Latest Microsoft Financial Services News: Finextra Research

Microsoft launches Swift accelerator and RosettaNet payments toolkit

Microsoft has launched a new software solution that runs on its BizTalk 2004 integration server, supports all Swift messages and also includes a toolkit to help banks provide payment services that are closely aligned with corporate supply chains.

20 October 2003

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EBA says 31 banks ready for Step2 cross-border payments

Some 31 banks are now live on the new Euro Banking Association (EBA) Step2 pan-European automated clearing house system, in anticipation of the 1 July deadline for EC regulations on cross-border payments.

30 June 2003

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CapCo forms STP Bridge

CapCo has released STP Bridge, a financial message broking tool for pre- and post-trade connectivity built on the Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator framework.

31 March 2003

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Microsoft launches STP accelerator

Microsoft has formally launched BizTalk Accelerator, a middleware solution designed to help financial institutions integrate financial messaging with internal business systems, support Swift ISO 15022 and new XML-based industry standards, and rapidly manage and repair messaging and trade errors.

04 November 2002

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Nordea and Microsoft in corporate Internet payments pact

Nordea and Microsoft are developing an Identrus-backed Internet payment infrastructure that will enable corporates to support new XML-based standards such as Swift ISO 15022.

01 October 2002

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Costa Rican central bank migrates payments network to .NET

The Central Bank of Costa Rica has migrated its interbank electronic payments and transaction system (SINPE) to Microsoft .NET technologies.

17 September 2002

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Merck, Microsoft and Sun join FXall advisory board

Merck, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have joined the customer advisory board of FXall, the bank-backed global portal for online foreign exchange trading.

10 July 2002

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Microsoft and CapCo unveil STP alliance

Microsoft has entered an alliance with CapCo aimed at delivering an industry-standard framework for message broking and straight-through processing for global capital markets participants.

19 June 2002

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Kyberpass joins Windows Identrus initiative

Unisys has selected Kyberpass to provide critical components for its Trusted Community Solution, a joint initiative with Baltimore and Microsoft to develop turnkey Identrus-enabled technology for the Windows-2000 Datacenter Server.

06 September 2001

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HelioGraph ports Swift Message Broker to Sun Solaris

Financial messaging vendor HelioGraph says it has completed the port to Unix of its Windows-based SwiftReady Gold accredited Helio Message Broker.

05 September 2001

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Unisys, Microsoft and Baltimore collaborate on Identrus package

Unisys, Microsoft, and Baltimore Technologies have teamed up to design, develop, and market the first packaged solution of an Identrus enabled architecture for the Microsoft Windows 2000 platform.

08 May 2001

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Accenture launches STP joint venture company

Accenture has joined with Advent Software, Compaq, Microsoft and the Bank of New York to create Encompys, an independent company offering outsourced straight-through-processing (STP) solutions for the global asset management community.

24 April 2001

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