Latest Transaction banking News: Finextra Research

KYC Exchange builds banking momentum

Swiss-based due diligence utility KYC Exchange has signed service contracts with Commerzbank, Société Générale and Standard Chartered for the regular exchange of Know Your Customer data between the banks and their clients.

20 June 2014

News/Transaction banking

Live: EBAday 2014, day two

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Helsinki this week for EBAday, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

11 June 2014

News/Transaction banking

EBA Clearing's MyBank Mandate service opens for registration

EBA Clearing has opened the doors to registrations for its MyBank Mandate service, with Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit the first banks to sign on.

10 June 2014

News/Transaction banking

Live: EBAday 2014, day one

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Helsinki this week for EBAday, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

10 June 2014

News/Transaction banking

EPC launches consultation on evolution of Sepa credit transfer and direct debit

The European Payments Council (EPC) has launched a three month public consultation on possible changes to the Sepa credit transfer and direct debit rule-books.

19 May 2014

News/Transaction banking

Fidor to use Ripple to speed money transfers

Germany's Fidor Bank is to become the first the bank in the world to utilise the Ripple protocol for sending real-time money transfers.

06 May 2014

News/Transaction banking

Banking associations seek supply chain finance consensus

Five leading business associations have joined forces with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission to undertake a major project to harmonise market terminology for global supply chain finance products and services.

02 May 2014

News/Transaction banking

Live: Finextra Future Money, day two

Welcome back to the Finextra Future Money liveblog where we'll be keeping you abreast of all the news and views as leading figures from the fintech world gather at Level39 in Canary Wharf to explore the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.

01 May 2014

News/Transaction banking

Live: Finextra Future Money

Welcome to the Finextra Future Money liveblog where we'll be keeping you abreast of all the news and views as leading figures from the fintech world gather at Level39 in Canary Wharf to explore the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.

30 April 2014

News/Transaction banking

McKeever quits Tungsten; Bryant appointed as 'rainmaker'

Luke McKeever, former CEO of e-invoicing network OB10, has quit his executive position at Tungsten, which acquired OB10 for £99 million in October last year.

29 April 2014

News/Transaction banking

Swift Business Forum - London 2014 - Live Blog

Welcome to Finextra's live blog from the Swift Business Forum, London 2014, which was held Monday at the Brewery venue in the City of London, UK. This fourth instalment of the financial services Forum in the UK capital is entitled 'Doing good business in an era of re-regulation'.

29 April 2014

News/Transaction banking

Banks seek out new opportunities in supply chain finance

The importance and potential of supply chain finance as a line of business for European banks has been emphasised in a survey by working capital outfit Demica which indicates that one third of banks sampled have created SCF-specific roles with directorial status.

11 April 2014

News/Transaction banking

Khosla leads all-star investment in small business finance start-up Fundbox

Fundbox, a San Francisco-based start-up that helps business owners fix their cash flow by transferring the amount of outstanding invoices to their bank accounts, has secured a $17.5 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures and featuring an all-star team of private investors, including former Citigroup chief Vikram Pandit, ex-Reuters head Tom Glocer, ISE chairman David Krell, and Jay Mandelbaum, one-time head of strategy and e-commerce at JPMorgan Chase.

10 April 2014

News/Transaction banking

Gates to venture back into the land of the dinosaurs at Sibos

Banking co-operative Swift has announced that former Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates will give the closing plenary address at the the annual Swift international banking and operations seminar, Sibos, in Boston.

09 April 2014

News/Transaction banking

Tungsten seeks approval for bank buy-out

Invoice financing roll-up Tungsten says it expects to take full control of the UK arm of First International Bank of Israel (Fibi) within the next two months, after formally submitting an application for change of control to the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority.

25 March 2014

News/Transaction banking

Swift: The Future of Financial Standards - Live Blog

Welcome to Finextra's live blog from Swift's Standards Forum event at Level 39 in Canary Wharf, UK. Brought to you by The Swift Institute, the Forum and the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science the conference is entitled 'The Future of Financial Standards'.

25 March 2014

News/Transaction banking

Sweden's Assa Abloy buys IdenTrust

Just months after buying IdenTrust, private equity firms Parallax Capital Partners and StepStone Group have offloaded the digital identity authentication firm to Swedish lock manufacturer Assa Abloy. Financial terms were not disclosed.

17 January 2014

News/Transaction banking

Finextra Future Money presents: How to succeed as a fintech start-up

Finextra is inviting start-up companies in London to participate in the first of a series of breakfast roundtables ahead of the forthcoming Future Money conference, run in association with fintech accelerator space Level39.

14 January 2014

News/Transaction banking

2013: That was the year that was

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2013, 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 2014.

20 December 2013

News/Transaction banking

Security and BYOD policy management key barriers to corporate mobile banking

Corporate treasurers cite security challenges and bring-your-own-device business policies as the key obstacles to wider uptake of mobile banking platforms for treasury activities.

05 December 2013