Instant Messaging

Research/Instant Messaging

ISO 20022: How banks can avoid becoming a cautionary tale

04 March 2022 605 downloads

Research/Instant Messaging

Competitive Advantage through Cloud Connectivity

06 September 2021 173 downloads

News/cloud

Symphony buys voice trading tech supplier Cloud9

Financial communication platform Symphony has acquired New York-based voice trading software supplier Cloud9 Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.

24 June 2021

Research/Instant Messaging

The Future of Payments 2021

23 June 2021 1436 downloads

News/payments

Twitter Tip Jar users cite PayPal privacy concerns hours after rollout

Hours after Twitter announced the new money transfer feature Tip Jar, early testers took to the social media platform to air their concerns over addresses being included in PayPal receipts.

07 May 2021

News/regulation

WhatsApp payment service gets go-ahead for Brazil relaunch

Brazil's central bank has given Facebook-owned WhatsApp the greenlight to relaunch P2P payments in the country - nine months after suspending the service.

01 April 2021

News/startups

Zelf raises $2m for messenger-based neobank

Zelf, a messenger-based neobank targeting Generation Z, has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by 3VC.

25 February 2021

Research/Instant Messaging

Liquidity and Beyond: Building a future through certainty

17 December 2020 426 downloads

News/regulation

Gleif plans digital service

The body responsible for managing the implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has announced plans to develop a digital version that can be rolled out across multiple sectors beyond the financial services market.

10 December 2020

Research/Instant Messaging

The Future of Payments 2020

24 November 2020 570 downloads

News/payments

Real-time payments - seize the momentum at EBAday 2020

Mastercard and ACI Worldwide announced they were partnering to provide a range of global real-time payments solution, aiming to offer “best in class central infrastructure” to banks and other financial solutions.

02 October 2020

Research/Instant Messaging

Is Request to Pay the System for a World of New Norms?

13 July 2020 973 downloads

News/regulation

Deutsche Bank taps Symphony for WhatsApp client chats

Deutsche Bank is using the Symphony messaging platform to enable staff to securely and compliantly communicate with clients via WhatsApp.

25 June 2020

News/payments

Brazil Central Bank ices Facebook's WhatsApp payment service

The central bank of Brazil has suspended Facebook's WhatsApp payment service within ten days of its roll out, citing competition issues in the mobile payment space.

24 June 2020

News/wholesale

Covid-19 remote working leads to more productive tech teams - survey

Financial services technology teams have increased their productivity while working from home during the Covid-19 lockdown, largely because they have fewer interruptions, suggests a new survey from Digiterre.

18 June 2020

Research/Instant Messaging

Underpinning Innovation with Real-Time Payments

31 March 2020 903 downloads

News/payments

Sibos 2019: The new standard for rich, quality payments data

At Sibos 2019, experts from the Bank of England, The Clearing House, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BNY Mellon gathered to discuss the transition from MT messages to ISO 20022 by the deadline of November 2021 and how to prepare for the adoption of a common payments and reporting language.

23 September 2019

News/Instant Messaging

Venmo rolls out instant transfers to bank accounts

Hot on the heels of the US Federal Reserve’s real-time payment and settlement system announcement, Venmo has launched a feature that supports instant transfers to US bank accounts.

13 August 2019