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DSB publishes feedback from industry meeting on OTC derivatives

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), founded by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISNs), for OTC derivatives, has today announced the results from its first consultation of 2019, and the opening of its second consultation aimed to shape the DSB service provision for 2020.

05 July 2019

Company update/payments

Kyriba client goes live with Swift gpi for corporates

Kyriba, the global leader in cloud treasury and finance solutions, today announced that one of its clients, Naval Group, is now live with Swift gpi for Corporates, a new cross-border payments feature from Swift, the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services.

27 June 2019

Company update/wholesale

Surecomp trade finance offering scores Swift certification

Surecomp, the global trade finance fintech leader announced today that DOKA-NG®, a back-office trade finance solution, was granted the ‘SWIFT Certified Application – Trade Finance’ label for the 19th consecutive year.

05 June 2019

Company update/Financial messaging

Judo Bank selects Unifii's digital banking platform

Unifii’s Digital Experience Platform has been selected by Judo Bank, the first SME focused bank operating in Australia, to enable cutting-edge face-to-face relationship banking that will shake up Australia’s banking status quo.

04 June 2019

Company update/payments

Swift named network service provider for Target services

Swift announces today that it has been awarded a license to provide ESMIG connectivity services from November 2021, as a Network Service Provider for the Eurosystem’s TARGET Services.

03 June 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

Company update/payments

Volante expands VolPay-as-a-Service for US FIs

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing and financial message integration, has expanded VolPay-as-a-Service, its cloud-based ecosystem of business services for payments innovation and modernization, with key innovations for U.S. financial institutions.

30 April 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

Company update/Financial messaging

Identitii partners with Trace Financial for Swift ISO20022 overlay

Identitii Limited (Identitii, Company) (ASX: ID8), an Australian FinTech enabling the secure overlay of transaction level detail on top of financial messages using a private blockchain, has partnered with leading message transformation software provider Trace Financial Limited (Trace Financial).

08 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