Latest Microsoft Financial Services News: Finextra Research

Brief: Staffordshire upgrades infrastructure with ITNet

UK-based technology vendor ITNet has won a £127,000 contract with the Staffordshire Building Society for the design, development, implementation and roll-out of Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system and Microsoft Exchange 2000. The company will also upgrade the building society's remote access security using RSA, ACE and Secure ID.

21 June 2001

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Compaq and Microsoft develop mobile finance solutions framework

Compaq and Microsoft have entered a joint initiative to develop a mobile solutions framework for the financial services industry.

18 June 2001

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Microsoft launches Office XP, Halifax first to sign up

Microsoft has launched Office XP, a new software suite which enables financial services employees to integrate applications and reference data into their desktop portfolios.

31 May 2001

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Orbiscom claims controlled payment patent protection

Hard on the heels of its patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft earlier this week, Orbiscom has confirmed it holds the rights to a portfolio of more than 50 controlled payment technology patents.

25 May 2001

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IT skills link to high performing banks

High performance financial services organisations are most adept at using technology to bolster employee performance according to new research undertaken by the Cranfield School of Management and Microsoft.

23 May 2001

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Orbiscom and Microsoft in card technology alliance

Orbiscom has entered a long-term patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft aimed at establishing controlled payment number technology as a desktop standard for securing credit card payments across the Internet.

21 May 2001

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MasterCard in standards about-face - signs up for Java and Windows

MasterCard is to support smart cards developed on the JavaCard platform as well as those conforming to the multi-application Multos operating system. The international payment card issuer says it is also prepared to support Microsoft's Windows powered smart card, based on member demand.

16 May 2001

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Brief: CIBC migrates branch platform to Windows 2000

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is claiming deployment of the world's first native Windows 2000 server platform for retail branch banking. The implementation was managed by Financial Models Company, which migrated CIBC's Coins server system from a legacy environment to the MS Web solution.

02 May 2001

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Citi signs P2P deals with MSN and AuctionWatch

Citibank has entered alliances with Microsoft and AuctionWatch as part of a major initiative to boost uptake of its c2it person-to-person payment service for e-mailing funds over the Internet.

01 May 2001

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NCI teams with Microsoft for Windows 2000 migration

IFS International Holdings, Inc. subsidiary, Network Controls International, Inc. (NCI), has teamed up with Microsoft to offer a solution which enables banks to migrate easily to Windows 2000.

19 April 2001

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Vendors claim wide support for XML-based PKI spec

VeriSign, Microsoft and webMethods are claiming widespread financial industry support for their jointly developed XML key management specification (XKMS) for interoperable PKI services.

12 April 2001

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Corillian wins first Asian Voyager contract

RHB Bank Berhad (RHB Bank) has selected Corillian technology to offer customers personalised Internet banking services throughout Malaysia and the South East Asia region.

29 March 2001

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