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Report: Helping Banks Speed Payments Cross Border And Make A Clean Correspondent Bank Break

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Cross-border payments are a necessary, yet often frustrating part of the world economy, with international transactions prone to overlapping government regulations, excessive fees and slow processing times. For more on these and other payments modernization news items, download this month’s Tracker. About The Tracker.

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Wise Granted Direct Access to Philippines’ Instant Payments Infrastructure, Gets Settlement Account With BSP

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Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money has been granted direct access to InstaPay, the Philippines’ real-time payment system, and can also directly settle with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) real-time gross payment system, PhilPaSS Plus.

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Cloud Banking Next Step In FI Modernization

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“Cloud payments come with a number of advantages over their traditional counterparts. The first is improved speed, shown by the adoption of cloud technology from global payments network SWIFT.

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U.S. Faster Payments Council Explores the Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World

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Developed by the FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, sponsored by Mastercard, the report delves into the history of cross-border payments, examining the evolution from ancient trade routes like the Silk Road to modern-day global financial systems.

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Fixing The UAE?s $46B Remittance Problem

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Many of the problems associated with remittances are being mitigated by new banking technologies, however, as financial institutions (FIs) and payment providers begin to cooperate on multiparty payment networks rather than relying on bilateral agreements that result in cross-border payments moving from bank to bank in sequence.

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Finastra Customers Now Have Access To RippleNet’s Blockchain Network

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Real-time currency exchange and remittance network Ripple has teamed up with Finastra to allow banking customers to access RippleNet , its worldwide blockchain payments network. Ripple said it will provide for more affordable, faster and more reliable payments.

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Finastra Taps Ripple To Power Blockchain Payments

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Real-time currency exchange and remittance network Ripple has teamed up with Finastra to allow banking customers to access RippleNet , its worldwide blockchain payments network. Ripple said it will provide for more affordable, faster and more reliable payments.