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Correspondent Banking Continues Its Decline Despite Regulator Efforts

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Amid stricter checks for money laundering, banks are moving away from the international money transfer practice known as correspondent banking. The shift could possibly cause payments to move underground and particularly impact nations that are dependent on remittances, Reuters reported.

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SWIFT Readies ISO 20022 For X-Border Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT has released its first set of guidelines for financial institutions using the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard to complete cross-border transactions. “International payments often contain unstructured and ambiguous transaction data, causing unnecessary delays and failed processing.

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FinTechs Help Global Banks Tackle Their Own SMB Shortcomings

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Criticism of the world’s correspondent banking network continues to mount — and at the same time, the number of correspondent banking relationships is on the decline. The Financial Stability Board released analysis last year that found SWIFT interbank payment messages reflected a 4.1

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Addressing the Silent Crisis of Failed Payments

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Whether you’re a small company or a large bank, the challenge remains: ensuring that every payment instruction contains the correct data in the right format.” ” For FIs, the consequences are equally daunting, as they face expenses associated with the correspondent banking network.

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Smarter Payments Tracker Eyes Interoperability

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT has taken recent steps to promote interoperability of its payments network, recently announcing that it would allow blockchain platforms to loop into SWIFT’s global payments innovations (GPI) service to facilitate real-time transactions.

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SWIFT KYC Registry Goes Global

PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

SWIFT is opening up its KYC registry to more banks around the globe. The payments messaging company said Monday (July 17) that its KYC Registry is now open to all supervised financial institutions around the globe. The Registry enables banks and FIs to share and access KYC data and documents. This year, the U.S.

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SWIFT Reveals New API Standard For Pre-Authorization Of Funds

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In July, SWIFT released its first set of guidelines for financial institutions using the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard to complete cross-border transactions. ISO 20022 has the potential to promote efficiency in the correspondent banking community and modernize cross-border transactions.

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SWIFT: The Road To ISO 20022 Adoption

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Financial institutions have relied on their own IT systems, operations teams, the SWIFT messaging service and domestic payment schemes to acquire, construct, screen, relay and report customer payments. These infrastructures and processes form the backbone of the global correspondent banking model.

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More Banks Join SWIFT’s Global B2B Payments Pilot

PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

Payments messaging firm SWIFT is looking to gain support for its global payments initiative and, most recently, announced the latest backers of the pilot program. The company said it will hope to improve the transparency and speed of global payments with the program.

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Collaboration Is Key For Consensus On Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS , Citi’s Global Head of Payments and Receivables Manish Kohli explained how APIs that pre-validate payments data can reduce errors and costs while improving speed.

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Why Payments Are Only A Piece Of SMBs’ Global Finance Puzzle

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Indeed, making payments across borders remains one of the biggest pain points for small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as one of the biggest opportunities for FinTechs and other FinServ providers, thanks to the continued lack of transparency and speed in traditional global payment methods that rely on the correspondent banking system.

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Global Cross-Border Payments Expected To Grow, But Challenges Remain

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

More than 110 banks from Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Americas are part of the SWIFT gpi, which has been in a pilot stage. Last month, SWIFT released its first set of guidelines for financial institutions using the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard to complete cross-border transactions. Challenges Aren’t Universal.

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M10 CEO: What Central Banks Want In New Global Payments Rails

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Meanwhile, payments messaging firm SWIFT recently announced that its gpi service can now integrate into domestic real-time payment systems, enabling banks to wield gpi for real-time cross-border payments. It’s moving slowly.”.

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How Will the Cross-Border Payments Space Evolve in 2024? With Swift, OpenPayd, Chargebee and More

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Most notably, the European Payment Council ’s ‘One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer (OCT Inst)’ scheme went live in December. “This creates the opportunity for correspondent banks to route and settle payments via a real-time payment infrastructure rather than the Real Time Gross Settlement rail, the only option previously.

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Ripple, SWIFT Vie For Top Cross-Border Payments Spot

PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

Competition in the cross-border payments market is on the rise as blockchain firm Ripple and payments messaging company SWIFT vie for market leadership. Reports in the Financial Times this week highlighted the increasing competition in the market as Ripple continues to add banks to its XCurrent blockchain messaging system.

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SWIFT Loops gpi Into Existing Rails For Global Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below, PYMNTS looks at the latest news in cross-border payments innovation as industry players complete, collaborate and innovate. SWIFT gpi Links Into Real-Time Payments. Payments messaging firm SWIFT announced Monday (Sept.

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Correspondent Banking Continues Its Decline Despite Regulator Efforts

SWIFT Readies ISO 20022 For X-Border Payments

FinTechs Help Global Banks Tackle Their Own SMB Shortcomings

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Addressing the Silent Crisis of Failed Payments

Smarter Payments Tracker Eyes Interoperability

SWIFT KYC Registry Goes Global

SWIFT Reveals New API Standard For Pre-Authorization Of Funds

SWIFT: The Road To ISO 20022 Adoption

More Banks Join SWIFT’s Global B2B Payments Pilot

Collaboration Is Key For Consensus On Cross-Border Payments

Why Payments Are Only A Piece Of SMBs’ Global Finance Puzzle

Global Cross-Border Payments Expected To Grow, But Challenges Remain

M10 CEO: What Central Banks Want In New Global Payments Rails

How Will the Cross-Border Payments Space Evolve in 2024? With Swift, OpenPayd, Chargebee and More

Ripple, SWIFT Vie For Top Cross-Border Payments Spot

SWIFT Loops gpi Into Existing Rails For Global Payments

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