Banking
FinTech: Will Blockchain Enable Better Banking?
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Fintech–Blockchain Technology
Freed from bitcoin, could the blockchain, or blockchain lite, become the underlying infrastructure behind better banking?
Technology
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
First Digital Corporate Bond Uses Blockchain Technology
Capital Markets | Debt
Overstock.com, a Utah-based online retailer, issued the first digital corporate bond using blockchain technology—the same technology that supports cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Fostering Fintech Innovation
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Fintech – Innovation Centers
In today’s virtual world, fintech development can take place anywhere. With funding for start-ups split 50:50 between traditional financial centers and elsewhere, the race is on to attract the hottest young firms.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
IT Integration Staggering To The Finishing Line
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | M&A IT Integration
Merging with other companies has its financial benefits, but when it comes to IT, not joining all the dots to integrate disparate systems can have serious consequences.
Banking
SIBOS Supersection 2015
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Introduction
Digital trade is a key theme for the corporate forum at SWIFT’s Sibos conference in Singapore in October.
Award Winners
Taking The Customer Digital
BBVA’s President and COO Carlo Torres Villa on the explosive growth of online banking and mobile banking.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Trade FinanceThinking Outside The Box
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Innovation In Trade Finance
Alternative finance—in all its myriad forms—could prove the answer to the global trade finance gap.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasury Workstations Build In Bank Fee Analysis
SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Bank Relationship Management
Along with understanding the value they provide their banking partners, most companies want to know what they’re spending in banking fees each year, and how this compares to the contracted rates. Bank-fee analysis software can automate the process.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Where To Draw The Line On Big Data Privacy?
Cover Story | Supplement
As data sharing becomes more common, individual privacy seems to be more luxury than norm. But corporations working with big-data analytics must pay attention to how many personal details they gather about their customers, lest they cross the invisible line of what is acceptable and what is not—and anger their client base.
Award Winners
Banks vs. The Space Invaders: Upstarts Take On Traditional Banks
The Innovators 2015
<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.008px;">With IT giants like Apple and Google pushing into the mobile payments business, financial services companies are going on the offensive. How? By acting like venture capitalists.</span>
Banking
Blockchain Technology | Banking On Bitcoin
Special Report | Bitcoin
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin that exchange digital information are a disruptive area for banks. The industry at first dismissed such currencies, but is now looking at how Bitcoin could change their business.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CFOs Put Big Data Into Action
Big Data | Chief financial officers have been modeling profit and loss statements for years, but in an era of big data they face a different and increasingly complex task.