Latest Cash management News: Finextra Research

Westpac launches online SME tools

Westpac has launched a Live Online Lending Application (Lola) to help small to medium sized enterprises apply for loans and a MyBusiness Assist platform to help businesses plan, manage and finance their firms more easily.

31 March 2015

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New £1 coin unveiled to beat the counterfeiters

The final design has been unveiled for the dramatically restyled £1 coin, complete with 12 sides and a host of new features that purportedly make it the most secure coin in the world.

18 March 2015

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Payments Council to explore prospects for providing more information with payments

The UK's Payments Council has committed to explore options for incorporating richer data sets alongside business and consumer electronic payment transactions.

19 December 2014

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Markit enters OMS arena with thinkFolio acquisition

Financial data outfit Markit is moving into the order management system (OMS) business with the acquisition of thinkFolio. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

14 January 2014

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Security and BYOD policy management key barriers to corporate mobile banking

Corporate treasurers cite security challenges and bring-your-own-device business policies as the key obstacles to wider uptake of mobile banking platforms for treasury activities.

05 December 2013

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Students to mentor Citi suits on digital strategies

In a twist on the mentor relationship, University of Miami students are preparing to take senior Citi bankers under their wings, teaching the suits about social media and digital technologies.

27 September 2013

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Deutsche Bank transfers more applications to Autobahn App Market

Deutsche Bank has released three new cash management apps on its Autobahn App Market and launched a new service for real-time reconciliation of multi-currency transactions.

18 September 2013

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Deutsche Bank brings supply chain finance to the app market

Deutsche Bank has added a supply chain finance app to its Autobahn App Market.

05 August 2013

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Standard Treasury bids to ease commercial banking pain

A US start-up called Standard Treasury has developed a series of APIs designed to ease access to commercial banking services for small businesses.

10 July 2013

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Barclays extends mobile payments to retailers with Buyit

Barclays customers will soon be able to use their Pingit mobile payments app to make purchases by scanning QR codes on adverts, the bank's managing director of cash management, Richard Martin, has told Finextra.

19 June 2013

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Supply chain finance becoming a 'must have' accessory for transaction banks

Supply chain finance (SCF) has continued to exhibit strong growth in the last two years, according to latest research from Demica, which reveals average annual SCF growth rates between 30% and 40% at major international banks.

29 May 2013

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Corporate treasuries are in danger of losing the Sepa momentum

Anne Coghlan, head of group treasury at Dyson, discusses how her organisation is redirecting attention towards complying with the single euro payments area as the industry prepares for the 2014 end dates.

01 May 2013

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Deutsche Bank builds Accounts Receivable Manager for Sepa for PayPal

Deutsche Bank has launched Accounts Receivable Manager (ARM) for Sepa, a corporate cash management tool initially developed for e-commerce giant PayPal

10 April 2013

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Citi ICG streamlines transaction services management

Citi is planning to streamline the structure of its Institutional Clients Group (ICG) by ditching the management positions overlooking its transaction services and securities and banking units.

09 April 2013

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Citi implements corporate-to-bank Swift standard for trade

Citi has rolled out the corporate-to-bank Swift Message Type (MT) 798, in a move that the US giant says will support its multinational clients in their trade flows.

13 February 2013

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ION buys Financial Software Systems

Fintech vendor ION Group has acquired Financial Software Systems, a US provider of treasury management, capital market and wealth management technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

18 January 2013

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Fiserv buys Open Solutions

Fiserv has acquired rival fintech vendor Open Solutions for $55 million in a deal that also sees it assume around $960 million of debt.

15 January 2013

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Deutsche Bank Autobahn App Market picks up speed

Deutsche Bank has launched a new liquidity management application on its Autobahn App Market and signed Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) as a client.

30 October 2012

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Banks announce support for SAP corporate cloud messaging network

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Nordea, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank have announced their involvement in the development of the SAP Financial Services Network (FSN), a cloud-based corporate-to-bank connectivity platform.

29 October 2012

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Survey: 45 per cent of transaction banks developing mobile strategy

Finextra and Misys have announced the results of their annual survey of trends in transaction banking. The responses from 105 professionals in the trade finance, payments and cash management industry located in 40 countries highlighted the stronger strategic focus on customer service and channel and product innovation.

29 October 2012