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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...

Accuity launches goods screening engine
26 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Accuity has launched its enhanced dual-use goods screening capability, to prevent goods being used in terrorist or rogue state activity...

SIFMA bangs the drum for asset managers
23 September 2016 Basel
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Asset managers do not pose any significant risk to global financial stability, according to SIFMA...

GFT partners with Google for blockchain
23 September 2016 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Financial services software provider GFT has become a member of the Google Partner Programme for testing distributed ledger innovation in banks...

Digital Asset applies Blockchain to Swiss market
22 September 2016 Zurich
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

SIX Securities Services is partnering up with Digital Asset Holdings to work on a proof-of-concept for blockchain technology in the Swiss financial market...