SIA - News, Articles & Research

Boosting innovation across the digital payments landscape

In the lead up to EBAday 2021, Eugenio Tornaghi, Marketing & Sales Director of SIA, speaks about banks’ focus on digital payments and where we're seeing most innovation, the role of the fintech community and central institutions in boosting this innovation, and the status of blockchain deployment and distributed ledger technology.

07 June 2021

News/cloud

SIA CloudNet connects hosted applications to major payment networks

Italy's SIA has launched a dedicated connection channel to major payments networks for banks running applications hosted by top cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

18 May 2021

News/markets

Italy to roll out blockchain for digital sureties contracts

The launch of the first system platform that will enable sureties to be managed in the banking and insurance sectors through DLT technology will happen in the second half of 2021 following successful pilot trials by SIA and Italy's Research Centre on Technology, Cetif.

10 May 2021

Company announcement/payments

Fidor Solutions contracts with SIA to launch instant payments in Germany

Fidor Solutions, a 100 % subsidiary of Sopra Banking Software, has signed a partnership agreement with SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, to launch its new instant payments service in Germany and in other European countries.

01 March 2021

Company announcement/payments

UniCredit and SIA ink revised card processing agreement

Following up on the press release issued on October 5, 2020, UniCredit and SIA announce that they successfully revised the overall terms of their current outsourcing agreement for the supply of certain processing services in Italy, Austria and Germany concerning card transactions and the management of POS and ATM terminals.

12 February 2021

Company announcement/payments

SIA defies Covid tribulations with low-margin growth in revenues and profits

SIA's Board of Directors, meeting under the chairmanship of Federico Lovadina, approved the preliminary consolidated financial results at 31 December 2020, confirming the positive trend of 2019 and growing in the fourth quarter of 2020, despite the economic contraction caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

11 February 2021

Company announcement/payments

ZEN turns to SIA for payments processing

ZEN, a newly launched licensed European fintech company, and SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, controlled by CDP Equity, have announced their partnership to bring ZEN’s innovative digital financial solution to consumers and entrepreneurs in 32 European countries [1], including the UK.

04 February 2021

Company announcement/markets

SIA and WizKey launch platform for negotiating credits on blockchain

SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, has signed a partnership agreement with WizKey, a fintech offering advanced solutions for the credit market, to launch an innovative platform available to banks, funds and financial operators to negotiate credits on blockchain and promote greater liquidity to the benefit of SMEs.

26 January 2021

Company announcement/retail

Finleap connect partners with SIA to deliver new Open Banking services in Europe

finleap connect, the full-stack open banking platform of Europe’s leading fintech ecosystem finleap, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, controlled by CDP Equity, to deliver new Open Banking services to European banks, financial institutions and fintechs.

20 January 2021

Company announcement/startups