Dennis Gada Vice President, Financial Services at Infosys
Even after the global economic crisis of a decade ago, the world’s largest banks have continued operating much like they always have because of the belief that they were “too big to fail.” Governments for the most part seemed to go along with this reasoning. Then came the rise of the financial technology start-ups. One can compellingly argue, that...
16 September 2016 /sibos /startups
Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT
At the occasion of the 2016 Standards Forum to be held from 26 to 29 September in Geneva, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. As each of the four days will focus on a specific theme, my four blog posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about. Day 3: Sta...
12 September 2016 /payments /sibos Standards Forum
Robert Schneider Corporate Business EMEA at SWIFT
Much has been written about the need for corporate treasurers to have visibility of their cash positions and yes, whilst an end of month financial report may have sufficed in the past, today the need is much more immediate. The ease of access to the global marketplace and the pace of change offer wonderful business opportunities. Conversely, they ...
07 September 2016 /payments /sibos
Retired Member
The focus of the front office is all about executing trades and generating return. Since when have traders had to focus on tax? That task has always been bestowed on the back office but things are about to change. Enter in 871(m). The new regulation will establish up to a 30% withholding tax on foreign investors on dividend-equivalent payments und...
01 September 2016 /regulation /sibos
Andy Hirst VP Banking Solutions SAP at SAP
Big Data’s Three Big Trends of 2016 Last year at Sibos, I talked in depth about some of the key learnings from Big Data projects. At the time, the industry was still getting to grips with the era of data and what that meant for the business of banks. A year on, we are still in a state of transformation, as industry-wide Big Data implications cont...
22 August 2016 /sibos
The phrase “you are only as strong as your weakest link” while true is just not enough in our technology-based society, where cyberinsecurity is pervasive. It is not a question of “if” a cyberattack will occur, but rather “when” and most critically what is your response? In medieval days, castles had drawbridges, moats and walls as means of prot...
15 August 2016 /regulation /sibos
During the SWIFT Chairpersons' meeting at Sibos 2015, several delegates expressed their desire to compare notes on MT standards change requests (CRs), before the critical meetings at which they get finalised ahead of the final country vote. Some of the feedback we received was that "not enough people are actually reading and thinking about t...
26 May 2016 /sibos Standards Forum
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
I know that many of you will be saying that SIBOS is long over and 2016 has begun with new opportunities. I do believe that there are some valuable take aways. Those of you who are SIBOS devotes, with more than a few SIBOS’s under your belt will recognize that there is a buzz word at each SIBOS event. In 2015, the word that was the theme or focus o...
24 February 2016 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services
When it comes to client lifecycle management (CLM), including sales, onboarding, global KYC, credit through to fulfillment, offboarding and servicing, banks and their corporate clients agree: The experience has to improve. In a recent Finextra survey about corporate banking customer satisfaction, 90% of big corporate banking clients said they woul...
28 January 2016 /regulation /sibos
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
This year's SIBOS hosted in Singapore was a wakeup call for all the transaction banker to focus on redefining value delivered to customer. An excellent keynote from Piyush Gupta, CEO DBS group stresses on the fact that Asia is transforming from factory of the world to market place of the world. He also, emphasised on how Digital technology is cha...
30 December 2015 /sibos Fintech innovation and startups
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