Citi launches analytical Connectivity Module to optimize banking connectivity
by Kylene Casanova
New tool to help institutions optimize banking connectivity, automate and digitize treasury and shared service centre operations
Balance & Transaction Data Collection
Background
Many years ago the variation in the banks' standards and procedures for both bank account balance and transaction reporting, and payment instructions created the need for general bank balance and…
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by Mick Fennell, General Manager, Middle East & Africa, Volante Technologies
Volante explores what banks need to do to take advantage of H2H connectivity in order to better serve their customers in this fast moving digital payments age
SEPA gave banks opportunity to simplify internal routing practices
by Kylene Casanova
Research highlights how some banks used the transition to SEPA to simplify their internal routing practices. It suggests that other initiatives may present similar opportunities in the future.
Why we need to re-purpose, not reinvent, business standards for DLT
by Kylene Casanova
SWIFT has published a paper that investigates the application of business standards to distributed ledger technology (DLT) and smart contracts (SC).
Do you really need a TMS? Or can your own solution/combination be better? Sometimes
by Kylene Casanova
When is your combination of Excel + bank electronic banking and other services enough? Effective? ‘Cobbling together’ is still the name of the game in corporate treasury
How to avoid using SWIFT altogether and/or in combination with other channels
by Jack Large
Wieltec’s Philip Wielanga lists the alternatives to a single SWIFT connection which include EBICS and Multicash as well as H2H
Plug and play connection to Ripple’s real-time settlement cross border payments
by Kylene Casanova
Volante Technologies launch new accelerator for bank and treasury integration with Ripple distributed financial technology payment network
Bank connectivity - which is most cost-effective: Host-2-Host or SWIFT?
by Kylene Casanova
Neither is automatically the cheapest, it all depends ………. Remember: SWIFT figures show that only 45% of Fortune 500 corporates are connected direct to SWIFT
Reval and SWIFT partner to provide corporates new bank connectivity option
by Kylene Casanova
Enhanced Bank Connectivity Service gives Reval Cloud users a comprehensive range of solutions
Mobile services are for “quick tasks” in the corporate treasury workflow
by Kylene Casanova
Citi crosses $1trn transaction value milestone in institutional mobile banking as mobile services take up goes global for critical simple tasks
Corporate treasury on the Cloud: damned if you don’t, damned if you do
by Kylene Casanova
The new 'glibc' bug might make “everything on the Internet” vulnerable to attack, or at the very least it's a widespread code flaw that all companies should ensure is patched up and on their risk agenda.
UK’s Open Banking Standard here by end of 2016
by Kylene Casanova
The Open Banking Working Group has recommended the creation of an Open Banking Standard that will make it possible for banking data to be shared and used securely.
Multi-Bank Integrator from The B2 Group improves corporate-to-bank connectivity
by Kylene Casanova
Early usage indicates connection to B2’s Multi-Bank platform could be cheaper than directly using bank’s host-to-host or SWIFT links
Optimising corporate treasury integration and connectivity internally & externally
by Kylene Casanova
Connectivity Series #2: Volante experts - Hamilton and Lad - examine how to integrate the whole corporate treasury process from subsidiaries and business units all the way through to banks & payment systems
Accelerating and simplifying the setup and maintenance of corporate-to-bank connectivity
by Kylene Casanova
Connectivity Series #1: Volante experts - Hamilton and Lad - discuss how to speed up connecting to banks and also minimise costs of maintaining bank connectivity as standards change and as the company evolves
Corporate treasury connectivity workshops series begins
by Kylene Casanova
Insights and examples on how to overcome the problems and exploit the opportunities in corporate connectivity to optimise the whole corporate treasury process
A game-changer for bank-corporate connectivity?
by Kylene Casanova
Will corporates be able to programme their own interface with their banks in future? The intersection of banking and application programming interfaces (APIs) is an increasingly hot topic.
SWIFT for corporates progress report: numbers, coverage and new products/services
by Kylene Casanova
WEBchat with SWIFT’s Neil Gray reveals: significant progress for corporate services as number of corporate entities top 1,400, usage of SWIFT is spreading world-wide, and details of new services including consultan
BofA Merrill Lynch plan to extend transaction data repository beyond two years
by Kylene Casanova
Impressive progress in BofA Merrill’s data repository with research fast searching and analysis provides insight into corporates’ cash and liquidity management
Choosing the reporting standards that will achieve full visibility of your global cash balances
by Kylene Casanova
What to accept in the short term and what the long term goal should be
Bank of America Merrill Lynch completes Transaction Data Repository
by Kylene Casanova
Consolidated information reporting is a big deal: advanced analytics is now possible
How General Electric collects and warehouses all bank e-statements from their banks world-wide
by Kylene Casanova
In most countries at the end of each accounting period banks must provide statements and other reports. The electronic USA BAI statements and MT940 SWIFT statements mostly do not comply with countries reporting stan
BofA Merrill Lynch adds eStatements to its SWIFT SCORE Services and help users eliminate paper state
by Kylene Casanova
Bank of America Merrill Lynch today announced it now offers electronic bank statements to clients who have SWIFT Standardized Corporate Environment (SCORE) membership. eStatements is the latest enhancement to BofA M
Fides upgrades to SWIFT 7.0
by Kylene Casanova
Over last weekend upgraded their Fides service to SWIFT 7.0. Corporate BIC clients will now be able to benefit from the new Relationship Management Application (RMA) which will process InterAct and FileAct traffic i