As cryptocurrency faces trust challenges, the upcoming adoption of ISO 20022 could be a game-changer. Read how this global financial standard enhances communication, data quality, compliance, and interoperability in crypto, fostering transparency and trust.
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Discover the future of cross-border transactions in our latest blog post. Explore Swift's current role, emerging alternatives, and the drive for faster, more cost-effective, and secure global payments.
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Today, there is a surprising amount that can be created online without the need to write a single line of code. Explore how valantic FSA's X-Gen is revolutionizing payments with low-code solutions for fintech startups and established institutions.
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In an interview with Harrington Starr's "The financial technologist," Andrea Pirino, Head of valantic FSA's Solutions, discusses the importance of agility in product development for financial firms operating in the dynamic world of electronic trading.
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While cross-border payment transaction times have gradually reduced from several days to a few hours or minutes, we’re now operating in an ‘on-demand’ culture, where consumers and businesses expect instant payments. What does the future look like for this game-changing initiative?
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We are thrilled to share an insightful article featured in ThePaytechMagazine, Issue 14. Simon Wilson, our Managing Director of Payments Automation, explores the transformative power of ISO 20022 as a universal payment messaging standard, drawing a parallel to the creative possibilities of LEGO bricks.
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In this blog, we will explore the benefits of SaaS and cloud technology in payments, and how they are transforming the banking industry.
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The headwinds facing crypto assets are well known, and the market has understandably taken a more cautious stance when it comes to the asset class, how it is traded, and the infrastructure needed to support further development.
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Interview of our CEO Joachim Lauterbach with Harrington Starr's Financial Technologist magazine.
Our teams work with clients across the financial industry to drive change in their businesses - using our smart automation technology to change what’s possible.
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Matt Sarkar, Global Head of Marketing for valantic FSA, outlines what a low-code approach to migration could mean for financial institutions.
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Peter Holmgren, our Director of International Markets, talked to Best Execution about the importance of automation in fixed income trading and how our award-winning solutions help the sell-side meet the evolving needs of the buy-side.
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Over 1,000 payment professionals gathered in Vienna for EBAday2022. The payments community came together to address common challenges, build consensus, and find new opportunities for innovation and growth – steering the industry towards a sustainable future.
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Could the payments industry provide the blueprint for digital transformation in the corporate world? After all, payments are mission-critical to economic prosperity, and, perhaps more than in other sectors, our industry felt the seismic impact of the pandemic on buying habits.
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Almost overnight we shifted our work lives online – commuting to the kitchen table instead of the city and catching up over video rather than over a beer.
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At some of our clients, Sales Traders have particular difficulty dealing with their aging tech stack and spend too much time manually working across multiple disconnected systems, the result of years of acquisition and constant market evolution.
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Following on to my previous post, “Solutions to Our Problems are Rooted in Our Past”, where I drilled down into a specific business case on how Server-interop solutions provide an opportunity to solve the fundamental underlying issue of the traditional siloed technology.
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As I travelled into London this morning to look for new office space with Peter Holmgren, I came across a recent post from Tradeweb providing their latest insights on the uptake of all-to-all trading.
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Today businesses need to operate across these silos to meet client demand for more sophisticated, cross-asset trading solutions.
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The growth in Corporate Bond Electronic Trading continues...
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On my way into one of my first face to face client meetings in a very long time, I read through an interesting report in The Trade (US outpaces Europe in electronic bond trading growth, report finds (thetradenews.com).
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There are clearly differing views regarding the emergence of all-to-all trading...
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I’m five weeks into my new role at valantic FSA and it’s clear that regular interaction with our partner community is key.
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Adoption of repo electronic trading workflows continues at pace with Tradeweb seeing a 53% increase in year on year average daily volumes traded in repo
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Adopting electronic trading in fixed-income has accelerated as firms see the advantages of workflow automation, not only in improving their own efficiency but in the quality of their client services as well.
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One of the reasons there is so much legacy tech in our industry is down to a general fear that the new platform will either not deliver as expected or break a bunch of other systems.
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At the end of 2020, valantic and techconsult conducted a survey of over 200 German-speaking companies from all industries with respect to the question: How has the Corona pandemic impacted digital transformation projects and project priorities?
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One of the comments to my previous post was "how could we offer better prediction systems to allow traders to see possible outcomes before they happen". True, we may not be able to predict outcomes with 100% accuracy, but we are already close.
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I got some great feedback from my last blog post on the potential for augmented reality in trading – thanks everyone for all the DMs. It did get me thinking a bit more about the data angle, and I came across a great quote from a book I am reading by John Rossman, Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader.
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One of the big ideas that wouldn’t leave me alone over Xmas was how, as an industry, we could turn the ocean of data into something even more visual and interactive which genuinely engages the playful, creative sides of our brains?
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According to the OECD, in December 2019, the global outstanding amount of non-financial corporate bonds reached USD 13.5 trillion.
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The new study results provide some important insights about German companies’ technology expertise. In many cases, companies are lacking specialized knowledge and expertise, especially with regard to artificial intelligence, process optimization, and automation.
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One of the reasons there is so much legacy tech in our industry is down to a general fear that the new platform will either not deliver as expected or break a bunch of other systems.
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The European Union promotes the establishment of a comprehensive payment standard for fast and secure cashless transactions in Europe. With instant payments, consumers can use real-time payments for transferring money within only a few seconds to the recipient’s bank account.
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The new SWIFT gpi (global payments innovation) standard regulates international payment transactions. Since 2018, more than 200 banks work with SWIFT gpi and the payment volume is constantly increasing.
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As first European bank, Erste Bank Hungary provides an own system for processing request-to-pay (R2P). With the customized solution on the basis of valantic FSA’s Real Time Payment Engine (RTPE), Erste Bank Hungary now provides a modularly structured payment hub solution.
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The trend to Open Banking in real time continues: With the customized solution on the basis of valantic FSA’s Real Time Payment Engine (RTPE), Erste Bank Hungary now provides a modular structured payment hub solution.
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Currently, banks are putting major effort into translation works regarding money transactions. National standards with different characteristics require a lot of manual work not only increasing the number of potential errors but lowering the banks’ margins due to additional costs.
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Services in real time are already part of the customers’ everyday life – financial institutions also follow this trend. For this purpose, Česká spořitelna implements valantic’s Real Time Payment Engine.
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The Czech bank Česká spořitelna gives its customers the opportunity to process payments in real time. This innovative service is made possible thanks to the Real Time Payment Engine, a software provided valantic FSA having a successful long-term cooperation with the Česká spořitelna.
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