Singapore: The Place to Learn Bank IT
2012/12/11
by Ivan Schneider, Writer, specializing in financial technology
enterprise efficiency
At SIBOS in Osaka, BIAN announced that the organization has partnered with Singapore Management University to create “SMU Teaching Bank”.
Typically, if you want to gain experience managing the IT aspects of a bank merger, you’ll need on-...
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Building the Bank of the Future – with Standards!
2012/10/22
by Colin Kerr, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft
MSDN Blogs
With Sibos fast approaching, it is about time I introduced you to another of our stand partners. This time though, our partner interview is a little different than with traditional software partners. As many of you will have seen from my previous posts...
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The future of financial services may be banking on SOA
2012/10/05
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
Publication: SearchSOA
“It is clear that once industry-wide standards are agreed upon, SOA is the b...
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Why Standards Bodies Need to Stick Together
2012/08/17
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
hanstesselaar.ulitzer.com
The need for collaboration between standards bodies – SWIFT, BIAN, OMG, IFX etc – is clear for both banks and software v...
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Service oriented architecture – a ‘playlist’ experience for the financial services
2012/07/31
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
I have written at length in the past about the growing importance of flexibility and efficiency in banking IT systems. As competition from emerging markets grows with the rising powers of Asian banks, combined with the inc...
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Shaking off the shackles of outdated legacy systems
2012/07/12
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
According to research released a few months ago by Infosys and Ovum, around three quarters of European banks are using outdated core systems. Given the great costs associated with core system renewal, this will come as no s...
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Agility in Architecture – Contradiction in Terms, or Competitive Advantage?
2012/06/27
by SAP AG
Agility and architecture don’t seem to go together too well at first sight: Architecture is strong, steady, sturdy – built to support critical banking applications. But the future of banking lies in agility – being able to respond to the needs of customers quickly, guided by the lightning-fast analysis of huge amounts of data. How can these needs be reconciled?
BIAN believes the answer lies in ...
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Keeping up with banking regulators – there’s an app for that
2012/06/13
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
The past couple of years have proven to be a testing time for retail banks. Not only is customer trust and loyalty at an all time low, but the ecosystem itself is changing. Traditional banking practices are being questioned,...
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Asian banks must consider open IT standards
2012/05/30
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
In Europe, the open standards movement is gaining momentum. It is increasingly accepted that standards collaboration increases organisational interoperability, ensuring that different systems can communicate effectively, whi...
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SOA: the easy way to structure M&A
2012/04/30
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
Merger and acquisition activity in European retail banking is reviving, with talks beginning between La Caixa, the Catalan savings bank, and its smaller competitor, Banca Cívica. These talks have been described as the ‘se...
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Pushing into Gartner's elusive top right magic quadrant?
2012/04/12
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
Gartner’s International Retail Core Banking Magic Quadrant is used by many banks as a default shortlist for vendor selection in core system replacement. The coveted top right hand corner – the ‘leade...
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Euro Finance Week - why we need deeper IT discussions
2011/12/01
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
Earlier this month, Frankfurt played host to the 14th annual Euro Finance Week, which attracted more than 7,000 attendees. The four day event provided the ideal meeting place for heads of industry in the financial sector to ...
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A Common Vocabulary for Banking Transformation
2011/11/04
by Jens-Peter Jensen, Head of Solution Architecture for the Financial Service Industries at SAP
Were you to find yourself in a hospital emergency room with a broken leg, you could reasonably assume that the doctors, x-ray technicians, and others involved in y...
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Bank interoperability: Work together to cut costs
2011/11/03
by Hans Tesselaar, Executive Director at BIAN
With the G20 meeting this week and the European banking industry coming together at Euro Finance Week on November 14th – 18th, the woes of the industry will no doubt be discussed at length. While issues of debt and lending...
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BIAN: Defining the Service Landscape
2009/03/26
by David Frankel, SAP AG
BIAN is breaking down banking functionality into discrete modules, and defining service interfaces to those modules. BIAN calls this breakdown the Service Landscape. Let’s examine what the Service Landscape ...
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