Member Quotes

ACI Worldwide

Louis Blatt

Chief product officer

“ACI Worldwide is looking forward to bringing its expertise in payments to help shape this emerging standard for the banking industry jointly with other major players in the market. As a leading member of the IFX Forum, we believe the recent memorandum of understanding between BIAN and IFX regarding collaborative efforts will deliver commonality in standards, therefore reducing costs and increasing agility for the payments industry.”

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Callataÿ & Wouters

Renaud Winand

Head of Product Department

"Callataÿ & Wouters fully supports BIAN as both organizations continue to grow from strength to strength. Together Callataÿ & Wouters and BIAN are fully focused on the need to promote industry standards and SOA. Callataÿ & Wouters strives to share our best-practices and in-depth financial services expertise with our peers within BIAN to ensure a more transparent and cost effective banking environment."

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Capital Banking Solutions

Michel Tueni

General Manager

"Modern banking is all about service, and services today depend on highly flexible IT structures that are able to shift to meet industry needs as they occur. Achieving this would be exceedingly difficult and impractical without SOA, and BIAN is doing essential work in this area. Therefore, we made the decision to join BIAN."

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Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Tim Whiteley

Executive General Manager Enterprise Service Development

"By joining BIAN we are actively participating in the creation of new IT standards that we will be able to leverage as we plan for the future."

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COREtransform

Alexander Umek

Transformation Director

"The success of core IT transformations in the context of mergers, major renewals or outsourcing projects crucially depends on overcoming barriers to effective communication, both on a technical and even more important on a semantic level. BIAN with its meta-model, banking IT reference landscape and service definitions is about to shape a common banking IT language, which will facilitate communication across companies. Based on collective experience, expertise and a common understanding of leading financial industry companies, BIAN clearly has the potential to provide a lingua franca for banking IT, which has been sorely missed."

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Credit Suisse

Claus Hagen

Head of Integration Architecture

"Being an active member of the BIAN, Credit Suisse sees the creation of this association as significant milestone for not only ourselves, but for the industry as a whole. The association will create an open environment of members that begins with an idea and takes it all the way through to execution.”

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FERNBACH

Anjali Joglekar

Product Manager, Product Group – Risk, Compliance and Lending

"Fernbach Software has fully supported BIAN since October 2008, and adheres to the need to accelerate the adoption of Service Orientated Architecture in the banking industry. Fernbach and BIAN seek to improve the fundamental basics of business applications and to encourage the restructuring of IT architectures to enhance interoperability between banks. The ability to reduce costs while mitigating risk and ensuring transparency is a key objective of FERNBACH SOFTWARE and BIAN."

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ifb group

Dr. Rainer Merkt

Partner

“We want BIAN to have success in the short-term. The principle of the community is based on the contribution of several members. Hence, we drive those topics actively that we are experts in. For a consulting company such as ifb group the opportunity to contribute to the synthesis of banks’ different approaches is very valuable and enables us to deliver what our customers need.”

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IKOR

Heiko Stransky

Head of Technology

“As a service provider we are highly interested in the future solutions of our customers. We consider BIAN as the platform to place the current needs and problems of our customers and to experience from the BIAN members so that we can participate on the future design of the banking software.”

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ING

Steve Van Wyk

Chief Information Officer ING Bank & Head of Operations and Information Technology

"In large organizations, integration costs make or break the business case in building and implementing new applications. The cost level is determined by the degree of standardization of interfaces, from a technical and a definition point of view. While it is becoming more and more clear that SOA is the best technology for internal (today) and external (soon) interfaces, standards will have to be agreed upon at industry level. That is why BIAN, and the facilitation it provides for banks and software vendors is so important to us."

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innobis AG

Arne Schultz

Head of competence center service orientated architecture

“We believe that sharing the BIAN idea of standardized borders between the IT business domains of a bank will help our customers to integrate standardized software components more easily and less costly into their existing system landscapes. We therefore are actively engaged in developing this landscape within the Service Landscape working group.”

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kutxa

Koldo Etxeberria

Technical Area Director

“Joining BIAN constitutes an important milestone in Kutxa´s effort towards standardization. This meeting point is going to set the foundation for better interoperability not only between financial companies themselves but also with their solution providers. It will also leverage the use of standards within companies in order to improve integration of custom made and commercial solutions ”

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Microsoft

David Vander

Worldwide Sales Excellence Lead

“Microsoft is committed to lowering the cost of ownership and providing a more flexible and innovative platform for banking. In addition, we consider an open standards based environment critical to our success. As a founding and active member of BIAN, Microsoft is enabling global collaboration with key thought-leaders in the banking and IT communities around the establishment of technology standards and SOA best practices. In doing so, BIAN will be instrumental in laying the groundwork for the banking industry services in the new economy.”

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Postbank Systems AG

Dr. Thomas Mangel

Member of the Board

“Postbank places high emphasis on using standardized, purchasable software. We are optimistic that BIAN as a joint effort of banking industry companies will lead to the creation of a broadly accepted banking industry standard which defines the borderlines of banking IT components as well as the services mediating the communication between them. On the long term, we expect the implementation of this standard to massively improve the interoperability of products from different vendors as well as the sustainability of our own, standard-aligned, applications.”

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SAP AG

Martin Schroter

Senior Vice President, Banking, Application Strategic Innovation

“We are committed to BIAN, because this work is of high value and importance in the transition of the industry. Our engagement is shown by the involvement in many working groups as well by the support of the organisation.”

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Scotiabank

Martine Lamoureux

VP Core Banking Technology at Scotiabank

“Scotiabank is excited to be joining BIAN, and actively participating in the creation of new IT standards that we will be able to use as we plan for the future,”

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SunGard

Mats Lillienberg

Chief Technology Officer

“Two factors are forcing banks and their suppliers to do a better job by creating clear standards: the credit crunch and globalisation. Every time a bank acts in isolation and recreates a process which is common across the majority of banks, it is wasting its time, probably creating a less efficient customer process than it could, and ignoring the wisdom of others. Every time a software vendor turns these common processes into proprietary code and claims uniqueness, the banking industry is less well off than it could be. BIAN is the place where banks and software vendors learn, discuss and ultimately disseminate best-process practices. SunGard is a founding member of BIAN because we believe that open-processes are beneficial to banks, their customers, and software vendors.”

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SWIFT

Patrik Neutjens

Head of Partner Management

“SWIFT’s mission is to drive efficiencies in the financial industry by enabling automation. To achieve this, SWIFT’s standardization efforts focus on the content and usage of messages exchanged between institutions. Because BIAN’s interest is in standardizing the IT landscape within institutions, BIAN is fully aligned with SWIFT’s goal of increasing efficiency, but complementary in its approach. SWIFT supports and contributes to BIAN to ensure that BIAN and SWIFT/ISO standards work well together and deliver maximum efficiency benefits for the industry.”

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Temenos

Koen Van den Brande

Group Strategy and Marketing Director

“Our clients want software that adheres to integration standards so they can reduce cost and risk while at the same time increasing the agility of their IT infrastructure.”

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UniCredit Group

Patrizia Iacovone

Head of ICT Strategy at UniCredit

"Being a member of BIAN is an important step towards the development and the definition of standards useful to unify the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) landscape in the Banking Industry and to make integrations easier with attention to the costs. In this way, UniCredit can align its assets to industry standards, specifically for commoditized banking functions, and take advantage in being part of this international network by taking part to the specific working groups."

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