Standards Forum

The Standards Forum is the place where business and standardisation meet. This group would like to facilitate and encourage dialogue around standardisation in the financial industry, and share views, insights and updates on how financial standards can contribute to reducing cost and increasing efficiency when tackling today's challenges such as automation, compliance, and regulation.

Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)

Portability in Fintech

Portability is a key capability for fintech’s in future, as it enables the customer to switch over / transfer his account, from one Financial provider to another. This can be for various reasons, like he is unhappy with existing provider, or wants to switch, because he is getting better pricing, features etc. Portability also enables business cont...

24 September 2021 /regulation /identity

Domenico Scaffidi Payments Business Development Director at Volante Technologies

ISO 20022 Migration: Why Banks Need To Move Fast

SWIFT’s decision to delay migration of cross-border payments to ISO 20022 by 12 months has important strategic implications for the industry. With multiple market infrastructures moving to ISO 20022 on different schedules, and varying approaches to co-existence, financial institutions will need to redouble their focus on modernising their infrastr...

09 April 2020 /payments /wholesale

Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte

How many software were produced by your IT company or your IT department the last year?

To transform data into information and to use this information to manage and improve companies, projects, processes or products is a challenging, and at the same time, fascinating work. We can say that what gets measured gets managed and, as general rule, what gets managed gets better. Well known are quotes such as “If you can’t measure it, you c

26 February 2019

Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte

Agile and Functional Size: The Perfect Complement to Provide Strategic Value

The software industry is associated with the most innovative techniques and technologies, but at the end it is an artisan art activity. Bill Gates once said, “Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering." Two software solutions with the same functionalities can externally be similar, but internally can be very different;

19 December 2018

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

ISO 20022 migration and API standardisation at the 2018 Sibos Standards Forum in Sydney, Australia

This is a follow-up of my previous post entitled "Hot topics at the 2018 Sibos Standards Forum in Sydney, Australia". Sydney will once again be the home of Sibos from 22 till 25 October 2018. In today's post I will focus on the two most important topics of the 2018 Sibos Standards Forum: the ISO 20022 migration and API standardisation . ...

16 October 2018 /sibos

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

Hot topics at the 2018 Sibos Standards Forum in Sydney, Australia

Sydney will once again be the home of Sibos from 22 till 25 October 2018. Leading up to the conference, below are some interesting links that I hope will help you determine how to allocate your time there. Read here what you can expect to hear about at Sibos 2018. Find out how we changed the SWIFT Stand, understand how the SWIFT Hub will form the ...

09 October 2018

Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte

IT Metrics excellence: avoiding the world turning upside-down

Regardless of how a software development project was contracted (fixed price, time and materials, etc.) or how it was managed from a methodology point of view (Agile, Waterfall, Prince2, …), by the end, a software product will be created. This product, irrespective of contract or methods, will have a specific cost, a size, different quality indic

08 May 2018 /wholesale

Sadra Boutorabi Product Marketing Director at GPayments

PCI Compliance and 3D Secure 2

Serious efforts have been made to combat against the ever-increasing levels of CNP (card-not-present fraud), which has jumped to record levels (around $14.2 billion annually) in recent years. Anyone that uses a credit card, consumers and vendors alike, is a potential target for this threat. To maximize protection and increase consumer confidence t...

02 May 2018 /security

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

Security and compliance through standards

At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. During the weeks leading up to Sibos, my posts will offer readers a preview of what people can expect to hear about in Toronto. In the last of our p...

03 October 2017 /security /regulation

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

Transformations in the payments and securities business

At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. During the weeks leading up to Sibos, my posts will offer readers a preview of what people can expect to hear about in Toronto. Today, I interviewed...

26 September 2017 /payments