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Ian Bessarabia

Ian Bessarabia 

Dejavu - Are we about to witness the GSTPA 2.0 sequel?

Perhaps, I am naive when I pose the following question: “Why focus on T+1 instead of putting all the effort into what it will take to get to T+0, and more importantly, are ALL industry stakeholders aligned on the objective.” I have the benefit of experience on my side, and as I read through the reignited hype around the T+? A topic I ca...

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Sachin Goel

Sachin Goel Director, Global Marketing (Strategic Insights) at CGI

Sibos 2019- A look back and Guidance for Banking 2020

In last three years, Sibos has been to three different continents with three different time zones. From Toronto to Sydney and now in London, the event is more popular than ever with record number of participants in 2019. And you may ask why, what is so special about Sibos? While a banking conference should focus only on banking, but Sibos is much ...

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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Sibos 2019: What Were the Key Takeaways?

This year, we were lucky enough to have Sibos hosted in London. But, with all of the biggest names in banking and finance under one roof last week jostling for ‘air time’, what were the cut through messages and ideas that really hit home? Here are my five main takeaways I think are really set to make an impact on the future of finance. Rationalisa...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

Digital Transaction Banking ....as SIBOS 2019 draws to a close....

On the first day of Sibos My Transaction Banker gave to me A current account and OD facility On the second day of Sibos My Transaction Banker gave to me Two virtual accounts And A current account and OD facility On the third day of SIBOS My Transaction Banker gave to me Three sweep structures Two virtual accounts And A current account and OD faci...

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Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

MT202 COV defunct thanks to court decision

It is surprising to find nothing on the agenda of SIBOS conference or the SWIFT Payments Market Practice Group about the recent court decision that negates vital content of the SWIFT Message Reference Guide and BIS and PMPG documents on the subject of MT202 COV. The issue is the extent of the MT103 sending bank’s obligation to the MT103 receiving ...

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Harry Newman

Harry Newman Head of Banking at SWIFT

Cross-border payments in seconds

Harry Newman, Head of Banking, SWIFT Domestic payments are getting faster and faster. Real-time and instant are now synonymous with the transfer of value between businesses and consumers. How is this new customer experience translating in wholesale cross-border payments between financial institutions? It's clear to see that the world of payments is...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

Will open banking bring us closer to true customer centricity?

Open banking - the concept of using an open API technology to enable third-party software providers and banks to build new, customer-centric financial applications and services - has the potential to unite the UK and European banking customer. It can do this by bringing them into a new era; one in which they are at the centre of the financial serv...

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Philippe Carrel

Philippe Carrel Chief Commercial Officer at Finmechanics

THE BANK'S DIGITAL JOURNEY -SIMPLIFY IT

Technology is a starting point — the end goal is to use it to regain control of change management. REDUCING EQUATIONS There’s nothing new with banks being compelled to transform to keep relevant. As enablers of economic growth, banks are constantly under pressure to morph into something else, due to either globalisation, regulation, advance in tech...

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Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

Are Open Banking Partnerships All They’re Cracked Up to Be?

When Open Banking and the open APIs it allows came on the scene, it presented a huge opportunity for financial institutions to broaden the type of services on offer their customers. As a result, a primary way banks are choosing to diversify their offering is by partnering with third parties who have products relevant to their customers. But do the...

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Richard Ransom

Richard Ransom Corporate Payments Specialist at Virtusa

Five Things Banks Need to Keep in Mind While Leveraging APIs for Their Payments System

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in payment processing are gaining traction globally. In addition to open banking, they are now being used end to end in the payment value chain – linking internal systems together more efficiently, accessing external applications, enabling the microservices transformation of legacy systems, and providing n...

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