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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

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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

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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

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Fun and functional Finland

Jussi Pajunen, the Mayor of Helsinki invites global businesses to visit Finland to take advantage of its innovative environment.

28 April 2014

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Leveraging the post-Sepa environment

Jean François-Denis, head of payments and local offers at BNP Paribas, Michel Verholen, global director - treasury at Greif and Paul Thomalla, SVP Emea and MD at ACI Worldwide discuss Sepa, investment in technology, the future of payments and the relationship between treasurers and banks.

28 April 2014

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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

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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

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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

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Adding value through simplicity and collaboration

Casper von Koskull, EVP, head of wholesale banking, Nordea Bank looks at how important partnerships and collaboration are for transaction banks when looking to offer more innovative and commercially viable solutions.

07 April 2014

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Best practice for ISO20022

Marcus Treacher, Global Head, Innovation, Payments & Cash Management, HSBC, discusses the challenges of implementing ISO20022, best practice for implementation across peer banks and dealing with emerging markets.

04 April 2014

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Financial standards lost in translation

Andrei Kirilenko, professor of the practice of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and former chief economist at the CFTC, explains how to bridge the gap between regulation and implementation and how to bring stakeholders in financial standards together.

27 March 2014

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The relationship with regulators

James Whittle, head of industry dynamics, UK Payments Council, explains the challenges of implementing ISO 20022 and the relationship with regulators.

27 March 2014

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Offering corporates efficiency and simplicity

Cindy Murray, head of global treasury product platforms and eChannels at Bank of America Merrill Lynch discusses the need for automation and efficiency in transaction banking offerings as well as how to meet corporate demands for simplicity and ease of use.

26 March 2014

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CFTC must improve data quality - O'Malia

Commissioner O'Malia talks about how the CFTC needs to move into the 20th century and use tech to crunch the big data questions. He also call for international agreement on sharing of swaps data and cooperation on tackling data quality.

26 March 2014

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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

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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

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Doing good business in an era of re-regulation

Arun Aggarwal, managing director, UK and Ireland, Swift, discusses the themes, speakers and attendees for the upcoming Swift Business Forum in London.

25 March 2014

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Quality data; effective liquidity management

Richard Wiltshire, Global Head of Cash and Liquidity Management, Cross Product Services, Global Banking and Markets, HSBC Bank, Ludy Limburg, Eur Payment Solutions, ICM FI Product management, RBS and Nick Noble, Product Manager, SmartStream look at whether movements to manage liquidity on an intraday basis provide greater stability to the market.

18 March 2014

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Bringing academia to the financial industry

Peter Ware, director at the Swift Institute, discusses how the institute is working with academics and what's in store for the upcoming conference on financial standards and regulation.

12 March 2014

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Driving growth in trade finance

Dan Roberts, MD, head of trade & working capital, Barclays and David Hennah, head of trade & supply chain finance, Misys look at the changing needs of treasurers and how technology innovation is driving growth in trade finance.

04 March 2014