Instant Messaging

News/regulation

Gleif plans digital service

The body responsible for managing the implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has announced plans to develop a digital version that can be rolled out across multiple sectors beyond the financial services market.

10 December 2020

Research/Instant Messaging

The Future of Payments 2020

24 November 2020 570 downloads

News/payments

Real-time payments - seize the momentum at EBAday 2020

Mastercard and ACI Worldwide announced they were partnering to provide a range of global real-time payments solution, aiming to offer “best in class central infrastructure” to banks and other financial solutions.

02 October 2020

Research/Instant Messaging

Is Request to Pay the System for a World of New Norms?

13 July 2020 973 downloads

News/regulation

Deutsche Bank taps Symphony for WhatsApp client chats

Deutsche Bank is using the Symphony messaging platform to enable staff to securely and compliantly communicate with clients via WhatsApp.

25 June 2020

News/payments

Brazil Central Bank ices Facebook's WhatsApp payment service

The central bank of Brazil has suspended Facebook's WhatsApp payment service within ten days of its roll out, citing competition issues in the mobile payment space.

24 June 2020

News/wholesale

Covid-19 remote working leads to more productive tech teams - survey

Financial services technology teams have increased their productivity while working from home during the Covid-19 lockdown, largely because they have fewer interruptions, suggests a new survey from Digiterre.

18 June 2020

Research/Instant Messaging

Underpinning Innovation with Real-Time Payments

31 March 2020 902 downloads

News/payments

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/Instant Messaging

Venmo rolls out instant transfers to bank accounts

Hot on the heels of the US Federal Reserve’s real-time payment and settlement system announcement, Venmo has launched a feature that supports instant transfers to US bank accounts.

13 August 2019

Finextra TV/Instant Messaging

How to protect and innovate in a real time open ecosystem

Marcus Hughes, Head of Strategic Business Development, Bottomline Technologies, speaks at EBAday 2019 about how banks can keep pace with ever-more sophisticated fraudsters while transitioning to real time payments and maximising the opportunities of PSD2.

16 July 2019

News/Instant Messaging

Facebook reveals digital wallet plan

Social media platform Facebook has unveiled further details of its much-anticipated digital currency offering, which it hopes will transform financial services.

18 June 2019

News/Instant Messaging

Wall Street messaging firm Symphony raises $165m

Financial communication platform Symphony has set its sights on an aggressive global expansion after raising $165 million in a funding round joined by Standard Chartered and MUFG Innovation Partners.

13 June 2019

News/Instant 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/payments

The platform ecology model: A deep dive

Eating the dust of Barclaycard’s partnership with Alipay, Finextra reports on the dominance of Ant Financial and Tencent in China and the emergence of the platform ecology business model in South East Asia, which will be dissected in detail at Money20/20 in Singapore this week.

15 March 2019