Industry engagement
Industry engagement is a key element to Volante’s business operations and during 2015 we have been active participants in several key industry groups and market initiatives around the globe including:
Common Global Implementation – Market Practice (CGI-MP) - Neil Clarke, Volante's Market Engagement Director, facilitates the Account Reporting working group of CGI-MP, the industry body whose aim is to establish harmonized guidelines for bank to corporate communications using ISO 20022 message standards.
ISO 20022 Real Time Payments (RTP) Working Group – Fiona Hamilton, Volante's VP for Europe and Asia, was an active participant in the RTP working group which under the auspices of the ISO 20022 RMG is establishing a set of message usage guidelines for ISO 20022 messages used as part of a RTP infrastructure.
Fed Payments Improvement program – Volante is actively engaged as a member of the Faster Payment and Secured Payment Task forces. ANSI - Accredited Standards Committee X9 – Volante has participated in the working group establishing the BTRS (Balance Transaction and Reporting Standard), an updated version of the well-known BAI2 standard.
Media commentary about Volante
We have been exceedingly busy meeting members of the press and have been delighted to see their interest in carrying Volante commentary on the markets we serve.
These include a piece in Forbes titled, “Volante VolPay Lets Bank Business Analysts Integrate Digital Payments”; and another article by Banking Technology titled, “Volante launches ‘Babel Fish’ for financial messaging transformation” which looked at how Volante helps firms transform and integrate different message standards within the payments industry.
Volante by-lined articles
ISO 20022 continues to be a hot topic in the financial world, and to help clarify the complex world of ISO 20022 messaging, Volante submitted a number of articles on the topic including a very well-read ISS-Mag guide on ISO 20022, and a three-part series on the path to a successful data integration project. In another article we looked at what it means to have harmony in the standards world.
The Banker Middle East, a publication continually focused on key issues affecting the banking community within the region, chose to publish our thoughts on a few key topics including “Getting ready for the real-time revolution,” “Cash is king, but agility is money,” and “Don’t be afraid to differentiate your digital payments processing architecture.”
Volante firmly believe existing Fintech vendors should do more to nurture start-ups, and how partnerships formed can be mutually beneficial to both firms.
Video interviews
In 2015 Volante participated in several webinars and video interviews, including a very popular ‘Webchat’ series by the Cash & Treasury Management File (CTMFile.com). In the first webchat, Volante looks at the process of accelerating and simplifying setup and maintenance of corporate to bank connectivity. The second in the series looked at how to optimize corporate treasury integration and connectivity, with a third workshop following shortly after that explored how to manage connectivity standards today and tomorrow. The final webchat in the 2015 series was about payment factories and the vital stages of implementation. This latter video proved very popular attracting views from many corporate treasurers around the world – clearly the streamlining of payment factory operations is an on-going hot topic for treasurers!
Clearly the streamlining of payment factory operations is an on-going hot topic for corporate treasurers!
At the FIX Trading Community EMEA Conference in March 2015, Neil Clarke spoke to Streets Consulting about how Volante fits into the trade lifecycle. At the same event, Fiona Hamilton, VP Europe and Asia, spoke to Finextra about the merits of the FIX standard and the on-going regulatory and compliance challenges facing customers.
Volante also had a number of interviews with Financial IT covering a range of topics, including the future of financial technology, financial messaging trends & blockchain technology, corporate to bank payments on-boarding and message integration and payments orchestration. In another interview, Fiona explores the pressures in today’s payments industry.
Webinars
In 2015 Volante participated in a number of webinars debating key industry challenges:
- Volante was invited to speak on a webinar with Treasury Alliance Group on Changing Network Banks: What do you do when your global bank suddenly downsizes its geographic footprint?
- Venkat Malla, Volante's VP Product Management and co founder, was invited to speak on a webinar with Greenwich Associates on easing the burden of change in financial technology.
