Latest Microsoft Financial Services News: Finextra Research

Nationwide launches Pocket PC bank

The UK's Nationwide Bank has launched Europe's first Internet banking service for personal organisers. The 'Bank Anywhere' service runs on Microsoft's Pocket PC platform and is available over a range of personal digital assistants and mobile phones.

15 December 2000

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Corillian debuts in Europe with Greek bank win

EFG Eurobank Ergasias (Eurobank), the second largest private-sector bank in Greece, has licensed Corillian's Voyager platform to provide a new framework for Internet banking and brokerage services. The deal is an important win for Corillian which recently opened an international office in the UK.

12 December 2000

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Halifax and NCR bring ATMs into line

UK bank Halifax is to use NCR software to provide a development environment for the consistent delivery of products and service across all customer contact points.

29 November 2000

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Fujitsu-ICL previews Windows 2000-based Web ATMs

Fujitsu-ICL Systems has previewed its Series 800 family of ATMs, billed as North America's first, full-scale cash machine to use the Microsoft Windwos 2000 operating system.

28 November 2000

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Brief: Getronics ports to Stratus

Amsterdam-based Getronics is to port its Globalfs financial services solution to Stratus fault tolerant computers.

28 November 2000

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UK banks are failing to live up to e-business hype

A Mori/Cranfield survey for Microsoft finds that in spite of industry enthusiasm and investment, the UK financial services sector is failing to deliver on B2B e-business hype.

15 November 2000

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Credit Suisse investment service to feature on MSN

Credit-Suisse's new online investment service targeting Europe's 40 million high net-worth individuals is to feature on a new pan-European personal finance channel from MSN, the Microsoft Internet portal.

27 October 2000

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Swedish mobile payment trial to use MS smart card

Microsoft is working with Banverket, the Swedish railway operator on the development of a mobile phone-based payment and ticketing application for rail customers.

26 October 2000

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Microsoft PFS bids to plug UK money drain

Microsoft has launched Money 2001, the latest version of its personal finance software package in the UK.

26 October 2000

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MKI wins Australian retail contract

Bank of Cyprus is to implement Midas-Kapiti International’s (MKI) Equation DBA universal banking solution at its new Australian branch operations. The retail back office system is slated to go online in November when the bank’s existing representative offices in Melbourne and Sydney will be granted a full banking licence and international branch status.

19 October 2000

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Brief: Microsoft prepares MoneyCentral for international markets

Microsoft is to launch new versions of its MoneyCentral personal finance Web site customised for France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The localised variants of the financial planning Web site will be rolled out over the coming months.

20 September 2000

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Microsoft chief forecasts exponential growth for smart cards

Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer has outlined a critical role for smart cards in Microsoft's next generation .NET Platform.

30 June 2000

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