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SIBOS 2015 clearly showed how banking is at an inflection point. Like every year, there is a general feeling that SIBOS 2015 helped raise the banks’ awareness of the values at stake and the challenges...
We might all be running on fumes, but we made it to day four. Another one in the books. I can't resist the temptation to complete the airline analogy… we’re beginning our descent, buckle up, you’re c...
Standards Forum Day Three was all about compliance and regulation. "Less conversation" is not a phrase that one would normally expect see in the same sentence as "Sibos" but there...
The Asia Pacific region is a growing hub for innovation in global financial services, driven by initiatives such as Singapore's FinTech & Innovation Group (FTIG). Mobile banking and payments are g...
Tuesday at the Standards Forum saw the official launch of the ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter. Compère Muir, always in danger of breaking into a song when you shove a mike in his hand, thankfully spa...
The payments world is both complex and complicated: Complex because of the many different parts that need to come together to facilitate the movement of value; and Complicated because the parts are i...
The need for market practice has not changed simply because we have introduced a new syntax… in fact, for a good number of years market practice organisations such as ISITC have shifted the focus of t...
Day One is in the books. A couple of the sessions were standing room only. Luckily, there is room to expand in the aisles... unlike Innotribe which had to turn people away from the API session. Bah! ...
Here we go again. Time to get your geek on. In Forums past we’ve talked endlessly about ISO 20022, explaining what it is, what it isn’t… we’ve argued for adoption where it makes sense, and perhaps so...
Despite increasing regulations across the finance sector globally, fraud and associated risks continue to increase—and at a staggering pace. Thomson Reuters was recently quoted as saying, “Increased r...
“I want it now.” Sounds like a petulant teenager, doesn’t it? But actually, it’s the sound of consumers and corporations around the world demanding immediate payments solutions. While immediate paym...
In the past year or two, the pace of change has accelerated rapidly in the transaction banking industry. Disruption to business models is not far behind what we see taking place in retail banking, as ...