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VMH Vicatech Messaging Hub

Every payment message, from creation to confirmation, in one hub.

VMH is the enterprise financial messaging platform from VICATECH Group. It connects your core banking system, corporate clients and SWIFT, and gives operations, compliance and management one view of every payment.

Executive dashboard
Enterprise operational intelligence
Illustrative data
SLA compliance
99.2%
Avg processing time
38 s
ACK success rate
99.8%
Queue pressure
Low
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  • pacs.008USD 48,500.00 to AccraSWIFT ACK
  • pain.001Corporate batch, 42 paymentsScreening
  • pacs.009 COVCover via correspondentMX ready

Built for regulated banks

  • ISO 20022 ready
  • SWIFT compliant
  • Enterprise-grade security
  • End-to-end visibility
  • Multi-affiliate platform

What VMH delivers

One platform for financial messages and card services, built to grow with your bank.

End-to-end orchestration

Manage the complete flow of financial messages and card services, from request to delivery.

Native MT and MX management

Handle MT, MX and hybrid flows with advanced transformation capabilities.

Real-time visibility

Monitor, track and investigate messages and card transactions in real time, with complete transparency.

Compliance integrated

Seamless integration with screening engines and regulatory frameworks.

Intelligent and future-ready

Designed for automation, analytics and AI-driven operational excellence.

Virtual cards

Orchestrate the lifecycle of virtual cards for corporate and retail customers: request, approval, issuance, funding, control, monitoring and reconciliation.

From creation to confirmation

VMH follows each payment through every control your bank applies, and keeps a complete record of what happened at each step.

  1. Capture

    Payments from the core banking system, corporate pain.001 files or secure manual MX creation.

  2. Validate

    ISO 20022 schema, network rules and your own business rules.

  3. Approve

    Maker-checker approval with full traceability.

  4. Screen

    Sanctions, PEP, watchlist and bank-rule screening before release.

  5. Transform

    MX to MT and back for Alliance Access, with message fidelity preserved.

  6. Transmit

    Release through SWIFT Alliance Access to the network, with ACK monitoring.

  7. Track

    gpi Tracker status, cover payments, recalls, returns and investigations.

  8. Report

    Reports and dashboards built directly on ISO 20022 data.

Modules

Start with the payment hub and add the modules your bank needs. Each one is licensed separately.

Payment Hub

International transfers from the core banking system, corporate pain.001 payments and secure manual MX creation, with maker-checker approval.

  • pacs.008
  • pain.001
  • Maker-checker

Transaction Screening

Native sanctions, PEP, watchlist and bank-rule screening, with governed bypass, MLRO decisions and AI-assisted false-positive review.

  • Sanctions
  • PEP
  • Audit trail

Tracker and investigations

SWIFT gpi Tracker status management, missing-notification checks, exception cases, recalls, returns and status investigations.

  • gpi Tracker
  • UETR
  • Recalls

Cover payments

pacs.009 COV cover legs created, sent and followed to confirmation, with missing-cover detection.

  • pacs.009 COV
  • Correspondents

PI-SPI instant payments

BCEAO interoperable instant payments for the WAEMU region: outbound and inbound flows, aliases and QR codes, batches, requests to pay and reconciliation.

  • BCEAO
  • WAEMU
  • QR codes

Payment Intelligence Hub

Reporting on every captured payment message. Build a report, ask for one in your own words, or explore ISO 20022 fields directly, then save and schedule it.

  • Reports
  • Schedules
  • ISO 20022 fields

Card Services and virtual cards

Card requests, cards and virtual cards for corporate and retail customers, with transactions, operations, risk, disputes, security and reconciliation in one module.

  • Cards
  • Virtual cards
  • Disputes
  • Reconciliation

Rules, mapping and workflow

Rules engine, clearing-system routing, mapping and transformation designers, workflow designer and payment simulations.

  • Rules engine
  • Mapping
  • Simulation
AI

AI that supports your teams, never replaces their decisions

VMH uses AI where it saves time for operations and compliance, and keeps people in control of every decision.

  • AI assistant

    Ask questions about payments, statuses and procedures from inside VMH.

  • False-positive review

    An AI assessment helps officers review screening hits. It is advisory only and never releases, blocks or clears a transaction on its own.

  • Reporting in your own words

    Ask a reporting question in plain language. VMH shows how it understood you before it runs anything.

  • Operational intelligence

    Spots velocity spikes, unusual beneficiary destinations, large off-hours transfers and infrastructure issues such as Alliance Access latency.

Designed for banks in Africa and beyond

VMH is designed around the payment systems, regulators and banking groups of the continent.

  • PI-SPI instant payments for the BCEAO and WAEMU region
  • SAMOS high-value routing and SADC regional connectivity
  • Multi-affiliate operation for banking groups across several countries
  • Interface in English, French and Portuguese
  • Sign-in with your Windows domain account
  • Every connection encrypted and every action audited

Control and audit by design

  • Maker-checker on payments, screening and configuration
  • Immutable audit trail with rule, list and policy versions
  • Message ownership and version management
  • Integrity monitoring of every message

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