Latest Transaction banking News: Finextra Research

Financial standards lost in translation

Andrei Kirilenko, professor of the practice of finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and former chief economist at the CFTC, explains how to bridge the gap between regulation and implementation and how to bring stakeholders in financial standards together.

27 March 2014

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The relationship with regulators

James Whittle, head of industry dynamics, UK Payments Council, explains the challenges of implementing ISO 20022 and the relationship with regulators.

27 March 2014

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Offering corporates efficiency and simplicity

Cindy Murray, head of global treasury product platforms and eChannels at Bank of America Merrill Lynch discusses the need for automation and efficiency in transaction banking offerings as well as how to meet corporate demands for simplicity and ease of use.

26 March 2014

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CFTC must improve data quality - O'Malia

Commissioner O'Malia talks about how the CFTC needs to move into the 20th century and use tech to crunch the big data questions. He also call for international agreement on sharing of swaps data and cooperation on tackling data quality.

26 March 2014

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Tungsten seeks approval for bank buy-out

Invoice financing roll-up Tungsten says it expects to take full control of the UK arm of First International Bank of Israel (Fibi) within the next two months, after formally submitting an application for change of control to the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority.

25 March 2014

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Swift: The Future of Financial Standards - Live Blog

Welcome to Finextra's live blog from Swift's Standards Forum event at Level 39 in Canary Wharf, UK. Brought to you by The Swift Institute, the Forum and the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science the conference is entitled 'The Future of Financial Standards'.

25 March 2014

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Doing good business in an era of re-regulation

Arun Aggarwal, managing director, UK and Ireland, Swift, discusses the themes, speakers and attendees for the upcoming Swift Business Forum in London.

25 March 2014

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Quality data; effective liquidity management

Richard Wiltshire, Global Head of Cash and Liquidity Management, Cross Product Services, Global Banking and Markets, HSBC Bank, Ludy Limburg, Eur Payment Solutions, ICM FI Product management, RBS and Nick Noble, Product Manager, SmartStream look at whether movements to manage liquidity on an intraday basis provide greater stability to the market.

18 March 2014

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Bringing academia to the financial industry

Peter Ware, director at the Swift Institute, discusses how the institute is working with academics and what's in store for the upcoming conference on financial standards and regulation.

12 March 2014

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Driving growth in trade finance

Dan Roberts, MD, head of trade & working capital, Barclays and David Hennah, head of trade & supply chain finance, Misys look at the changing needs of treasurers and how technology innovation is driving growth in trade finance.

04 March 2014

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Smarter security practices for financial services

Michael Davison, Business Development Executive, Banking and Financial Markets, Roger Gate, Business Unit Leader, Security and Privacy Services and David Bosomworth, European Sales Director, IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform discuss why data and operational security is now such a hot button issue in financial services.

19 February 2014

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Impact on pricing and reference data

Marion Leslie, MD, Pricing and Reference Services at Thomson Reuters looks at the impact of regulations, the need for transparency and what the future holds for the pricing and reference data marketplace.

18 February 2014

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Sweden's Assa Abloy buys IdenTrust

Just months after buying IdenTrust, private equity firms Parallax Capital Partners and StepStone Group have offloaded the digital identity authentication firm to Swedish lock manufacturer Assa Abloy. Financial terms were not disclosed.

17 January 2014

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Finextra Future Money presents: How to succeed as a fintech start-up

Finextra is inviting start-up companies in London to participate in the first of a series of breakfast roundtables ahead of the forthcoming Future Money conference, run in association with fintech accelerator space Level39.

14 January 2014

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2013: That was the year that was

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2013, 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 2014.

20 December 2013

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Finextra interviens: Swift drives debate at CorpActions 2013 conference

At the CorpActions 2013 conference in London, Chris Schaefer, Senior Associate, CityIQ Ltd, Pierre Colladon, Senior Adviser for Strategy for Market Infrastructures, Société Générale Securities Services, Axel Dewitte, EMEA&APAC Head of Corporate Actions, BNY Mellon, and Olivier Connan, Global Market Manager, Asset Servicing, SWIFT, discuss the pace of automation in corporate actions, the big changes impacting this industry and the likely evolution in this space during the next few years. Originally published on Finextra.com on: 6 December 2014

06 December 2013

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Security and BYOD policy management key barriers to corporate mobile banking

Corporate treasurers cite security challenges and bring-your-own-device business policies as the key obstacles to wider uptake of mobile banking platforms for treasury activities.

05 December 2013

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Live Blog: Swift Nordics Regional Conference 2013

Compliance and beyond: navigating challenges and exploring opportunities in the Nordic financial landscape

21 November 2013

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Finextra partners Level39/Innotribe for Future Money innovation conference

Finextra and Level39, in association with Innotribe, are to host a two-day conference exploring the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.

12 November 2013

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The Italian NFC experiment

Massimo Arrighetti, CEO, SIA, discusses the results of SIA's recent mobile payments pilot, issues with NFC and retailers, Sepa and T2S.

18 October 2013