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Thoughts, comments, news and reflections about payments and core banking from a subject matter expert from Microsoft’s Financial Services Team - Colin Kerr, Worldwide Industry Manager for Payments and Core Banking.
Can the Financial Services Industry Take Their Data to the Bank?
Last week I had the chance to travel to New York City for an executive briefing on big data. In the...
Date: 06/16/2014
BIAN at Sibos: Real Standards For Banking Transformation!
Today I’d like to introduce you to another of our stand partners. As many of you will have...
Date: 09/12/2013
Payments. Where Banks and Merchants Connect
As part of my commitment to share more new about Microsoft’s presence at Sibos, I’d like...
Date: 09/09/2013
Can Big Data and Payments Drive Loyalty in Business Banking? (aka, Can Big Data and Payments Drive Loyalty in Consumer Banking - Part 2)...
So - not the most original title, but I did promise a follow-up to my recent blog post: "Can Big...
Date: 09/03/2013
Can Big Data and Payments Drive Loyalty in Consumer Banking?
With less than 3 weeks left to Sibos I am eagerly awaiting the start of the conference. One of my...
Date: 08/26/2013
Sibos 2013 - Countdown to Dubai
Geographically and culturally it is difficult to imagine two more different locations between the...
Date: 08/16/2013
Payments is an Information Business
In my teens, I remember TV commercials for Yellow Pages in the UK. The publication would list local...
Date: 03/12/2013
Above the Surface - Windows 8 at Sibos 2012
Looking back on Sibos this year, one of the most exciting aspects of the show for Microsoft was the...
Date: 12/07/2012
Banking Sustainability on the Eve of Sibos 2012
Kon nichi wa Osaka. After a missed connection on the way from Chicago, I finally checked into the...
Date: 10/27/2012
Payments Transformation Across Asia
Microsoft has many high profile technology solutions partners exhibiting at Sibos this year....
Date: 10/23/2012
Building the Bank of the Future – with Standards!
With Sibos fast approaching, it is about time I introduced you to another of our stand partners....
Date: 10/22/2012
Introducing Microsoft Capital Markets Blog
As a slight diversion from my normal blog topics, I'd like to take this opportunity to briefly...
Date: 10/05/2012
Core Banking on Microsoft Windows and SQL - Gaining Momentum...
Last week I had the privilege to attend and speak at the Temenos Community Forum in Barcelona. Over...
Date: 05/30/2012
Introducing Microsoft Industry Reference Architecture for Banking (MIRA-B)
More and more I hear our customers and partners around the world asking for a Microsoft view on how...
Date: 05/15/2012
Real Time Risk Management at Sibos with Cloud Trading Technologies
With only a few days to go to Sibos Toronto, today I would like to introduce you to another of...
Date: 09/15/2011
Streamlining Payments at Sibos 2011 with ProfitStars
As the countdown to Sibos Toronto continues, today I would like to introduce you to one of...
Date: 09/14/2011
Abolishing Checks (Cheques)
Those of you who know me have heard that I am passionate about the game of hockey (the variety...
Date: 04/22/2011
Mobile 'Banking' and BI - Enhancing Operational Productivity
Hardly a day goes by without some new innovation in mobile payments or mobile banking being...
Date: 04/14/2011
The end of cash for payments? Not so fast!
Picking up on my recent threads about mobile payments as a form factor (NFC Payments - Build It and...
Date: 03/18/2011
Going Beyond 'Five Nines' Uptime on the Microsoft Platform
Payments processing has always demanded a high performance, and highly resiliant platfrom. This is...
Date: 01/27/2011
Innovation at Sibos: “Mobilization” of Transaction Workflows with Luup
There are two areas of corporate payments innovation that I expect to receive more attention at...
Date: 10/12/2010
High Performance Banking
This last month I talked to a few analysts about the market direction of core banking modernization,...
Date: 09/03/2010
SEPA: The Future is Integration Management
It’s not quite so fashionable to talk about SEPA these days. After all – aren’t we...
Date: 07/26/2010
Prepaid Money Laundering?
In the United States, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) was established in 1990 and...
Date: 06/25/2010
An Intelligent View of Payments
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have some passion for integration technology when...
Date: 06/03/2010
Recon Renaissance
This week I’ve been talking with a couple of our partners that offer reconciliations...
Date: 05/14/2010
From the Shadow of Eyjafjallajokull
Having blogged last week about the replacement of a custom mainframe banking solution with a vendor...
Date: 04/19/2010
Back to the Future?
Last month Citi, typically known as an IT innovator in the financial services world, announced it is...
Date: 04/09/2010
Jump Starting Payments Integration
The topic of payments system integration has in the past usually dwelled on topics such as real time...
Date: 03/15/2010
How's That Core Banking Replacement Going?
Core banking system replacement is arguably one of the most challenging technology projects in...
Date: 03/01/2010
Bridging the Atlantic
It is often said that the UK and the US are two nations separated by a common language. To take that...
Date: 02/12/2010