Latest Transaction banking News: Finextra Research

Swift consults on ISO 20022 migration

Swift has launched what it calls a "full-scale community consultation" as it steps up efforts to push for a migration of cross-border services to the ISO 20022 standard.

26 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Blockchain and T2S: A potential disruptor

Pablo Beivide Cavia, Director, Axis Corporate, talks about why is there so much talk about blockchain potentially disrupting the ECB’s Target2Securities system, how blockchain’s strengths add value in the cross-border securities settlement space and what challenges blockchain faces in this business, and how might they be overcome.

25 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Paper.id presses for e-invoicing in Indonesia

In a fast developing country like Indonesia, there are still many SME’s that ignore prudent financial management.

24 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

FRTB and the holistic approach to regulatory compliance

Jacob Rank-Broadley, Director, Regulatory & Market Structure Propositions, Thomson Reuters, talks about how banks need to prepare for the FRTB compliance deadline in Jan 2022, what they need to focus on in 2018 to ensure they meet their FRTB obligations and what synergies are we seeing with MiFID II.

24 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Certainty and security with instant payments

Gerhard Bystricky, Head of Product Management Payments Germany, UniCredit Bank AG, talks about the progress of pan-European instant payments since it launched, what some of the practical experiences are what else needs to be done to grow the volumes and value of these payments.

24 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

HSBC goes live with Swift gpi

HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks, has joined SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi) service.

24 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

Swift Business Forum London - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum London 2018. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry, exploring how far and how fast the transformation of financial services will take place in the UK and beyond.

24 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

Innovation and risk under the spotlight in Canada

Rapid technological advancement was to the fore at the recent Swift Business Forum Canada, Toronto, where over 340 financial services professionals gathered to discuss the opportunities and threats that the financial services community faces

20 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

Top tier banks pass first transactions on trade finance blockchain

Batavia, a blokchain-based trade finance platform developed by a consortium of international banks and IBM, has passed its first live pilot transactions with corporate clients.

19 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Palette Software introduces a new cloud-based Purchase-to-Pay service

Palette Software, a leading provider of accounts payable automation and purchase to payment software, has announced the launch of PaletteOnline, a new cloud solution that enables customers to access an end-to-end P2P solution via the cloud, guaranteeing optimal functionality, security and scalability.

19 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Standard Chartered partners with CDC on $150 million supply chain finance programme

CDC Group (“CDC”), the UK’s development finance institution, and Standard Chartered Bank (“Standard Chartered”) have today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for a supply chain finance programme that will increase financing for SME suppliers in Africa and South Asia, thereby boosting economic growth and trade opportunities.

18 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Centtrip launches instant payments

Fintech pioneer Centtrip has just launched a revolutionary payment service with the potential to save businesses substantial amounts of money and reduce transaction times to literally seconds.

18 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Equiniti Riskfactor expands into Canadian market through deal with Baron Finance

Equiniti Riskfactor is pleased to announce its first Canadian client, Baron Finance, a financial services provider specialising in asset-based lending, invoice factoring, purchase order financing and accounts receivable funding.

17 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

Icici Bank onboards 250 corporates to blockchain platform

India's Icici Bank has onboarded more than 250 corporate customers to its custom-developed blockchain platform for domestic and international trade finance

17 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

The next stem of the real-time discussion

Paul Thomalla, SVP Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, talks about where the discussion about real-time payments has moved in the last 6 months, how more SMEs would now change banks if they didn’t offer them real-time payments and what similarities there are between the US, Europe and Asia, within the fintech and regulation space.

16 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Changing lanes with innovation

James Maudslay, Senior Manager Solution Marketing, Equinix, talks about some of the practical implications for banks around Open Banking and how well positioned are they in dealing with them, how are banks managing their need to offer innovative digital services to their customers and whether legacy infrastructure is a constraint, and how strategic partnerships and collaboration with others will benefit banks.

13 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Competing in an increasingly competitive space

Cédric Derras, Global Head of cash Management, UniCredit, talks about what some of the key initiatives and trends the global payments industry is wrestling with are, how banks are coping with this through greater collaboration with third-parties to manage and compete in an increasingly competitive space, and how this will benefit the banks and their customers in the future.

13 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Sage partners Stripe for digital invoicing

Sage, the market leader in cloud business management solutions, today announced its partnership with Stripe, putting digital invoicing capabilities in the hands of businesses of all sizes.

13 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

Corporates clamour for enriched data rather than faster payments

Despite industry buzz about faster payments, corporate treasuries and commercial bankers rate obtaining detailed information on transaction flows as more important than speed when it comes to electronic payments, according to research from TD Bank

11 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Liberis secures £57.5m in funding

Leading small business finance provider, Liberis, has secured £57.5m in combined funding from British Business Investments, Paragon Bank, BCI Finance, and Blenheim Chalcot.

11 April 2018