These Trends Are Changing the Payments Industry in UAE Transition to a cashless economy The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has one of the most dynamic, innovative and liberal economies in the Middle East and in the world too through its large amounts of investments in the infrastructural and technological developments. The UAE is also [...]
SWIFT Standard Changes 2020 In recognition of the operational stresses that the Covid-19 pandemic is putting on the global financial community, and especially on smaller institutions therein, SWIFT has decided to prioritize for 22 November 2020 only the MT Category 5 (Securities Markets) messages, which are required to enable compliance with forthcoming European regulations, [...]
ISO 20022 – Secure Payments to Transaction Management ISO 20022 vs. the Current System ISO 15022 The ISO 20022 is a financial standard that aims to provide a universal, open and ample dictionary for financial data transmissions among systems and financial institutions. It serves as a globally accepted prescription to create new financial messages [...]
How is Coronavirus affecting the financial payments industry and compliance? As the COVID-19 outbreak affect many business areas and their way of operation, the financial ecosystem has had its share in this transformation towards a more digitalized and zero-touch environment. As one of the natural results of the pandemic, people tend to increase the [...]
Benefits of SWIFT gpi (Global Payments Innovation) SWIFT, known as the payment messaging network that provides secure and easier transactions internationally in between over 10.000 financial institutions, has developed a new initiative called SWIFT gpi (Global Payments Innovation) and it aims to enhance the payment procedures via SWIFT both for the customers and institutions. The [...]
Cybersecurity in the Financial Industry The concepts of trust and security rely on the heart of financial services but unfortunately, it gets more and more challenging every day to maintain confidentiality, to provide the necessary systems and services and to keep the data safe at the same time. This is because cybersecurity threats are [...]
The 3 Key Trends in Financial Messaging Solutions The challenge As the demand on the inter- and intra-bank relationships is increasing, the corporates are also added to the equation and occasionally the pressure on the financial organizations to create a more effective financial messaging system is showing its face more and more everyday. SWIFT, [...]
Will China’s cashless society change the banking system? Asia's move towards a cashless society More than half of the world's millennials, who are getting more and more tech-savvy every day, are living in Asia. So, the technological improvements, high smartphone usage, and other structural aspects like demographics and urbanization coming together created a suitable [...]
Open API Framework in the Banking Landscape: Threat or Opportunity? To keep pace with the technological developments, to comply with the new regulations, and to remain competitive in the finance industry, banks must find digital partners to innovate and redefine their ways of working. The regulations started to demand the transition to a more [...]
Fineksus at SIBOS 2019 Featuring more than 11,000 delegates, 600 speakers and 300 exhibitors, Sibos 2019 London was the largest and most ambitious Sibos to date. As Fineksus we had a great event with our visitors in our stand. The main topics of SIBOS are about SWIFT gpi, processing of Data Science, [...]
