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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Investment Management
Genesis Global | September 25, 2023
Genesis Global, a low-code application development platform tailored for financial market organizations, has unveiled a new solution designed to streamline investment decisions for asset managers by aggregating new bond deal data. In the fast-paced primary markets for corporate bonds, asset managers often have just two hours to analyze and request allocations for new bond deals. The market's fragmentation makes this problem worse because banks use a variety of platforms, including DirectBooks, Ipreo (S&P Global), Bloomberg, Refinitiv, and email, to market about 40 new bond deals every day with frequent updates.
Genesis' customizable Primary Bond Issuance solution consolidates deal data from various sources into a single, real-time workspace. This workspace facilitates rapid decision-making by allowing portfolio managers, credit analysts, and traders to collaborate effectively.
Rahul Kambli, Product Manager for Primary Bond Issuance at Genesis, reportedly highlighted the pressure on asset managers to make quick decisions in the primary bond markets, stating,
Asset managers are under pressure to make decisions extremely quickly in bond primary markets, but failure is not an option because of the opportunity cost of missing out on the best deals.
[Source – Globe Newswire]
The Primary Bond Issuance solution incorporates AI-driven handlers to automatically process unstructured data received via instant messages and email, reducing the need for manual data entry. This AI technology is part of Genesis' broader investment in AI as a platform service across their solutions.
Key features of the solution include data aggregation, normalization, and scrubbing; AI-driven data processing; integration with analytics, reference data, and compliance systems; connectivity to order management systems for allocation requests; customizable alerts and workflow tools; full audit functionality; and collaboration tools such as Symphony for faster decision-making.
Genesis Global's Primary Bond Issuance solution is built on their low-code application development platform and offers configurability to suit user preferences for integrations and workflow design. It exemplifies Genesis' commitment to helping institutional asset managers automate their investment processes through modern applications that facilitate collaboration and data sharing among portfolio managers, traders, and credit analysts.
About Genesis Global
Genesis Global is a leading force in empowering financial market organizations with its software application platform. It specializes in creating high-performance, secure applications and transforming traditional development challenges. Genesis focuses on flexibility and excels in low-latency, high-throughput environments. It operates internationally from locations in important financial hubs with the support of Citi and the trust of organizations like BNY Mellon and ING.
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Payments
IBM | September 22, 2023
IBM Payments Center's membership in Swift Partner Programme signifies a crucial step in enhancing collaboration between these organizations.
IBM Payments provides a streamlined Swift cloud connectivity solution, liberating clients from hardware as well as software management and allowing them to focus on their core business operations.
The company's participation in Swift Partner Programme enables streamlined access, integration, and development of payment solutions through expanded APIs and comprehensive documentation.
IBM Payments Center has officially announced that it has earned a distinguished membership in the prestigious Swift Partner Programme. This achievement represents a significant step forward in strengthening the collaboration between these two organizations.
This strategic partnership synergizes effectively with IBM's expansive payments-as-a-service solution, which capitalizes on open, standards-based technologies to provide meticulously managed payment and cash management services. This collaboration will further enhance the capabilities of IBM's payment services, offering financial institutions and businesses a well-rounded, technologically advanced solution to address their payment and cash management needs.
Andrew Higgins, Senior Partner and Global Payments Leader at IBM Consulting remarked,
Our platform partnership with Swift brings the power of IBM and the reach of Swift to deliver value for financial institutions and other businesses looking for end-to-end solutions for a broad array of payment services.
[Source – Cision PR Newswire]
In collaboration with Swift Partner Programme, IBM Payments Center will provide a comprehensive end-to-end cloud-based Swift connectivity solution that aligns with Swift's infrastructure and client security standards. It will also catalyze financial institutions and enterprises looking to modernize their payment platforms and harness cutting-edge cognitive and AI technologies within a highly secure environment.
Andrew Higgins emphasized that the payments industry is on the brink of profound change, requiring modern infrastructure and heightened efficiency. He further noted that IBM is gratified to present a solution to the worldwide Swift community that harnesses the benefits of cutting-edge technology while reducing the substantial expenses linked to development, upkeep, and compliance.
This partnership offers IBM Payments Center a unique opportunity to streamline access, seamlessly integrate, and drive innovation in payment solutions. It enables the center to leverage an extended range of application user interfaces (APIs) and gain comprehensive access to API testing materials, documentation, and accreditation status, empowering them to deliver cutting-edge financial solutions efficiently.
Through its active engagement in Swift Partner Programme, IBM Payments Center has opened up new avenues for collaboration with a diverse network of over 11,000 banking institutions across more than 200 countries, fostering opportunities for synergistic partnerships and global cooperation.
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