Latest Sibos News: Finextra Research

Latin American banks turn to Swift to combat de-risking threat

Eight Latin American central banks have signed up to adopt Swift's sanctions screening service and KYC Registry in an effort to combat the threat posed to the region by de-risking measures imposed in correspondent banking relationships.

04 November 2016

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We need to attack vanilla business in payments

Pierangelo Mortara, Deputy General Manager, UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions, speaks about innovations in banking and where distributed ledger technology can fit in.

03 November 2016

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More DLT use cases around information sharing

Nick Armstrong, Co-founder and CEO, Identitii, plots out the timeline for mainstream blockchain adoption and what the killer app might be.

03 November 2016

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Open banking needs industry collaboration

Thomas Egner, Secretary General, Euro Banking Association, discusses the implications of PSD2 and the objectives of the open banking forum initiated by the EBA.

03 November 2016

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Regions need unique identifier

Damian Pettit, Head of Operations, Payments, RBS, discusses strategic regional hubs and the support banks require to set up in the UK regions.

02 November 2016

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US real-time a chance for banks to innovate

Chris Hadorn, Principal, Financial Services, and Troy Hagey, Managing Director, KPMG talk about the opportunities and challenges of the US move to real-time payments, how banks’ business cases for investment are influenced by their progress on the digitalisation journey, and what it means that it’s no longer about the payment, but about the business transaction and the data that come with it.

01 November 2016

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APIs and open banking win most airtime at Sibos 2016

Blockchain still high on the agenda according to Finextra’s review of discussions in Geneva, while excitement about AI grows

01 November 2016

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Machine learning unlocks data insights

Mike Blalock, General Manager - Financial Services Industry, Intel and Andy Hirst, VP Banking Solutions, SAP discuss the role of machine learning – and the chief data officer – in enabling banks to maximise the value of their data assets and drive forward with digital transformation.

31 October 2016

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Cookie cutter no good for corporate payments

Ebru Pakcan, Global Head of Payments and Receivables, Citi, talks about the specific needs of corporates for cross-border payments and how banks can address them, and the potential for collaboration between banks and fintechs to generate end-to-end client value.

28 October 2016

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Uruguay's central bank goes live on Swift for RTGS

SWIFT announced today that Uruguay’s Central Bank’s real-time gross settlement system (RTGS) is now live on SWIFT.

27 October 2016

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Fintech is a new friend for banks

Stephanie Wolf, Head of Global Financial Institutions, Public Sector Banking and Canada Sales, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, discusses how fintechs can help transaction banks to deliver products and services more quickly, the need for banks to be nimble to respond to the shifting global trade environment and the outlook for correspondent banking over the next 3-5 years.

27 October 2016

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Regional centres can nurture collaboration

Tim Newns, Chief Executive, MIDAS – Manchester’s Inward Investment Agency, talks about how UK cities such as Manchester are bringing together financial services firms and fintechs to deliver innovation into the banking business, and how the Northern Powerhouse vision could play out.

27 October 2016

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Smoothing the corporate banking value chain

Laurence Leyden, General Manager for Financial Services in EMEA SAP, discusses how digitalisation can help banks shift their approach to corporate customers from selling product to delivering value-add, and what this means for banks’ core systems.

26 October 2016

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Managing endpoints critical for DL security

Stephen Scharf, Chief Security Officer, DTCC, talks about the cyber security implications of blockchain and how distributed ledger could contribute to recoverability by enabling redundancy and back-up.

25 October 2016

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Customers want a path through uncertainty

Adam Raw, Head of FI Propositions, Global Transaction Banking, Lloyds Banking Group, discusses the regulatory, political and technology drivers creating an environment of uncertainty for transaction banks and their customers, and looks at how banks can help their customers by bringing improved speed and agility to product development through the implementation of cross-functional teams.

25 October 2016

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CBA and Wells Fargo combine blockchain and IoT to revolutionise trade finance

Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Well Fargo are claiming a world-first interbank open account transaction using a blockchain and the Internet of Things for the shipment of goods across international borders.

24 October 2016

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Community needs to act together on cyber

Alain Raes, Chief Executive, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Swift, reflects on the cyber discussion at Sibos and talks about the programme Swift is running to help banks, their counterparties and their wider communities to tackle the cyber threat collectively going forward.

24 October 2016

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Blockchain won’t be as disruptive as people think

Cian Burke, Head of Securities Services, HSBC discusses why big data and data analytics still dominate conversations, and the effect distributed ledger technology may have on post-trade and operations.

21 October 2016

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Digital a big opportunity for small banks

Astrid Stolbrink, Head of FSI EMEA Services, SAP, talks about smaller established banks’ advantages when it comes to providing banking anywhere, anytime, and how they can approach breaking down the silos in their organisations to realise this opportunity.

20 October 2016

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Ecuador bank gets nod to proceed with suit against Wells Fargo over Swift heist

Wells Fargo has failed to convince a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by an Ecuadorian bank in connection with a $12 million theft made over the Swift network.

19 October 2016