The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) has announced its first African technology member, SCI, a pan-African technology consultancy and vendor.

The partnership between SCI and BIAN will seek to address a number of challenges in the African banking network, stemming from changes in channel banking and compliance to standards such as PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Date Security Standard) and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act).

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African banks are also enabling personal devices to access their networks, in a bid to increase productivity and efficiency, which opens an inherent security risk and requests for more tailored architectural support.

SCI seeks to streamline these infrastructures and work to a common standard for Africa’s banking system, reducing banks’ overall capital (CAPEX) and operating (OPEX) expenditure outlays.

BIAN’s standardised framework will enable SCI to work with a worldwide network of banking professionals who are using Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) to solve technology issues facing banks.

Hans Tesselaar, executive director of BIAN, said: "It is great to broaden BIAN’s reach to Africa. SCI is a technology vendor, meaning it objectively witnesses the technological demands placed on many of Africa’s banks today.

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"In its partnership with BIAN, SCI will introduce SOA standards to many financial institutions, during an important time in the continent’s adoption of innovative technology," he added.

BIAN is a not-for-profit association, whose goal is to define SOA and semantic definitions for IT services in the banking industry and promote a common architectural framework for banking interoperability issues.

 

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