Press Releases

These links below are the most recent press releases.

2011/09/20
BIAN ANNOUNCES THREE NEW MEMBERS: KUTXA, INFOSYS AND CORETRANSFORM

Sibos, Toronto – September 20th, 2011 – BIAN, the Banking Industry Architecture Network, today welcomes three new members into its international community. Kutxa, a Spanish bank, Infosys, the business consulting and technology services provider, and COREtransform, a management consultancy based in Germany, have joined BIAN’s growing network.

The new members join a global community of leading experts from the worldwide banking and software industries who are working together to develop standards that help banks significantly reduce IT costs. To support this initiative, BIAN has recently published its latest deliverables: the BIAN Service Landscape version 1.5, and supporting documents, as a reference framework for banks. More and more members are adopting the emerging industry standard as a way of reducing IT integration costs through greater efficiency and organisational flexibility. read on...

2011/07/07
BIAN Announces a Reference Framework for the Banking Industry
New Service Landscape Package for Greater Interoperability

Frankfurt am Main, Germany – July 7, 2011- Banks worldwide continue to face the challenge of significantly reducing IT integration costs and facilitating the selection of commercially available software solutions to support their banking transformation projects. As a result, the banking industry is looking for a blueprint from which banks can develop architecture roadmaps that support flexible integration within their existing application landscape as well as with external solutions, and which also provides a framework for Software Vendors to build intellectual property. read on...

2011/07/05
BIAN expands with addition of new members, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Rabobank Group, Scotiabank and ACI Worldwide
Frankfurt am Main, Germany – July 5, 2011 – The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) is proud to announce that four organizations, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Rabobank Group, Scotiabank and ACI Worldwide have joined BIAN and expanded the worldwide reach of the organization. BIAN supports the vision of global IT industry standards which enable banks to lower integration costs, minimize IT risk, and thus allow banks to focus on their strategic priorities. With its members representing banks, software vendors and system integrators, BIAN is looking forward to working closely with the new members to continue collaborative efforts in defining and implementing standardized specifications of enterprise services interfaces. The joint deliverables are expected to reduce integration costs of bank transformation projects. read on...

2011/06/07
IFX FORUM AND BIAN COLLABORATE ON INTEROPERABILITY PROOF-OF-CONCEPT PROJECT
Joint Working Group Will Focus Initially on "Payment Execution" and "Manage Party"

WAKEFIELD, Mass., USA – June 7, 2011 – The Interactive Financial eXchange (IFX; http://www.ifxforum.org) Forum today announced a collaborative effort with BIAN (the Banking Industry Architecture Network; http://www.bian.org/content/). The locus for the effort within the IFX Forum is its recently launched Liaison and Interoperability Working Group (LIWG), which is chartered to be a center of expertise within the IFX Forum for interoperability with external standards and communications with organizations that develop them. read on ...

2010/10/28
BIAN Analytics Working Group Publishes First Set of Deliverables on Profitability Valuation Aimed at Helping Banks
FRANKFURT, GUETERSLOH AND WALLDORF, Germany — Oct. 28, 2010 — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), in cooperation with the BIAN Analytics working group, today announced the publication of two white papers on profitability valuation. The results highlighted represent a true opportunity for banks to accelerate the replacement of inflexible analytical systems with solutions based on a more flexible service-oriented architecture- (SOA) based analytic environment. This first set of deliverables from the group has resulted from collaboration with three key contributors to the working group: SAP, syskoplan AG and zeb/. read on...

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 on...

2010/05/11
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. read on...

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 read on...

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.

Hong Kong, September 15, 2009 -- On occasion of the Sibos 2009 international financial services conference, the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) has produced a white paper that outlines the roles of BIAN and other important standards organizations within the financial services industry in supporting service-oriented architecture (SOA). This paper highlights the benefits of each organization’s efforts and offers insight into the great potential for their mutual collaboration. BIAN is currently in the initial stages of collaborating with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the Object Management Group (OMG), and the International Financial eXchange (IFX) Forum, among others.↵
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