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News/Sibos
In news that will send a shiver down the spines of banking regulators worldwide, bank-owned messaging network Swift is warning members that a second bank has fallen victim to the same kind of malware-based attack that led to an $81 million loss at the Bangladesh Central Bank.
13 May 2016
Have investors in fintech startup companies been drinking way too much Kool-Aid? Mark, Tluszcz, CEO of Mangrove Capital Partners, detects a sour after-taste.
Company update/Sibos
Sibos announces that Thomas J. Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, the central bank of Switzerland, will give the opening address at Sibos 2016 in Geneva.
12 May 2016
The president of Philippines-based Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) has resigned despite being cleared by an internal investigation into the bank's connection with the $81 million Bangladesh Bank hacking scandal.
09 May 2016
New research published by the SWIFT Institute investigates the practical application of blockchain (or mutual distributed ledger) technologies in securities markets.
An impressive list of up to 80 board directors, chief financial officers and payments and technology heads from Europe's leading banks have confirmed their participation in the conference programme for the eleventh annual EBAday, taking place this year at MiCo - Milano Congressi from 7 to 8 June 2016.
06 May 2016
SWIFT announces that 29 new corporates in Asia Pacific had joined the co-operative from May 2015 to December 2015.
04 May 2016
The Finextra Community has posted its 10,000th blog post, marking a major milestone in the growth and maturity of the financial technology industry's most enduring social network.
29 April 2016
Interbank co-operative Swift has confirmed that it has experienced a number of recent instances of hackers compromising network interface devices at client banks to send fraudulent payment messages over the global banking network.
26 April 2016
Interbank payment network Swift is warning banks to beware of a new breed of malware that acts to hide fraudulent transactions on local client interface devices and may have been successfully exploited by the unknown hackers who recently stole $81 million from Bangladesh Bank.
25 April 2016
Rudimentary security procedures at Bangladesh Bank are being blamed for the massive online banking heist that saw the country's central bank lose $80 million in unathorised wire transfers.
22 April 2016
SWIFT announces today that a student team from the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School has won the inaugural SWIFT Institute Challenge, a competition asking students to submit solutions to financial services industry challenges.
21 April 2016
As the hype surrounding distributed ledger technology continues to build, Swift is acknowledging the inevitable and promising to evolve its platform to enable DLT-based services - but only when a series of "critical factors" have been addressed.
20 April 2016
SWIFT announces its plans to launch SWIFTSmart, a new innovative eLearning platform that administrates, documents, tracks, reports and delivers a full catalogue of digital courses and social learning.
EBA Clearing says that close to 40 financial institutions have committed to supporting and funding the development and installation of its pan-European instant payments platform for transactions in the Single Euro Payments Area.
19 April 2016
With a new agreement between SWIFT and Reval, corporate treasury teams using the Reval Cloud Platform for automated cash and liquidity management can now join the SWIFT messaging network to connect their bank accounts anywhere in the world.
Each year, the annual MT standards maintenance process invites the community to request formal changes to the MT messages.
18 April 2016
Swift announces today that Bolivia’s banking community connected to SWIFT is now using The Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry, Swift’s centralised repository which maintains a standardised set of information about financial institutions required for KYC compliance.
13 April 2016
Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are inviting some of Europe's most promising early-stage startups to present their ideas to banking delegates attending EBAday 2016, Europe's leading payments and transaction banking event.
SWIFT announces that it will launch Payments Data Quality, an advanced reporting and data analytics service to help financial institutions comply with new international requirements for originator and beneficiary information in payments messages.
11 April 2016
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