Oracle Financial Services Software has announced the launch of Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0.

Is providing in-country SMS alert services to Satelite Microfinance Bank in collaboration with Neptune Software . Satelite’s customers now receive realtime, priority alert messaging via Clickatell’s Secure Enterprise Mobile Messaging Gateway, notifying them when transactions are taking place on their credit and debit accounts.

Informatica has achieved SWIFTReady Messaging Data Services (MDS) label certification from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). The certification was achieved for the Informatica Platform. 

To enhance its credit risk management capabilities and help comply with Basel II regulation, Bank of the West has selected software from SAS.

Fairheads Benefit Services, an independent death and disability benefit service provider for retirement funds, has implemented an SMS solution to enhance its business communications. The company administers trust funds on behalf of thousands of minor children around the country, advising them and their guardians on how to use these funds for their education and maintenance.

Softline Pastel has obtained Quality Assurance Partner (QAP) accreditation with Fasset, the SETA for Finance, Accounting, Management Consulting and other Financial Services.

Noticed how automated teller machines deliver ever-more advanced functionality? From merely dispensing cash, these devices have become ubiquitous multiple service centres, offering a wider range of services and transactions to drive convenience for customers and value and differentiation for banks operating in a competitive environment.

South Africa’s financial services sector is highly rated in around the world, but the question on everyone’s lips at the moment is whether new technologies are being used to transform the sector in line with international trends, or whether the great and the good alike are just in a holding pattern, writes Luizet Ruzow, head of financial services at FeverTreeConsulting.

Retailers, financial institutions, data processors, and any other vendors who manage credit card holder data today must adhere to strict policies to ensure that data is secure at all times, writes Jorina van Rensburg, CEO of Condyn.

In today's trying economic climate it is becoming clear that every organisation in every industry sector, be it financial, retail or telecommunications, is a target for cybercriminals. If they conduct banking online or host customer and supplier information, businesses must ensure that they have proper security measures in place not to fall victim to these crimes.

Standard Bank of South Africa's Corporate and Investment Banking division recently partnered with BI Planning Services (BIPS) for the implementation of a reporting solution that now enables the bank to generate reports to fulfill its reporting requirements in terms of the Regulatory requirements that are underpinned by the Basel II accord.

As a company which has built its success on processing the information of third parties, Alfinanz can't afford to take any chances when it comes to protecting data.