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Sign up for our free IBSJ ezine, the CFSJ ezine or BOSS Guide Monthly Updates. The IBS ezine provides weekly free-to-view articles. Then each month each ezine provides a round up of all the articles appearing in the print edition. The BOSS Updates summarise all the latest back office system and supplier developments. ...more

The definitive guide to back office systems and their suppliers covering all the major international vendors within the financial services back office sector including wholesale banking, trade finance, retail banking, capital markets, lending, general ledger, outsourcing and other key areas. The guide includes contact details, customer/user lists and a country analysis listing which systems are installed where. ...more

Sales League Table analysis, trends, market evaluation The Core Banking Systems: Market Dynamics Report 2009 provides a detailed analysis of core banking systems sales for the years 2006-2008, and also identifies trends emerging in 2009. It includes a range of graphs and tables plus expounded commentary. By using licence fee information it also estimates the value of the international market. ...more

Citi first with Quadrem supply-chain finance offering
Citi has signed as the first bank to offer finance via supply network, Quadrem. This has been facilitated by Gresham, which has integrated its supply-chain finance technology with Quadrem as a result of a tie-up last year.
Alliance tackles treasury risk and transparency
FXpress, a risk, exposure and compliance management solution vendor, and TMS vendor, Kyriba, have formed an alliance aimed at facilitating risk management and transparency across cash and treasury operations.
First Malaysian Ringgit trader live on RTFX
CIMB Bank, the commercial banking arm of CIMB Group in Malaysia, has become the first Ringgit market-maker to go live on Thomson Reuters’ RTFX (Reuters Trading for Foreign Exchange) platform.
Energy co takes SAP for IFRS
Enwin Utilities, the municipal energy distributor for the city of Windsor, Ontario, has signed for SAP’s ERP system.
Basware expands network options
Basware has expanded its e-invoicing network by signing interoperability agreements with five operators since the start of the year. ...more

02/07/09: EBRD makes injection into Asseco SEE

Asseco’s plans to become a major player in the core banking systems market of South Eastern Europe receive a fillip from the EBRD.

25/06/09: Agile FT targets microfinance with new product set

Having picked up the Ideal banking suite with the acquisition of an Indian vendor, Credence Analytics, Dubai-based Agile Financial Technologies has grown further with the purchase of a microfinance product stack from another Indian firm, Theme Technologies.

25/06/09: Citi ICG consolidates data with WSI

With almost as many data formats as counterparties, Citi ICG’s accounts control division has found a solution to maintain clarity.

CEP goes mainstream with CME

The largest exchange to apply CEP across the board

Citi Japan rapped for AML flaws

Citibank Japan has been prohibited from sales activities in its retail division because of regulatory problems with its compliance and governance framework.

Profile zOS version launched

Fidelity National Information Services’ (FIS) Profile core solution is finally available on the IBM z-Series operating system, something that has been promised off and on for a number of years.

Unisys switches to Dovetail for payments

Unisys has changed horses, switching from Clear2Pay in favour of Dovetail to underpin its Open Payments Platform (OPP), with an official announcement expected shortly.

Westpac NZ live on fraud system

Westpac New Zealand has gone live on Proactive Risk Manager (PRM), the fraud detection and prevention system from ACI Worldwide, on IBM’s System z mainframe.

Kuwait breakthrough for Sage

Sage, the Swiss IT vendor, has revealed the identity of its second customer in the Middle East as the implementation project at the first sites winds up.

Java-based iMAL heads for pilot

Path Solutions claims to be nearing completion of the Java rewrite of its iMAL core system.

IMF takes grid tech from Platform

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has selected the Symphony grid-computing solution from Platform Computing.

T24 hits first Sumitomo milestone

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) has gone live with Temenos’ core system, T24, in Labuan in Malaysia.