Latest Transaction banking News: Finextra Research

Cyber threats high on treasury management agenda

Deloitte today released the results of its biennial "2015 Global Corporate Treasury Survey."

20 January 2015

Swift expands in sub-Saharan Africa

SWIFT will open two new offices in 2015 – in Accra, Ghana and Nairobi, Kenya – as a crucial part of its pan-Africa growth plans. From these offices, SWIFT will manage an expanded presence across the West and East Africa regions.

15 January 2015

News/Transaction banking

Reserve Bank of New Zealand goes to tender for new payments and settlement systems

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is seeking Registrations of Interest (ROI) from potential vendors for the procurement of a real-time gross settlement system and a security settlement system with a depository.

13 January 2015

News/Transaction banking

European Parliamentarians raise concerns about Swift data sharing

Members of the European Parliament are to debate Europol's refusal to divulge information about US access to Swift international payments data amid concerns that the agreement is trampling over the data protection rights of EU consumers.

08 January 2015

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Current themes on intraday

Catherine Banneux, senior market manager, Swift, discusses the highlights of their recent survey looking at issues surrounding intraday liquidity management.

06 January 2015

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

A new future for FinTech

Balazs Fejes, Global Head of Banking and Financial Services Industry Business Unit, EPAM and Mark Butterworth, Founder at Aptitude Advisors discuss how banks can manage the challenges and pressure of the changing digital environment.

05 January 2015

Company update/Transaction banking

Broadridge acquires TwoFour Systems

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) has acquired TwoFour Systems LLC, a provider of real-time foreign exchange solutions for banks and broker-dealers, to address the rising demand for advanced FX and cash management technology among financial institutions.

05 January 2015

News/Transaction banking

2014: That was the year that was

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2014, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, features and blogs over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2015.

22 December 2014

News/Transaction banking

Payments Council to explore prospects for providing more information with payments

The UK's Payments Council has committed to explore options for incorporating richer data sets alongside business and consumer electronic payment transactions.

19 December 2014

Company update/Transaction banking

Swift Institute research highlights five enablers for implementation of successful regional payments

Paper ranks the comparative success of various regional payments integration projects that are necessary to support economic growth.

16 December 2014

Company update/Transaction banking

Snowy Hydro selects Reval to integrate treasury operations

Reval, a global Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of scalable and integrated Treasury and Risk Management (TRM) solutions, announced today that Snowy Hydro, one of Australia´s National Electricity Market's largest generators by capacity, has selected Reval to automate and integrate cash management, payments processing and hedge accounting in support of its growth strategy.

16 December 2014

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Addressing The Know Your Customer Challenge (KYC), Utilities & Managed Services

Anna Mazzone, Global Head of Accelus Org ID, KYC managed Service at Thomson Reuters discusses the challenges the industry is facing around Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Terrorist Funding regulations, what best practices are taking place in the market today and the differences between proposed market utilities and managed service offerings.

11 December 2014

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

FinTech: Beyond the hype

Paul Thomalla, SVP & MD EMEA and Lu Zurawski, practice lead, consumer payments EMEA both of ACI Worldwide talk about what banks are really doing to respond to digital change.

11 December 2014

News/Transaction banking

Immediate payments 'next frontier' for European integration - ECB

With progress towards a single euro payments area well in train, the European Central Bank has identified instant payments with immediate availability of funds as the industry's next frontier for harmonisation and cross-border collaboration.

09 December 2014

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Real-time payments over breakfast

Kevin Brown, MD, Payment Industry Insights Limited and Paul Thomalla, SVP & General Manager EMEA, ACI Worldwide, give an overview of the recent EBADay Breakfast Forum in London including the junction between real-time payments and liquidity management.

09 December 2014

News/Transaction banking

Ripple to plug into Earthport payment network

Ripple Labs is to plug its real-time settlement protocol into the Earthport payment hub, opening new channels to market for the open source transaction technology.

04 December 2014

Company update/Transaction banking

Crossing-Tech embeds C24 into Connectivity Factory

C24 Technologies (C24), a global leader in financial services messaging and integration solutions, today announced a partnership with Crossing-Tech, a trusted provider of IT solutions. Crossing-Tech will embed C24 Integration Objects (C24-iO) into Connectivity Factory enabling banks and financial firms to gain real-time business insight into activities such as fraud, regulatory compliance, financial transactions and governance.

03 December 2014

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

The freedom to innovate the bank

Sameem Jaffrey, Founder Aptitude Advisors & previously Chief Commercial Officer for Group Technology UBS AG and Balazs Fejes, Global Head of Banking and Financial Services Industry Business Unit, EPAM discuss the challanges banks face as they try to balance effective innovation within their IT strategies.

01 December 2014

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Digital transformation in corporate banking

Balazs Fejes, SVP, global head of Banking and Financial Services, EPAM Systems discusses the debate from our live webcast looking at how corporate and transactional banking is dealing with digital change.

28 November 2014

Company update/Transaction banking

Ajman Bank adopts SmartStream’s Corona

SmartStream Technologies, the Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) specialist, today announced that Ajman Bank, the award-winning Islamic financial services institution, has implemented SmartStream’s Corona solution to improve its operations and provide a better quality of services to its customers.

26 November 2014