Latest Sibos News: Finextra Research

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

Finextra TV/Sibos

The role of compliance as banks seek to move to SaaS models

Brian Charlick, Principal consultant at CGI, talks about how the market is adapting to having to undertake large non-core activity, whether there is a need for assurance of compliance as a requirement of the market, and whether the pressure of increased regulation is impacting the operation of Banks.

10 October 2018

Finextra TV/Sibos

Learning from 10 years of faster payments

Sean Devaney, VP, UK Banking and Strategy, CGI, talks about the lessons learnt from the introduction of previous real-time payments schemes, whether these lessons are being employed in more recent endeavours and what banks should be considering when adopting a move to real-time.

10 October 2018

Finextra TV/Sibos

Introducing The Australian Open Banking Initiative

Jerry Norton, Vice President and Global Head of Banking for CGI, talks about how the Australian Open Banking Initiative is coming into effect in July 2019 and what this means, whether there are any differences in the way Australia is applying open Banking to what is happening in Europe and the UK, and what Australian banks should be doing now to assure success.

09 October 2018

News/security

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