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Cash & Liquidity Management

Bloomberg Swap Execution Facility in first year completes nearly 150,000 trades

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Emergence of “packaged” trades allowed participants to better mitigate risk, and new multilateral trading facility (MTF) in Europe in development

Operations

EMIR reporting in the EU - bank reporting not up to scratch and issue resolution

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Clarification of various issues in EU and what to do about Switzerland

Cash & Liquidity Management

Worldline selects MyBank e-mandate service to introduce an SEPA direct debit service

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Banks and service providers sign up as launch date nears of MyBank e-mandate service nears

Fraud Prevention

Key problem in Cyberspace: Staff downloading firm data to personal devices

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Washington Post Cybersecurity Summit revealed many key questions including, ‘How should government deploy their power to protect society in cyber space?’ ‘How can companies protect themselves?’

Cash & Liquidity Management

BPO is most popular with smaller trade banks in Asia-Pacific

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

BPO needs more players to take off as the larger banks not ramping up their programmes

Cash & Liquidity Management

CNY, euro direct trading is now live

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

No longer have to exchange via the US dollar

Payments - Receipts

Global non-cash payments forecast to grow by nearly ten percent reveals World Payments Report 2014

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Report shows that e- and m-payments are converging and changing the payments playing field, AND that the industry is struggling to meet consumer demand

Payments - Disbursements

Taulia adds new analytics platform to their e-invoicing and supplier financing

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Analytics will be based on aggregation and analysis of millions of transactions since 2009

Treasury Technology

GTreasury extends SWIFT partnership by adding SWIFTRef

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

TMS supplier incorporates SWIFT’s dynamic repository of SWIFT BIC codes

Payments - Receipts at POS

FUTURE OF PAYMENT SYSTEMS: New POS registers will cover Bitcoin, etc.

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Square is making a register that will takes Bitcoin and Apple Pay, so retailers will never miss a sale

Cash & Liquidity Management

Update on Eurofinance International Conference, Budapest 15-17 October 2014

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Full agenda just released; New Treasury Stage in exhibition for 15 minute talks; 5 new companies confirmed to speak, as well as 100+ speakers on ‘How to get the right side of disruptive innovation'

Fraud Prevention

SWIFT offers free access to The KYC Registry for participating banks

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

SWIFT’s KYC Registry will be generally available at end of 2014

Fraud Prevention

Fundtech migrates 40 banks onto its global AML compliance solution

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Anti-money laundering protection and compliance improved as banks add new solutions to make themselves compliant with current regulations

Investing

DTCC and Euroclear create collateral processing joint venture

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

New joint venture will provide from mid-2015 a Margin Transit Utility and Collateral Management Utility for the collateral management industry

Connectivity

SWIFT delivers multi-year price reduction plan one year ahead of schedule

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

And the next five-year strategic plan promises further price reduction as SWIFT fight for market share in the global financial transaction business

Regular Bill Payments from Businesses

Crypto-currencies are worrying the bankers and the regulators

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

SWIFT CEO predicts that virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, will disruptive, it’s just a matter of when

Cash & Liquidity Management

Honeywell mandate to Stan Chartered for trade & cash management services in Iraq

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

Even in war torn countries, commercial life - cash management and credit lines - continue

Payments - Disbursements

BofA Merrill introduces Digital Disbursements to replace cheques for remmittances

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

New service enables companies to make payments to their customers without cheques by using either a Mobile Phone Number or Email Address as the identifier

Dealing & Trading

Does CitiFX Pulse single dealer platform remove need for multi-dealer platforms?

11 years ago by Kylene Casanova

SDP algorithmic FX dealing solutions and benchmark solutions are now so advanced and transparent that this is now a valid option. Should corporates avoid using MDPs for really large deals?

Cash & Liquidity Management