Latest Sibos News: Finextra Research

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Significant steps forward in Blockchain

David Collins, Head of Financial Services, GFT Technologies, explains the reasons behind slow adoption of blockchain within in the financial market in particular, where progress is being seen most, and how the market is likely to react to these findings.

30 October 2018

News/Sibos

Sibos: Real-time charity, student winners and the human side of AI

Wrapping up Sibos 2018, Bill Doran, Swift’s head of Oceania, demonstrated Australia’s real-time payment system with a live charity drive, while Monash University student team Hebe won AUD$30,000 with its proposal for helping Australia’s banks protect consumer privacy in a world of open banking.

25 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

EBA Clearing’s real-time payment system RT1 passes 5-million-transaction mark

Eleven months after its go-live, EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system RT1 has hit the 5-million-transaction mark.

25 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

iGTB forges trade finance partnership with Bolero

Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), the transaction banking division of Intellect Design Arena Ltd, the leading B2B fintech with 21% CAGR over three years, has entered into a collaboration agreement with Bolero International, the world’s premier trade digitisation experts, with goals to make trade safer, smarter and faster.

24 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Temenos introduces 'Hybrid Pooling' for corporate cash management

Temenos (SIX:TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that it has added new functionality to its existing and extensive corporate banking capabilities.

24 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Coronation Fund Managers goes live with SmartStream’s corporate actions module

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Life cycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today announced that Coronation Fund Managers, one of the largest independent fund managers in South Africa, has gone live with TLM Corporate Actions OnDemand – automating the complete corporate actions life cycle.

24 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Infosys to embed R3's Corda into Finacle platform

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems Limited, a fully owned product subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), and R3, one of the fastest growing enterprise blockchain software companies in the world, today announced their partnership to collaborate on blockchain solutions.

24 October 2018

News/Sibos

Sibos: EBA Clearing payments platform Euro1 to migrate to ISO20022 standard

EBA Clearing is working with Swift to move the large value payments system Euro1 to the ISO 20022 messaging standard, in line with the November 2021 deadline set for the migration of the Eurosystem’s Target2 platform.

24 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Oracle ERP cloud customers get direct connection to Citi treasury service

The Citi and Oracle ERP Banking as a Service (BaaS) Connector is now available, speeding integration and time to payment for the companies’ joint customers.

23 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Broadridge appoints DB exec Julie Flack to lead Australia business

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), an S&P 500 company and global Fintech leader with $4 billion in revenue, today announced the appointment of Julie Flack as General Manager of its Australia business, responsible for driving growth of Broadridge’s sell-side and buy-side businesses in Australia and New Zealand.

23 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

SmartStream releases new reconciliation module to deal with digital marketplace evolution

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today announced the launch of TLM Aurora, the next generation of Corona, the industry’s leading reconciliation platform – the first new module is designed to support the new industry standards in the digital payments world, by providing connectors to SWIFT GPI, RTGS, as well as Blockchain based networks, allowing for real-time operational control, proactive exception management and low TCO.

23 October 2018

Company update/regulation

Accuity commences multi-year upgrade programme for Bankers Almanac

Accuity, the global provider of financial crime compliance, payments and Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has announced a multi-year transformation programme to enhance its Bankers Almanac Risk & Compliance portfolio that will help banks conduct faster and more accurate risk assessments for financial counterparties.

23 October 2018

Company update/ai

Temenos ramps up AI efforts

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced during the Machine Learning Panel at Sibos that it is increasing the development of Artificial Intelligence capabilities throughout its digital banking platform.

23 October 2018

News/Sibos

Sibos: Blockchain to the fore with Voltron; Accenture makes DLT interoperability play

Voltron, a coalition of banks building a blockchain-based network for automating Letters of Credit and trade finance documentation, has thrown open its doors to other banks and corporates ahead of a planned roll out in 2019.

23 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Swift rolls out gpi tracker for all

SWIFT gpi has been rapidly adopted since its launch last year, and is now being used to send more than a million payments every day with a combined value of well over $100 billion.

23 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

iGTB joins R3 Corda

Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), the transaction banking division of Intellect Design Arena Ltd, the leading B2B fintech with 21% CAGR over three years, has joined enterprise software firm R3’s collaborative initiative to develop innovative applications and solutions on its Corda blockchain platform.

23 October 2018

News/Sibos

DLT can help banks boost regulatory compliance - Euro Banking Association

Distributed ledger technology has huge potential to improve regulatory compliance processes, according to a report from the Euro Banking Association.

23 October 2018

News/Sibos

Bian unveils free API market for banks

Banking not-for-profit Bian has launched a free online market, containing APIs developed by firms including IBM, Microsoft, Citi and PNC.

23 October 2018

News/Sibos

Sibos: IBM introduces Open Banking platform

IBM is looking to cash on the open banking era, launching a platform designed to bridge the gap between legacy systems and the API future while helping banks meet new regulatory requirements such as PSD2.

23 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Sberbank and Swift sign MoU

During Sibos 2018, Sberbank and SWIFT signed a memorandum of understanding that extends the cooperation on the Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH), a financial messaging platform created by SWIFT.

22 October 2018