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News/Sibos
The Bank of Canada's experimental effort to build a wholesale payment system using a DLT-based settlement asset has thrown up concerns about whether the technology can meet international standards for systemically important payments infrastructure.
13 February 2017
Company update/Sibos
Combatting fraud is a challenge for the entire financial industry, as cyber-attacks grow in frequency and sophistication.
06 February 2017
Pelican, a global provider of payments and compliance solutions for banks and corporates, today unveiled its PelicanSecure Fraud Prevention solution.
01 February 2017
Swift innovation unit Innotribe is inviting young fintech firms in Russia and Africa to apply for participation in two distinct Startup Challenge programmes.
31 January 2017
10 Nepalese banks will utilise SWIFT's Sanctions Screening service to support their sanctions compliance.
09 January 2017
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published its latest progress report on the implementation of its four-point action to assess and address the decline in correspondence banking.
26 December 2016
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2016, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 3 January 2017.
21 December 2016
SWIFT announces today that the Barbados Central Securities Depository Inc. (BCSDI) and the Jamaican Central Securities Depository (JCSD) have signed up to the SWIFT ‘ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter’, a framework of principles for the harmonised adoption of the ISO 20022 messaging standard.
08 December 2016
SWIFT and Fox-IT announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding to reconfirm their cooperation to combat cyber security challenges affecting the global financial community.
30 November 2016
The SWIFT Institute announces the launch of the 2017 Student Challenge, open to students of recognised universities and colleges across Canada.
Finextra TV/Sibos
Stephen Lindsay, Head of Standards at Swift, discusses how the industry can best approach the development of the business standards needed to ensure that blockchain developments don’t create islands of automation that cannot interoperate.
29 November 2016
Sean Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Faster Payments Strategy Leader, Federal Reserve System, summarises the US faster payments landscape, and what needs to be done to create a united faster payments solution.
Andy Hirst, VP Banking Solutions, SAP, discusses the big trends in big data – unstructured, openness, machine learning – and explores the challenges banks still face in exploiting the value of their data to the max.
28 November 2016
Swift's European operations forum in Berlin ended where it began, with a high-powered debate on the ability of the world's banks to combat an escalating cyber threat.
25 November 2016
Former Level39 head honcho Eric van der Kleij is seeking the support of financial heavyweights like Swift and big international banks for the creation of a global network of blockchain labs and accelerators for tech startups.
White hat hackers at Sophos gained access to administrative rights at a New York bank using a social engineering technique that leaned on the creation of a bogus profile on LinkedIn.
24 November 2016
Payments professionals from across Europe, Middle East and Africa have been gathering in Berlin for Swift's Operations Forum Europe conference to learn first hand how the interbank co-operative is dealing with ongoing security issues and new technology innovations in banking and finance.
23 November 2016
Braden More, Head of Payment Strategy at Wells Fargo, talks about the need for banks to lean into innovation, the rise of fintech in the deposit and investing products space, and why the time when fintech valuations cool and fintechs have to come back down to earth is the tipping point to make change happen.
22 November 2016
Andreas Lambropoulos, Head of Strategic Initiatives for BNP Paribas International Financial Services, talks about the bank’s evolving approach to working with fintech start-ups, his vision for partnership between banks and fintechs, and the need for any innovation initiative to create value for clients and for the bank.
Jonathan Charley, Deputy General Manager, FS EMEA, SAP, talks about the drivers for the rise of robo advisors, how these businesses are likely to evolve, and how traditional wealth providers should be responding.
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