Fintech Finance

JANUARY 11, 2024

Faster Payments Council (FPC) , a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, today published its latest research report, titled The Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

For foreign payment service providers looking to facilitate cross-border B2B payments into China, the correspondent banking model often remains the only route to facilitate clearing and settlement. “Getting correspondent bank accounts is the biggest challenge every payment service provider is facing.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Having explored the evolution of cross-border payments to date, we now turn our attention to the biggest barriers that may be limiting and slowing the growth of the space. Aleks Stefanovski, VP for strategy and business operations at Visa “Another barrier is de-risking by correspondent banks.

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Finance Magnates

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

How MSBs are leveraging the power of USDC and Circle for cross-border payments to their counterparties. As cross-border payments continue to gain popularity, businesses are constantly looking for faster, more secure, and cost-effective methods to conduct transactions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

These challenges are only exacerbated when payments move across international borders, usually accomplished via correspondence banking. Banks are typically required to establish direct links with financial institutions (FIs) in other nations to make or receive cross-border payments.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Having reflected on what the top priority is for businesses looking to enter the cross-border payments space, we now turn our attention to the future, and how the sector will evolve in 2024. “In 2024, cross-border payments volumes will continue to grow rapidly. The advantage is lower fees and 24×7 availability.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

When PYMNTS asked cross-border payments experts at the end of last year what they thought the driving trend would be for the industry in 2018, the consensus was all about collaboration , particularly between banks and FinTech firms. “The modern-day client expects a seamless transaction experience,” he said.

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Fintech News

JULY 14, 2024

Traditional cross-border payments encounter various challenges, including delays, high costs, lack of transparency, multiple intermediaries, variable processing speeds, and differing compliance standards across correspondent banks. We see a very bright future for blockchain-based frictionless, cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Although cross-border expansion can be a major business growth opportunity for U.S. corporates fit in the global landscape has led to businesses large and small becoming eager embracers of cross-border trade. An alternative to this payment strategy is to open up a bank account in each market in which a business operates.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 12, 2024

BS2 also serves as Nium’s Brazilian Real (BRL) Correspondent Bank, assisting in real-time payment settlements for cross-border Pix transfers. In collaboration with Ebury, another fintech company, Nium has launched a global remittance service in Brazil, facilitating fast and reliable cross-border payments for businesses.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook , there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed, security, compliance, transparency and ubiquity. How Cross-Border Payments Are Made. So, what’s the problem? What’s Changing?

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Fintech Finance

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nium , the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, is strengthening its presence in Latin America by applying for essential licenses, joining key fintech associations, expanding its employee presence, and signing new customers. Nium has been present in the region dating back to 2017.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

It may seem that cross-border payments were in the … well … crosshairs this past week, with a number of country-by-country and company-by-company initiatives using blockchain and other methods to speed payments and lower fees. These shortcomings make the cross-border payment industry ripe for disruption and innovation.

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Currencycloud

MAY 22, 2024

Swift (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) is the global messaging system used by the correspondent banking network and financial institutions to manage cross-border transactions.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 8, 2018

The fact remains that the vast majority of international payments are still done via banks and through the correspondent (SWIFT) network, writes Rosie Faulkner, vice president and money laundering reporting officer at Earthport.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A new report from the International Finance Corporation, a part of the World Bank Group, finds correspondent banking relationships are down, an unintended consequence of regulatory reform. 8) said 27 percent of global banks surveyed have reported a drop in the number of correspondent banking relationships.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2019

The modern-day financial services landscape has a need for speed, and one of the slowest areas of the market can be seen in cross-border payments. Remittance and peer-to-peer payment technologies have accelerated transaction speeds for consumers tired of waiting days for money to move across borders.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

Nium , the global real-time cross-border payments provider, is looking to strengthen its presence in Latin America by applying for new payment licenses, joining fintech associations, growing its team, and signing new customers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Enterprise software provider R3 is teaming up with Mastercard to establish a blockchain solution for cross-border payments, the companies said in a press release on Wednesday (Sept. More than 300 financial services firms, technology companies, banks, regulators and associations are part of R3’s Corda ecosystem.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

Competition in the cross-border payments market is on the rise as blockchain firm Ripple and payments messaging company SWIFT vie for market leadership. Reports in the Financial Times this week highlighted the increasing competition in the market as Ripple continues to add banks to its XCurrent blockchain messaging system.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 8, 2019

Despite controversy surrounding Ripple’s digital token, one bank is pushing forward to use it in cross-border payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This month’s Deep Dive explores the challenges that remittance service providers face when seeking to stay compliant, the impact this has on the availability of cross-border money transfer services and regulatory technology strategies to help reduce this friction. . Correspondent Banking . The Cost of Compliance .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SWIFT said Tuesday (December 18) that its SWIFT gpi payment service is being used for more than half of SWIFT’s cross-border traffic. The pace of its adoption since its launch in early 2017 is particularly impressive; less than two years since its launch, gpi is rapidly becoming the cross-border standard. “The

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Cross-border payments still present challenges , but the landscape is changing rapidly. . Swift recently announced that its gpi service can integrate with domestic real-time systems to facilitate rapid cross-border transactions. Traditionally, most cross-border payments are made through Swift.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Individual jurisdictions around the globe are pressing for both faster and more efficient cross-border payments. China’s central bank, for instance, took steps last month to boost the efficiency of cross-border transactions involving Chinese parties by lengthening its clearing window time span. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this case, distance applies to cross-border activity. SWIFT , the messaging service, said earlier this week that its SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) service is being used for a majority — as in 55 percent — of its cross-border traffic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Rather than relying on the global SWIFT system, which can often incorporate numerous correspondent banks and take longer to resolve, the Emburse Global Reimbursements technology will use TransferWise's own accounts to exchange foreign currency using the mid-market exchange rate.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 2, 2024

StoneX has announced that it is one of the first financial organizations to enable Swift ’s new leading-edge solution for cross-border payments. Cross-border payments have long been a complex area marked by ongoing regulatory and compliance changes, bank offline hours, and increasing competition.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2024

The Payments division of StoneX ( StoneX Payments ) will supply NatWest with third-party delivery and international FX payment systems, allowing the bank’s corporate clients to transfer money to more nations with ease. The post StoneX Partners with NatWest to Enhance Global FX Payment Systems appeared first on Fintech Finance.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

Nium , the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced a partnership with BS2 , a digital bank in Brazil specializing in fintech solutions for businesses.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

For example, tech giant IBM said it launched, via blockchain, its Blockchain World Wire, which is billed as a cross-border payment system that is powered by the Stellar blockchain network. It further adds: “It all means funds can now be transferred at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional correspondent banking.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT has released its first set of guidelines for financial institutions using the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard to complete cross-border transactions. “Adoption of ISO 20022 will continue the transformation of correspondent banking already ongoing,” SWIFT said in its announcement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Money constantly flows across borders in the increasingly interconnected global economy, from workers overseas back to their families, and from buyers to their suppliers. Transfers are passed between FIs until they reach intended recipients, and each bank adds extra steps and fees along the way. International B2B Payments Pains.

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The Payments Association

MARCH 15, 2024

Exploring innovative solutions to address the challenges and opportunities in global financial connectivity as traditional correspondent banking relationships diminish. Read more

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Criticism of the world’s correspondent banking network continues to mount — and at the same time, the number of correspondent banking relationships is on the decline. percent decline in correspondent banking activity in 2017.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Payment providers are offering alternatives to cumbersome and opaque correspondence banking protocols with cross-border payments. 69%: Share of companies that use wire transfers for cross-border payments. 45%: Decline in cross-border payments volume in May 2020. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Traditional financial institutions (FIs) may offer only money transfers made via expensive correspondent banking networks, and some customers may require assistance from several financial services providers to meet their needs. Legacy banks often send remittances over correspondent banking networks, which can drive up costs.

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