Latest Financial messaging News: Finextra Research

Volante contracted by A2A for Jordanian bank migration to ISO 20022

Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of financial message and data integration, validation and processing software, today announced a strategic partnership with Access to Arabia (A2A).

08 June 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift opens office in Miami to service Latin American markets

SWIFT announces the opening of its new Latin American regional headquarters office in Miami, Florida to support the growth of the company’s operations in the region.

02 June 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Surecomp supply chain finance package gets Swift certification

Surecomp, the leading global provider of trade finance solutions for banks and corporations, announced today that SCF-PRO®, its innovative supply chain finance solution for banks and corporations, has been awarded the “SWIFT Certified Application – Supply Chain Finance” label.

01 June 2015

News/Financial messaging

Swift bids to drive ISO20022 harmonisation

Financial messaging network Swift is working with a host of market infrastructure providers and banks to develop a framework for harmonisation of the ISO20022 standard, amid concerns that a proliferation of different flavours of the protocol will lead to fragmentation.

20 May 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

FIX Trading Community reports increasing take-up in post-trade workflow

FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the results of its Global Post-Trade Survey used to determine the use of FIX in the post-trade workflow.

19 May 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift Business Forum London delegates say regulation top strategic priority

Swift held its annual Business Forum London on 23 April 2015, where more than 1,100 industry leaders gathered to discuss the latest trends and innovations in financial services.

14 May 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

ISDA launches UTI prefix service for derivatives trade reporting

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today announced the launch of UTIPrefix.org, a service that enables counterparties to obtain a unique trade identifier (UTI) prefix in order to create UTIs for the reporting of derivatives trades.

08 May 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Interactive Data adds web service to Apex delivery platform

Interactive Data, a leading provider of trusted, mission critical information for over 10 million financial instruments, including evaluated pricing and reference data, announced today that it has launched the Apex web service, which leverages the Apex logical data model covering descriptive and pricing data.

05 May 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

PayCommerce buys North American Swift Service Bureau Akshay Software International

PayCommerce announced today that it has completed a share purchase transaction to acquire the US subsidiary of Akshay Software Technologies Limited, India, Akshay Software International, Inc.

01 May 2015

News/Financial messaging

EBAday attracts global focus; exhibition sells out

Europe's premier payments conference, EBAday, is taking on an increasingly global flavour as the quest for instant funds transfers brings representatives from the Federal Reserve, The Clearing House and Ripple to the podium.

24 April 2015

News/Financial messaging

Swift promises STP Holy Grail with SwiftRef APIs

Financial messaging network Swift has introduced an automated data look-up service that identifies and validates payments reference data in real-time, reducing the time spent by bank back offices in correcting errors resulting from manual repairs and investigations.

20 April 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Volante launches VolPay Foundation to expedite payment integration projects

Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of financial message and data integration, validation and processing software, today announced the launch of VolPay Foundation.

20 April 2015

News/Financial messaging

Swift Nordics Conference - Live Blog Day 1

The main theme for the Swift Regional Conference in Copenhagen this year is disruption. The programme will explore the different challenges arising from newcomers, technology and regulation. It will look at how the financial industry can cope and turn these challenges into opportunities.

04 March 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift adds peer assessments to sanctions testing service

SWIFT announces the addition of Peer Assessment to its Sanctions Testing service.

03 March 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Dynamic Testing enhanced in Transformer 3.5

Trace Financial has announced the release of version 3.5 of Transformer, with a host of new features and enhancements to further accelerate the creation and deployment of complex financial message validations, mappings and transformations.

03 March 2015

News/Financial messaging

Swift bags BIC-to-IBAN data mandate for UK banks

The UK Payments Council has contracted with interbank messaging network Swift to provide a BIC-to-IBAN data platform, enabling the nation's banks to conform to new EU regulations on cross-border payments in the euro zone.

10 February 2015

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift expands in sub-Saharan Africa

SWIFT will open two new offices in 2015 – in Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya – as a crucial part of its pan-Africa growth plans. From these offices, SWIFT will manage an expanded presence across the West and East Africa regions.

15 January 2015

News/Financial messaging

Russia's National Payment System gears up for pilot

Several Russian banks, including some subject to Western sanctions, will next week begin testing the country's new card payments system, designed to take on Visa and MasterCard.

09 December 2014

Company update/Financial messaging

Crossing-Tech embeds C24 into Connectivity Factory

C24 Technologies (C24), a global leader in financial services messaging and integration solutions, today announced a partnership with Crossing-Tech, a trusted provider of IT solutions. Crossing-Tech will embed C24 Integration Objects (C24-iO) into Connectivity Factory enabling banks and financial firms to gain real-time business insight into activities such as fraud, regulatory compliance, financial transactions and governance.

03 December 2014

Company update/Financial messaging

Ajman Bank adopts SmartStream’s Corona

SmartStream Technologies, the Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) specialist, today announced that Ajman Bank, the award-winning Islamic financial services institution, has implemented SmartStream’s Corona solution to improve its operations and provide a better quality of services to its customers.

26 November 2014