Latest Microsoft Financial Services News: Finextra Research

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

/retail

HSBC rejects Microsoft upgrade model - vnunet

In an interview with vnunet.com, high street bank HSBC has criticised Microsoft's moves towards subscription-based licensing, claiming that it forces too fast an upgrade cycle with few benefits for business users.

09 September 2002

/regulation

SunGard releases Credient benchmarks

SunGard Trading and Risk Systems has released the results of benchmark testing of its Credient hosted credit risk management solution performed under laboratory conditions at Microsoft in the UK.

14 August 2002

/wholesale

Nasdaq pilots XBRL financial data standard

The Nasdaq Stock Market, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers have embarked on a pilot programme to deliver investor information over the Internet using Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an XML-based framework for financial reporting.

06 August 2002

/retail

Microsoft upgrades Money software

Microsoft has launched an updated version of its Microsoft Money personal finance software, which includes free online bill payment and tax filing as well as new investing tools.

01 August 2002

/retail

M35 launches Web services application server

M35, a software and consultancy company set up by Kirk Wright, former president and co-founder of Corillian Corporation, and Russell Thornton, former director of consulting for Corillian International and director of software development for DKB International in London, has launched its first product, DataTrans, a Microsoft. NET-based Web services application server.

26 July 2002

/Sibos

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

/retail

Microsoft and Arcot partner for Passport cardholder authentication

Microsoft has entered an agreement with Arcot under which Internet shoppers will be able to link their debit and credit cards to the .NET Passport service.

10 July 2002

/regulation

Ironbark releases Visual FpML components for .NET

London-based start-up Ironbark has unveiled a suite of Visual FpML components for Microsoft .NET.

09 July 2002

/retail

Brief: Financial Objects wins Microsoft top product innovation award

Financial Objects has won best packaged application of the year in Western Europe for its activebank2 solution, at Microsoft's annual Certified Partner Awards.

01 July 2002

/retail

XML Web services big hit with European financial sector, says survey

The retail and wholesale banking sector is the leading adopter of secure XML Web services, according to a survey of European developers released today at Tech.Ed 2002, Microsoft's European developer conference.

01 July 2002

/retail

Fincentric wins Microsoft Datacenter certification

Fincentric Corporation has won Windows 2000 Datacenter Server certification from Microsoft for its i-Wealthview banking system.

26 June 2002

Latest news