Case Study: Unilever achieves centralized treasury and streamlined SWIFT payments with DH Corporation

Migrating From Multi-Country to Centralized Treasury

Unilever, the Anglo‑Dutch consumer goods company, centralized its treasury and standardized on SWIFT for payments but found managing a growing, complex SWIFT environment (FIN, SWIFTNet/FileAct and HSM security) increasingly costly and resource‑intensive. To simplify operations and reduce risk, Unilever selected DH Corporation’s SWIFT service bureau to take over its messaging and payments infrastructure.

DH Corporation delivered an outsourced SWIFT service bureau, working in a joint project team to migrate Unilever’s environment in under three months. The move was completed on time and on budget with no business interruption; Unilever has since migrated commercial payments to the service bureau, reducing internal specialist headcount needs, lowering operational complexity and achieving expected per‑message cost savings through DH Corporation’s economies of scale.

Unilever

Ben Schol

Subject Matter Expert