Latest Sibos News: Finextra Research

AI and enhancing the human element in financial services

At SIBOS 2019, industry experts will be discussing how the financial services sector is in the vanguard of deploying AI on a global scale and whether the technology will be a transformative force or has the potential to act as an existential threat.

06 September 2019

News/Sibos

Swift publishes new API standard

Banking cooperative Swift has published a new API standard for the pre-authorisation of funds in its latest bid to bring more efficiency to open banking in Europe.

05 September 2019

News/Sibos

North Korean hackers have stolen $2 billion from banks to fund weapons programme

North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion in revenues for its weapons programme through the state-sponsored looting of financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reuters.

06 August 2019

Company update/Sibos

First ISO 20022 usage guidelines for cross-border payments released

The publication of first specifications marks an important milestone in the transformation of correspondent banking.

31 July 2019

News/Sibos

Finextra issues call for comment on payments revolution

Finextra is opening a public consultation on the competitive pressures driving the future strategy and direction of banks, as the sector grapples with a series of profound disruptions that are shaking up the once staid payments industry.

26 July 2019

Company update/Sibos

Eurobase collaborates with K-Consultants to offer support for Swift messages

Eurobase, having recognised the market demand for treasury solutions to expand across the front, middle and back-office operations, has selected to work with K-Consultants to integrate the Prowide SWIFT messaging and validation software to its Siena solution.

24 July 2019

News/Sibos

Swift connects with Singapore's Fast to slash cross-border payment times

Banking co-operative Swift is touting the succcess of its integration with Singapore's domestic instant payment service, slashing the time taken to process inbound cross-border message transfers to as little as 13 seconds.

18 July 2019

Company update/Sibos

Swift goes live with gpi for corporates

SWIFT today announces the further enhancement of its gpi service with the full go-live of SWIFT gpi for corporates, a capability designed and built in conjunction with banks and corporates which enables multi-banked corporates to initiate and track payments across multiple banks directly from their treasury and payment systems.

17 July 2019

Company update/security

Carnegie Endowment and Swift Institute release cybersecurity toolbox

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace today released “Cyber Resilience and Financial Organizations: A Capacity-building Tool Box” in partnership with the SWIFT Institute, the original sponsor, the IMF, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), Standard Chartered, the Cyber Readiness Institute, and the Global Cyber Alliance.

16 July 2019

Company update/Sibos

Brian Cox to deliver opening Innotribe keynote at Sibos 2019, London

Details of the keynote speakers for the Innotribe for Sibos London, 23-26 September have been announced, with physicist and BBC broadcaster, Brian Cox delivering the opening keynote speech.

16 July 2019

Company update/Sibos

LSE’s Dame Minouche Shafik to open Sibos London

Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), will deliver the opening plenary at Sibos 2019 as the event comes to London for the first time.

02 July 2019

Company update/Sibos

Bellin integrate with Swift gpi for corporates

BELLIN, a global leader in providing treasury software and services, has successfully integrated SWIFT gpi for Corporates (g4C) in its tm5 treasury management system and completed the pilot and Early Adopter phase.

24 June 2019

News/Sibos

Live: EBAday 2019, day two

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Stockholm this week for EBAday 2019, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

19 June 2019

Finextra TV/Sibos

Thriving in a hyper-connected world

Chris Jameson, Head of FI Sales, EMEA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, speaks about the top topics set for this year's Sibos in London, EBADay and the topic of virtual account management, whether FIs are delivering benefits to their clients with this technology and how banks can unlock data to drive value to their clients.

17 June 2019

Company update/Sibos

Swift pushes for greater automation in FX

SWIFT is leading industry efforts to increase automation levels in the global FX market through better standards to help remove barriers that hinder the exchange of information and to enable straight through processing.

12 June 2019

News/Sibos

Visa launches DLT-based cross-border payments platform

Visa has officially launched B2B Connect, its distributed ledger-based, non-card platform for high-value corporate, cross-border payments.

11 June 2019

Company update/Sibos

Surecomp’s COR-TF secures Swift Certification

Surecomp, the global trade finance fintech leader announced today that COR-TF, a multi-bank corporate trade finance solution, has been awarded the “SWIFT Certified Application – Trade and Supply Chain Finance for Corporates” label for the eighth consecutive year.

11 June 2019

Company update/Sibos

CBM Connects to NSD’s Swift Service Bureau

Credit Bank of Moscow (CBM) has connected to the SWIFT Service Bureau of National Settlement Depository (NSD).

31 May 2019

Company update/Sibos

FSB updates on work to address decline in correspondent banking relationships

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published two reports as part of its work:

29 May 2019

News/Sibos

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