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Let the fun and games begin. On December 20th SWIFT published the SR2014 User Handbook containing the gory details of all the changes that will take effect next November. http://www.swift.com/produc...
This is not the part-2 that I promised; rather, it is a quick one to address a question I was asked about the blog I posted last week. The question was, can you define “whopper”? It’s a fair questio...
The annual SWIFT Standards Release is a remarkable animal. Generally speaking, the financial industry does not like to be told what to do; we hire expensive lawyers to lobby against proposed regula
Final day. I realize that this is a week late, but I feel I must complete the set, so here goes. Sibos was discernably quiet. Perhaps Thursday is the new Friday. However, no such tail-off at the S...
Wednesday. Sibos fatigue is setting in for most normal people but the Standards Forum is still going strong. Andrew Muir, still basking in the glory of his triumphant rendition of Happy Birthday, mi...
Last day. Are you still in one piece? Ask me again tomorrow. The standards forum wraps up Sibos 2013 with another full agenda. Prof. Poppe, who has really put a shift in this week, gets the day off ...
The Standards Forum celebrated its 10th birthday in style including a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” led by Andrew Muir, who looked like he was enjoying just a bit too much! The Standards team...
Welcome to hump day. Day 3 of Sibos and we are closer to the end than we are to the beginning. I’m running on fumes now, waiting for my second wind to kick in. Another packed agenda on the Standards...
We arrived at the Standards Forum stand bright and early for a team briefing. Very impressive always. This year the corrugated cardboard makes way for recycled wooden crates. Looks a bit like a loft...
Today, we start off with Professor Poppe again at 9am. Today Tom is talking about reference data. I’m particularly interested to hear about the role of standards in big data, clearly one of this year...
For a standard that claims to be the one standard to bind them all, a method for developing standards, and a framework to allow multiple message syntaxes to co-exist, one might think that we could at ...
So, here we are again. Another Sibos. Another Standards Forum. The waiting is over and it’s time to get down to business. On Monday we kick off at 9:30am with “Professor” Tom Poppe who will be wor...