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 World Bank Sees DLT Potential For Cross-Border Transactions

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The jockeying for cross border-payments continues, and SWIFT and Ripple continue to dominate the headlines. At heart of the matter, of course, is the place (or choice) of using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to underpin the transactions — especially B2B transactions.

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Why Cross-Border Payments Still Present Challenges

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Some payments providers are also leveraging blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to meet these needs, expediting the cross-border payment process. This has a direct cost benefit as computing power is used only on the basis of need,” said Nilesh Pathak, chief technical officer at InstaReM.

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B2B Cross-Border Payments Are Speeding Up

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Swift recently announced that its gpi service can integrate with domestic real-time systems to facilitate rapid cross-border transactions. A trial of the service included one test in which it delivered a payment from Singapore’s FAST scheme through 17 banks and seven countries within 13 seconds.

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Deep Dive: Emerging Response To B2B, P2P Cross-Border Payments Pain

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Transfers are passed between FIs until they reach intended recipients, and each bank adds extra steps and fees along the way. Global messaging firm SWIFT is easing some cross-border payment pains by enabling the approximately 11,000 FIs that use its network to send standardized payments information to each other, although much work is needed.

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Cross-Border Payment Efforts Look To The Blockchain And Beyond

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Some see distributed ledger technologies (DLT) as having the potential to drive industry-wide change. Indeed, B2B cross-border payments , traditionally characterized by fragmentation and opacity, are a potential use case for the successful implementation of DLT,” said the authors in their post.