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Themes From the 21 Fintech YCombinator Graduates

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Infinity is a banking and payments platform for cross-border businesses in India. Swift is building instant international payments to replace the archaic correspondent banking infrastructure. GovernGPT is an AI-based database that pre-populates due diligence questionnaires with recent and trusted data.

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Swift’s Global Payments Initiative Signs 73 New Banks

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Banking officials from over 40 institutions around the world have also paticipated in workshops in various cities throughout this spring to help create a plan for correspondent banking called “the digital transformation of cross-border payments.”

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International Payments Group Champions Faster Cross-Border Payments

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“Although competition and innovations such as mobile or eBanking have made these payments more convenient, the bulk of clearing and settlement for cross-border payments still goes through traditional correspondent banks, which struggle to handle the higher-volume, lower-value retail payments,” the CPMI noted in its report.

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Chain CEO On B2B Payments’ Blockchain Blockbuster

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Things that run the gamut from being more or less variations on existing database technologies to things that are really sci-fi and exciting but very different than anything that is out there right now,” he explained. Banks, themselves, may also be a little skittish in the wake of the SWIFT/Bangladesh heist.

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Trade Finance Rejection Rates Accelerate

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Other top factors behind rejections include an applicant’s poor credit profile, limited institutional ability to underwrite financing, a decline in correspondent banking relationships, and geopolitical and economic risk factors.

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Anatomy Of A Bank Heist, SWIFT-ly Done By Phishers

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The bad guys were able to use malware that interfered with bank processes that typically create document confirmation and use Oracle databases to retain records of messages sent via SWIFT, “then used other malware to delete evidence of those concealing activities,” noted the filing. correspondent banks,” said the complaint.

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How APIs And Improved Onboarding Can Accelerate Cross-Border SMB Payments

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Streamlining these procedures and implementing application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect banks more efficiently could be the lynchpin to ending these frustrations. The inefficiencies in B2B cross-border payments are well-known among struggling SMB owners, with the correspondence banking model having been in effect since 1973.