Scaling Up Finance for Sustainable Development

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Finance and Accounting (F&A) has a reputation for remaining calm and pragmatic in a crisis. Most F&A professionals have worked through at least one recession and numerous peaks and troughs in company business cycles.

whitePaper | August 15, 2020

Capital markets institutions have traditionally devoted the bulk of their mind and wallet share on front office revenue-generating activities. Post-trade operations have been overlooked; they are mired in legacy systems and siloed operations that require significant manual intervention, making it a critical source of inefficiency and operational risk. As revenue streams are challenged by uncertain economics and growing competition, post-trade operations are coming under scrutiny for reducing costs, boosting margins, and improving return on equity.

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

Towards the latter part of 2022, the world started making a recovery from the pandemic with many countries now opening their borders. With this re-opening, countries also facing global macroeconomic & geopolitical challenges. Higher inflation is driving central banks to take measures which will result in increase in interest rate margins and drive higher income for banks.

whitePaper | January 20, 2020

Over the past year we have seen a number of groundbreaking announcements from central banks around the world exploring the issuance of central bank digital currencies (CBDC). In this paper we provide an overview of the potential and risks of CBDC, as well as an example of how a CBDC could be designed and built on the Ethereum blockchain. The intention is to give the reader not just a good background to this important topic, but also – by means of a concrete proposal – a practical look at what the implementation of a CBDC might entail.

whitePaper | January 8, 2023

For the first time in decades, the financial services industry is buzzing about a new payments rail that stands to have a deep impact on how businesses and people pay each other: instant payments (also often called real-time payments). Even though The Clearing House has offered its RTP® network for years, the Fed is gearing up to launch its FedNowSM network, which brings the instant payments functionality to more financial institutions.

whitePaper | September 5, 2022

Established in 2008, the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is a collaborative initiative that has delivered a standard semantic service definition of banking that can be used as a blueprint for standardization of banking services, and rationalization of supporting IT software. It delivers a domain model that describes consistent service definitions and their boundaries that make up the services that describe banking. It contains a service view, an information view, and a capability view that together describe the banking landscape. The primary aim of BIAN is to provide a standard that makes integration of software and services capabilities easier through a standard set of definitions.