Latest Financial messaging News: Finextra Research

Corporates rally round Swift gpi

Six leading Swiss corporates with international operations - including ABB, Nestle, Roche, SBB, Swiss Re and Wurth – have issued an open letter in support of Swift's global payment innovation initiative to improve the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border payments.

19 July 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

HSBC becomes first banks send FIXML messages over Swift for clearing

SWIFT announces today that HSBC successfully went live with FIXML and ISO 20022 traffic on SWIFT for domestic clearing and settlement on SGX, enabling the bank to use a single channel for domestic and cross-border messaging.

13 July 2017

News/Financial messaging

SAP Financial Services Forum, London - Day 1 live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the SAP Financial Services Forum in London. The theme for this event is 'winning in the digital moment'. The two-day agenda will examine how technologies such as AI, machine learning, analytics, blockchain, open APIs and the cloud can be best leveraged to deliver truly digitised financial services.

04 July 2017

News/Financial messaging

Swift Business Forum, New York - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum in New York. This event will focus on the key issues affecting the financial industry, including banking, payments, and securities. Cyber security will also be a hot topic, in light of the announcement of Swift's Customer Security Programme.

14 June 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Australia's big four to implement Swift gpi

SWIFT announces today that the 4 major Australian banks, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac are part of over 70 banks around the globe which are now live or planning to implement SWIFT’s Global Payments Innovation (gpi).

08 June 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

INTL FCStone joins Swift gpi

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) today announced that its London-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd's Global Payments Division ("GPD" or "the Company") has joined the SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) initiative.

07 June 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

BofA Merrill Lynch joins Neptune fixed income network

Neptune, the Fixed Income network for real-time “axe” indications, today announced the addition of Bank of America Merrill Lynch (“BAML”) to its network. With BAML, Neptune now has 22 banks signed to participate on the network with 19 live.

16 May 2017

News/Financial messaging

After trashing Swift gpi, Ripple hires its biz director

Ripple has stepped up its rivalry with Swift, poaching Marjan Delatinne, who had been business director at the messaging network's new gpi programme - an offering Ripple has loudly trashed.

13 April 2017

News/Financial messaging

Swift introduces tool to help banks spot fraudulent messages

Swift has unveiled a real-time payment controls service designed to help banks spot fraudulent messages and avoid a repeat of the infamous Bangladesh Bank attack.

12 April 2017

News/Financial messaging

ISO rolls out new standards for mobile banking

International standards body ISO has rolled out a new set of specifications for mobile banking aimed at promoting financial inclusion.

06 April 2017

News/Financial messaging

Switzerland prepares for mass-market migration to ISO 20022 standard

Switzerland has started the countdown to a mass-market switch to the ISO 20022 standard for payments harmonisation across all consumer, corporate and bank payments, an initiative billed as the country's biggest financial infrastructure project in 390 years.

30 March 2017

News/Financial messaging

Fedwire and Chips to align with Swift gpi

Swift has taken a big step to realising one of the primary goals of its global payment initiative (gpi) by announcing an agreement with the Federal Reserve Banks and The Clearing House to support end-to-end payments tracking across their respective wire services.

13 March 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

EBA Clearing to introduce EBICS as additional connectivity option for instant payment system

EBA CLEARING announced today that the future participants in its panEuropean instant payment infrastructure service will be able to use, in addition to SIANet, the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS) for the exchange of transaction messages with the platform.

09 March 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Corporates want banks to deliver payment standardisation

A new Nordea report focusing on the future of the corporate and business-to-business payments landscape, including the changing role of banks and the impact of new technology, has shown that a lack of industry standardisation is a key concern among businesses.

08 March 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Ullink adds full MiFID II support to FIX engine

Ullink, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, today announced a new release of its leading FIX engine, UL APPIA.

02 March 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Raiffeisen Bank Romania implements Allevo tech for corporate Sepa compliance

Raiffeisen Bank Romania, in its continuous efforts to be one step ahead of competition and offer world class services to their business clientele, chose to offer its corporate customers a plug and play solution for ensure compliance to SEPA regulations.

01 March 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Pelican introduces PelicanFast for real-time payments processing and compliance

Pelican, a global provider of payments and compliance systems for banks and corporates, today launched PelicanFast, a real-time payments and compliance solution for organisations participating in the pan-European Instant Payments scheme of the European Payments Council.

23 February 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Bank of Cyprus taps Dovetail to build payment hub

Dovetail, the provider of best-in-class payments and liquidity management solutions, has today announced that Bank of Cyprus has selected the Dovetail Payment Solution to equip the bank with payment hub functionality covering SWIFT, Target2, SEPA Credit Transfer and Direct Debits.

15 February 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift introduces Daily Validation reports to help combat fraudulent messages

Combatting fraud is a challenge for the entire financial industry, as cyber-attacks grow in frequency and sophistication.

06 February 2017

News/Financial messaging

Swift goes deeper into the blockchain

Interbank payments network Swift is stepping up its exploration of the blockchain, launching a new proof of concept test to determine if distributed ledger technology could help banks reconcile their nostro databases in real time.

12 January 2017