Parex Banka reports consolidated Basel II data using Quadrant

21 August - 02:25 PM

Parex Banka in Latvia has successfully implemented the Quadrant SAB2 solution to enable group capital adequacy reporting to the Latvian regulator. Under the agreement, Quadrant extends its SAB2 Basel II and Capital Adequacy reporting system...

Alliance & Leicester adds Text Alert Service to mobile banking

20 August - 11:36 AM

Alliance & Leicester has added an alert service to its mobile banking offering. Customers can opt to receive an SMS message when their current account balance reaches certain levels set by them, so they will...

Forrester warns of 'data explosion' effects on compliance

20 August - 11:13 AM

According to a new report by Forrester Research, businesses are exposing themselves to increasing operational risk and costs because of inadequate database archiving strategies. Report highlights include: 50% annual growth is reported in online transactional...

BATS granted exchange status in US

19 August - 02:27 PM

BATS has received approval today from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to operate as a registered national securities exchange. The transition into an exchange, from the firm's current regulatory status as an ECN, is...

Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank migrates to fully managed service

19 August - 11:01 AM

CRDB builds on Misys BankFusion platform

18 August - 10:25 AM

Italian securities to miss EuroCCP launch

13 August - 01:23 PM

Card fraud factory busted by specialist police unit

13 August - 11:00 AM

Appointments: Lewis to head DTCC syndicated loan business in Europe

11 August - 09:38 AM

NAB partners with Oracle for core banking replacement

11 August - 09:03 AM

Sapient acquires Derivatives Consulting Group

08 August - 08:45 AM

Thomson Reuters: CRMPG report shows "Risk has never been managed but merely reported"

07 August - 03:30 PM

Corrigan Report: Buy- and sell-side must invest in IT by 2009

07 August - 03:22 PM

Barclays ending Siemens deal could be start of trend

07 August - 02:27 PM

Honda Bank goes with Temenos

27 August - 08:46 AM

CUNA Mutual to use Barrie & Hibbert's Economic Scenario Generator

20 August - 10:14 AM

Visa Launches notification pilot with North American banks

20 August - 09:06 AM

JPMorgan launches third party clearing for Warsaw Exchange members

20 August - 08:59 AM

Appointments: BGC promotions

19 August - 01:54 PM

ARZ in production with Odyssey's private banking platform

19 August - 01:46 PM

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing appointed as global custodian by Gulf Reinsurance

19 August - 01:38 PM

Sentrum announces agreement with SunGard Availability Services

18 August - 11:02 AM

Metavante and Temenos extend alliance

18 August - 10:57 AM

Appointments: Coexis hires Lehman IT head for Asia operations

18 August - 10:49 AM

Apple, the iPhone, and the Corporate World

Posted on 19 August 2008 by Fabien Buliard

Ahead of the annual Apple Expo trade show, held in September in Paris, I thought now would be a good time to reflect on the Mac platform’s potential in the corporate world in general, and...

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Cloud Computing Crashes at Amazon

Posted on 19 August 2008 by Tom Groenfeldt

On demand computing, under a variety of brand names, is a hot topic again in financial services, in part because city centre locations favoured by banks are running out of space and power for data...

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Banking Becomes Boring. Better?

Posted on 19 August 2008 by Tom Groenfeldt

With banks having lost half a dozen years’ profits since last August you might believe headlines which suggest that they are prepared to scale back business. Ah, but that does miss a key point. The banks...

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Beyond business as usual

28 July - 12:12 AM

Technology has had a significant influence on commercial banking, says Ian Watkinson, head of e-invoicing, Royal Bank of Scotland. “The internet has changed the way we do business forever and there is a greater drive...

Core values

28 July - 12:12 AM

The core banking systems market has seen, over the past few years, an increasing level of vendor systems being implemented – right up to the largest scale projects of the Tier1/Tier 2 banks. Largely, though,...

Machine readable news

28 July - 12:12 AM

The development of machine readable news is typical of today’s trading environment and the services that are offered to its participants. The competitive spirit that drives the market has led to an obsession with speed,...

Crossing borders

28 July - 12:12 AM

Cross-border trading in securities and derivatives has been increasing for years, as investors seek to diversify their risk and enhance returns while issuers look to attract a broader investor base. According to the World Federation...

All the fun of the fair

28 July - 12:10 AM

The choice of venue for Swift’s annual Sibos conference and exhibition has a marked influence on the event itself, giving it a distinctive character that similar scale events sticking to a single venue don’t have....