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TrueLayer celebrates Open Banking anniversary with API expansion to Germany

TrueLayer will now offer Deutsche Bank, Sparkassen, Commerzbank and other major German banks direct access to financial data following the first international move for the European API provider.

08 January 2019

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Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day two

It's the second day of Temenos' annual conference on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin. Stay tuned for more on the latest in banking transformation and digital disruption, not to mention the Innovation Jam final.

24 May 2018

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Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day one

Key banking decision makers to the tune of 1200 have descended on Dublin to discuss the future of Fintech and digital banking for Temenos' annual conference. We're live-blogging proceedings here.

23 May 2018

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Microsoft defends support for controversial Cloud Act

A long-running court battle between Microsoft and the US government about whether the latter had the right to access emails held in Microsoft's Irish data centre has come to an anticlimactic end after a judge dismissed the case, ruling it to be "moot" due to the recent passing of the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act.

05 April 2018

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Time for data-driven banking to come of age

Standard Chartered group chief information officer, Dr Michael Gorriz says that banks need to develop new strategies for how to harness their data assets to spur growth.

18 May 2017

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MiFID II delays helping firms reduce tech debt

Delays in the publication of Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for MiFID II are having a positive side effect - incentivising financial services firms to take on major system overhauls in a bid to reduce their technology debt, claims a paper from GreySpark.

17 May 2016

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SAP Financial Services Forum - Live Blog

Now in its fifth year, the SAP Financial Services Forum brings together over 450 financial services professionals to explore digital transformation across the financial services sector and the ways that firms can harness innovation, more effectively interact with their customers and build brand loyalty. This live blog will keep you abreast of what unfolds throughout the second day at the event.

24 June 2015

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SAP Financial Services Forum - Live Blog

Now in its fifth year, the SAP Financial Services Forum brings together over 450 financial services professionals to explore digital transformation across the financial services sector and the ways that firms can harness innovation, more effectively interact with their customers and build brand loyalty. This live blog will keep you abreast of what unfolds throughout the first day at the event.

23 June 2015

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SAP Financial Services Forum Focus: Ross Wainwright

For the past 15 years at SAP, the Global Head of Financial Services Industries has grown SAP’s Financial Services business. Wainwright's team handles development, sales, professional services, support, partner and other SAP organisations serving more than 12,400 banks and capital market firms and more than 5,000 insurance providers worldwide.

17 June 2015

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UK banks' IT spending to increase - CBI/PwC Report

UK banks’ spending priorities for the next year are focused on improving IT infrastructure and cyber security, according to a report from the CBI and PwC, which also finds a focus on building new digital platforms to remain competitive and respond to changing customer needs.

30 March 2015

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Dassault to sponsor '3D Fintech Challenge' at Level39

French software house Dassault Systèmes is to sponsor a '3D Fintech Challenge' at Canary Wharf-based accelerator space Level39 in a bid to find new applications for integrating disparate data sets within financial services firms.

19 July 2013

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Wall Street propeller-heads make way for new generation of data scientists

Rocket scientists on Wall Street are set to be usurped by a new generation of 'data scientists', as investment banks combine new analytical approaches with the arrival of torrents of Big Data to transform their trading strategies, according to a new paper from BNY Mellon.

10 May 2013

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Swift to unveil Digital Asset Grid prototype

Swift's Innotribe incubator has developed a working prototype of the Digital Asset Grid, a new infrastructure for banks to provide a platform for secure peer-to-peer data sharing.

29 October 2012

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Citi turns to IBM's Watson supercomputer for Big Data challenge

Citibank has entered into an agreement with IBM to explore possible uses for Big Blue's Watson supercomputer in mining customer data.

05 March 2012

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Firms urged to begin IT prep for handling LEIs

Delegates at the annual user conference of financial messaging body Swift were given more information about the development of the legal entity identifier (LEI) messaging standard designed to produce an electronic tag for the counterparties in all securities transactions

22 September 2011

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Broadridge targets buy-side with Paladyne acquisition

Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired buy-side technology and services outfit Paladyne Systems for around $76.5 million.

08 September 2011

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MiiCard wins out as start-ups vie for VC attention in Sibos' Dragon's Den

Twelve technology start-ups are competing for venture capitalists' blessing at a session on the final day of Sibos, the annual event run by financial messaging body Swift.

28 October 2010

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Asset managers turn to client reporting as IT budgets stabilise - survey

With IT budgets in the asset management industry beginning to stabilise, firms are turning their attentions to improving middle office processes, focusing particularly on client reporting, according to a survey from vendor Religare Technova.

09 July 2010

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After financial crisis, firms look to improve data quality - Thomson Reuters report

The proliferation of fragmented IT and data platforms contributed to the financial crisis, according to research looking at data management strategies from Thomson Reuters and Lepus, a London-based independent research consultancy.

02 March 2010

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Call for national reference data respository to combat systemic risk

The American Statistical Association (ASA), as well as the EDM Council, have endorsed a petition to create a new US Federal agency to build and oversee a centralised utility for maintaining reference and trade data.

07 August 2009