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11 December 2012
10 December 2012
US-based Pinnacle Solutions is seeking to fill the role of head of marketing, made vacant by a recent departure. The vendor is keen to continue its efforts to gain a wider recognition in the market for itself and its flagship core banking system, Synergy.
06 December 2012
Illinois-based Busey Bank, with assets of $3.5 billion, is adjusting to its new core solution, Nupoint, provided by Computer Services, Inc. (CSI). According to Busey Bank's CIO, two months into the go-live the bank is beginning to see the full advantages of the new system.
06 December 2012
BBVA’s US-based subsidiary, BBVA Compass, is about to start the pilot phase of its virtual personal assistant (VPA), Lola. The full roll-out is scheduled to kick off in the US by Q1 2013, while the bank is also developing a Spanish-speaking version.
05 December 2012
Sofgen has extended its Avaloq offerings with the acquisition of Zurich-based Solution Architect Group (SAG AG). Sofgen plans to target SAG's users with additional services, while also seeking to take SAG's testing tool to a wider audience.
03 December 2012
The world's largest building society, Nationwide, has had a fraught few years implementing its new core banking system but it now looks ready to reap the benefits, which could in turn put pressure on its UK competitors. IBS talks to the society's outspoken COO, Tony Prestedge, about what has gone well… and what has not.
30 November 2012
UK-based mobile and online banking software specialist, Intelligent Environments (IE), has launched a new integrated platform for digital financial services, Interact. The new solution, which was unveiled on 29th November 2012, has already attracted two new takers in Europe.
29 November 2012
Jamaica-based wealth management company, Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), is preparing to go live with its IPBS e-banking module in early 2013.
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28 November 2012
IBS Journal | Lending Supplement
28 November 2012
IBS's supplements give us the opportunity to dig around our chosen subject areas and, before we start, it isn't always predictable what we will find. When looking for interesting lending system stories, for instance, we weren't expecting cloud computing to be prominent. However, when scrutinising at the low end of the market, it seems clear that this model is starting to have an impact.
IBS Journal | Lending Supplement
28 November 2012
The two syndicated lending utilities, Euroclear's LoanReach and DTCC's Loan/Serv, have struggled to make much of an impression against the backdrop of financial crisis. Will the appetite for loans as collateral now mean that their time has come?
IBS Journal | Lending Supplement
28 November 2012
SAP claims it is fully committed to a successful project at Compartamos Banco in Mexico and to greatly improving its delivery in banking as a whole. The jury is still out but it is making the right noises.
IBS Journal | Lending Supplement
28 November 2012
Can Mexican micro-lender, Compartamos Banco, succeed with SAP where it failed with Temenos? It is mid-project as it seeks to implement a new core system and, while running late, believes there is the commitment from the supplier to succeed this time around.
IBS Journal | Lending Supplement
28 November 2012
As the payday loan industry continues to boom, LendProtect UK and InnoTech have partnered to launch a new online lending solution for the short-term lending market, LendFusion. How and why did they seek to join forces?
IBS Journal | Lending Supplement
28 November 2012
When two new microfinance institutions wanted to provide broader access to consumer credit and support their plans for rapid expansion, they launched on Temenos' T24 for microfinancing, hosted in the cloud. In doing so, Renaissance Credit Nigeria and Kenya-based Fountain Credit Services became the first institutions in their countries to adopt cloud-based core banking software services. IBS talks to the greenfield users about slow starts and rapid progress.
27 November 2012
Central Bank of Malta is planning a large-scale modernisation across its treasury, banking and financial technology. The selection is already under way.
26 November 2012
Jordan-based vendor, ProgressSoft, is working with the Central Bank of Seychelles to develop a country-wide mobile payments platform. Michael Wakileh, CEO of ProgressSoft, believes that the company's reputation for country-wide payment system implementations was a decisive factor in the final award of the contract.
23 November 2012
Having drawn the line under a number of struggling T24 implementations, the core banking software vendor is adamant that, going forward, its implementation projects will see a successful outcome. Today's project governance and methodologies are much stronger, it claims.
22 November 2012
21 November 2012
David Arnott, CEO of Temenos, gives IBS a first-hand account of what has been going on at Temenos and where the vendor is heading as it reinstates regional teams, continues with its cost-cutting programme and moves its focus to shorter projects with quicker wins. 'Nothing that we have done will impact our ability to grow strongly as we go forward,' he states.
20 November 2012
Swift's Sibos show dropped in this year on Osaka, with IBS in attendance as always. The location provided a strange backdrop to a week of discussion and some disappointments.
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