Wholesale Banking
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Wholesale banking is a collective term that, as its name would imply, refers to the bank-to-bank markets and instruments, often termed the inter-bank market. More often this definition is extended nowadays to include any inter-financial institution dealings including those of hedge funds and other investment companies. The term is sometimes used to include high-value dealings with non-financial corporates.
Traditional facets of this type of banking include the inter-bank money markets (where banks exchange short-term, even overnight, loans and deposits) and the foreign exchange markets. Other important markets include the repo (or sale and repurchase agreement), government debt (treasury bills and government bonds from around the world), the futures and options markets and, increasingly, the various ‘exotic’ derivatives markets that are available to professional investors.
Securities issuing and under-writing are important functions. 
A characteristic of wholesale banking is the large transaction size involved. Typically transactions would be measured in millions of US dollars. The large inter-bank payments that result are normally settled through a Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system (a high value, low transaction volume system normally operated by a country’s central bank) or through other central bank account transfers.
Depending on the type of instrument involved, trading may take place in standardised sizes and according to standard terms and conditions through exchanges (such as exchange-traded futures) or ‘over-the-counter’ (OTC) when negotiated ‘bi-laterally’ between organisations (such as some swaps, options and other derivative trades).
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Article: Allevo – qPayintegrator
01 May 2013
Contents: Overview / Strengths / Weaknesses / Corporate Overview / History / Product suite / Uptake and Customer Experiences / User List
Article: ACI Worldwide – Base24-eps, MTS, UPP
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Contents: Overview / Strengths / Weaknesses / Corporate Overview / Partnership with IBM / History / Product suite / Other Products / Overall Product Strategy / Uptake and Customer Experiences / User List
Article: Swift – Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH)
01 May 2013
Contents: Overview / Strengths / Corporate Overview / Summary History / Product Suite / AMH under Sungard / AMH under Swift / Functionality / Uptake and Customer Experiences / User List.
Article: Analysis: Core banking systems market – Holding steady
03 April 2013
What has been happening in the core banking software market of the MENA region over the last year, and who is buying what? IBS investigates.
Article: IBS Sales League Table 2013 (results Jan-Dec 2012)
06 March 2013
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...
Article: IBS Sales League Table 2013 Webcast
04 January 2013
Countdown of the Top 10 core banking systems vendors by new-name sales Jan-Dec 2012. The core banking systems market continues to struggle as the number of RFIs and RFPs across the globe were noticeably down over the course of 2012....
Article: End of Year Review 2012
20 December 2012
As 2012 drew to a close, IBS Journal rounded up the significant developments of the international banking software industry, highlighting major achievements, dubious accomplishments, key mergers and acquisitions, as well as regulatory changes that...
Article: CCK signs fifth taker in the Philippines, PBB
20 December 2012
Australia-based treasury management systems provider, CCK, has ticked off another win in the Philippines, at Philippine Business Bank.
Article: Dovetail – Dovetail Payment Services Hub
18 December 2012
Contents: Overview / Strengths / Weaknesses / Corporate Overview / History / Product Suite / Partnerships / Strategy / Uptake and Customer Experiences / User List
Article: Fundtech – Global PayPlus
18 December 2012
Contents: Overview / Stengths / Weaknesses / Corporate Overview / History / Product suite / Strategy / Uptake and Customer Experiences / User List
Article: SAP – SAP Payment Engine
17 December 2012
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Article: Other system replacement plans
06 November 2012
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Article: Overview: To improve is to change
08 October 2012
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Article: CGI – Logica All Payments Solutions
10 September 2012
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Article: IBS Journal Treasury & Capital Markets Supplement
31 August 2012
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Article: Overview: TCM market – Trading places
31 August 2012
How has the treasury and capital markets system space developed in recent years and what is shaping the future of the industry?
Article: New customers for Misys banking and TCM systems
13 August 2012
At its recent European Financial Services Conference, held in Lisbon, UK-based supplier Misys unveiled new customers for some of its banking and capital markets products.
Article: Montran Corporation – Montran Suite
18 July 2012
Contents: Overview / History / Product Suite / Uptake and Customer Experiences / User List
Article: Clear2Pay – Open Payment Framework
16 July 2012
Contents: Overview / Strengths / Weaknesses / Corporate Overview / History / Product Suite / Strategy / Uptake and Customer Experiences / User List
Article: Temenos performs '180 degree turn' with Viveo user base
05 July 2012
Two and a half years after acquiring French rival, Viveo, Temenos has formally changed tack. It is no longer looking to force the user base to move systems by 2014.
Article: Case study: Arab Banking Corporation – Keep calm and carry on
28 May 2012
Events around the Arab Spring have not halted Arab Banking Corporation's expansion into North Africa. IBS talks to its global head of IT about solutions, teamwork and delivery.
Article: Temenos and ABN Amro partner to build payments hub
24 May 2012
ABN Amro will make use of the vendor's new Temenos Enterprise Frameworks Architecture (TEFA) to create a major payments hub. For Temenos, a payments system is a step sideways from its core banking speciality, centred on T24.
Article: Unisys moves Urbis core system to .Net; looks for new wins
10 May 2012
Urbis had disappeared from view in the core banking space but Unisys has now made a .Net version available. Can the system find a first new customer since 2003?
Article: INTL FCStone extends use of TwoFour system to INTL Global Currencies subsidiary
26 April 2012
A user since 2008, INTL FCStone has opted to implement the FX system from US-based supplier, TwoFour, for its INTL Global Currencies subsidiary. A full go-live is scheduled for September.
Article: Free Webinar: How To Improve Negotiation and Contracting Techniques with Technology Vendors
23 April 2012
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Article: Core Banking Systems Market Overview
13 April 2012
The Core Banking Systems Market Dynamics Report 2012 drills down into the Jan-Dec 2011 analysis as well as putting it into context alongside the previous four years' equivalents. The comparison period takes in 2007 through 2011 so it constitutes...
Article: Core Banking Systems Global Analysis 2007-2011
13 April 2012
This article provides in-depth analysis of the core banking systems market from 2007-2011. We explore each year in detail separately, giving the ability to gauge what was happening before the worst of the crisis and see this in relation with...
Article: Core Banking Systems Market Valuation
13 April 2012
What is the value of the core banking systems market? This question, or regional or country subsets of it, is regularly put to IBS, with interest increasing in difficult times. Related to this is the average cost for a core system. The initial ...
Article: About the Core Banking Systems Market Dynamics Report 2012, plus FREE extracts
13 April 2012
This report constitutes the core banking industry's only real snapshot of who has been buying what and where. Comparisons can be made over time (Jan 2007-Dec 2011 - so before and after the onset of the main economic crisis), by supplier, geography,...
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Asia Pacific Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
Sales have held up well in this region, with a downturn in a few countries offset by robust sales in a number of others. As in previous years, a fair number were treasury; there was also a small number of interesting universal banking...
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Australasia Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
Australian banks are under way with core system projects, at least in outlying areas of their operations. Meanwhile, 2009 saw a few interesting decisions at the lower end of the market but nearly everything dried up in 2010 and 2011, bar one...
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Central & South America Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
Central and South America is a relatively small market for international vendors but has been characterised by spikes of activity in individual countries. It was somewhat more resilient than much of the rest of the world in 2011. In previous years,...
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Central & Eastern Europe Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
After a pick-up in activity in 2010 (following the very quiet years of 2009 and 2008), 2011 saw core banking software sales plummet in Central and Eastern Europe. Banks that have sought to implement new systems have often struggled, adding to the...
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Africa Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
Africa has contributed a steady number of deals over the last few years, but fell away in 2011. This reflected continued weakness in Nigeria (which had bumper years in 2007 and 2008) and slumps in countries such as Morocco and Ethiopia, which had...
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Central & South East Asia Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
It is not easy to make generalisations for such a large and diverse geographical area, which includes parts of the Caucasus, the Central Asian Republics, the Indian subcontinent and mainland South-East Asia. With this in mind, business was up by...
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Middle East Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
2011 was the second year of a slump in the Middle Eastern core banking software industry. The number of deals fell by around 30 per cent for the second year running, with seven countries recording no new deals at all.
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: North America Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
The slight pick-up in 2010 looked to be built upon in 2011. It is still far from booming but the North American systems market is showing signs of mirroring that country's economy, with more activity than in other parts of the world.
Article: Core Banking Systems Country Analysis: Western Europe Region – including A-Z sales tables 2007-2011 by country and system
13 April 2012
If you are looking for good news across Western Europe, look elsewhere: 2011 was another poor year for system sales, almost 50 per cent down on the far from buoyant 2010. Order access...
Article: Core Banking Systems Sales Tables 2007-2011: Sales by year, region, supplier and system
13 April 2012
This chapter provides sales breakdowns for the full Core Banking Systems Market Dynamics Report 2012 dataset, featuring the following tables: Sales by system and supplier 2007-2011 (Totals) / Sales by system, supplier and type 2007-2011 (Totals) /...
Article: IBS Sales League Table – Middle East
04 April 2012
2011 was the second year of a slump in the Middle Eastern core banking software industry. The number of deals fell by around 30 per cent for the second year running, with seven countries in the region recording no new deals at all.The...
Article: New IBS Intelligence Research Publications Catalogue 2012
26 March 2012
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Article: IBS Sales League Table 2012 (results Jan-Dec 2011)
01 March 2012
Who was up, who was down, what types of bank and what geographies were buying? Article contents: Introduction & Overview / Annual Sales League Table 1st Jan 2011 - 31st Dec 2011 / Oracle FSS and Temenos / Other Core Banking Systems...
Article: Russian vendors Sales League Table 2012 (results Jan-Dec 2011)
01 March 2012
Who was up and who was down in 2011? BIS, CFT, Diasoft, Fors Banking Systems, Inversia and R-Style Softlab compete for the top spot in this year's Sales League Table of Russian suppliers. Article contents: International banks...
Article: Central and South America overview
01 March 2012
With the overall number of core banking deals worldwide sharply down on the year before, the number of deals from Central and South America has held steady. Our analysis shows that Brazil has overtaken Mexico as the Latin American country most...
Article: Fundtech to supply ACH platform to Corporate One Federal Credit Union
17 February 2012
Fundtech has landed a deal to underpin automated clearing house (ACH) services at Corporate One Federal Credit Union with its PayPlus ACH and CashPlus payment solutions. Corporate One, which provides services to other US credit unions, has 800...
Article: End of Year Review 2011
19 December 2011
A round-up of some of the key events in the industry over the past year. Read more >>
Article: BMO Capital Markets standardises customer on-boarding with Polaris
02 December 2011
BMO Capital Markets, the wholesale banking arm of Canada-based BMO Financial Group, is rolling out Polaris' Customer On-boarding Hub for its operations.
Article: CSC (Computer Science Corporation) – PTS, CAMS II
24 November 2011
Contents: Overview / Strengths / Weaknesses / Corporate Overview / Timeline / Functionality: PTS Software Suite / Functionality: CAMS II/Celeriti Cards & Merchants / User ListThis supplier is also profiled in the following IBS...
Article: FSS claims broker-dealer wins for Spectrum
05 October 2011
Financial Software Systems (FSS), the US based treasury system vendor, claims to have had five wins this year in the broker-dealer space, centred on FX trading, with its Spectrum system.
Article: Maple Bank first to convert from Paba/Q core system to Temenos T24
28 September 2011
Germany-based Maple Bank has become the first adopter of the T24 conversion route from the Paba/Q core banking system. Both systems are owned by Temenos, with Paba/Q stemming from the 2007 acquisition of a German vendor, Actis.BSP. Temenos is...
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