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CSDs forge DLT partnership
28 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The central securities depositories of South Africa and Russia have signed a letter of intent at Sibos to develop a distributed ledger technology for proxy voting...

Sibos: No holes in Swiss fintech innovation
27 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Switzerland is a hot bed of financial technology innovation, according to speakers at a Sibos Innotribe session in Geneva...

SGSS secures T2S mandate for Hungary
27 September 2016 Budapest
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Societe Generale Securities Services has won a mandate to connect the Hungarian central securities depository with the Target2-Securities settlement platform...

SWIFT’s ISO 20022 framework makes progress
27 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT’s framework to support the launch of ISO 20022 has made progress with key financial market infrastructures and market practice groups...

Back-office automation and reporting still a priority
27 September 2016 Pittsburgh
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Asset management professionals continue to prioritise back-office automation and managing increased regulatory reporting, according to a new Confluence survey...

Massimiliano Notarianni joins SGSS
27 September 2016 Paris
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Societe Generale Securities Services has named Massimiliano Notarianni as its global head of sub-custody network management...

Sibos: Future of payments relies on trust
27 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Trust and control will be core as payments move towards a data platform, according to panellists on the Future of Money panel at Sibos 2016...

R3 members trial Intel’s distributed ledger prototype
26 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Financial innovation company R3 and eight of its largest consortium member banks, including HSBC, Societe Generale and State Street, have successfully tested Intel’s distributed ledger prototype for bond transactions...

Sibos: Not innovating would be criminal
26 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Banks should not see the threat of cybercrime as a reason to shy away from innovation, but rather as an incentive to develop financial technology further, Gottfried Leibbrandt, CEO of SWIFT, told attendees at Sibos 2016 in Geneva...

SWIFT to launch Name Screening service
26 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT is to launch Name Screening, a new hosted cloud service that allows for online search engine-style searching of names...

DH Corporation rebrands messaging platform
26 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

DH Corporation has rebranded its financial messaging platform as Total Messaging...

N+1 Singer renews multi-year deal with Torstone
26 September 2016 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

N+1 Singer has renewed its multi-year deal with Torstone Technology’s post-trade processing platform, Inferno...