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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is seeking Registrations of Interest (ROI) from potential vendors for the procurement of a real-time gross settlement system and a security settlement system with a depository.
13 January 2015
Members of the European Parliament are to debate Europol's refusal to divulge information about US access to Swift international payments data amid concerns that the agreement is trampling over the data protection rights of EU consumers.
08 January 2015
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2014, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, features and blogs over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2015.
22 December 2014
The UK's Payments Council has committed to explore options for incorporating richer data sets alongside business and consumer electronic payment transactions.
19 December 2014
With progress towards a single euro payments area well in train, the European Central Bank has identified instant payments with immediate availability of funds as the industry's next frontier for harmonisation and cross-border collaboration.
09 December 2014
Ripple Labs is to plug its real-time settlement protocol into the Earthport payment hub, opening new channels to market for the open source transaction technology.
04 December 2014
The Bank of England has appointed Deloitte to conduct an independent review of the ten-hour breakdown in the operation of the UK's high value payments system, Chaps, last month.
24 November 2014
Bitcoin could become a market-leading technology that will change the way financial systems are engineered says BNP Paribas, in an analysis of the potential disruptive impact of the crypto-currency on banking and asset servicing.
12 November 2014
Markit and Genpact say that they have signed over 600 buy side firms and corporations for their KYC data sharing portal and named former Goldman Sachs man John May as chief executive of the utility.
11 November 2014
Deutsche Bank has appointed JP Rangaswami as its first chief data officer, recruiting the former Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein CIO from Salesforce, where he has been 'chief scientist' since 2010.
10 November 2014
Swift's MyStandards tool is to be made available via Deutsche Bank's Autobahn Apps Market.
01 October 2014
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is tapping the technology behind its P2P payments service to launch a system that lets companies send money directly to customers' accounts using their mobile number or email address.
30 September 2014
Open source payments outfit Ripple Labs has snared deals with two US banks who plans to use its real-time settlement protocol for cross-border money transfers.
24 September 2014
B2B payments startup Traxpay has raised £15 million in a series B funding round led by the incubation unit of Germany's Commerzbank, and announced a four-year relationship with MasterCard as it bids to achieve global scale.
23 September 2014
Swift has given a strongly worded response to a European Parliament resolution calling on the EU to consider expelling Russia from the financial messaging network.
19 September 2014
Just as fintech steps from the shadows into the mainstream, Finextra is establishing a local North American editorial presence.
Cross-border payments network Earthport has raised £26.6 million through the placing of 65 million shares with a mix of new and existing institutional investors.
18 September 2014
European card issuers stand to lose $8 billion per year from a revenue pool of $60 billion beginning in 2015, as stiffer regulation and caps on interchange fees take their toll, according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group.
17 September 2014
The British government is urging EU nations to expel Russian banks from the Swift financial messaging network, as tensions grow over the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
01 September 2014
The European Central Bank has named four key payment systems - Target2, Euro1, Step2-T and Core(Fr) - as "systemically important", and so subject to new regulations.
21 August 2014
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