IBM Financial Services - Announcements, Interviews & News Stories

Earthport upgrades to IBM Websphere platform

A major step forward in the development of Earthport's international banking network, which supports the ability to make payments to over 190 countries through 35 primary banking relationships with settlement capabilities in 19 major currencies, is announced today, with the upgrading of its technology platform to a DB2/IBM Websphere architecture.

21 November 2006

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IBM, Oracle and i-flex to collaborate on banking solutions

IBM, Oracle and i-flex said today the companies will collaborate to provide Flexcube for core banking on IBM System z mainframes. They will also provide joint banking customer with infrastructure, services and support for enterprise applications, core banking and risk management.

12 October 2006

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Dovetail Systems demonstrates liquidity management on IBM payments platform

Dovetail Systems, a provider of high-value and ACH-type payment processing solutions, and IBM partner, is demonstrating its liquidity management technology running on IBM's new Enterprise Payments Platform at booth H03 of Swift's International Banking Operations Seminar (SIBOS) in Sydney, Australia.

09 October 2006

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IBM unveils payments architecture; expands vendor ecosystem

IBM today announced a new software solution and professional services to help banks progressively renovate existing payments systems and rapidly deploy new, reusable payments capabilities using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to deliver new payments products, drive organic growth and reduce payments infrastructure costs.

09 October 2006

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Fineos joins IBM's Chiphopper Linux programme

FINEOS Corporation, an award-winning provider of software solutions for the insurance and banking industries, today announced it has joined IBM's Chiphopper program.

24 August 2006

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IBM explores SOA in banking

There has been a great deal of hype about SOA and little in the way of practical real-world guides to it's use, until now. Banks everywhere have been criticised for not having a single view of their customers and of not being able to deliver consistently excellent service over multiple channels.

15 August 2006

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IBM buys FileNet for $1.6bn

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and FileNet Corporation (NASDAQ: FILE) today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire FileNet, a publicly held company based in Costa Mesa, Calif., in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $1.6 billion, or $35 per share.

10 August 2006

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Banca Popolare di Milano renews IBM IT services deal

Gruppo Banca Popolare di Milano (BPM) announced today that it has renewed its multi-year agreement with IBM.

14 July 2006

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IBM boosts supercomputing powers of Deep Computing centres

IBM today announced that it will significantly boost the availability of supercomputing power offered through the company's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCOD) centers.

30 June 2006

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Portware, Random Walk and IBM team to deliver algorithmic trading solution

Portware, Random Walk Computing and IBM today announced Portware on POWER, a new solution for algorithmic trading that combines Portware's Strategy Server and IBM System p entry-level servers with Random Walk's consulting and integration services.

19 June 2006

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Actuate and IBM partnership targets financial services sector

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications, and an IBM Financial Services Cluster Partner, today announced that it has joined IBM's "ISV Advantage for Industries" Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to help meet the specific needs of the financial services industry.

05 June 2006

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Aspeed Software's Accellerant interfaces with IBM's Blue Gene System

ASPEED Software has announced that its parallel distributed computing solution, ACCELLERANT, has successfully enabled fixed income and credit derivative trading applications to perform on the IBM Blue Gene System.

26 May 2006

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