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Temenos TCF The Hague- Digital Banking Reloaded- live blog, Day 1

Finextra is here in The Hague covering Temenos' annual bash. Stay tuned for live rolling updates on proceedings and the very latest in innovative functionality and streamlined operations.

03 April 2019

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OpenMama project serves up first release; welcomes new participants

OpenMama, the middleware agnostic messaging API that went open source last year, has made available a new version and added IBM, Tick42 and TS-Associate to its steering committee.

01 May 2012

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Nyse Technologies open sources Mama API

Nyse Technologies has taken its Middleware Agnostic Messaging Application (Mama) programming interface open source.

31 October 2011

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Polaris wins $55m RBI core banking deal

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed a $55 million deal for the implementation and maintenance of Polaris's Intellect core banking system.

27 May 2011

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Bank of America Merrill Lynch to launch corporate Swift service bureau

Bank of America is to create a global Swift Service Bureau to provide its corporate clients with outsourced access to the Swift financial messaging network.

26 October 2010

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Deutsche Börse Systems taps open source for real-time risk

Deutsche Börse's IT unit is working with open source vendor Red Hat as it bids to enable real-time transaction risk management for financial services clients.

03 March 2010

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Microsoft joins AMQP enterprise messaging effort

Microsoft has joined the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group at the request of banking clients looking to develop an open industry standard for enterprise messaging.

27 October 2008

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Rogue trader costs Société Générale EUR5bn - back office controls skirted

French banking group Société Générale (SocGen) is reporting a massive EUR4.9 billion in losses perpetrated by a rogue trader who used to work in its middle office division and who used loopholes in controls and risk management procedures to conceal fictitious transactions.

24 January 2008

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Oracle to buy BEA for $8.5bn

Oracle has signed a definitive agreement to acquire service-oriented architecture (SOA) vendor BEA Systems in a deal worth approximately $8.5 billion.

16 January 2008

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Banks to increase low-latency spend - Tabb

The market for low-latency messaging middleware is set to rise from $95 million in 2007 to $168 million in 2010, a three-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 107% as investment banks ramp up spending on the technology to cope with rapidly increasing message volumes, according to forecasts from Tabb Group.

21 November 2007

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SunGard readies for SwiftNet Relationship Management migration with Mint RMA

Sungard has launched a Relationship Management Application module for SwiftNet FIN message exchange as part of its Mint middleware package.

01 October 2007

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Ffastfill reports SEB contract

Swedish banking group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has contracted with UK-based Ffastfill for the delivery of a third party trade execution service for customer and internal deployments.

02 August 2007

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Microsoft demos stock trading application based on latest technologies

Microsoft has created a sample online stock trading application to persuade the securities industry that its Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and .NET technologies can be used for high-performance applications within a service-oriented architecture.

20 June 2007

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IBM reports operational risk consortium deal; Bank of New York implementation

The Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX), a non-profit consortium of 35 banks that helps its members benchmark their operational loss data, has implemented data analytics technology from IBM.

08 May 2007

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Iona acquires C24 to strengthen financial services focus

Nasdaq-listed Iona Technologies has purchased privately held data and messaging software company C24 for an undisclosed fee.

06 March 2007

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IBM reports new $700m Sparkassen Informatik contract

Sparkassen Informatik, a provider of IT services to German co-operative banks, has signed a new five year contract, worth $700 million, with IBM, for the supply of hardware, software and services.

09 February 2007

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Efunds, IBM and Infomax to implement Thai national payments network

US payments systems vendor eFunds is teaming with IBM and Bangkok-based IT services firm Infomax to implement a new payments network for the National Interbank Transaction Management Exchange (ITMX) in Thailand.

12 January 2007

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Finextra and Microsoft partner on City developer forum

Finextra is partnering with Microsoft to devise a one-day conference programme for developers in the City.

21 December 2006

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Banco Popular Español uses BizTalk for Iberclear message transformation

Grupo Banco Popular Español has added Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for Swift to its group-wide integration infrastructure to deal with changes in stock transfer messaging at Spanish securities clearinghouse Iberclear.

09 October 2006

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Loan technology standards working group established

A group of loan market participants and technology vendors have banded together to establish the Open Loan Technology Standards Working Group (OLTS) committed to developing a straight-through processing environment for the commercial loan market.

14 September 2006