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With an increasing pressure on revenue and margins, corporate action losses are becoming more difficult to absorb within the business. The risk profile has not changed, but the ability to absorb these...
Too much time drinking the XBRL "cool-aid" can seriously damage your health, as can obsessing about the co-existence of ISO 15022 and ISO 20022 message formats, without dealing with today's ...
Looking back on last week's Sibos, the one thing that really strikes me is how important pre-arranged meetings were. Numbers might have been down, but the people that were able to come along were det
The Finextra@Sibos team have returned from Hong Kong exhausted but exhilarated after a week in which we posted: 30 news stories 100 company announcements 108 photos 9 videos Members of the global Fi...
The final full day of Sibos, and at last I get to the subject of standards. It had to come eventually! Today, I went to a very interesting session on implementing SWIFT standards, which included panel...
Sibos 2009 is drawing to a close and, as every year, hundreds of meetings, presentations and discussions have taken place. While Sibos has traditionally been a correspondent banking event, there has
As we look back over the past twelve months, there have been significant changes in the financial services industry. Recent experience has highlighted the nature of the challenges inherent within fina...
The introduction of regulations such as the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), continuing recessionary pressures and increased competition across the payments landscape are forcing banks to re-evaluate...
So it's official: Andrew Long from HSBC stated today in one of the "Big Debates" that customers need SEPA to be relevant to them to create demand and then migration. He suggested that SEPA w...
SWIFT’s new standards changes go live on 21st November 2009. Talking about this yesterday, I started thinking about the three key areas that SunGard think are critical for 2010 – Transparency, Efficie...
After three days of Sibos 2009 and after having spoken to numerous delegates and my colleagues at the show, it is interesting to see that one of the recurring topics seems to be the renewed emphasis
Not once, not twice, but three times at Sibos, I have spoken to people who say Transaction Banking is The New Sexy. Admittedly, they did work in transaction banking, but I can see their point. Banks, ...