SIA

157 results about this entity

Period: 19 Nov 2003 - 02 Feb 2022

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Edoardo Baumgartner named as new country manager for Germany by SIA

Edoardo Baumgartner has been named as the new Country Manager Germany of SIA, reporting directly to Cristina Astore, Northwest Europe and DACH Region Sales Director.

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Landesbank Berlin chooses SIA for card management system

Landesbank Berlin, Germany`s largest issuer of co-branded credit cards, has chosen SIA, European hi-tech company, leader in the fields of payment services and infrastructures, for the realization of the new system for the management of payment cards co-branded with leading commercial partners in Germany, like ADAC ( Allgemeiner D e u t s c h e r A u tomobil - Club ) the German Automobile Club.

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SIA and Italian State Police renew cybercrime agreement

The renewal of the agreement between the Italian State Police and SIA for prevention and the fight against cybercrimes involving the information systems and services of the Country’s critical infrastructure has now been signed.

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Italian consortium looks to blockchain for digital sureties

A host of Italian financial services players are taking part in a project to digitise the management of sureties using blockchain technology.

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Italian banks go live on Spunta Banca DLT platform

A group of Italian banks has gone live with a distributed ledger technology-based system for the reconciliation of reciprocal accounts.

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SIA calls in JP Morgan for possible IPO

Italian payments giant SIA has hired JP Morgan as financial advisor for all 'extraordinary transactions' - including a possible IPO.

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NZ central bank switches over to SIA-supplied RTGS and CSD

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), New Zealand's central bank, and SIA – European hi-tech company leader in the fields of payment services and infrastructures – have launched the new real-time financial market infrastructures, replacing the two separate platforms Exchange Settlement Account System (ESAS) and Central Securities Depository system (NZClear).

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Swedbank connects to EBA Clearing's RT1 with SIA and TietoEvry

Swedbank, the major bank in the home markets of Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, has selected SIA, the leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, to enable instant payments through RT1, EBA Clearing’s panEuropean system with the real-time payments platform of TietoEVRY, a leading digital services and software company.

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SIA begins listing process

The Board of Directors of SIA, meeting today under the chairmanship of Federico Lovadina, approved the start-up of the process to list the company's ordinary shares on the Mercato Telematico Azionario (MTA) market, organized and managed by Borsa Italiana, expected to take place by summer 2020.

SIA launches national securities blockchcain project

Experimentation of the national project will start in January 2020, promoted by CeTIF, SIA and Reply, in collaboration with Bank of Italy and IVASS, to digitize the management of sureties using blockchain technology.

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SIA names new chairman

SIA’s Board of Directors, which met today under the Chairmanship of Giuliano Asperti, has coopted five new Members of the Board, designated by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP): Federico Lovadina, Andrea Cardamone, Fabio Massoli, Andrea Pellegrini and Carmine Viola.

Naples transit network to trial contactless terminals

The world of public transport is preparing to face a new challenge. Thanks to the agreement signed between SIA and the Unicocampania Consortium, trials will start in the second half of 2020 in Naples, Salerno, Avellino and their respective provinces for payment of tickets for local public transport using contactless credit and debit cards.

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SIA equity stakes change hands

CDP Equity and FSIA Investimenti, a company held 70% by FSI Investimenti (in turn controlled by CDP Equity with a 77% stake) and 30% by Poste Italiane, have today concluded the acquisition of the shareholdings in SIA, the payment systems company, of F2i, HAT, Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit.

SIA to bring digital payments to Venice waterways

SIA and AVM Holding (Azienda Veneziana della Mobilità – the Venice public transport company) have signed an agreement to create an innovative digital platform that will allow residents and tourists to buy tickets using payment cards and smartphones, also in contactless mode, on board the “vaporetto” boats where the crew will be equipped with 650 Android SmartPOS terminals.

Supply@ME to launch working capital platform on SIAchain

SIA, the European hi-tech company, leader in payment services and infrastructures, and Supply@ME, the scale-up of the AvantGarde Group, have signed a partnership agreement to launch - through the SIAchain infrastructure - the new “Inventory Monetization” platform, created by the Milan-based fintech soon to be listed on the London Stock Exchange.

SIA partners with HPS to bolster payment cards activities in Greece

SIA, the leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, has signed a strategic partnership with HPS, a leading payment software company, to increase its card payments processing in Greece and other European countries through an innovative digital platform.

SIA opens new payment card centre in Verona

In Verona today SIA has inaugurated a new specialized center for payment cards, capable of managing every stage of issuing, from conception to distribution, through a monitoring system compliant with the highest standards of security.

SIA and Colt win ECB tender for ESMIG connectivity

The European Central Bank (ECB) has awarded a tender to Italian payment processor SIA and telco Colt for the provision of connectivity services to the Eurosystem market infrastructures.

SIA and Quant Network form blockchain interoperability alliance

SIA, the leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, and Quant Network, a UK-based pioneering technology company, have signed a partnership agreement to explore blockchain interoperability and the creation of agnostic cross-platform applications and services for banks and financial institutions.

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SIA wins Bank of Italy tender to manage interbank register of bad cheques and cards

SIA has won Bank of Italy’s tender for the management of the Interbank Register of Bad Cheques and Payment Cards (Centrale di Allarme Interbancaria - CAI), the computerized archive of illicit bank and postal cheques and credit and debit cards that contributes to ensuring the smooth running of the national payments system. The concession will last 8 years.