SWIFT announces a global payments innovation initiative to dramatically improve the customer experience in correspondent banking by increasing the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border payments.

Designed in collaboration with the industry, the initiative will initially focus on a business-to-business payments service supported by participating banks in early 2016.

Financial IT speaks to Vijay Oddiraju, CEO, Volante Technologies at Sibos 2015

Financial IT speaks to Fiona Hamillton, Vice President Euroope and Asia, Volante Technologies at Sibos 2015

Financil IT speaks to Nadish Lad,  Head of Payments Product, Volante Technologies at Sibos 2015

Financial IT speaks to Mick Fennell, General Manager, Volante Technologies at Sibos 2015

A year goes quick, doesn’t it? Before you know it I’ll be dusting off the crystal ball and attempting to offer wisdom to predict the top trends in to watch NEXT year. But before we do that, I thought I’d take a look at how I did on the prophecy front last year… Right this way for a quick run down of the 2015 crowdfinance trends, both what I thought would happen and whether I was right. Wish me luck!

What I said: ‘Crowdfunding is gearing UP to kick ass’

What actually happened:

 Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, acting through its Japanese subsidiary, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the remaining outstanding shares of Bit-isle, Inc. This acquisition further strengthens Equinix's position in Asia-Pacific--the company's fastest growing region--improving the compan

Thomson Reuters is working with third-party order management system (OMS) provider, Eze Software Group, to make it easier for buy-side customers to streamline workflows, improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs. Using Eikon Server API, buy-side customers of Eze Software can now easily consume high-quality, tailored Eikon content and data within Eze OMS on the same desktop, via a single Thomson Reuters data license.

Walmart knows customers want to save not just money, but also time. Today, the retailer introduced Walmart Pay – a fast, easy and secure way for customers to pay with their smartphones in Walmart store

 HeyWire’s Business Messenger is now available to Colt’s Capital Markets customers across Europe. This safe and easy to use texting app, which adds text to existing business fixed numbers, has been designed to meet customers’ security and compliance requirements around secure communications.