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If you're going to Sibos you'd be mad not to take your camera - particularly as you can now share your pictures with the world via Finextra - so here are a few tips for taking more interesting picture...
Swift chairman Yawar Shah opened an unexpected can of worms when he approached shareholders for feedback on how the bank-owned co-operative could add more value to its members. Obligingly, Ibos MD Bo
Financial messaging network Swift has been bigging up the switch over to its new corporate Web presence for the past few weeks now. The new site went live at the weekend, so I thought I'd pop over the...
As you probably know, the annual Swift bash is taking place in September and as you might expect Finextra will be shipping out a crack team for on-the-spot coverage of key issues, events and the inev...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York yesterday published a paper that describes ten major long-range trends in the settlement of large-value payments worldwide. The trends are driven by technological ...
When was your first Sibos? It’s one those perennial questions for veterans of the international fintech circuit. Swift’s first international banking and operations seminar took place in 1978, attract...
During this week at Sibos I have seen the results of several surveys around SEPA. Most would imply that the industry is not only positively engaged, but will achieve full migration by 2012 at the lat...
Around a thousand delegates got to the exhibition centre bright and early this morning to hear what is sure be the most inspiring speech of the conference given by Nicholas Negroponte, founder and cha...
Day 2 of the Swift conference in Boston was filled with meetings about SEPA and the PSD (for those of you outside Europe this is the Payment Services Directive, the new legislation to harmonise the pa...
I hope you all had a great day yesterday. I thought today I should muse a little around one of the themes from yesterday's opening plenary. I am sure that like me, many of you noticed the more relaxe...
Hi everyone, It's great to be back again for another year. I am sure most of you, like me, have spent the last few weeks in frantic preparation - arranging meetings, preparing presentations, briefing...
Sibos is a few days away, so if you know any good places in Boston that you are willing to share with the wider community - let us know. You can either comment on this blog or create a new blog post ...