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2010/06/22
Cooperation Between FERNBACH-Software and BIAN Bears Fruit
Luxembourg and Frankfurt. Since international software provider FERNBACH-Software joined the independent industrial association BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) in 2008, their work has come a long way. FERNBACH is not only the Chairman of the Lending working group but has also worked with SAP and other working group members to prepare the first set of deliverables. Together, FERNBACH and BIAN aim to simplify implementation of SOA (service-oriented architecture) and to strengthen interoperability between individual software modules. Existing standard technologies and specifications will be used to create a comprehensive framework for specialised semantically defined services for the banking industry. This framework will in turn directly influence FERNBACH’s FlexFinance® Lending solution. Read the whole article >> more
2010/05/14
Banking industry players seeking SOA interoperability
May 14, 2010, SearchSOA.com - SOA Talk blog, posted by Rob Barry. "It is interesting to see how SOA has been moving from a way of exposing key application functions as reusable services within an enterprise to a methodology increasingly standardized across corporate lines. In industries where there is a lot of service-level communication between partners — such as in utilities and banking — organizations are emerging to standardize some of the services involved..."
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2010/05/11
DEFINING STANDARDS TOGETHER: UNICREDIT GROUP JOINS BIAN
Frankfurt am Main, Germany – May 11, 2010 – In support of the vision that setting industry standards will enable banks to minimize IT risk and integration costs, focus on their strategic priorities and allow a much closer alignment between the business and IT sides, UniCredit Group has joined the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). With its various members from the banking, software vendor and system integrator industries, BIAN is proud to announce the addition of UniCredit and is looking forward to closely working with UniCredit to continue further collaborative efforts in defining and implementing standardized specifications of enterprise services interfaces. The joint deliverables are expected to reduce integration efforts and support banking services produced both in-house as well as commercially. more
2010/03/05
SunGard - The Well Managed Bank
“The financial crisis has led many banks to realize that they need a prudent, long-term balanced view of their business. As the global economy begins its recovery, banking leaders are refocusing on their core business principles; they’ve recognized that their sustainability is provided by their customers; that their business operations rely on the expertise of their staff, however much this is leveraged with technology; and that their capital represents their ability to survive into the future.” more
2009/12/09
IFX FORUM AND BIAN SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
WAKEFIELD, Mass., USA – Dec. 9, 2009 – The Interactive Financial eXchange (IFX;http://www.ifxforum.org) Forum and the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN;http://www.bian.org) announced today that the two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining plans to collaborate in developing and furthering the adoption of standards that enhance interoperability within the banking industry. more
2009/12/07
SAP® Solutions Further Help Banking Industry Gear for Clear Future
BIAN was mentioned in a press release launched by SAP on December 7, 2009, including a quote from Dieter Buehler, ZKB.
“[…] Playing an active role in the independent association Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) , SAP will provide banks the enterprise services that best fit their needs, because the services are built and designed by peer banks. […]”
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2009/09/15
Banks See BIAN on Their SOA Roadmaps
As the banking industry transitions to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for its IT systems, the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is working with other major standards bodies in the financial services sector, to lead the way. more
2009/07/16
Temenos announces first T24 Model Bank BIAN alignment initiatives
Temenos demonstrates ongoing commitment to BIAN by showcasing the first phase of Model Bank development to help ease the journey for banks moving to a service-oriented architecture
GENEVA, Switzerland, 16th July 2009 – TEMENOS (SWX: TEMN), the global provider of integrated core banking systems and a founding member of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), today revealed a set of development initiatives undertaken to align T24 Model Bank with the first set of BIAN standards published on Monday. This includes the recent launch of T24 R09, the latest release of TEMENOS T24 (T24), signifying the first release of a set of Model Bank banking services, which have been aligned with the work being done through BIAN on the banking Services Landscape. Its work highlights the company’s dedication to the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model and supports BIAN’s aim to help accelerate the adoption of standards for the industry.
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2009/07/13
Microsoft Announces First Major Milestone
REDMOND, Wash. — July 13, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) alliance has published the first major banking industry information technology (IT) services standards to its members and the banking community at large. more
2009/05/05
BIAN readies first deliverables
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is set to publish its initial deliverables in June, somewhat over a year after it was spun out of an SAP-led initiative (IBS Online, May 2008). Those deliverables, which will be available to the industry as a whole, will comprise documents covering the services landscape, meta-model definition, services lifecycle management, and service repositories and registries, plus business definitions for service lifecycle management, payment agreements, payment execution, clearing and settlement, business partners, business partner agreements, and business partner relationships. more
2009/03/27
A Standard is a Standard is a ...
When can one say that a certain type of consensus is worth being called a standard? Let us exclude - for the moment; I might come back to this - the question of formality and ownership. So I am not going to discuss if the term standard depends on the body owning or maintaining this or what the difference between a standard and a de facto standard is. more
2009/03/26
BIAN: Defining the Service Landscape
BIAN is breaking down banking functionality into discrete modules, and defining service interfaces to those modules. BIAN calls this breakdown the Service Landscape. Let's examine what the Service Landscape looks like. more
2009/02/06
New BIAN Chair and Vice Chair
Bob Stutz, SAP AG and Dr. Thomas Mangel, Postbank Systems AG have been elected at the last BIAN Board Meeting as the new Chair and Vice Chair of BIAN. more
2008/10/21
FERNBACH-Software tritt dem Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) bei
FERNBACH-Software, a global leader providing sophisticated component-based solutions is pleased to announce that it has joined the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). more
2008/10/01
CGI joins Baking Industry Architecture Network BIAN
Montreal, Quebec, October 1, 2008 - CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a global leader in information technology (IT) and business process services is pleased to announce that it has joined Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). more
2008/08/01
High Cost of SOA Yields Cooperation
There’s scarcely a bank in the U.S. that doesn’t have an SOA strategy—the competitive pressures to move beyond legacy systems and create a flexible IT environment have filtered their way down to all but the smallest Main Street banks. And though it’s been the next big thing for a handful of years, only a few ISVs have built true SOA components that banks can buy off-the-shelf and implement. more
2008/05/28
Commentary: SOA support for banks
Oliver Kling and Koen Van den Brande explain how the newly launched Banking Industry Architecture Network will help smooth the way for SOA. more
2008/05/01
SAP and Microsoft Join Together with Leading Industry Players and Global Banks in a New Association to Help Banks Establish a Service-Oriented Architecture
Key Banking Software Vendors Found Association: Callataÿ & Wouters, Microsoft, SAP, SunGard, Temenos. Leading Service Providers First to Join Association: AXON, Finanz IT, ifb group, Steria, SWIFT, Syskoplan Leading Global Banks First to Establish Association: Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, ING, Deutsche Postbank, Standard Bank, Zürcher Kantonalbank more
2008/04/30
SunGard is a Founding Member of Banking Industry Architecture Network
SunGard (http://www.sungard.com) announced that it is a founding member of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). BIAN is a new association, formed by leading software and financial industry firms and banks, aimed at helping banks to move to a service oriented architecture (SOA) by openly sharing technical and domain expertise to apply SOA principles and methodologies. Creation of the network was announced today by SAP. more
2008/04/30
Temenos joins leading industry players and global banks to form BIAN committed to establishing SOA standards
TEMENOS Group (SWX:TEMN), the provider of integrated core banking systems, today announced that it is one of the founding members of the newly launched industry association, Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN). Led by global tier one banks and industry leading vendors including among others Temenos, Microsoft, SAP, SunGard and S.W.I.F.T., this independent body will drive the creation of SOA standards for the banking industry. more