Latest Transaction banking News: Finextra Research

Central banks urge industry wide take-up of strategy to improve wholesale payments security

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the global standard setter for payment, clearing, settlement and related arrangements, urges stakeholders to pursue a common strategy to improve the security of wholesale payments that involve banks, financial market infrastructures and other financial institutions.

08 May 2018

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Liquidity Express: Innovation at its best

Mark Smith, Head of Global Liquidity, Global Transaction Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks about the new product Liquidity Express, what it does and how it was developed, how will it help clients with their operations and what the top liquidity priorities for corporates this year are.

03 May 2018

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Brexit, cyber-resilience, Open Banking to the fore at Swift London forum

The Swift Business Forum London recently took place at the city's Tobacco Dock. With a record 1,300 registrations, the key themes of the day included innovation in financial services, community collaboration, and cyber resilience. And of course, being hosted in the UK, Brexit and its potential impacts also came up in discussion

02 May 2018

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Going live with real client solutions

Jan Kupfer, Head of Corporate & Investment Banking Germany, Member of the Management Board, UniCredit Bank AG, talks about the main challenge clients are facing today, what the key drivers for innovation are and what to expect for 2018.

02 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

UK and US banks in danger of losing SME customers to digital competition

A new study from financial services technology leader FIS™ (NYSE: FIS) has identified key gaps in the performance of larger U.S. and U.K. banks in serving the needs of their critical small and mid-sized business (SMB) client base.

02 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Mansion House Consulting hires Jitu Parmar from Swift to advisory role

Mansion House Consulting (MHC), an award-winning IT and technology consultancy specialising in the Financial Services sector, today announced the hiring of Jitu Parmar as a Strategic Advisor.

30 April 2018

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More data management by the buy-side

Marion Leslie, Managing Director, Enterprise, Thomson Reuters, talks about the current buy-side trends from an enterprise data perspective, how customers describe their needs given these market trends, and what customers can do to adapt and evolve in order to drive future success.

27 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

DBS launches real-time cross-border payment tracking for all corporate and SME clients

More than 200,000 of DBS’ corporate and SME clients will now be able to benefit from better cashflow visibility through real-time cross-border payment tracking.

27 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

Top European banks gather to debate the merits of AI

Finextra has assembled an all-star cast of sponsors and speakers for next month's NextGen Banking London: the AI Revolution event, shedding light on a technology billed by Gartner as the most disruptive to engulf the enterprise over the next ten years.

27 April 2018

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Regulatory Intelligence in 2018

Richard Anderson, Head of Product Management, Regulatory Intelligence, Thomson Reuters, talks about how the company's product strategy for 2018 has been influenced by the current regulatory landscape, what contribution content has to play in the role of RegTech and what the key challenges are facing Regulatory Intelligence in 2018.

26 April 2018

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BBVA uses Ether and Hyperledger to perform corporate loan deal

BBVA has closed a EUR75 million corporate loan deal with technology partner Indra, performing the complete process from negotiation to the signing of the loan over a mix of different public and private blockchain-based platforms.

26 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

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

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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

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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

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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