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News/payments
Spain's Banco Sabadell is stepping up its use of Open Banking to enable business customers to make payments from its website using accounts held with other financial institutions.
10 December 2020
The vast majority of banks (94%) believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the payments market into a technology arms race for which they are unprepared.
07 December 2020
The ISO standards roll-out and open banking will galvanise banks’ efforts to compete with data-driven big techs, despite “vagueness” about how best this might be accomplished.
30 November 2020
News/wholesale
Today, non-bank entrants such as PSPs and TPPs are entering the payments space to tap in to the lucrative and stable business that is transaction banking. To remain competitive and avoid disintermediation, financial institutions must support legacy core banking infrastructure and a resource-intensive, scalable delivery model – success is tied to relevancy in the corporate market and ensuring clients’ problems are resolved.
26 November 2020
News/retail
The question of whether banks are failing to provide the services customers expect was the subject of a heated panel debate during a lunchtime roundtable on Day Two of EBAday.
At EBAday 2019 in Stockholm, Deutsche Bank’s Koral Araskin highlighted that if instant payments is the new normal, banks will heavily depend on cash buffers to cover all payment flows - even those which come outside of normal working hours. "Is this really meaningfully achievable?" he pondered last year. The events of 2020 and the impact of Covid-19 have truly shown that it must be achievable.
24 November 2020
As the world recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, it is assumed that financial institutions and other businesses will need to adopt new ways of working to navigate what is said to be one of the worst economic downturn in recent years.
23 November 2020
Credit Suisse has introduced two new Open Banking interfaces designed to provide financial counterparties with access to real-time data on the status of their securities and foreign exchange transactions.
Correspondent banking is faced with a paradox: while connections are declining, volumes are growing. Banks must adapt to meet future client demands and deal with the massive changes on the horizon.
20 November 2020
News/startups
Stanhope Financial, provider of a treasury management and investment platform for SMEs, has raised $3.5 million in its first funding round.
19 November 2020
British payments technology outfit Icon Solutions has secured an equity investment from JPMorgan.
29 October 2020
The European Central bank has blamed a software defect at a third party technology provider for an outage that downed the Target2 settlement system for almost 11 hours on Friday.
28 October 2020
News/devops
Simon Torrance, senior adviser at corporate innovation firm, Rainmaking, claims that the traditional financial services business model is no longer working.
A complete failure of all payment transactions within the Target2 system was experienced for several hours on Friday, with backup systems and contingency modules also initially unable to function.
26 October 2020
News/sustainable
Mohammad Kamal Syed, managing director and head of investment management at Coutts & Co, tells Finextra Research of the ‘root and branch uplift’ in the firm’s investment decision making to address ESG goals.
20 October 2020
News/crypto
David Birch, author and financial services consultant, compares Swift to CB radio or Charlie's Angels, as an "affectionate tribute to the 1970s".
07 October 2020
A handful of topical areas were canvassed in the ‘Friction or fiction: compliance in a real-time world’ panel session on day one of Sibos 2020’s virtual event. While there has been significant innovation in domestic and global payments, financial institutions still play a critical role in the global payment process.
06 October 2020
Standard Chartered and DBS, with the support of 12 other banks, have kicked off a project that will use a blockchain network to register trade finance transactions.
More than a third of consumers discovered a new payment provider during the Covid-19 crisis, according to Capgemini’s World Payments Report 2020.
Annual global payments revenues could reach $1.8 trillion under a quick Covid-rebound scenario, according to data from the Boston Consulting Group, representing a considerable slowdown in growth from pre-pandemic boom times.
05 October 2020
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