Microsoft Financial Services - Announcements, Interviews & News Stories

Microsoft adds FircoSoft screening system to BizTalk Server

Microsoft Corp today announced it has partnered with FircoSoft, the leading provider of watch list filtering solutions, to integrate FircoSoft OFAC-Agent Suite with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT in order to provide support for SWIFT financial messaging.

09 May 2006

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First Data inks Microsoft to merchant processing and risk services deal

First Data Corp. (NYSE:FDC), a global leader in electronic commerce and payment services, has announced a multi-year agreement to provide global merchant processing to Microsoft Corp.

27 April 2006

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MSN signs for BitPass payments services

BitPass, Inc., provider of the leading commerce platform for digital content and services, announced an agreement with MSN to enable digital content sales on targeted international MSN portals.

16 November 2005

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Serbian clearing house reduces gyro-clearing time

The Association of Serbian Banks (ASB) has dramatically reduced the time taken to gyro clear cheques from two weeks to less than one hour by automating its clearing process with a solution from Microsoft partner Saga d.o.o. Beograd (Saga), using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 and Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for Swift. The project was implemented in just four months.

08 September 2005

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Microsoft to deliver credit card processing to Office Small Business Accounting users

At its Worldwide Partner Conference 2005, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced it will collaborate with leading merchant acquiring institutions, including Chase Merchant Services, L.L.C., to offer credit card processing for Microsoft® Office Small Business Accounting 2006 users.

11 July 2005

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Microsoft launches BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today launched the Microsoft BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet, which builds on BizTalk Server 2004, a member of the Windows Server System family of products, and adds complete support for the trading partner integration standard developed by RosettaNet, a consortium of IT, electronic and manufacturing companies.

28 February 2005

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CLS implements FX data intelligence platform

CLS Group (CLS) is benefiting from access to powerful, flexible and dynamic analysis of its day-to-day foreign exchange processing, using a solution designed, built and implemented with Conchango.

16 November 2004

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Microsoft launches experience Banking initiative; names new preferred acquirers

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is demonstrating its commitment to the banking industry with the launch of experience Banking, an industry initiative announced today at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo.

16 November 2004

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HP launches server platform for SwiftNet connectivity

HP today announced a new server platform that enables financial institutions and large corporations to access the SWIFT financial messaging network while taking advantage of the lower costs and higher availability of the clustered Microsoft Windows® environment.

12 October 2004

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PayPal introduces software development kit for Microsoft platform

PayPal, the global online payment service, today expanded its PayPal Web Services offering by introducing a new software development kit (SDK) for the Microsoft platform. The PayPal SDK for Microsoft ASP.NET enables the more than 2.5 million Microsoft .NET developers worldwide to build secure and cost-effective e-commerce applications that easily integrate with the PayPal platform.

23 June 2004

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Microsoft to release BizTalk Accelerator

Today at International Payments 2004 Microsoft Corp. announced the full availability of the BizTalk® Accelerator for SWIFT, a software solution that supports SWIFT messaging to provide a reliable and economically viable messaging platform for securities and banking transactions. The Accelerator, unveiled at SIBOS 2003 in October, now has been successfully implemented by financial institutions and corporations such as Siemens KAG and Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management.

05 April 2004

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Microsoft to install Gemplus smart card software, readers

Gemplus International S.A.the world's leading provider of smart card solutions, today announces the delivery of smart cards, readers, and software to Microsoft for use in the Microsoft Technology Centers around the world.

24 February 2004

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