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IBS Journal | Payments Supplement

Overview: Payments market – The final countdown

The continuing rise of mobile and contactless payments channels, M&A activity and the looming SEPA deadline has given the payments industry much to think about. 2013 looks set to be another year of reform in the retail and corporate payments space.
 

IBS Journal | Payments Supplement

IBS Journal Payments Supplement 2013

With the deadlines for the SEPA payments now within grasp, vendors are rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the last minute rush to purchase systems and solutions to comply with the new regulations. However, banks and corporates still seem to be as unenthusiastic as when the initiative first emerged nearly a decade ago. 

Labels: Payments
 

IBS Journal | Payments Supplement

Point of view: Banks and mobile – Play to your strengths

Sirpa Nordlund, executive director at a non-profit organisation, Mobey Forum, speaks to IBS about the trends and concerns of the marketplace, and explores the roles banks have to play to stay at the forefront of the industry (or at least afloat).


   

IBS Journal | News

Phase two of Tosan implementation underway at Khavar Mianeh Bank

Following the recent go-live of the Negin Plus core offering from domestic vendor Tosan, Khavar Mianeh Bank in Iran has moved into the second phase of its IT project. Stage two involves the deployment of virtual channels and card payments switch. The start-up is midway through this venture and hopes all channels will be live by the end of March 2013, but the project hasn't been without its frustrations.


 

IBS Journal | Sales League Tables

Has the core banking systems market hit rock bottom?

Our analysis shows the depressed nature of the core systems market continues and, indeed, 2012 was the quietest yet. As always, the devil is in the detail, particularly at a geographical level, and some suppliers made progress despite the difficult conditions. To read this overview article free, please register here >>. If you are already registered login above right (forgotten your login details? contact info@ibsintelligence.com for assistance). Read more >>

   

IBS Journal | Sales League Tables

IBS Sales League Table 2013 (results Jan-Dec 2012)

Who was up, who was down and who was out in the course of 2012? What were the core banking software highlights and disasters of the year? Our annual snapshot of systems sales across the globe shows that the markets are yet to pick up, despite the overwhelming hope of the vendors that 2011 was the lowest point. Turns out, there was still a way to go.

See also:
Russian vendors Sales League Table 2013 (results Jan-Dec 2012) >>
US retail banking systems market analysis 2013 (results Jan-Dec 2012) >>
Core Banking Systems Market Dynamics Report 2013 >>


 
   

IBS Journal | Sales League Tables

US retail banking systems market analysis 2013 (results Jan-Dec 2012)

The pick-up in demand for core systems continues to lift the gloom in the US and, although the market is not quite out of the woods yet, there seems to be a universal relief that the progress has been maintained.

Contents: In-depth overview / The 'heavyweights' / International Vendors / Conclusion.

See also:
IBS Sales League Table 2013 (results Jan-Dec 2012) >>
Russian vendors Sales League Table 2013 (results Jan-Dec 2012) >>
Core Banking Systems Market Dynamics Report 2013 >>


 

IBS Journal | News

Avaloq moves into German market with Quirin Bank joint venture

Avaloq has joined forces with Berlin-based Quirin Bank to offer the Avaloq Banking System (ABS) on an outsourced basis. Avaloq will also migrate the clients of domestic core banking offering, Itrexs, over to this hosted version of ABS in the first phase of the project, with this base acquired last year with Höll Computer and Software.


   

IBS Journal | News

Temenos reports 'on-track' progress with ABN Amro payments project

Temenos perseveres with its plans to muscle into the payments sector with a new enterprise payments platform for large international and regional banks, and continues to work closely with the pilot taker, ABN Amro.


 

IBS Journal | News

Oman's first standalone Islamic bank enters phase two of iMAL implementation

Bank Nizwa, the first fully-fledged Islamic bank in Oman, has entered into the second phase of its implementation project, installing new channels such as internet banking and SMS functionality. It is still early days for this venture and the start-up hopes for all channels to be live before the end of 2013. This follows the recent launch of Path Solutions' iMAL core banking solution.


   

IBS Journal | News

Burj Bank migrates to iMAL

Pakistan-based Burj Bank has completed its implementation of Path Solutions' iMAL. The bank replaced the Ambit Retail Banking solution from Sungard in February 2013. 
 

IBS Journal | News

Honda Bank implements new core banking system

After futile attempts to implement international banking software, Germany-based Honda Bank has turned to a local vendor, COR&FJA, and its core offering, Corbas. Meanwhile, COR&FJA is searching for a new chairman of the board.  


   

IBS Journal | News

Central Bank of Azerbaijan upgrading Temenos T24

Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has issued a tender document for the upgrade of its current version of Temenos' T24, from R07 to the latest version. The deadline for proposals is on 17th April 2013.


 

IBS Journal | News

High-profile departure at Temenos

Following weeks of speculation regarding Mark Cullinane's future at Temenos (or the lack of it, to be more precise), the vendor has finally confirmed that the ex-Temenos COO is indeed leaving. The departure coincides with Temenos' release of financial results, which see the vendor back in the black.

   

IBS Journal | News

Aman Bank implements Flexcube from Oracle FSS

Libya-based Aman Bank has initiated its implementation of Oracle FSS's Flexcube core banking system. The bank hopes to roll out the solution to its 23 branches and agencies, as well as its ten mobile branches by the end of 2013. Eduardo Pinto, COO at the bank, describes the timescale as 'very ambitious'.


 

IBS Journal | News

Bolsa de Valores de Lima signs for MillenniumIT trading platforms

Peru-based Bolsa de Valores de Lima (BVL) is preparing to kick off its implementation of the Millennium Exchange and MillenniumSOR platforms owned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE). As well as this, BVL is close to finalising an agreement for a long-term partnership with LSE, which will see further technology upgrades in the future.


   

IBS Journal | News

Trésorerie Centrale des Dépôts gearing up for CapitalBanker implementation

Capital Banking Solutions' second customer in the Republic of the Congo, Trésorerie Centrale des Dépôts (TCD), is about to kick off its implementation of CapitalBanker. The work is due to start at the beginning of March and go-live is scheduled for June 2013. TCD follows the footsteps of Banque Postale du Congo, which went live with the vendor's flagship system in January this year.


 

IBS Journal | News

Flexcube Retail – future in doubt?

With the launch of a brand new core banking offering for large retail banks, Oracle Banking Platform (OBP), questions are raised over the positioning and future of another, much older high-end retail banking system of Oracle FSS, Flexcube Retail (FCR). The vendor, however, is keen to state that FCR still has plenty of life left in it.

   

IBS Journal | News

Ffastfill next in line to be taken over by Ion Trading

Ion Trading continues its acquisition spree, with the latest target being Ffastfill, a UK-based provider of front-to-back office derivatives trading solutions on a hosted basis. Ion Trading already holds a quarter of the company's shareholding.

 

IBS Journal | News

Visa launches a fully hosted plug-and-play mobile money service

Visa is targeting the emerging markets with a new mobile money offering, underpinned by the technology of Fundamo, a South African payments software vendor acquired by Visa in 2011. The first four takers are mobile service provider Aircel, ICICI Bank, Bank of Kigali and Urwego Opportunity Bank.

   

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