Latest Financial messaging News: Finextra Research

Sibos 2019: The new standard for rich, quality payments data

At Sibos 2019, experts from the Bank of England, The Clearing House, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BNY Mellon gathered to discuss the transition from MT messages to ISO 20022 by the deadline of November 2021 and how to prepare for the adoption of a common payments and reporting language.

23 September 2019

News/payments

Sibos 2019: The adoption of SWIFT gpi and impact on global payments

At Sibos 2019, Swift’s Fabien Depasse, Wim Raymaekers, Anne-Sophie Walravens and Lior Cohen, explored how Swift gpi is seeing unparalleled growth in adoption, traffic and corridors. Today, more than 3,500 financial institutions (FIs) are signed up to gpi and allow their customers to make payments in nearly 150 currencies.

23 September 2019

News/Financial messaging

Sibos 2019: Should banks trust in the UK despite Brexit uncertainty?

Welcoming business leaders and industry experts to the Excel Centre in London for Sibos 2019, Swift innovation manager Innes Macleod takes to the stage to divulge Innotribe’s mission and reflect on the technological and societal changes that are challenging the financial services sector, with input from renowned experimental physicist and celebrity figure Professor Brian Cox.

23 September 2019

News/Financial messaging

Sibos 2019: Cloud services- huge burden of security responsibility

Security does not come embedded in a cloud service, nor are cloud services something you can choose to avoid, panellists discussed during one of the opening panels at Sibos 2019, London.

23 September 2019

News/Financial messaging

Ambitious P27 project grows team for next phase

Nordic bank-backed P27 is undertaking a recruitment drive as it puts together the building blocks for a proposed 2021 go-live of its real-time, cross-border payment project.

10 September 2019

News/Financial messaging

Swift publishes new API standard

Banking cooperative Swift has published a new API standard for the pre-authorisation of funds in its latest bid to bring more efficiency to open banking in Europe.

05 September 2019

News/Financial messaging

Innovation driving digital acceleration in Latin America

Swift's Latin American Regional Conference (LARC) explored how banks in the region are looking to increase digitisation, while managing cyber and compliance challenges.

29 May 2019

News/Financial messaging

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

22 May 2019

News/devops

Live: FusionONE 2019 - day two

Welcome to Finextra’s live coverage of FusionONE 2019. The second day of the conference will tackle issues that concern the developers before breaking into streams, focusing on different products.

22 May 2019

News/Financial messaging

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day one

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

21 May 2019

News/payments

Deutsche Bank warns ISO 20022 migration not just another IT project

The migration to ISO 20022 offers a major opportunity for banks and corporates, but it is not simply "another IT project" and will require CEO commitment and allocation of appropriate budgets, according to a Deutsche Bank guide.

20 May 2019

News/Financial messaging

NextGen Banking London 2019: Live blog

Welcome to Finextra’s live coverage of NextGen Banking London 2019, the one-day event which will explore how the AI revolution will permeate and disrupt the financial services industry and what role the technology will play in the future of finance.

16 May 2019

News/Financial messaging

Digitisation and collaboration on Ireland's agenda

The SWIFT Business Forum Ireland 2019 explored how Irish financial institutions can deliver a truly digital customer experience through a spirit of collaboration, while staying secure against evolving cyber threats.

07 May 2019

News/Financial messaging

Swift Business Forum Ireland 2019 - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's coverage of the Swift Business Forum Ireland 2019, live from Croke Park in Dublin. The day's agenda promises to explore how Irish financial institutions can capitalise on unprecedented technological change to deliver a truly digital customer experience.

30 April 2019

News/Financial messaging

Swift names Javier Pérez-Tasso CEO

Swift has promoted its Americas and UK chief executive Javier Pérez-Tasso to CEO, replacing Gottfried Leibbrandt, who is stepping down after seven years at the helm of the bank-backed international payments network.

24 April 2019

News/payments

RBA consults on ISO 20022 migration plan

The Reserve Bank of Australia is canvassing bank views on plans to migrate the nation's payments networks to the ISO 200022 messaging standard.

09 April 2019

News/Financial messaging

Tackling digital transformation in Nordic financial services

SWIFT's Business Forum Nordics event examined how the financial services community in the region can deliver technological innovation while managing emerging risk factors.

04 April 2019

News/payments

Swift convenes ISO 20022 harmonisation group

Interbank messaging network Swift has convened a working group of payments experts to formulate common guidelines for the implementation of ISO 20022 for cross-border payments.

04 April 2019

News/Financial messaging

Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019 - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's coverage of the Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019, live from Copenhagen. This event has a focus on accelerating digital transformation, and will look at how the financial community in the region is harnessing technological change to deliver a digital customer experience.

28 March 2019

News/Financial messaging

Russia pushes its Swift alternative

Russian authorities are promoting the international use of an alternative financial messaging system to the global Swift network in order to mitigate the risk of sanctions.

22 March 2019