Payments
Oracle | September 25, 2023
Oracle enhances banking cloud services for real-time cash management and transactions.
New services optimize working capital and the customer experience.
Oracle's comprehensive cloud suite offers ready-to-deploy APIs for agile banking.
Oracle has broadened its Oracle Banking Cloud Services portfolio to empower banks in swiftly launching comprehensive transaction banking solutions. These encompass cash management, liquidity management, and virtual account management. Alongside Oracle's real-time payments processing, large-scale account operations, and APIs, these new services aim to enhance banks' visibility and forecasting capabilities, enabling customers to leverage their cash more effectively.
In addition, Oracle has introduced enhancements to its Oracle Banking Accounts Cloud Service and Oracle Banking Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management Cloud Service.
Sonny Singh, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Financial Services, reportedly emphasized the importance of delivering enhanced customer experiences, stating,
Delivering enriched customer and banker experiences that provide immediate and tangible business value will be the growth lifeline for banks in the near term.
[Source – Cision PR Newswire]
The new solutions are designed to be seamlessly integrated into corporate enterprise resources management systems, facilitating real-time payments, settlements, and cash cycle optimization. The improvements in limits and collateral management streamline credit facility lifecycles, allowing banks to onboard corporate customers in minutes rather than months.
Oracle Banking Accounts Cloud Service has expanded its support to include retail accounts, term deposits, nostro management, and account servicing. Together with the API Cloud Service, banks can swiftly tailor and deploy accounts across various digital channels.
The new and enhanced Oracle Banking Cloud Services include:
Oracle Banking Liquidity Management Cloud Service: Offers higher-yield investment opportunities, pooling, sweeping, and interest optimization for corporations to manage working capital efficiently.
Oracle Banking Virtual Account Management Cloud Service: Provides corporations with capital clarity and effective management of complex global account structures.
Oracle Banking Cash Management Cloud Service: Empowers corporate customers with cash flow forecasting, efficient collections and receivables management, and automated reconciliation.
Oracle Banking Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management Cloud Service: Digitizes and simplifies the credit lifecycle, optimizing credit decisions and accelerating origination and servicing while mitigating risks.
Oracle Banking Accounts Cloud Service: Streamlines account management and operations for both corporate and retail accounts.
Oracle Banking Payments Cloud Service: Facilitates real-time payment processing and offers a one-stop solution for various payment types.
Oracle Digital Banking Experience Cloud Service: Enhances self-service experiences for corporations, providing actionable insights and automation.
Oracle Banking APIs Cloud Service: Offers a range of ready-to-deploy banking APIs to accelerate innovation and improve customer experiences.
These services are part of the Oracle Banking Cloud Services suite, built on a microservices’ architecture, providing flexibility, scalability, security, and compliance with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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Payments
Finastra | September 20, 2023
Finastra's new solution merges real-time sanctions screening and AI-powered anti-money laundering for FedNow in the US and TIPS in Europe.
Initiatives are underway to integrate Finastra Compliance as a Service with Finastra Global PAYplus soon.
This comprehensive solution automates compliance for US and European banks by leveraging proven technology to facilitate instant payments.
Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, has officially unveiled its latest payment solution, Finastra Compliance as a Service, hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform. It will incorporate real-time anti-money laundering (AML) transaction screening from Fincom and AI-powered transaction monitoring by ThetaRay, presenting a pre-integrated packaged solution alongside Finastra Payments To Go.
Mike Vigue, Chief Product Officer for Payments at Finastra, underscored the increased risks associated with introducing a new payment rail, mainly when it operates in real-time. He articulated Finastra's commitment to leveraging the successful track record of 'Payments To Go' for instant payments. He emphasized that the company's objective is to provide financial institutions with precise and efficient compliance capabilities, ultimately reducing the total cost of ownership.
Finastra Compliance as a Service will facilitate banks in capitalizing on and adhering to various instant payment infrastructures, such as the FedNow service in the United States and TIPS in Europe while mitigating the elevated risks associated with financial crime. Through the integration of real-time compliance screening by Fincom and AI-driven transaction monitoring by ThetaRay, this service will empower financial institutions to expedite their business expansion, broaden risk management coverage, and curtail operational expenses.
Mike Vigue further added that through the seamless integration of Fincom and ThetaRay into their solutions, Finastra's clients can expedite the launch of instant payment services while enhancing security, scalability, and flexibility. He concluded that the company remains committed to supporting banks in keeping pace with evolving customer, industry, and regulatory demands through ongoing payment innovation and collaboration with partner ecosystems to provide top-tier services.
Radha Suvarna, Head of BaaS and Value-Added Payment Solutions at Finastra added,
By delivering relevant value-added payment risk solutions as a service, we will help banks to improve speed-to-market and ensure our customers stand to benefit from the ongoing evolution in enabling capabilities like AI and Machine Learning.
[Source - Cision PR Newswire]
'Payments To Go' represents a comprehensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) payment processing solution, empowering banks to expedite the delivery of flexible digital payments with enhanced efficiency. Financial institutions can easily subscribe to this solution via Microsoft Azure Marketplace, streamlining billing under a single invoice.
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Trading Systems
PR Newswire | September 27, 2023
Finastra today announced a multi-year global agreement with Microsoft focused on trade platform modernization, building on the existing availability of Finastra Trade Innovation in the cloud. Delivering the full functionality of Trade Innovation via a full microservices architecture using Microsoft Azure, will give banks increased agility, flexibility and scalability, enabling them to continue to provide service excellence to customers throughout their modernization journey.
As the expectations of corporate customers evolve, financial institutions need to deliver a seamless and engaging transactional experience across their trade finance and supply chain finance operations in support of open finance. Further extending the open APIs available through Trade Innovation and Finastra's open innovation platform, FusionFabric.cloud, will allow customers to leverage a vibrant digital trade ecosystem, supporting the digitalization of the full transaction lifecycle.
Partnering with Microsoft builds on our joint strategic vision to help accelerate the digital transformation of financial services, and support customers on their journeys to be open, said Isabel Fernandez, Executive Vice President for Lending at Finastra. Customers are eager to transform their trade finance and supply chain offerings, and to access the latest innovations, working with partners across the ecosystem. Via this agreement, existing and new customers will benefit from increased flexibility to connect, collaborate and adapt to evolving customer needs and new regulations.
Bill Borden, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft added: We're excited to deepen our relationship with Finastra to support banks on their trade modernization journey. Using the rich functionality of Finastra's Trade Innovation platform and FusionFabric.cloud, combined with the power of Microsoft Azure and data and AI advancements, we look forward to helping financial institutions further accelerate innovation, increase efficiencies, enhance customer engagement and transform their operations at scale.
Finastra Trade Innovation was recognized once again as "Best in Class" in the Aite Matrix of Trade Finance Software (Feb 2023) from Datos Insights (formerly Aite-Novarica Group). Enrico Camerinelli, Strategic Advisor at Datos Insights said: "The decline of manually intensive and paper trade finance operations, the continued growth of supply chain finance, and the rise of fintech players are encouraging banks to transform the status quo with API-based open banking, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. To achieve this, banks need modern, open systems and the support of industry leaders in this space, supporting them on their transformation journeys."
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