Should you think about adopting CAMT053?
by Kylene Casanova
Adoption of ISO 20022 payment standards should be ongoing, writes Amber Christian in Treasury & Risk. The CAMT053 standard can improve communication between corporates and their banks
Electronic Banking Connectivity
Background
The simplest way to connect to the cash management banks is to use their corporate electronic banking (EB) connectivity services. Increasingly, these basic EB connectivity services have been expanded…
Read more2016 Review - June
by Kylene Casanova
Total working capital management; Plug and play connection to Ripple’s real-time settlement cross border payments; Britain files for divorce from EU; How to avoid using SWIFT altogether and/or in with…..
2016 Review - May
by Kylene Casanova
Tailor made corporate treasury? PSD2 and interchange fee regulations; treasury urgently needs to invest in FX risk management capabilities; Banks losing FX market share to non-banks; Host-2-Host or SWIFT?
2016 Review - March
by Kylene Casanova
Shell’s lessons from centralisation journey; EPC on potential of blockchain; OpenLink bringing commodity & treasury ERM solutions together; Transaction banking feels the strain
Easy & secure access to banks and global payment systems for governments & corporates
by Kylene Casanova
Universal Aggregator service from Bottomline Technologies provides a single fraud protected plug-in to banks, and clearing and settlement systems world-wide
SWIFT service bureau can do more than you expect
by Kylene Casanova
Finexworks - the Next Generation SWIFT ServiceBureau
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
App stores are here: Thomson Reuters EIKON, TreasuryXpress, Deutsche Bank show how
by Kylene Casanova
The age of downloading Apps in cash and liquidity management and putting together your own solution is here and growing fast
Accelerating corporate payments on-boarding: optimising the H2H approach
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
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
Progress into supply of indirect access to UK payment systems
by Kylene Casanova
The Payment Systems Regulator's review of competition in the supply of indirect access to payment systems concludes that progress is being made into opening up access to payment systems.
Citi’s e-banking platform given top ranking for 10th consecutive year by Greenwich
by Kylene Casanova
Not only this, CitiDirect BE received the highest rating in the study in 22 categories
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
ESMA launches public consultation on distributed ledger technology
by Kylene Casanova
ESMA is seeking feedback from stakeholders on the possible use of DLT in securities markets, its potential benefits and the risks that such broader use may pose.
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
Corporate activity on the SWIFT network and services in 2015
by Kylene Casanova
Less than half of Fortune 500 use SWIFT; only 7 corporates are live on eBAM using 20022 acmt messages on FileAct; Citi first for corporates on SWIFT in India; little progress on BPO and MT798 message usage
SWIFT gets SWIFTSmart with new eLearning platform for banks AND corporates
by Kylene Casanova
New platform will support remote training with digital courses and social learning capabilities to encourage peer interaction across the SWIFT community
Payments UK launches repository service for payment standards
by Kylene Casanova
The UK's payments industry trade association, Payments UK, has launched an online service to help the payments industry get access to and implement payment standards.
Hanse Orga introduces ‘HO Global Format Integrator’ for payments
by Kylene Casanova
New ‘plug & play’ solution for companies wishing to configure and establish international transaction messages faster and easier into their SAP system.
2015: 240 new corporate groups joined SWIFT, 47% with less than 1 Bn USD turnover
by Kylene Casanova
Global roll out continues with 44 in the Americas, 44 in Asia Pacific and 152 in EMEA, and 19%+ growth in message traffic
SWIFT and CIPS to collaborate on cross-border interbank payments
by Kylene Casanova
SWIFT and the China International Payment Service (CIPS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) setting out their collaboration on China's cross-border interbank payment system.