Transaction banking

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SocGen to overhaul global transaction banking business with Temenos

Societe Generale has selected Temenos to modernise the account management and payment systems for its global transaction banking activities in Europe and Asia

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Rabobank spins off TreasurUp

Rabobank is spinning off its TreasurUp venture through a series A funding round together with Australian listed cross border payments specialist OFX.

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Central Bank of Bahrain taps JPMorgan Onyx for digital currency trials

The Central Bank of Bahrain is to use JPMorgan's blockchain platform Onyx in a pilot scheme to introduce instantaneous cross border payment using a digital currency.

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ALT/AVE to drive new funding into its DLT offering

Having secured £535,000 investment, regtech ALT/AVE plans to further develop its distributed ledger solution docStribute, to expand its core uses beyond financial services.

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HighRadius hits $3.1bn valuation

HighRadius, a startup specialising in AI-powered order-to-cash and treasury management software, has hit a $3.1 billion valuation off the back of a $300 million Series C funding round led by D1 Capital and Tiger Global.

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DBS completes first trade transaction on Ant Group's Trusple blockchain

DBS is the first Asian bank to successfully close a trade financing transaction on Ant Group's blockchain platform Trusple.

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EBAday 2021: The road to payments transformation

After the success of EBAday 2020, the event will again run in digital format on 28-30 June 2021 for its sixteenth year, welcoming a host of board directors, chief executive officers and payments and technology heads from Europe’s leading banks.

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Citi streamlines cross-border payments with digital documentation

Citi is streamlining the cross-border payments process for institutional clients by releasing a single electronic platform for payment instructions and the associated documents that accompany them.

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Swift and ICC bid to create industry standard for ESG due diligence

Swift's KYC Registry has become the first market utility to embed the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Sustainable Trade Finance Guidelines, making it easier for financial institutions to identify environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in their supply chains.

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Nordic change is in the air for 2021

As part of Finextra’s Predictions Series for 2021, Hannah Wallace spoke to Erik Zingmark, Nordea’s head of transaction banking to unpack some of the leading trends he expects to see throughout 2021.

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UBS introduces multibanking service for Swiss SMEs

UBS is rolling out a multibanking function that lets its SME clients in Switzerland make payments from their accounts with other providers from within the Swiss giant's E-Banking service.

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Wells Fargo leads $20m Series A for cash management startup Trovata

Trovata, a US startup specialising in automating cash reporting and forecasting through wholesale, multi-bank API data aggregation, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital.

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Citi picks Volante for global ISO 20022 migration

US banking giant Citi is enlisting Volante Technologies to accelerate its adoption of the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard across its global payments operations.

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IBM acquires Canadian payments outfit Expertus

IBM has acquired Canadian fintech Expertus as part of a strategy to extend its hybrid cloud offerings deeper into the AI and payments space.

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Banco Sabadell lets biz customers make payments from accounts with other banks

Spain's Banco Sabadell is stepping up its use of Open Banking to enable business customers to make payments from its website using accounts held with other financial institutions.

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Payments have become tech arms race say banks

The vast majority of banks (94%) believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the payments market into a technology arms race for which they are unprepared.

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EBAday 2020: ISO 20022 catalyst for banks to harness connected data

The ISO standards roll-out and open banking will galvanise banks’ efforts to compete with data-driven big techs, despite “vagueness” about how best this might be accomplished.

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EBAday 2020: Cash visibility still an issue for corporate treasurers in 2020

Today, non-bank entrants such as PSPs and TPPs are entering the payments space to tap in to the lucrative and stable business that is transaction banking. To remain competitive and avoid disintermediation, financial institutions must support legacy core banking infrastructure and a resource-intensive, scalable delivery model – success is tied to relevancy in the corporate market and ensuring clients’ problems are resolved.

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EBAday 2020: Are banks failing customers?

The question of whether banks are failing to provide the services customers expect was the subject of a heated panel debate during a lunchtime roundtable on Day Two of EBAday.

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EBAday 2020: Batch processing gives way to the instant payments revolution

At EBAday 2019 in Stockholm, Deutsche Bank’s Koral Araskin highlighted that if instant payments is the new normal, banks will heavily depend on cash buffers to cover all payment flows - even those which come outside of normal working hours. "Is this really meaningfully achievable?" he pondered last year. The events of 2020 and the impact of Covid-19 have truly shown that it must be achievable.