Latest Sibos News: Finextra Research

Citi looks to tech and non-profits to drive financial inclusion; Gates talks bitcoin and biometrics

Citi is working with non-profit organisation Catalyst Miami on a tech-based financial inclusion programme that it believes could be replicated across the country.

03 October 2014

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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

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Crypto-currency outfit Epiphyte triumphs at Innotribe Startup Challenge

US-based crypto-currency startup Epiphyte has emerged as the winner of the Innotribe Startup Challenge at Sibos in Boston.

02 October 2014

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Deutsche Bank speeds Swift standards uptake on Autobahn

Swift's MyStandards tool is to be made available via Deutsche Bank's Autobahn Apps Market.

01 October 2014

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BofA Merrill Lynch lets firms use mobile numbers to pay customers

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is tapping the technology behind its P2P payments service to launch a system that lets companies send money directly to customers' accounts using their mobile number or email address.

30 September 2014

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Payments industry challenged by soaring growth in non-cash transactions

Non-cash payments volumes are expected to increase by nearly 10% percent to reach 366 billion transactions in 2013, fueled by strong growth in developing markets and mobile payments, according to the 10th annual World Payments Report from Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

30 September 2014

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Deutsche Bundesbank and EBA Clearing team on XML-based card clearing service

Germany's central bank is working with EBA Clearing to build a new XML-based infrastructure for clearing debit card transactions for the country's financial institutions.

30 September 2014

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Swift offers one year free access to KYC Registry

Swift will give free access to its new KYC Registry throughout 2015 to banks that contribute their own data to the service.

29 September 2014

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Misys on the block as Vista Equity Partners agrees Tibco acquisition

Vista Equity Partners is seeking buyers for core banking supplier Misys after agreeing a $4.3 billion deal to acquire business process software firm Tibco.

29 September 2014

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Bitcoin to make big splash at Sibos and Money20/20

Bitcoin values may be languishing at the $400 mark, but financial services interest in the crypto-currency shows no signs of abating, with two of the biggest shows in the banking calendar - Sibos and Money20/20 - devoting significant airtime to the technology.

26 September 2014

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Ripple signs first two US banks

Open source payments outfit Ripple Labs has snared deals with two US banks who plans to use its real-time settlement protocol for cross-border money transfers.

24 September 2014

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Swift baulks at EU resolution on Russian expulsion

Swift has given a strongly worded response to a European Parliament resolution calling on the EU to consider expelling Russia from the financial messaging network.

19 September 2014

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