980 Results from /wholesale
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
Low levels of process automation across client on-boarding and account opening in the Investment and Corporate banking space provides on-going challenges for banks and financial institutions in terms of revenue growth, client service and compliance management. So why has this space remained neglected for so long? Well, in fairness it’s not so much...
23 April 2012 /regulation /wholesale
Olivier Berthier CEO at Moneythor
Kudos to the Transaction Banking practice of PwC for recently publishing their updated review of the trends in and around transaction services. It is a recommended read and does a good job at summarising the market forces at play and what they mean for Transaction Banking, indeed gearing up for a need to transform in a big way to stay relevant. K...
16 March 2012 /wholesale Transaction Banking
Retired Member
There has long been a debate as to whether it is better to run one fully-integrated system or several pieces of 'best-of-breed' software in many areas of application software, and payments is no exception, especially when looking at the corporate front end through to the payment processing engine in the bank’s back office. ‘Best-of-breed’ by defin...
15 March 2012 /payments /wholesale
After 5 weeks of extenuating negotiations, with dramatic scenes entries and bumpy price rides on the stock market, the negotiations between Temenos and Misys seem to have come to an end, as it was announced by Press Releases in both corporate websites. What will happen with Temenos, now that a nice and bright horizon with Misys is not longer part o...
12 March 2012 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
There’s a tablet platform coming that will change the way that the front, middle and back-office of banks conduct their daily activities. The days of traders, collateral optimisers and the back-office being tied to their chairs will soon be a thing of the past. The preferred communication method will no longer be email, but will evolve to a more pr...
07 March 2012 /wholesale
Corporate banking is rife with manual invoicing and non-STP processes in the banking industry today. Legacy core processing systems were not built to handle the rule-based requirements that are needed to price based on relationship value. These systems challenges can and do lead to revenue leakage. TowerGroup has noted that the cost of poor data al...
06 March 2012 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
In a press release on its website, Misys notes the announcement made by CVC and ValueAct Capital and confirms that it is currently in discussions with them regarding a possible offer for the Company's entire outstanding share capital for cash. Misys also continues to be in discussions with Vista Equity Partners and Temenos Group AG as set out in t...
05 March 2012 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
According to Financial Times, Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses based in USA, has launched a rival £1.2bn offer for Misys. Maija Palmer, redactor from FT following what could be the biggest and completest deal of the Banking Software Industry, stated that "the Inves...
23 February 2012 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
The growing adoption of iPads by financial services companies has unnerved RIM, the makers of Blackberry smartphones and traditionally the sector’s choice for mobile communications devices. For RIM to dominate the tablets market much the same way it has the smartphone space, and after a disappointing 2011 launch of the first Blackberry Playbook, ...
21 February 2012 /wholesale
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
I see a change in the way supply chain finance (SCF) is being perceived in the market. I still have to form myself a more structured opinion so I'll just jot down my thoughts as they come. "Old" SCF: Basically the management of cash and capital to support the execution of supply chain processes (e.g., delivery of the goods). "New&quo...
17 February 2012 /payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain
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