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Deep Dive: Accelerating Cross-Border Payments With Cloud Technology

PYMNTS

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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INTL FCStone Mitigates Brexit Risk With FX Takeover

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INTL FCStone’s Global Payments Division maintains an estimated 350 correspondent banking relationships. In 2017, the division joined SWIFT’s gpi (global payments innovation initiative) to support faster, seamless cross-border transactions and address some of the biggest points of friction in traditional correspondent banking.

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Key learnings from 2024’s biggest financial crime fines

The Payments Association

Inadequate risk management and due diligence : Institutions faced challenges in ensuring effective customer risk profiling and due diligence, particularly for high-risk clients and correspondent banking relationships. October 2024: TD Bank$3 BillionAML TD Bank was fined $3 billion, including a $1.3 November: Metro Bank16.6

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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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SMBs Seek New Avenues To Cross-Border Payments

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When sending a payment via the legacy correspondent banking network, for example, businesses will often decry the lack of speed and transparency involved as funds bounce from one financial institution (FI) to another. 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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Eurobank Detects Money Laundering In Real Time

FICO

Making FICO Siron the automated system for monitoring suspicious activity in transactions related to correspondent banking services. Deciding to use FICO Siron solutions to mitigate risk coming from bribery and corruption. Improving KYC processes through real-time screening and consolidation of alert distribution.

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ICC Says Regulation Limits Trade Finance

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.” It’s a challenge that has weighed particularly heavy on banks’ ability to address the global trade finance gap, according to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). “Why is this so significant?”