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Transaction banking's Asian evolution

Lisa Robins, head of global transaction banking in Asia Pacific for Deutsche Bank looks at the trends shaping this region at Sibos 2012 in Osaka, Japan.

30 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Improving intra-day cash management

Darryl Twiggs, executive vice president of product management at SmartStream, explains the benefits banks can get from integrating reconciliation and cash management.

30 October 2012

News/Transaction banking

Banks announce support for SAP corporate cloud messaging network

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Nordea, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank have announced their involvement in the development of the SAP Financial Services Network (FSN), a cloud-based corporate-to-bank connectivity platform.

29 October 2012

News/Transaction banking

Survey: 45 per cent of transaction banks developing mobile strategy

Finextra and Misys have announced the results of their annual survey of trends in transaction banking. The responses from 105 professionals in the trade finance, payments and cash management industry located in 40 countries highlighted the stronger strategic focus on customer service and channel and product innovation.

29 October 2012

News/Transaction banking

Swift taps SmartStream for Accord Matching overhaul

Financial messaging network Swift has enlisted SmartStream Technologies for an overhaul of its Accord confirmation matching engine.

29 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Panel: Trends in transaction banking

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, RBS and Misys discuss with Finextra the results of our 2012 survey.

29 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Capgemini in Asia and Japan

Jean Lassignardie, Head of Sales and Marketing, Aiman Ezzat, Global Head of Financial services and Shinichi Tonomura, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, all from Capgemini, discuss their customer-centric approach and movements in the Asia-Pacific market.

29 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Global innovation at Accenture

Ian Hooper, Asia Pacific Lead, Jeremy Light, EALA Lea and Matthew Friend, North American Lead at Accenture Payments Services looks at innovation and trends affecting Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.

26 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Cash Management in North America

Jeffrey Bisig, North America head of cash management for financial institutions sales, Deutsche Bank, takes us through several trends affecting financial institutions in the US and Canada.

24 October 2012

News/Transaction banking

More Chinese banks pull out of Sibos

More Chinese banks have pulled out of the annual Swift international banking conference, Sibos, which is scheduled to take place in Osaka next week.

23 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Trends in Latin America

John Estrada, Latin America head of cash management for financial institutions sales, Deutsche Bank, examines the effect of regulatory developments and technology innovation in the LatAm region.

23 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Challenges and Opportunities for Americas Transaction Banking

Akbar Poonawala, Americas regional head for global transaction banking, Deutsche Bank, discusses industry trends including compliance with global regulations and highlights specific areas for growth.

23 October 2012

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

The payments industry in 2012 and beyond

David Yates, CEO of VocaLink gives us some insight on the UK mobile payments database and how payments will evolve in the future.

18 October 2012

News/Transaction banking

JPMorgan signs for Swift's MyStandards tool

JPMorgan has become the first global bank to sign up to the new Web-based standards management package developed by interbank network Swift.

04 October 2012

News/Transaction banking

Ex-Citigroup VP gets eight years for $23m embezzlement

Former Citigroup treasurer Gary Foster has been sentenced to just over eight years in jail for embezzling nearly $23 million from the bank.

03 July 2012

News/Transaction banking

Live: EBAday 2012, day one

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

15 May 2012

News/Transaction banking

Lawrie exits as Misys and Temenos agree key merger terms

Core banking vendors Misys and Temenos have agreed the key terms for their proposed merger, with shareholders of the UK firm taking 53.9% of the combined group and the Swiss outfit the remaining 46.1%.

08 February 2012

News/Transaction banking

Citi GTS opens Asia Pacific innovations lab

Citi's Global Transactions Services (GTS) business has opened an innovation lab in Singapore to showcase new Web, mobile, supply chain and analytics technologies to institutional clients.

07 December 2011

News/Transaction banking

BNP Paribas and Bottomline form UK and Ireland Swift Service Bureau partnership

BNP Paribas Cash Management and Bottomline Technologies have formed a Swift Service Bureau partnership in the UK and Ireland.

12 October 2011

News/Transaction banking

Sibos signing: Deutsche Bank and Turkey's Garanti forge closer ties

Deutsche Bank and Garanti Bank have signed a cooperation agreement for the establishment of a closer global relationship in cross-currency cash management and trade finance.

20 September 2011