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Accenture-led consortium to build new UAE instant payments platform

The Central Bank of the UAE has selected a consortium formed of Accenture, SIA, Nexi and G42 to steer the development of a new instant payments platform.

02 February 2022

Company announcement/payments

S-Kreditpartner taps SIA for new BNPL card launch

S-Kreditpartner, a member of the savings banks finance group and one of the leading consumer finance companies in Germany, has chosen SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, to support the launch of its new FlexiGeld card and to contribute to the digitalization of the cardholder’s experience.

13 December 2021

Company announcement/payments

BNP Paribas engages SIA for co-branded card launch

BNP Paribas partners with SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, to support the launch of co-branded cards with major commercial partners in France and other European countries.

24 November 2021

Company announcement/payments

Nexi and SIA to redesign payments network for Italy's CBI

CBI, the hub for technological innovation and digitalization of the financial industry, has entrusted Nexi and SIA to redesign the technological architecture of interconnection between all banks and CBI’s Payment Service Provider (PSP) clients.

13 September 2021

Company announcement/payments

Bawag chooses SIA to manage payment cards in Austria

BAWAG P.S.K., one of the largest banks in Austria with 2.3 million customers, has selected SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, as the technology partner for the management and processing of the credit and prepaid cards portfolio issued by BAWAG P.S.K., easybank and PayLife.

02 September 2021

News/wholesale

Canada's high-value payment system launches

Payments Canada has launched Lynx, the country's new high-value payment system, which has been built with technology partners IBM and SIA.

01 September 2021

Company announcement/payments

Banking Circle chooses SIA to launch instant payments service in Europe

Banking Circle, the Payments Bank for the new economy, has selected SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, to launch its new instant payments service in Europe connecting to the TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) service of the Eurosystem.

22 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Modernisation, a catalyst for payments utopia

With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.

29 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

28 June 2021

Company announcement/payments

SIA and Bancomat devise MoU to create NewCo to manage the processing of payment transactions

BANCOMAT S.p.A., market leader and owner of the BANCOMAT® and PagoBANCOMAT® networks, as well as of the innovative BANCOMAT Pay service, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SIA S.p.A., a hi-tech company controlled by CDP Equity and European leader in the design, implementation and management of technology infrastructures and services in the Card & Merchant Solutions, Digital Payment Solutions and Capital Market & Network Solutions segments.

23 June 2021

Company announcement/payments

SIA and Volante form instant payments partnership

Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, and SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, have signed a partnership agreement to enable banks, financial institutions and payment service providers to access instant payments, speeding up the adoption of digital payments in Europe.

15 June 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Increasing the up-take of Instant Payments across Europe

Cristina Astore, SIA’s Northwest Europe and DACH Region Sales Director, speaks to FinextraTV in the lead up to EBAday 2021, about the Instant Payments rollout and the complexity of implementing the infrastructures. We hear about what can be done to further increase their take-up across Europe, how the industry can innovate and create new services and benefits, and whether we are truly experiencing the digital revolution in Europe.

09 June 2021