Sibos

News/crime

ThetaRay moves to the cloud on $31 million fund raise

ThetaRay, the Isralei fintech that enables banks to monitor payment traffic to sniff out money laundering risks, has completed a $31 million fundraising round.

20 May 2021

News/crypto

Swift makes its case for place in CBDC world

Swift has a unique role to play in a payments ecosystem that includes central bank digital currencies, according to a joint paper from Accenture and...Swift.

12 May 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Driving correspondent banking success through wider adoption of instant payments

The shift toward instant payments will undoubtedly provide benefits for consumers, but it is the benefits for institutions and corporates that are likely to revolutionise financial services. However, to reap these benefits financial institutions must navigate the maze of deadlines and coinciding schemes in a proactive manner.

30 April 2021

News/payments

Swift cans in-person Sibos for second year in succession

The Covid-19 pandemic has put paid to Swift's physical international banking conference Sibos for the second year in a row, consigning the event to a digital-only format.

30 March 2021

News/sustainable

Swift and ICC bid to create industry standard for ESG due diligence

Swift's KYC Registry has become the first market utility to embed the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Sustainable Trade Finance Guidelines, making it easier for financial institutions to identify environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in their supply chains.

10 March 2021

News/people

Oxford University professor: ‘There is a real threat that fintech will set gender diversity back’

One of Sibos’ first panel sessions for 2021, ‘Make 2021 the year to improve your bank’s diversity’, saw panellists raise concern over the lack of diverse representation in financial services, particularly fintech.

12 January 2021

News/devops

How banks and financial services players will monetise open banking

Joined by executives from the financial services ecosystem, Celent’s head of corporate banking Patricia Hines took to the Sibos virtual stage to lead a discussion on the potential for building on ROI with APIs.

12 January 2021

Finextra TV/payments

The benefits of SWIFTs bold new transaction management model

Harry Newman, Head of Payments Strategy, SWIFT, speaking during EBAday 2020 about the recent announcement made by SWIFT about a bold new strategy that involves moving from messaging towards a transaction management model, what the strategy will entail, the challenges it addresses, and how it will benefit financial institutions and their end customers.

26 November 2020

Finextra TV/payments

The road ahead for RTGS Replacement & Message Standards

Sean Devaney, Vice President, Banking and Financial Markets, CGI, speaks during EBAday 2020 about the RTGS replacement programme, what the Bank of England is doing about the delays that SWIFT has announced to the ISO20022 roll out for international payments and what should they & the member banks be focused on.

25 November 2020

Research/Sibos

Digital Transformation Accelerated

06 November 2020 710 downloads

News/crime

ECB monitors cyber resilience in face of Covid-19 threat actors

Appearing at Sibos 2020, Fiona van Echelpoel, deputy director general, ECB, dove into the biggest cyber threats facing financial services as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold.

09 October 2020

News/sustainable

Sibos 2020: Defining sustainable finance and ESG, beyond climate action and the environment

As wildfires, hurricanes, social and economic unrest and the pandemic play out across the global stage, the final of day of Sibos 2020 focuses on banking for humanity, the impact of ESG and the triple bottom line as a driver for sustainable business.

08 October 2020