Latest Financial messaging News: Finextra Research

Artificial Intelligence Bank-in-Messenger raises $1million from IIDF and private investors

The very first “Bank-in-Messenger”- TalkBank.io has raised $1million in seed investments with a company valuation of $6.1million. IIDF and 7 private investors, including Mark Malinovsky (kuponator.ru) have funded the start up.

06 October 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift Institute publishes working papers on cyber security

The SWIFT Institute has published three new working papers, each aiming to contribute towards the establishment of better cyber defences for the financial industry.

05 October 2017

News/Financial messaging

Central banks seek better wholesale payments security

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) has set out a plan to improve the security of wholesale payments that involve financial institutions in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year's $81 million Bangladesh Bank hack.

29 September 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

DBS brings end-to-end tracking to corporate payments with Swift gpi

Corporates and SMEs in Singapore and Hong Kong can now track their cross-border payments via DBS, leveraging SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi).

12 September 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift introduces certification programme for gpi vendors

SWIFT announces today the launch of an approved certification programme for vendors that support SWIFT gpi in their payment applications.

12 September 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Japanese banks go live with Omgeo ALERT

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (JTSB) and The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (MTBJ) have gone live on the Omgeo ALERT (ALERT) for Trustee Service via global custodian Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH).

29 August 2017

News/Financial messaging

Gloves come off as Ripple preps Toronto conference during Sibos

Ripple is cranking up its assault on Swift by signing up big names Ben Bernanke and Tim Berners-Lee for a conference next month, which will take place at the same time and in the same city, Toronto, as the annual Sibos jamboree.

24 August 2017

Company update/Financial messaging

Swift to provide gateway to domestic real-time payments in the US

SWIFT announces that it will provide U.S. institutions with a gateway to The Clearing House’s real-time payments (RTP) platform.

15 August 2017

News/Financial messaging

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