Latest Sibos News: Finextra Research

North Korean hackers used Swift network to steal more than $100m - FireEye

A North Korean hacking group has used the Swift network to try to steal more than $1.1 billion dollars from at least 16 financial institutions around the world since 2014, according to security specialist FireEye, which warns that he crooks are still operating.

05 October 2018

Finextra TV/Sibos

Digitalizing CLM for improved customer experience

Joe Dunphy, VP of Product Management, Fenergo, discusses what benefits digitalising the client lifecycle experience can bring financial institutions and their clients, how Fenergo’s CLM roadmap has evolved over the past two years to deliver greater transparency and control, and the importance of Fenergo’s global client community for driving industry best practice.

02 October 2018

News/Sibos

Swift releases payments analytics tool

Financial messaging network Swift is to give member banks deeper insights into their cross-border payment flows with the release of a 'Business Intelligence gpi Observer Analytics' tool.

02 October 2018

Company update/Sibos

Italian bank blockchain project moves to second phase

The group of 14 Italian banks that began work on a blockchain has successfully passed the first phase of technical procedural verification.

01 October 2018

News/payments

Swift recruits Google engineer for new data analytics role

Swift has recruited a senior executive from Google for a newly-created data analytics position with a brief to extract the value of the banking co-operative's big data assets for the benefit of members and its own future product strategy.

28 September 2018

News/Sibos

Goldman invests in blockchain-based cross-border payments startup Veem

Blockchain-based cross border business payments startup Veem has raised $25 million in a strategic funding round led by Goldman Sachs and joined by Google Ventures.

27 September 2018

News/Sibos

Financial Services Seizing the Opportunity in New York

Innovation in Payments, Technology and Cyber Risk Management were all key topics at the Swift Business Forum New York 2018. 600 financial services professionals and industry experts recently gathered in the Big Apple to discuss the opportunities that innovation and collaboration provide.

20 September 2018

Company update/Sibos

INTL FCStone acquires Swift Service Bureau from PayCommerce

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) today announced that to expand the capabilities of its Global Payments Division, it has acquired the fully accredited SWIFT Service Bureau from PayCommerce.

06 September 2018

Company update/Sibos

Swift appoints David Scola as head of North America

SWIFT has appointed Dave Scola as its Head of North America. Previously Global Head of Financial Institutions at Barclays, Scola will take responsibility for SWIFT’s innovation and growth strategy in the US and Canada.

04 September 2018

News/Sibos

Australia's Big Four roll out real-time payments with Osko

Australia's New Payments Platform is expecting a surge in transactions as the country's Big Four banks roll out Osko, an overlay service which enables account-to-account real-time payments via e-mail and mobile phone numbers.

04 September 2018

News/Sibos

IBM to demo blockchain-based payment system at Sibos

IBM is preparing to demonstrate a blockchain-based alternative payments system to international banking representatives attending the annual Swift operations conference in October in Sydney.

04 September 2018

News/Sibos

Swift to test real-time cross border payments in Asia Pacific

Financial messaging network Swift is to undertake pilot tests of gpi-enabled real-time cross border payment inflows into Australia, plugging in to the country's domestic New Payments Platform.

23 August 2018

News/Sibos

Merkel cool on EU Swift alternative to keep Iran deal alive

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has poured cold water on her foreign minister's suggestion that Europe should build its own alternative to Swift as a way of salvaging the Iran nuclear deal.

22 August 2018

Company update/Sibos

Standard Chartered upgrades Swift for Corporate trade programme

Standard Chartered has enhanced its SWIFT for Corporates Trade solution to provide a full suite of trade messaging capabilities which will enable the digitisation of trade and trade finance for their international clients.

16 August 2018

Finextra TV/Sibos

KYC, AML & Transparency for Crypto-Currencies & ICOs

Conor Coughlan, Global Head of Marketing, Fenergo, discusses the challenges facing institutions, issuers, exchanges, & investors in determining viability & suitability, for investing in crypto-currencies, ICOs and derived offerings so that this new asset class can mature, open up to institutional investors and play a more value adding role in the global economy.

14 August 2018

News/Sibos

Finextra goes mobile first

Welcome to the new-look Finextra, optimised for mobile and rebuilt to drive deeper engagement with our growing global community.

10 August 2018

Company update/Sibos

Swift passes Tips compliance tests

SWIFT announced today that it has been certified by the Eurosystem to provide connectivity to TIPS - TARGET Instant Payment Settlement – as from its go live date on 30 November 2018.

07 August 2018

News/Sibos

Corporates begin trials of multi-bank payments tracking across Swift gpi

Financial messaging network Swift has begun pilot trials of a multi-bank payments tracking service with 12 member institutions and 10 multi-national corporates.

25 July 2018

News/Sibos

Commerzbank outsources all Sepa transactions to equensWorldline

Commerzbank is preparing for the arrival of instant payments across Europe by outsourcing all of its payments processing in the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) to equensWordline.

23 July 2018

Company update/Sibos

Bank of Asia to become the first client of NSD's Swift Bureau in Kyrgyzstan

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has signed an agreement to connect Kyrgyzstan’s Bank of Asia to SWIFT via NSD’s service bureau.

17 July 2018