SunGard’s solutions for corporate actions processing, corporate payments, reconciliations, have secured the 2015SWIFT Certified Application labels, demonstrating that they successfully meet defined requirements around SWIFT standards. The SunGard solutions and platforms that have been granted SWIFT accreditation help ensure increased transparency and process optimization across the financial services industry. The solutions awarded 2015 SWIFT accreditations include:

Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) and Sopra Banking Software – a global leader in software, integration, support and advisory services – have collaborated in building the information system for the new bank Banque Sino-Congolaise pour l’Afrique, which offers a complete range of retail banking and corporate finance services.

Today at SIBOS, Global Custodian unveiled the results of its annual Agent Banks in Major Markets Survey. The survey analyses the performance of sub-custodian agents in 27 markets globally, based on responses from the world’s largest custodian banks, broker dealers and depositories.

BNP Paribas Securities Services, a global custodian and asset servicing provider with USD 9 trillion in assets under custody, is helping its clients monitor their intraday liquidity positions in greater detail in light of new regulatory requirements such as Basel III.

BNP Paribas, which already provides its bank and broker clients with a minute by minute view of their liquidity positions, will from this month make intraday liquidity data available via DNA, the bank’s data visualisation platform.

 Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages, data and payments, today announced the launch of VolPay Hub, the third in the VolPay suite of products dedicated to enabling accelerated payments integration and processing orchestration. 

The digital payments domain is an extremely dynamic and diverse market. It continues to experience significant growth, not only in the number of new processors and disruptive competitors entering the market, but also in the:

 FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the formation of a new Working Group to focus on the growing number of Digital Currency and Blockchain technology initiatives. Many of the FIX Trading Community members have internal groups focusing on this topic.

Innovation will continue to drive deal-making and capital raisings across virtually all parts of the fintech universe in 2016 and beyond. Meanwhile, fintech companies will continue to have access to the funding that they need – in spite of the recent volatility in global equity markets.

Customers Bank has selected DadeSystems’ DadePay AR Automation solution to expand and enhance its payment processing strategy.