ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, along with BMO Financial Group (BMO), announced today that BMO has rolled out ACI’s world-class payments hub within their business in just nine mont

Businesses run on balance sheets – where assets and liabilities are held in equilibrium. If a business wants to invest in one area, it must generate the resources from another. If the balance is out, then the business simply can’t work. The analogy holds true for business operations across the board, especially where the need for rapid innovation has to be balanced by the capability of the business to deliver against a value proposition. However, we are in risky times, where many businesses are losing sight of balance in the pursuit of quick returns.

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NatWest has become the first bank to integrate with a new blockchain-based platform that aims to dramatically transform and streamline the global syndicated loans market. In 2017 syndicated loan deals worth over £3.5 trillion were brokered globally. The new platform is set to go live from November 2018. 

Finastra today announced its collaboration with Collenda (formerly ABIT Group), a German software and consulting firm specialising in credit, debtor and debt management. Finastra’s Fusion Essence in the cloud solution will be seamlessly integrated with Collenda’s loan application and management software. The move expands Finastra’s trusted core banking platform to cover local requirements for loan origination and servicing in the German market.

Leading figures from a number of banks, building societies and other financial institutions have been provided with a valuable update on the progress of the new Image Clearing System (ICS) for cheques, twelve months since its introduction across the UK. Delegates heard a variety of presentations at the 4th Annual Cheque Imaging & Remote Deposit Capture Conference, held at Stationers’ Hall in London last Thursday (October 11).

Identitii Ltd (ASX: ID8), the fintech enabling the secure overlay of transaction level detail on top of financial messages, has today launched Overlay+, its new platform for enriching payments and corporate treasury transactions. Overlay+ creates a path for verified information to be exchanged within banks, between banks and between banks and corporate customers securely and in real-time using a private blockchain.

Land Bank of Taiwan’s Singapore Branch has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting to provide its regulatory reporting software, allowing the bank to comply with the upcoming Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Notice 610 requirements.