Latest Microsoft Financial Services News: Finextra Research

Microsoft takes it own blockchain medicine in trade finance deployment

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is collaborating with Microsoft on a project to implement blockchain technology for trade finance transactions.

27 September 2016

/Sibos

MasterCard unveils tool to tackle cyber threat

With the huge data breaches at Target and Home Depot fresh in the memory, MasterCard has launched a tool designed to protect against cyber attacks on banks and processors.

02 October 2014

/Sibos

Gates to venture back into the land of the dinosaurs at Sibos

Banking co-operative Swift has announced that former Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates will give the closing plenary address at the the annual Swift international banking and operations seminar, Sibos, in Boston.

09 April 2014

/Sibos

Disruptive clouds gather over banking technology market

Software developer Misys has announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft that will enable it to deliver new banking and capital markets applications through the Windows Azure cloud platform. The launch of the initiative comes as leading banks at the Sibos conference in Amsterdam discuss the disruptive potential of cloud computing on the banking technology market.

25 October 2010

/Sibos

Citi taps Microsoft for new e-banking service for corporates

Citi has enlisted the services of Microsoft for the development of its new online corporate banking service, which was launched at the annual Sibos event in Hong Kong.

15 September 2009

/Sibos

Microsoft treasury pushes on with ISO20022 project as banks slow progress

The migration of Microsoft's treasury onto the XML-based ISO20022 messaging standard is likely to be a multi-year, ongoing initiative, according to a treasury manager at the software giant.

18 September 2008

/Sibos

Polish Central Securities Depository signs for Microsoft BizTalk Server

The Polish National Depository for Securities (KDPW) is implementing Microsoft's BizTalk Server for Swift as its enterprise financial messaging platform and will use the technology for the transport, management and exchange of Swift transactions.

17 September 2008

/Sibos

ING selects Microsoft for settlement connectivity via Swift

Microsoft has been contracted by Holland's ING Investment Management to provide its BizTalk Server as the financial messaging platform for Swift connectivity to its settlement partner Bank of New York Mellon.

15 September 2008

/Sibos

Microsoft develops payments system for Italian bank

Italy-based Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), considered to be the world's oldest bank, has implemented a payments processing product for its corporate customers based on Microsoft technology.

04 October 2007

/Sibos

Kas Bank deploys Microsoft's BizTalk

Netherlands-based custody and clearing specialist Kas Bank is moving its payments processing away from the mainframe and installing Microsoft's BizTalk Server and BizTalk Accelerator for Swift messaging.

03 October 2007

/Sibos

Santander selects Microsoft products for global payments overhaul

Spain's Grupo Santander is to use Microsoft technology to upgrade and consolidate payments systems across its international business operations.

01 October 2007

/Sibos

La Caixa implements Microsoft's BizTalk for Sepa and Swift transactions

Spanish banking group La Caixa d'Estalvis y Pensions de Barcelona (La Caixa) is using technology from Microsoft to develop a payments platform to support its new single euro payments area (Sepa) and Swift InterAct and FileAct messaging services.

04 June 2007

Latest news