Latest Transaction banking News: Finextra Research

The Hive Project launches cryptocurrency-based invoice financing platform

The Hive Project has announced the development of the first cryptocurrency invoice financing platform focused on providing new liquidity pools for small and medium-sized businesses.

30 June 2017

Company update/Transaction banking

Swift eLearning platform now available in ten different languages

SWIFT announces today that SWIFTSmart, SWIFT’s eLearning platform, is growing at a rapid rate and will now offer training modules in 10 different languages, including English, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Chinese.

29 June 2017

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Real-time more than just a new rail

Robert Browning, UK Country Head and Leader, Product Management, Finastra (formerly D+H), talks about the technical challenges for banks of moving to instant payments, and the opportunities to build a business case by looking beyond retail into the B2B space.

28 June 2017

Company update/Transaction banking

BlackRock to acquire Cachematrix

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cachematrix, a leading provider of financial technology which simplifies the cash management process for banks and their corporate clients in a streamlined, open-architecture platform.

28 June 2017

News/Transaction banking

EBA Clearing preps revamp of Euro1 high-value payment system

With its new real-time payment platform set to go live in the next few months, EBA Clearing is turning its attention to Euro1, kicking off an investigation into how the flagship single euro payment system should be positioned in the rapidly-evolving landscape.

21 June 2017

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Take a strategic approach to Open banking

Damian Richardson, Head of Innovation, Payments, NatWest, talks about open banking and its potential to challenge and change the way banks offer services and products to customers. Increasingly banks and third-parties will collaborate to offer new personalised services to their customers through a network of APIs and a culture of open banking. This will take time to adopt but banks should take the strategic approach now.

21 June 2017

News/Transaction banking

Swift offers €200,000 for two fintechs to leverage gpi platform

Swift has launched an Industry Challenge to find two winning fintechs who will be granted €100,000 to further develop new overlay services that leverage its Swift global payments innovation (gpi) platform.

21 June 2017

Company update/Transaction banking

Rabobank selects Finastra payment services hub for cross-border payments

Finastra today announced that Rabobank has selected the global payment services hub from Finastra (previously D+H) to centralize cross-border payments.

21 June 2017

News/Transaction banking

Live: EBAday 2017, day two

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Dublin this week for EBAday 2017, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

21 June 2017

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

PSD2, Open Banking, APIs the customer

Hamish Thomas, Partner, EMEIA Payments Leader,EY, talks about PSD2, Open Banking and the wider impact banks have to provide and share customer information with third-party services providers through API networks. How banks share data and yet control and protect it to conform to security and regulation is a challenge. They need to look at this holistically to meet their obligations.

20 June 2017

News/Transaction banking

Live: EBAday 2017, day one

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Dublin this week for EBAday 2017, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

20 June 2017

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Performance requirements of instant can be daunting

Tristan Blampied, Senior Product Manager at Pelican, talks about the rise of real-time payments, the challenges in meeting performance demands, the compliance requirements of instant and how off the shelf platforms can help.

16 June 2017

Company update/Transaction banking

Citizens Bank builds online and mobile services for business customers with Bottomline

Citizens Bank has announced that it will partner with Bottomline Technologies to deploy a market-leading online and mobile banking platform for its Commercial and Business Banking clients.

16 June 2017

News/Transaction banking

Instant payments top of mind for Swift and EBA Clearing

Interbank co-operative Swift is to launch an instant payment gateway to connect member banks to multiple market operators across Europe.

14 June 2017

News/Transaction banking

Swift Business Forum, New York - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum in New York. This event will focus on the key issues affecting the financial industry, including banking, payments, and securities. Cyber security will also be a hot topic, in light of the announcement of Swift's Customer Security Programme.

14 June 2017

News/Transaction banking

EastNets adopts AI to monitor Swift traffic for fraudulent messages

Payments processor EastNets is to apply machine learning technology to detect fraudulent payments transactions passing over the Swift network.

14 June 2017

Company update/Transaction banking

ICC Banking Commission to explore digital trad finance

In line with its 2020 Strategy, the ICC Banking Commission has launched a “Digitalisation of Trade Finance Working Group”.

09 June 2017

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

The challenge of adding value when not selling

James Eardley, Global Director – Industry Marketing at SAP | hybris, discusses the gap between banks’ belief that they are working hard to engage customers and the extent to which customers feel it (demonstrated in recent research with Finextra), the need for banks to increase engagement by educating customers to make more use of the products they have already, and how banks can exploit data to better know their customers – and better serve them in the periods when they don’t want to buy financial products.

09 June 2017

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

The proliferation of ‘living services’

James Dickerson, Product Director, Financial Services, Accenture, talks about the digitisation of everything, liquid expectations, and their impact on the competitive landscape for banks.

09 June 2017

Company update/Transaction banking

TradeIX launches blockchain platform for trade finance

TradeIX Limited, today unveiled its revolutionary TIX Platform, the first open platform that rewires trade finance powered by blockchain technology.

08 June 2017