Swift aims to improve correspondent banking for customers
by Kylene Casanova
An initiative that aims to increase the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border payments has been announced by the bank-owned consortium Swift.
Connectivity
Background
Corporate treasury departments have a massive connectivity problem. They have to communicate and deal internally with almost every department and operating unit within the company or the group, and…
Read moreMaking payment factories effective - the vital stages
by Kylene Casanova
Connectivity series #4: Volante Technologies and Corning's Bengt Elvinsson discuss the role of payment factories, key functions and future of payment factories
Misys - empowering the corporate
by Kylene Casanova
Neil Macro explains how Misys could become the only connection corporates need to transact with the financial world
Next generation of Omnikron’s MultiCash electronic banking and payments platform
by Kylene Casanova
Innovative usability, strong security standards and support for new global payment options now available for bank users world-wide
Axeltree’s Symmetree solution provides seamless SWIFT and TMS/ERP Integration
by Kylene Casanova
New integration platform provides customers with SWIFT compliant any-to-any format integration and validation
Swift announces 57% price reduction by the end of 2015
by Kylene Casanova
Swift expects to deliver a 57% price reduction on its messaging services by the end of 2015, exceeding its original target of 50%, set out in 2010 as part of its Swift2015 strategy.
Swift launches payments and trade finance analytics tool
by Kylene Casanova
Swift has launched a tool, Watch Banking Analytics Premium, that enables its banking customers to analyse their payments and trade finance traffic over the Swift network.
Volante Technologies VolPay Hub: centralized digital payments orchestration hub
by Kylene Casanova
New hub will enable corporates to cut their implementation and maintenance costs for payment/collection factories and cost-effectively take advantage of all new payment systems
Financial market associations support ISO 20022 harmonisation
by Kylene Casanova
A group of financial market associations have announced their support for a global initiative to harmonise the implementation of ISO 20022 standards across the industry.
PMPG agrees guidelines for intraday liquidity reporting
by Kylene Casanova
A payments industry body, the Payments Market Practice Group, has endorsed the use of Swift messages for compliance with new intraday liquidity reporting requirements.
How to manage connectivity standards today and tomorrow
by Kylene Casanova
Connectivity Series #3: Volante experts Hamilton and Clarke discuss with Mondelez’s Mike Foye global progress, the effective combination of global/regional and local banks, and possible new services on the horizon
SWIFT MyStandards technology helps speed up SWIFT and ISO 20022 on-boarding
by Kylene Casanova
New MyStandards Readiness Portal accelerates and simplifies connecting to banks on SWIFT
1,125 banks sign up for KYC Registry 10 months after launch
by Kylene Casanova
More than 1,125 financial institutions have now signed up to Swift's Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry, which aids compliance with regulations to prevent financial crime.
Barclays first UK bank to offer corporate clients high-tech backup connectivity
by Kylene Casanova
Barclays partners with AccessPay to offer corporates backup channel to support the complexities of global, regional and domestic payment and cash management
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
ICC issues guidelines for BPO bank-corporate agreements
by Kylene Casanova
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued guidelines for drawing up a contract or agreement between a bank and customer, to include the bank payment obligation (BPO).
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.
What is SWIFT’s next ‘big move’ in the corporate space?
by Kylene Casanova
To be the linchpin in all financial transaction exchange including P2P hubs
Have Iranian banks rejoined SWIFT?
by Kylene Casanova
Not according to the SWIFT press office, but web-sites are reporting they have. It’ll take time
Data connectivity made easy by Volante Technologies’ new VolPay Channel
by Kylene Casanova
VolPay Channel suite of payment software and electronic banking connectivity solutions can fully integrate all your ERP platforms into a single coherent whole
Corporate treasury in 2015: snapshot of a risky business
by Kylene Casanova
A survey of corporate treasurers and CFOs has found that risk management is the number one priority for financial professionals.
Swift facilitates global messaging standards for Islamic finance
by Kylene Casanova
In response to the growing importance of Islamic banking, Swift has published an Islamic finance rulebook to promote Shariah-compliant MT messaging standards.