ACH)Creditcard /Cash
Cardacquiring
Cash / cheque deposit
(Cash / cheque pick-up)
Account
Reporting
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HSBC provides Credit and Debit Card Acceptance & Point-of-Sales
solutions World-class, web-based card payments processing platform to be
deployed across the Asia Pacific region
Internet-enabled chargeback management system
Online reporting tool for merchants card activity
Highly secure with real-time fraud monitoring system
Country Card Acquiring
Australia
Bangladesh -
Brunei
China
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan -
Korea -
Macau
Malaysia
Mauritius -
New Zealand -
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam -
Point-of-Sales (POS) Solutions
Stand-alone POS terminals
POS Network in a LAN environment
POS integrated with Electronic Cash Registers
Wireless POS Terminals
GRPS
WiFi
Contactless Tap and Go
Fully-integrated POS solutions
Card AcquiringLeading Asia Pacificmerchantacquirerwith world-class infrastructure expertise
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Convenient cash /
cheque deposit to
the nearest branch
/ HSBC alliance
collection points
19 countries
/ 458 branches
Extensive alliance
network with more
than 100,000
collection points
Cash / cheque
pick-up
arrangementsavailable, subject
to client
requirements &
security
considerations
Country Branches
Alliance
Outlets
Australia 24 800
Bangladesh 9 784
Brunei 10 -
China 67 75,700
Hong Kong 143 906
India 47 14,201
Indonesia 14 458
Japan 6 -
Korea 11 -
Macau 3 30
Malaysia 40 -
Mauritius 12 -
New
Zealand
4 290
Philippines 8 1991
Singapore 11 -
Sri Lanka 14 145
Taiwan 33 10,601
Thailand 1 9,385
Vietnam 1 812
Paper-based CollectionsExtensive branch andalliance network coverage in the region
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CountryCourier Pick-up
Cash Cheque
Australia
Bangladesh Conditional Conditional
Brunei -
China N/A
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan - -
Korea Referral only Referral only
Macau Referral only Referral only
Malaysia
Mauritius - -
New Zealand - -
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
HSBC also offers courier pick-up services for hotels situated in placeswhere there is no HSBC branch / alliance nearby
Subject to customer requirement and security considerations
Cash / cheque pickedup by vendors (e.g.security companies)assigned by HSBC
Branch
Your collections a/c
CreditingHotel
Courier Pick-upA value-added service forthose outofreach
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Collections Capabilities Summary
CountriesHSBC
Branch
Alliance
Network
Inward Electronic
Collections
Card
Acquiring
Courier Pick-up
Cash Cheque
Australia 24 800
Bangladesh 9 784 - Conditional Conditional
Brunei 10 - -
China 67 75,700 N/A
Hong Kong 143 906
India 47 14,201
Indonesia14
458
Japan 6 - - - -
Korea 11 - - Referral only Referral only
Macau 3 30 Referral only Referral only
Malaysia 40 -
Mauritius 12 - - - -
New Zealand 4 290 - - -
Philippines 8 1991
Singapore 11 -
Sri Lanka 14 145
Taiwan 33 10,601
Thailand 1 9,385
Vietnam 1 812 -
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5.3 Integrated Delivery Channel
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eChannel
YOUR NEEDS OUR SOLUTION - HSBCnet
All information on one single platform to achieve
global monitoring, regional oversight and local control
Access to cash management services for execution oftime-critical decisions
Flexible configuration (e.g. authorisation level) at
global / regional / local level
Easy access via Internet
Operations in different locations across various
time zones would lead to information gaps
Funding and liquidity mismatches might be
caused
A good Management Information System is
needed so that quantum and timing of funding
can be determined accurately
Tools to operationalise the decisions
A secured banking platform which provides multiple levels of
accessibility, visibility and control over the accounts of
different stakeholders (e.g. owned / managed / franchised
hotels) in different countries
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Liquidity Management
The Challenge HSBCs Liquidity Solutions
Due to business nature, hotels have large
fluctuation in cash flows (highly dependent on
number of visitors in different seasons)
Also, the geographic spread and time zone
difference of hotels make control and monitoring
at head office level difficult
Idle funds not being optimised
Flexible account structures to meet business needsacross geographies
Automated multi-country platform that supportsextensive and consistent cash concentration featuresfor physical consolidation of cash balances
Expanding notional pooling platform to optimiseinterest returns on the net aggregate pool position, ona multi-country, multi-currency level
A full range of investment services for domestic oroffshore deposits
Consolidated enquiry and reporting to provide visibilityat a liquidity management level
Time
Revenue
Visibility and control
Idle funds at different locations minimised
Excess surplus concentrated for better management
Debit interest costs reduced
Investment of surplus funds to maximise yield
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Roadmap to Effective Liquidity Management
y Step 1 - In-countryvisibility & control
All in-country accounts with HSBC
All accounts linked and reporting to HSBCnet
Visibility of all account positions locally and at regional treasury level
y Step 2 - Optimise in-countryaccount balances and positions Create in-country pooling or sweeping structures
Local Currency & USD currency accounts
Automatically sweep balances between accounts
Optimise in-country investment options for surplus funds
y Step 3 - Optimise regionalaccount balances and positions
Aggregate & manage surplus country balances at regional treasury level
Regional overview and ownership of cash position and liquidity management
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Countries
In-country notional pooling In-country cash concentrationCross-border cash
concentration
Local Currency ForeignCurrency Local Currency ForeignCurrency LocalCurrency ForeignCurrency
Australia
Bangladesh - - - - -
China - - - - -
Hong Kong
India - - - - -
Indonesia -
Japan - -
Korea - - - -
Macau -
Malaysia - - - -
Mauritius - - - - - -
New Zealand
Philippines - - -
Singapore
South Africa
Sri Lanka - - - - -
Taiwan - - - - -
Thailand - - - - -
Vietnam - - - - - -
Liquidity Capabilities Summary
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HSBCs offering
PayablesFlexible, automated and scalable end-to-end payments solutions across the region, enablingprompt electronic payments, payment advising, and outsourcing of cheque payment issuing.
CollectionsWith more than 100,000 collection point, extensive courier and card acquiring service in the
region, HSBC fully supports every collection needs of hotel clients.
ChannelsHSBCnetprovides real-time visibility of accounts and transactions, with secure access/controlfrom any computer across the globe.
Liquidity Effective use of surplus cash via in-country and cross-border liquidity management. Real-timevisibility offered by HSBCnetenables optimal investment decisions to be made.