18 Results from 2016, /sibos
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
Last year SIBOS was an inflection point for transaction bankers and FinTech, but this year in Geneva we saw a very measured response to key Industry challenges faced across the globe, starting from Cyber Security, Compliance to Robotic Advising, Industry Utilities, E2E Payment Traceability & interoperability and Blockchain. The opening Plenary...
05 October 2016 /regulation /sibos Financial Services Regulation
Nanda Kumar CEO at SunTec Business Solutions
Last week the multilingual Swiss of Geneva bid au revoir and aufedersein to nearly 10,000 bankers. The attendees of Sibos left knowing just how much technological change is facing the banking industry. These lessons are starting to be translated in banking boardrooms from Azerbaijan to Australia, Qatar to Quebec. Most boards will surely conclude t...
05 October 2016 /regulation /sibos
Steve Scott Senior Product Manager, Business Banking at Temenos
Having had a sabbatical of several years from Sibos it has been great to return to the community at Sibos 2016 in Geneva. So what has changed? The grid layout of the exhibition still provides delegates with exercise aplenty. Judging by the number of stands with business card draws for fitness trackers and the “health corners” now we can strive t...
28 September 2016 /sibos
Retired Member
The current ongoing SIBOS is a milestone event showcasing disruptive and innovative technologies that the banks will have to embrace to stay competitive. The fintechs are the toast of the event. One can safely quote the blockchain (distributed ledger) technology as an example. The two trends that stand out from earlier SIBOS events 1. A remarkable...
28 September 2016 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services
This year’s Sibos in Geneva wrapped its first day with more innovation than ever. The buzzwords which dominated this year; were 'The Three Ds' Digitisation, Disruption, and the newly minted Distributed (Ledger). Where now for FinTech? The crowd for the ‘Blockchain 101’ session learnt how ancient clay tablets became the encrypted distributed ledger...
27 September 2016 /payments /sibos
Robert Schneider Corporate Business EMEA at SWIFT
As the annual SWIFT event Sibos, kicks off, it is very interesting to review the growth of the network, not just over the past year but back to 1999 when the network was opened up to the corporates sector. To set the scene, today over 5 billion messages pass across the SWIFT network a year and the network offers an impressive 99.999% availability...
26 September 2016 /sibos
Shorter days and longer nights are approaching fast. We may not be ready to let go of summer just yet, but the good news is there’s an exciting event season ahead of us - If your calendar is not set for the rest of 2016, now is the right time to get it in order. For financial services and technology professionals, one of the biggest events of the...
23 September 2016 /sibos
In the run up to Sibos 2016, I wanted to use this blog to talk about some of the lesser known impacts of digitalisation, particularly in corporate banking. There’s been so much written about digitalisation that it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. The vast majority of attention (and action) has centred on the retail banking customer expe...
20 September 2016 /sibos
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 4: Sta...
19 September 2016 /sibos Standards Forum
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
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