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How China Fuels Alternatives To Correspondent Banking

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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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SWIFT Stands Behind Its Global Payments Innovation Initiative

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All of this has occurred as the company has continued to expand the pilot phase of its global payments innovation (gpi) initiative, thus far signing on dozens of major financial institutions to an effort aimed at streamlining cross-border payments. Since, SWIFT has reported three new cyberbreaches that occurred over the summer.

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SMBs Seek New Avenues To Cross-Border Payments

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In a conversation with PYMNTS, Nader discussed the role payments plays in helping (or hampering) a company’s global growth ambitions, and the value of an efficient global payments strategy on giving smaller companies a competitive edge that had once been out of reach. Although the globalization of U.S.

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Financial Authorities Press Collaboration To Improve Global Corporate Payments

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Working with HSBC , the authorities assessed contributions and feedback from corporates and commercial banks to discuss current pain points, potential future capabilities and various use cases of global payments and settlements. Reuters reported earlier this month that the Financial Stability Board (FSB) counted a 4.1

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Smarter Payments Tracker Eyes Interoperability

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In corporate payments, high-value transactions with tall demands for compliance, transparency, speed, efficiency and security aren’t just placing a burden on the businesses sending and receiving funds. International payments often contain unstructured and ambiguous transaction data, causing unnecessary delays and failed processing.

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SWIFT Lets Treasurers Track Global Transactions In Real-Time

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With lack of visibility into the correspondent banking system a top challenge for B2B payments, SWIFT is rolling out a way for payers to track their cross-border payments in real time. The company announced Tuesday (May 23) that its Tracker is now available to help businesses track global payments as they occur.

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International Payments Group Champions Faster Cross-Border Payments

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In addition, innovators the world over are exploring how technologies like blockchain could address payments speeds and efficiency on an international level. Payments experiences are far from ubiquitous from market to market, however, and a global payments settlement agency is now pressing for faster cross-border payments at a global scale.