CBI Consortium – Customer to Business Interaction Consortium
CBI Consortium’s goal is to design and develop the Corporate-to-Bank standards and to define the benchmark regulation in order to allow banks to set up a telematic interface with their customers, ensuring interoperability both at a national and international level.
Moreover, the Consortium manages the certification of all the parties allowed to operate on the CBI network (technical parties of the consortium), such as technical interbank processors. It also supports actions involving information and training, conference organisation, promotional activities and events.
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The CBI Service
The CBI Service (Interbank Corporate Banking) meets the requirements of Italian enterprises since it is addressed to rationalize and optimize the accountancy liaisons with the leader bank; it enables corporates to dispose a unique interface towards the whole banking system (“Forwarding agent” / leader bank), through which they can reach all their bank accounts held at other banks (“Executing agents”), on the basis of a fully standardized way.
The Interbank Corporate Banking, the Italian CBI, is a telematic banking service allowing firms of all sizes to work directly, through their computer, with all the banks they have relations with. Details >>
CBI in the international context
The participation in the European Commission “Expert Group on e-Invoicing”
The CBI Consortium participates as unique national delegate and its presence, beyond pursuing the development of e-invoicing interoperability at European level pushing new CBI services, supports the modernization and innovation issues for the public sector included in the Finanziaria 2008 law, which, as already stated, foresees the mandatory adoption of e-invoicing in the relationships between corporates and Public Administration (also known as “B2G”).
• The news from European Commission “Expert Group on e-Invoicing” are available here.
Final Report of the Expert Group on e-Invoicing
The framework that has been recommended by the Expert Group is built upon a range of principles, among which it is extremely relevant the homogeneity of treatment between e-invoices and paper invoices (principle of "equal treatment"), the technological neutrality - safeguarding investments that have already been made - and an overall harmonisation and simplification of rules and procedures in e-Invoicing processes within different Member States.
The Final Report will be available for public comment untill February 26th, 2010, in order to allow the international community to express its remarks about the proposed framework and make its own suggestions upon which the Final Report should be further developed. More info >>