334 Results from /sibos
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Many attending Sibos in Hong Kong this week will have noticed that Deutsche Bank is pushing its green agenda. The bank's booth was made from prefabricated, frameless light-weight modular materials in order to reduce transport space and weight thus reducing the carbon footprint in transportation. Deutsche Bank also plans to donate the furntiture fro...
14 September 2009 /sibos
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Still waiting for the press photographer to turn up to your stand for the client handshake shot? Why not take your own pics and post them to the Sibos Community photos section on Finextra. https://www.finextra.com/community/ Just sign in to Finextra Community (or request to join, if not already a member) and click on My Pictures in the top nav bar....
14 September 2009 /sibos Finextra@Sibos
Swift's new Innotribe section of the Sibos agenda has evolved into an interesting experiment in collaboration and potentially commercialisation. Presentations at the opening sessions at the SibosLabs set the scene on a number of background topics. And group leaders then pitched to the audience to get involved in workshops over the course of Sibos ...
14 September 2009 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
The global financial crisis has brought the importance of complete and efficient cash management processes to the fore with the continued liquidity crisis enhancing the focus on cash visibility and usage. Resulting from this, corporate interest in SWIFT has accelerated. In Europe and North America, corporate institutions are showing heightened le...
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
This is the time of year when the financial services industry, or at least the "techie" element heads off to some exotic venue for the annual SWIFT jamboree. SWIFT as we all know is the global financial messaging operator. And as part and parcel of what they do, they have also created the messaging standards on which the financial world ...
12 September 2009 /payments /sibos
Never, in thirteen years in this industry, would I have predicted that a US President would talk about withholding tax and use the term “QI” (qualified intermediary) in a public forum, let alone formally target foreign banks and inward investors, as well his own residents with dramatic changes to tax policy that could create a “perfect storm” for
10 September 2009 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services
Let’s face it financial messaging has never been the most exciting part of banking. Originating in the wire room, it took over from telex and the message boys. But things are changing – quickly. You would think that with the explosive level of development in global connectivity, driven predominantly by the internet reaching every town around the w...
08 September 2009 /payments /sibos
SEPA was originally devised by regulators, primarily for the benefit of financial services consumers in the Eurozone. However, banks have had to bear the burden of the associated implementation costs, actually incurring transaction business losses in so doing. Therefore, it is no big surprise that they postpone investment of resources on associate...
28 August 2009 /payments /sibos
There are two main obstacles to cost reduction in many organisations. The project approval process - which (rightly) seeks to control the calls on shared resources by making sure that those projects with the best returns are delivered first. "Empire Protection" - where people seek to protect their teams "for the benefit of the organ...
26 August 2009 /sibos
George Ravich President at Ravco Marketing, LLC
Of course the silver lining had to show up at some point – at our recent US client conference, we surveyed 80 mid-sized US banks and 75% agreed that the credit crunch is presenting real and “unprecedented” opportunities for transaction banking business growth. That’s a strong rallying call and perhaps not entirely surprising when we have seen the ...
06 August 2009 /payments /sibos Transaction Banking
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