Latest Microsoft Financial Services News: Finextra Research

Banco de Espana sets out Target2 interface goals

Banco de Espana is using Microsoft BizTalk integration technology to interface its Target2-related business applications with the European Central Bank’s proposed new wholesale payments platform.

05 September 2005

/regulation

Microsoft moves on capital markets

Microsoft has lined up 20 software, hardware and systems integration partners in support of its 'Experience Capital Markets' programme, designed to ease the technology sourcing and integration burden for securities firms building on .NET and XML-based Web Services platforms.

21 June 2005

/retail

Microsoft to release InfoCard digital ID system

Microsoft is planning to release a technical preview of its proposed new federated digital ID management system InfoCard to Web developers next week.

20 May 2005

/wholesale

Thomson and Microsoft ink Portia software development deal

Thomson Financial is extending an agreement with Microsoft to develop, market and distribute portfolio managment technology based on the .NET framework and Windows Server System.

17 May 2005

/retail

Microsoft files lawsuits against phishers

Microsoft has filed 117 federal lawsuits against un-named defendants suspected of conducting illegal phishing scams.

01 April 2005

/retail

Microsoft hires Accenture's Anders Abrahamsson as MD, Emea financial services

Microsoft has appointed Accenture's Anders Abrahamsson as managing director of its Emea financial services division.

08 March 2005

/retail

WholeSecurity signs Visa, Microsoft, eBay and PayPal to anti-phishing initiative

Texas-based WholeSecurity has signed Visa, Microsoft, eBay and PayPal to its Phish Report Network which enables firms to report fraudulent Web sites to a central database.

14 February 2005

/retail

OFX develops standards for safer aggregation

The OFX Consortium is seeking comment on a new approach to financial account aggregation that would remove the need for sensitive financial information, such as passwords, to be stored on aggregators' systems.

22 November 2004

/Sibos

Microsoft signs Banesto and Sekerbank to BizTalk Accelerator for Swift

Spain's Banesto and Turkey's Sekerbank are implementing Microsoft's financial middleware technology to manage payments processing and take advantage of the new services being offered by Swift. Microsoft has also receieved SwiftReady Financial Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Gold accreditation for its BizTalk Accelerator for Swift the first time.

11 October 2004

/retail

Phishing losses total $500 million - Nacha

US payments association Nacha estimates the total monetary losses to victims of phishing incidents nationwide may run as high as $500 million.

29 September 2004

/retail

The Coventry revamps Web channel with Microsoft .Net

The Coventry Building Society has overhauled its Web sites using Microsoft's .Net technology.

06 September 2004

/retail

Microsoft SP2 update hobbles St George Web log-in

Australia's St.George Bank has told technology news site ZD Net that the latest Windows update - Windows XP Service Pack 2 - will prevent customers from logging on to its online services.

03 September 2004

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