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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

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JPMorgan Chase leads open source messaging push

JPMorgan Chase has joined forces with standards bodies and open source vendors to promote uptake and development of a platform-agnostic, interoperable message queuing middleware protocol.

20 June 2006

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Reconciliations software spend to rise - TowerGroup

Bank spending on reconciliation and exception management systems will increase from $238 million in 2006 to over $310 million in 2009, a compound annual growth rate of 11%, according to research from TowerGroup.

21 March 2006

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Banorte and Toyota apply Tibco BPM to credit operations

Banorte and Toyota Services of Mexico have implemented Tibco's Business Process Management (BPM) platform to ease automation and legacy application integration in their auto-financing operations.

14 February 2006

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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange selects SunGard for Swift connectivity

Israel's only stock exchange has licensed SunGard's STeP Mint SwiftNet software to connect back-office applications to Swift.

06 September 2005

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HSBC rolls out SmartTrade order routing system

HSBC Global Markets is implementing order routing technology from Smart Trade Technologies to support its capital markets trading operations.

06 September 2005

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Santander's SVB live with Vermeg's Megatrade

SVB, the brokerage arm of Spanish banking group Santander Central Hispano, has implemented Vermeg's J2EE-based order management middle and back office processing platform, Megatrade.

05 September 2005

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Sun targets SOA market with SeeBeyond acquisition

Sun Microsystems is to acquire middleware firm SeeBeyond for $387 million in cash.

28 June 2005

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Standard Bank deploys SeeBeyond integration platform

South Africa's Standard Bank is implementing California-based SeeBeyond's middleware platform, Ican 5, to integrate applications globally across its investment banking division.

19 April 2005

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Tibco acquires Objectstar

California-based business integration systems firm Tibco Software has acquired ObjectStar, a privately-held provider of mainframe integration systems, for an undisclosed sum.

10 March 2005

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JPMorgan Chase promotes open source messaging system

JPMorgan Chase is promoting uptake of a new open source alternative to proprietary message queuing technology for the investment banking industry.

11 February 2005

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Microsoft signs Banesto and Sekerbank to BizTalk Accelerator for Swift

Spain's Banesto and Turkey's Sekerbank are implementing Microsoft's financial middleware technology to manage payments processing and take advantage of the new services being offered by Swift. Microsoft has also receieved SwiftReady Financial Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Gold accreditation for its BizTalk Accelerator for Swift the first time.

11 October 2004

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UBS Global Asset Management links fund administration operations with SeeBeyond

UBS Global Asset Management has deployed the SeeBeyond platform to integrate its fund administration operations located in Basel and Luxembourg with its recently established New Fund Administration Platform (NFAP).

11 October 2004

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CSK Software sold to Swiss investment group

CSK Corporation has sold its German financial technology subsidiary, CSK Software, to a group of private investors led by SwissRisk CEO Thomas Wolfensberger. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

09 August 2004

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Credit Suisse deploys SunGard's Mint for move to IP-based messaging

Credit Suisse is implementing SunGard Business Integration's Mint software to consolidate its domestic and international financial messaging operations and manage its move to the SwiftNet IP network.

15 June 2004

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CheckFree forms STP vendor partner programme

CheckFree Software has launched a certified STP partner (CSTP) programme, to encourage complementary third party vendors to integrate applications with its TradeFlow TPM and MessageBroker middleware products. Linedata Services has become the first firm to participate in the initiative.

14 May 2004