Latest Sibos News: Finextra Research

Swift tests payment flows over Microsoft Azure

Swift is testing whether its messaging infrastructure can be hosted on Microsoft Azure to enable cloud-native payments.

22 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Swift shores up cyber-defences with Payment Controls

SWIFT today announces the introduction of Payment Controls, an intelligent new in-network solution to combat fraudulent payments, and to help strengthen its customers’ existing security.

22 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Swire shipping deploys Bolero electronic bills of lading to speed cargo shipment

Swire Shipping, the leading provider of managed liner services, has achieved a significant first by accelerating a shipment of containerised grain from Australia to New Zealand using electronic bills of lading from Bolero International, the trade finance digitisation expert.

22 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

DTCC unveils data platform for quants

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the release of its latest Data Services product, DTCC Equity Kinetics, providing institutional investors with a comprehensive depth of market view of activity across all U.S. equity trading venues.

22 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Visa readies blockchain-based B2B Connect for market

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced new product details surrounding digital identity in preparation for a first quarter 2019 launch of Visa B2B Connect.

22 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

TCS releases gpi-ready version of Bancs for Payments

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced the release of TCS BaNCS for Payments V12 at SIBOS 2018.

22 October 2018

News/Sibos

NTT Data plans pan-Asian federated trade information platform based on blockchain

NTT Data has completed proof of concept phases including 14 Japanese logistics and financial companies, and interoperability with Singaporean and Thai national trade and customs platforms, as part of its plans to create an international trade data sharing platform.

22 October 2018

News/Sibos

Sibos 2018: Swift CEO touts success of gpi, reiterates 2020 for universal adoption

Swift CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt used his opening remarks at this year's Sibos in Sydney to talk up the adoption of Swift’s gpi, better information sharing and visibility around breaches reducing cyber risk, and Swift’s efforts to remain neutral in the face of volatile geopolitical situations.

22 October 2018

News/Sibos

Oz challenger bank 86 400 signs on with Open Bank Project

86 400, an Australian banking startup led by a host of industry heavyweights, has inked a deal with open source API specialists Open Bank Project.

22 October 2018

Company update/devops

Finastra unveils cloud-based instant payments offering

Today at Sibos and Money 2020, Finastra revealed its instant payments offering in the cloud for small and mid-sized banks.

22 October 2018

News/payments

Banks see payments infrastructure renovation as key to digital strategy

Nearly two-thirds of banks believe their payments infrastructure will need a significant upgrade in the next three years as an area once confined to the back-office domain becomes a key part of firms' digital strategy, according to a new report from Ovum.

22 October 2018

News/Sibos

Finextra news and video teams jet off to Sydney and Las Vegas

Finextra will be sending news and video crews to capture all the colour and the highlights from two of the biggest events in the financial technology calendar next week, Sibos in Sydney, Australia, and Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.

19 October 2018

News/devops

Swift and NPP Australia open API sandbox

Swift and NPP Australia have created an API sandbox for third party vendor to test new innovations leveraging the country's real-time payments system.

18 October 2018

News/Sibos

Top banks come together to build Trade Information Network

Seven top-tier banks have joined forces to create a single platform for trade and supply chain finance, helping corporates to communicate seamlessly across multiple banking partners.

18 October 2018

News/Sibos

Payments revenue to hit $2.4 trillion by 2027

The payments industry remains one of the brightest spots on the financial services landscape, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Swift, which predicts global revenue to grow by more than $1 trillion by 2027.

18 October 2018

News/Sibos

Standards bodies converge on financial sector API blueprint

Financial messaging platform Swift has published a blueprint for common API standards in collaboration with European banking standards bodies Stet and the Berlin Group.

16 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

GBST ports middle office tech to AWS

Global fintech GBST (GBT.ASX) has today announced the launch of Syn~TAC SaaS at Sibos 2018 in Sydney, Australia.

16 October 2018

Company update/payments

Onpex to offer clients access to Swift gpi

ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has partnered with SWIFT to offer its clients instant access to SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi).

15 October 2018

Finextra TV/Sibos

The combined effect of Open Banking and Real-time Payments

Jerry Norton, Vice President and Global Head of Banking for CGI, talks about how the combined effect of Open Banking and real-time payments on banks and what they need to do to adapt to the changing landscape.

11 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Santander goes live on Swift gpi

The leading retail and commercial bank, Santander, has gone live on SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi) service in Spain, the UK, Argentina and Poland.

11 October 2018