A Case Study of Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (Ebpp) Integration Using the Coin Mediation Technology

MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4557-05

CISL Working Paper No. 2005-07

11 Pages Posted: 20 Oct 2005

See all articles by Sajindra Jayasena

Sajindra Jayasena

Singapore-MIT Alliance

Stéphane Bressan

National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing

Stuart Madnick

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

Date Written: August 2005

Abstract

There is no such monopoly as The World Wide Bank that manages the databases of all possible financial activities. Such a concept makes neither technical nor business sense. Each player in the financial industry, each bank, stock exchange, government agency, or insurance company, operates its own internal financial information systems.

By its very nature, financial information, like the money that it represents, changes hands. Therefore the interoperation of financial information systems is the cornerstone of the financial services they support. Naturally the critical economic role and the complexity of financial information led to the development of standards for its management and interchange. Yet standards are not the panacea: different groups of players use different standards or versions of a standard's implementation.

In this paper we illustrate the nature of the problem in the Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment industry. In particular, we describe and analyze the difficulty of the integration of services using four different formats: IFX, OFX and SWIFT standards, and an example proprietary format. We then propose an improved way to accomplish this integration using the COntext INterchange (COIN) framework.

Keywords: COntext INterchange (COIN) framework, financial information databases

Suggested Citation

Jayasena, Sajindra and Bressan, Stéphane and Madnick, Stuart E., A Case Study of Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (Ebpp) Integration Using the Coin Mediation Technology (August 2005). MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4557-05, CISL Working Paper No. 2005-07, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=825625 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.825625

Sajindra Jayasena (Contact Author)

Singapore-MIT Alliance ( email )

4 Engineering Drive
Singapore 117576
Singapore

Stéphane Bressan

National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Computing ( email )

3 Science Drive 2
Singapore 117543
Singapore

Stuart E. Madnick

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management ( email )

E53-321
Cambridge, MA 02142
United States
617-253-6671 (Phone)
617-253-3321 (Fax)

Do you have negative results from your research you’d like to share?

Paper statistics

Downloads
298
Abstract Views
2,856
Rank
186,149
PlumX Metrics