Industry Trends

24 November, 2008

One of the fallouts of the credit crisis appears to be that banks are turning their focus to more traditional areas of their business, notably global transaction services... Read more

18 November, 2008

Complex event processing gives banks and corporates real-time visibility of their payment processes which is an important requirement in the quickly changing payments landscape... Read more

12 August, 2008

INVESTORS' needs for more transparency and accurate and timely product and market information in the current credit and liquidity environment cannot be met by most legacy banking systems, a report finds. Read more

11 August, 2008

National Australia Bank (NAB) says the first phase of its Next Generation Platform initiative is underway... Read more

06 August, 2008

The National Australia Bank's decision unveiled today to overhaul its core banking systems was fraught with risk but necessary for a sector now seen as lagging technologically, according to local IT analysts. Read more

28 July, 2008

Merchants of all sizes have been agitating in one way or another for lower interchange rates, particularly in the US, Canada, the EU, and Australia. Read more

19 March, 2008

UK Faster Payments, currently in test mode, is gaining interest from the rest of Europe and beyond... Read more

08 March, 2008

Apacs, the UK's payment association, has said the banking industry will introduce a new faster payments clearing service on 27 May 2008... Read more

03 March, 2008

UK payments association APACS says the British banking industry is on track to provide near-real-time phone and Internet payments on May 27, 2008... Read more

10 January, 2008

VocaLink, the payment services provider and international Clearing and Settlement Mechanism (CSM), will transmit more than two billion transactions over SWIFTNet in 2008. VocaLink is now one of SWIFT’s biggest transaction customers... Read more