Latest Corporate actions News: Finextra Research

Better connecting customers to their bank with the cloud

In this age of the customer when banks are leveraging the cloud to reduce costs, innovate faster, minimise risks and digitise mission-critical services, it’s become clear that technology drives change at a ground-breaking rate.

17 September 2019

News/Corporate actions

What’s next after the SCA deadline?

Following the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) deadline passing on Saturday, Dr Ruth Wandhöfer, honorary professor at the London Institute of Banking & Finance and board member at LSEG, took to the stage at the World Conference of Banking Institutes to discuss the changing pace of the payments industry and the role of the banking sector in this age of disruption.

17 September 2019

News/payments

AI and cloud remove barriers to entry for real-time intraday liquidity

Financial institutions must actively manage their intraday liquidity but getting to this point continues to be a challenge, as banks are required to capture the information they need in real-time while at the same time meeting increased regulatory reporting obligations.

13 September 2019

News/ai

Filtering the ethics of AI

As decision-making factors using AI become more accepted, pure economics might not align with the softer strategies of a bank. Many financial institutions are questioning how artificial intelligence must be governed within an organisation and how it can be taught to align with a bank’s brand and ethos, but without influence from human judgement.

03 September 2019

News/cloud

What are the benefits of being born in the cloud?

An increasing number of challenger banks, neobanks and digital offshoots are being born in the cloud and the technology is now being used by traditional banks and new players alike for all IT needs. Banks that are born in the cloud are at an advantage because legacy players that are in the process of migrating to the cloud are struggling with application modernisation, data centralisation and security.

03 September 2019

News/ai

The Future of AI: Applications for banking business transformation

While artificial intelligence has established itself as a disruptive technology for decades, AI is at the peak of the hype cycle now and banks have started to apply this technology to transform traditional models of businesses.

16 August 2019

News/cloud

APIs in the cloud are now the prevailing archetype

The future lies in microservices in the cloud. While the financial services industry continues to discuss digital transformation, actions speak louder than words. Organisations that want to meet the needs of the next generation of consumers will use software comprising small services that communicate over well-defined application programming interfaces (APIs) deployed independently – the microservices approach.

16 August 2019

News/devops

How corporate bankers can leverage open APIs to innovate

Traditional banks are still not meeting the expectations of their customers because of the legacy core systems that most financial institutions are saddled with, preventing innovation.

08 August 2019

News/cloud

Is RegTech encouraging a cloud revolution?

The deployment of new applications and the migration of core systems onto the cloud is in full swing, and financial institutions (FIs) could arguably soon be free of the legacy shackles that prevent them from moving forward into the age of digitalisation.

30 July 2019

News/Corporate actions

Barclays champions 5G, predicts £15.7 billion boost to UK economy per year by 2025

A new Barclays Corporate Banking report published today reveals that 5G could increase UK business revenues by a staggering £15.7 billion by 2025, despite industry leaders admitting they do not know enough about the benefits of the technology.

03 April 2019

News/inclusion

Money 20/20 Asia round-up: Accelerating financial services for the underbanked

On its return to Asia for the second year running, Money20/20 put on a world-class event in Singapore and welcomed senior leaders in financial services, fintech and payments to connect over major developments in digital money.

25 March 2019

News/payments

Women in Payments and Finance: Championing women across the global ecosystem

With International Women’s Day 2019 upon us, banks around the world are celebrating females in finance and addressing the scarcity of women heading up global corporations and institutions. Finextra Research will to do the same at EBAday, the two-day conference curated by the Euro Banking Association to be held in Stockholm on the 18th and 19th June 2019.

08 March 2019

News/Corporate actions

Swift combines with Asia Pacific institutions on DLT for proxy voting

Interbank payments network Swift is to run proof-of-concept trials of the use of distributed ledger technology for proxy voting in the Asia Pacific region.

06 March 2019

News/Corporate actions

Citi launches digital proxy voting platform

Citi has teamed up with Computershare to launch an end-to-end digital proxy voting platform connecting issuers and investors for shareholder meetings.

29 June 2018

News/Corporate actions

Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day two

It's the second day of Temenos' annual conference on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin. Stay tuned for more on the latest in banking transformation and digital disruption, not to mention the Innovation Jam final.

24 May 2018

News/Corporate actions

Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day one

Key banking decision makers to the tune of 1200 have descended on Dublin to discuss the future of Fintech and digital banking for Temenos' annual conference. We're live-blogging proceedings here.

23 May 2018

News/Corporate actions

Banco Santander counts the votes at AGM using blockchain tech

Santander and Broadridge, in collaboration with JPMorgan and Northern Trust as custodian banks, have completed a test run of blockchain for investor voting at the Spanish bank's annual general meeting (AGM).

17 May 2018

News/Corporate actions

Broadridge awarded blockchain patent for proxy voting

The prospect of applying blockchain technology to the proxy voting process has become more likely after Broadridge, one of the biggest providers of investor-related services, was awarded a patent for this very purpose.

11 May 2018

News/Corporate actions

KAS Bank moves shareholder voting to the blockchain

KAS Bank is to test a new blockchain-based service for shareholding voting at its own General Shareholders Meeting later this week.

23 April 2018

News/Corporate actions

Swift recruits CSDs for DLT post trade plans

Banking cooperative Swift has signed an MoU with seven central securities depositaries (CSDs) to explore how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used to improve post-trade processes such as corporate actions, proxy voting and trade processing.

16 January 2018