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This is the best opportunity to hands-on learn the Incentage software from scratch including the most amazing view to the Swiss Alps as well as to the Lake Lucern. For experienced users it is an opportunity to refresh and enhance the know-how in the second part of the training.
This off-site training in the beautiful Swiss mountains helps you to develop a practical understanding with focus and fresh air.
What will you learn:
▪ Build a foundation with systematic knowledge creation
▪ Meet Incentageers from other companies
▪ Learn how to convert financial messages
▪ Learn JSON
▪ Learn APIs
▪ Learn Docker
▪ Learn Elasticsearch
▪ Must-knows for ISO20022 messaging
▪ Learn the Incentage IAP
(Innovation Acceleration Platform)
We are delighted to announce that our colleague Oscar Neira, Head Sales & Marketing, will be giving a key note speech on the implications of Instant Payments on the Sanctions Screening.
Not only increasing regulatory or new sort of crimes coming up, there is also always less time to check if the payment is fraudulent or if the receiver is sanctioned on any of all this different lists who are out there.
If you see him, just say hello.
Link to the Agenda
Interested in product development, distributed systems, software engineering, cloud ready microservice architecture?
We are extending our development team with a senior Java engineer. We are passionate and love clever software design and clean code. As developers we are “all in”, roll up our sleeves, coordinate continuously (in German and English) and work for results –wherever there is a need.
An event based, distributed messaging platform with a scalable store for hundreds of millions of messages and a modern Web UI. The platform consists of microservices for connecting to different protocols, processing of various message formats, and a rules-based conversion engine. A scalable, Elastic Search backed message store and a Vue 3 based Portal provide access for end users. A particular focus of current developments is the SWIFT gateway, sanction screening module and monitoring platform.
As a Java engineer your responsibilities are the development of the various backend services. You are involved in the full lifecycle of development: Breaking down requirements, designing solutions, developing features and testing, bug fixing and helping our professional services staff with product related questions.
· Experience in designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale
· Strong knowledge of Java software architecture and clean coding
· Hungry to understand the full picture
· Knowledge in Spring Boot, REST, Elastic Search, Postgres, AMQ
· Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, cloud platforms
· Know how to apply clean code and testing principles
· Good English and/or German speaking skills
· Love to work in a great team
Nice to have:
· Experience with SWIFT connectivity
· Experience with identity matching and sanction screening
Incentage is an independent provider of messaging solutions for the financial market. Companies like Euronext, Credit Suisse, Nomura, or Strate rely on our products to integrate, monitor, and make applications and message flows in payment and securities processing accessible to users. Incentage has been well established in the financial market for over 20 years and is well known for software products that are flexible and help clients to stay on the ball in a rapidly changing environment. For us, customer orientation means that results are more important than processes and hierarchy.
With a 40-hour working week in the flexitime model and mixed home-office/presence plan, Incentage offers a salary in line with the market, extra-mandatory participation in the pension fund, no deductions for UVG, and a variety of smaller goodies such as free parking, free SBB half-fare cards, free drinks, and much more.
Don’t hesitate to contact Nina Rebsamen on +41 43 355 86 00
or by e-mail: nina.rebsamen@incentage.com
We look forward to hearing from you!
End of the year there is the traditional Swiss Payment Forum in Zürich. Two days full packed with experts sharing their know-how.
This year also Incentage will participate as speaker.
Our colleague Oscar Neira will explain to the audience why Banks should offer Crypto Trading and Custody.
"Can Cryptos already sit at the same table as the Grown Ups?" This is the question which Oscar wants to enlight. Means, is the Crypto Market grown up to be integrated in a high regulated Bank environment or not.
If yes, is it possible to make a Bitcoin or any other tokenized asset transaction from the Bank's Crypto Wallet "A" to another Bank's Crypto Wallet "B"? Sounds easy but can that be made over SWIFT and using the standard formats in ISO 20022? Let's see....
But why a Bank should offer Crypto Trading and Custody?
Oscar means for obvious reason. The clients demand it.
And if this is not enough, there is a clear trend coming from the Central Banks, worldwide. The Central Banks want CBDC's - Central Bank Digital Currency. Means soon or later the Banks need to know how to handle all the different Tokens like NFT 's, Crypto Currencies, digital Bonds, digital Shares and Derivatives and more.
So, why not starting now and give to the clients what they want?
Oscar will show use cases how such an integration of a Custody Applications can be done in to the Bank IT environment.
See his video inviting to the forum (in german): Video
Here the agenda
To follow the event in the socials search for #SPFZH22
Incentage recently established a new complete operative office in Canada. One colleague, Thomas Arnold took over the first Canadian chair and desk in Toronto a couple of weeks ago.
As Incentage is growing very fast in North America as well as Central and South America it was just a matter of time until Incentage needed to start his own premises in this area of the world. With this step we want of to grow our client base.
But much more important than growing in number of clients is to provide an extraordinary service and support to our existing clients.
It is reasonable to be in the same time zone as our fastest growing client base where Incentage is building a highly skilled team of experts in IT and financial services.
But there are also operative viewpoints, because having an office in another continent makes a 24/7 support easier and brings resiliency to the company especially in these days.
And please note: Thomas is hiring -> Link to job post
Incentage and RTGS.global starting a product partnership. The partnership is based basically on two layers:
One is that Incentage provides a RTGS.global network plug-in to all Incentage clients.
The other one is that Incentage provides a set of tools which helps non-Incentage clients to use, manage and integrate the RTGS.global API's extremely fast, secure and resilient.
Basically the banks get standard adaptors to connect to his core bank application as well as to other applications like archive, payment hub, market data.
"We are very happy to start this product partnership with RTGS.global a next-gen and very well-funded settlement and payments Financial Market Infrastructure with a terrific developer team. They enable wholesale instant Payment-vs-Payment (PvP) cross-border settlement in a very innovative way for every bank with a focus on emerging markets. A true Financial Market Innovation that solves the settlement challenges today, while preparing for tomorrow" say Felix Huber, CEO from Incentage.
"We are thrilled that Incentage can provide us and our clients a toolset which accelerates and makes the integration of our solution quick, efficient and painless. We strongly believe that this exciting partnership delivers enhanced, value add services and opportunities to market participants" says Dave Sissens, CEO from RTGS.global
About RTGS.global
RTGS.global makes global cross border settlement instantaneous, solving today’s risk and liquidity issues with the flexibility to address whatever settlement requires next.
Our Bi-Lateral Atomic Settlement technology is Financial Market Innovation, making settlement more effective, inclusive for financial markets and safer today, but also flexible enough to address the future challenges facing settlement.
We’re more than just innovation though, as our legal and operational framework and deep industry experience ensures we can deliver technology that fits within company and regulatory requirements, delivering a meaningful impact. RTGS.global
- Built for Now, but Designed for What’s Next.
Follow us on Linkedin and RTGS.com
About Incentage:
Incentage is a Swiss company, founded in 2002 with the mission to enable the financial industry to exchange transactions data flexibly, continuously and securely.
Our client base confirms that our mission meets a fast-growing international demand.
The Incentage innovation acceleration platform serves as a robust foundation for payments processing, securities, collaterals, business activity monitoring and fraud prevention.
Our customers span across commercial banks, central banks, insurance companies and national market infrastructures. We serve our customers in across Europe, Africa, North America and LATAM.
Incentage is not only innovating in the area of payments, securities and Open Finance but also around tokenisation, crypto trading and custody, Defi, Blockchain and DLT.
The Incentage software is in use for solutions where failure is not an option. The processing of highly critical financial transactions is in our DNA.
Capco and Incentage are announcing today a strategic partnership.
The aim of the partnership is to better serve mutual clients while Capco can provide Incentage Software trained and qualified specialists to Banks in Germany as well as in other countries.
Thanks to the Incentage IAP – Innovation Acceleration Platform, Capco will also be able to bring even more speed on the ground with consistent if not better time to market.
About Capco:
Capco, a Wipro company, is a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation in the financial services industry. With a growing client portfolio comprising of over 100 global organizations, Capco operates at the intersection of business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions and fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and the energy sector.
Capco’s cutting-edge ingenuity is brought to life through its Innovation Labs and award-winning Be Yourself At Work culture and diverse talent.
To learn more, visit www.capco.com or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and Xing.
About Incentage:
Incentage is a Swiss company, founded in 2002 with the mission to enable the financial industry to exchange transactions data flexibly, continuously and securely.
Our client base confirms that our mission meets a fast-growing international demand.
The Incentage innovation acceleration platform serves as a robust foundation for payments processing, securities, collaterals, business activity monitoring and fraud prevention.
Our customers span across commercial banks, central banks, insurance companies and national market infrastructures. We serve our customers in across Europe, Africa, North America and LATAM.
Incentage is not only innovating in the area of payments, securities and Open Finance but also around tokenisation, crypto trading and custody, Defi, Blockchain and DLT.
The Incentage software is in use for solutions where failure is not an option. The processing of highly critical financial transactions is in our DNA.
Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Every year the ICT and Business Consulting Company Bosshard & Partner is organising its Clients and Partner event.
This high-profile conference includes several keynote speeches. This year our colleague Oscar Neira was invited to talk about Crypto and how it can be implemented in a banking environment. But before a much more important question need to be answered: Is this really needed? And do the clients ask (and therefore pay) for that service?
Oscar makes a monetary roundup from the Gold Standard to Stablecoins until CBDC - Central Bank Digital Currencies. He will show how Bitcoin or other Crypto and Tokenized Assets can be transferred via the International SWIFT Communication Network.
He will also analyse other bank use cases like a digital handshake thanks to Smart Contracts in a "Payment by Delivery" Contract.
And lastly what will be the future of the Blockchain Technology and DLT? Can we have an interoperability between different Blockchains? Is POW - Proof of Work death because of the high energy consumption? This and more questions will be discussed.
Here the speakers:
Thomas Reske, SIX Banking Services
Senior Product Manager
"Finish of the Swiss Payment Slip - A centennial project for the Swiss Financial Marketplace"
Dr. Sonja Huclova, Züricher Kantonalbank (ZKB)
Senior Data Manager / Lead AI Team
"AI System - Challenges and Pitfalls"
Matthias Plattner, Bank Julius Baer
Head Digitalization - Channels & Innovation
"Metaverse - Insights and Outlooks"
Oscar Neira, Incentage AG
Head Sales & Marketing
"Crypto: dead live longer"
At the end the four speakers will be on a panel discussion with the CEO Hans-Peter Himmel discussing his views as well as answering the questions from the audience.
And finally, there will be this extraordinary aperitif, as always.
Incentage is happy to have these public discussions and share the innovative views in International Transaction Banking.
(Please check our job opportunities)
Andrei: ISO 20022 is the language of the future for the financial word. That is the shortest description I can come up with. To go into a bit more detail, the XML based ISO20022 standard allows Financial Institutions to use richer data sets in a standardized fashion. This means that systems can consume messages with faster automation and resolution.
Message transformation is a cost-effective solution for navigating the coming transitional phase from the soon-to-be legacy SWIFT FIN (MT) standard to the future ISO 20022 standard. It helps Financial Institutions to start using and testing the new standards while keeping their existing systems mostly untouched. As the transition phase ends and the challenges posed by moving to the new standards are overcome, the systems themselves will benefit from the time spent using the ISO 20022 standards and will incorporate the latest changes. This will make them fully compliant with the new ways of the financial world.
The main challenge raised by doing the transformations is that we are working in a constantly evolving environment. The new standard must not only cater for existing products and situations, but must also face the following paradox in the financial world: As the landscape is more interconnected, data and systems become increasingly diverse. As such, the standards themselves must evolve to keep ahead of the needs of the world and the systems that use these standards have to respond fast to the changes. This is where the flexibility of our products comes into play, as this is what allows us to react very quickly and implement these changes.
There is also the aspect of variety in the implementation of the ISO 20022 standard across different systems. A message of the same type from SEPA or TARGET2 (T2) will not necessarily look exactly the same as one from CBPR+. Both systems are going to evolve separately and might end up with some changes in the future, which you have to take into account and keep track of. Thankfully, our solutions allow us to tackle this challenge in an efficient and robust way.
Well, I would say that “old-fashioned” is not a bad thing in itself. There is still great value in the traditional way of message processing and there is still a lot of room for improvements that will generate even more value for it. So I would reason that the “old way” is going to be with us for a long time to come, especially if it is constantly improved and if it can meet the demands of tomorrow.
Blockchain technology, while not new by any means, is still in its infancy, in my opinion. It has to prove that it can be at the very least as resilient, secure and cost effective as its counterparts, before there is any talk about replacing them. This does not mean that blockchain technologies do not have tremendous potential, they absolutely do, but first they must prove it and they must also stand the test of time.
As it stands, I think that the blockchain technology will continue to evolve. New projects are being created every day, some are meant to be industry disruptors and I am sure they will be one day. I am very curious to see what the next year will bring for this segment of technology
In short, no. I have not worked in any blockchain related projects so far. I am following a few blockchain platforms as I think they will provide the most interesting projects in the coming years. These are Cardano, Solana and Polka Dot. Each have different approaches to solving the issues that blockchains are facing, such as decentralization, network processing speed, scalability and cost and I am excited to see which one will bring the most innovative and disruptive projects in the coming years.
I think that the solutions and the expertise that we bring to the table are what give us at Incentage an edge in dealing with the coming transition to ISO 20022. Flexibility, fast response times and communication are key aspects in this endeavour and I believe these are core values for us.
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are still emerging concepts and technologies that may bring great value in the future, depending on their use cases and adoption. When the time comes for the financial world to embrace new concepts, we will definitely be there to support our customers and to provide them with quality products.
