The Fintech Times

MARCH 7, 2025

Kenyan bank KCB Group and the Rwanda-based Bank of Kigali have joined the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), which was launched by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

There has been, seemingly, a parade of announcements geared toward bringing B2B payments into the digital age, bringing about the end of paper, speeding the time for settlement of transactions and making payments across borders cheaper and more transparent. Transactions settle in one business day, he said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A new report from the International Finance Corporation, a part of the World Bank Group, finds correspondent banking relationships are down, an unintended consequence of regulatory reform. 8) said 27 percent of global banks surveyed have reported a drop in the number of correspondent banking relationships.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 8, 2018

The fact remains that the vast majority of international payments are still done via banks and through the correspondent (SWIFT) network, writes Rosie Faulkner, vice president and money laundering reporting officer at Earthport.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 8, 2019

Despite controversy surrounding Ripple’s digital token, one bank is pushing forward to use it in cross-border payments.

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The Payments Association

MARCH 15, 2024

Exploring innovative solutions to address the challenges and opportunities in global financial connectivity as traditional correspondent banking relationships diminish. Read more

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 6, 2025

KCB and Bank of Kigali customers will now be able to send and receive cross-border payments using PAPSS. The service is fully operational and accessible via the banks mobile applications and branch networks, enabling seamless transactions across African borders. The system converts the currency to meet the local requirements.

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The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Global asset manager and Swiss bank UBS has developed and successfully piloted a blockchain-based payment solution, aiming to increase efficiency and transparency, as well as enable the programmability of money movements for corporate and institutional clients. UBS plans to further expand and develop its UBS Digital Cash offering.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2025

Unifying global fiat and stablecoin payments, stablecoin payments infrastructure provider BVNK has announced a new embedded wallet. They have existed in today’s market for some time but have had limited capabilities to manage stablecoin, crypto and fiat payments in one place. Embedded wallets are not a novelty.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 24, 2025

By integrating with RTGS.global’s instant settlement infrastructure, TransferMate will deliver seamless, real-time international payments for RTGS.global’s business customers, reducing reliance on traditional banking intermediaries and eliminating the risk associated with moving money cross-border.

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Finextra

JUNE 19, 2024

Taking to the stage on the second and final day of EBAday in Lisbon, Portugal were Erik Frantz, executive director, financial institutions – banks, CaixaBank; Roisin Levine, head of UK and Europe partnerships, Wise Platform; Rafael Linde, head, international development and global relationship management, Cecabank; Dean Sposito, head of institutional (..)

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Following its collaboration with Dandelion, HSBC now offers fee-free transfers to over 100 destinations in more than 60 currencies, providing a seamless, real-time payment experience that bypasses the traditional correspondent banking model. Reliance on multiple intermediaries often led to high costs and longer processing times.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

These types of payment flows made up 5 percent or more of the gross domestic product (GDP) for 66 countries in 2019, reaching as high as 20 percent of GDP in nations like Haiti and Nepal. . Correspondent Banking . Correspondent banking is not the only way that money transfers can be conducted.

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Fintech News

JULY 14, 2024

Morgan, and Standard Chartered to facilitate payments for their customers. Companies such as Siemens and iFAST Financial have benefited from the platform through Standard Chartered, gaining better access and control of their working capital, constant availability, and faster, more seamless payment flows.

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Fintech News

JUNE 4, 2024

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched Project Rialto to test the potential for improving instant cross-border payments through a combination of a modular foreign exchange (FX) component and wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDC).

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Mastercard introduced a new product innovation, Mastercard Move Commercial Payments, that will enable banks to facilitate near real-time, predictable and transparent commercial cross-border payments. Fully compatible with existing correspondent banking arrangements between respondents and correspondents.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Consumers send funds by tapping or swiping payment cards, clicking a few buttons on banking websites or payment apps, or keying details into online checkout pages, which payees receive via bank accounts or digital wallets. Kicking Free Of Correspondent Banking. Staying Secure.

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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. “Adoption of ISO 20022 will continue the transformation of correspondent banking already ongoing,” SWIFT said in its announcement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

A new report by the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI) said the decline of correspondent banking relationships disproportionately impacts Islamic financial institutions (FIs). Islamic banks in Southeast Asia added that cash management services were most impacted for them.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Digital payments form a critical facet of the world’s economy, facilitating the flow of tens of trillions of dollars among individuals and businesses each year. These challenges are only exacerbated when payments move across international borders, usually accomplished via correspondence banking.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 26, 2024

SmartStream , the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today announces a significant upgrade to its Advanced Payment Control (APC) solution. Banks face major challenges in maintaining connections to multiple payment systems and supporting various messaging formats, each system has its own set of rules.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In a global financial landscape where efficiency and accuracy are paramount, the challenge of failed payments is a significant hurdle for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and financial institutions (FIs), particularly in a vibrant market like Singapore.

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Finextra

APRIL 29, 2024

Service level agreements used in cross-border payment arrangements define minimum service levels for correspondent banking relationships, the links between payment systems and payment instrument rulebooks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has some organizations playing payment rails musical chairs in their accounts payable (AP) departments as they adjust payment strategies (and methods) to suit their needs in a volatile, remote working environment. Just which payment rail they will migrate to, however, remains unclear.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

The World Bank projects that $572 billion will be sent from migrant workers to their families abroad in 2020. These payments affect the day-to-day lives of nearly one out of every three humans globally, as the world’s estimated 1 billion migrants each provide for other individuals in their home countries.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Global payments company Nium is enhancing its presence in Latin America, with a focus on expanding its operations in Brazil. The company has recently applied for a Payment Institution License in Brazil, which will allow it to offer payment services, including managing funds in BRL and facilitating real-time payments through the Pix system.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

With estimates that over 500 billion real-time payments will be processed over the next five years, the race is on for upgrades and integrations that allow financial institutions (FIs) and their clients to participate in a real-time payments space that is expected to reach nearly 53 billion real-time payment transactions by 2024.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 5, 2024

Today, Ripple , the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, announced a new partnership with Clear Junction , the global leader in cross-border payments solutions for regulated institutions. A host of new currencies are scheduled to be switched on for Ripple customers later this year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

MoneyGram has partnered with Suez Canal Bank to let customers send money right into Egyptian bank accounts, according to a press release. The deal will expand MoneyGram’s presence in Egypt and give it access to Suez Canal’s large network of correspondent banks around the globe. Remittances made up 11.6

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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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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2024

RTGS.global , the next generation settlement company revolutionising cross-border payments, has today announced the launch of a unique solution for Payment Service Providers (PSPs) that will enable them to offer cheaper and faster international payments to their retail and corporate customers.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 11, 2024

Faster Payments Council (FPC) , a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, today published its latest research report, titled The Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Looking at the plight of migrant workers and those working abroad during the COVID event, PYMNTS November 2020 Smarter Payments Tracker® powered by Nium notes that, “Legacy FIs can struggle to provide affordable remittance services that meet migrant workers’ needs, and their dependency on correspondent banking networks can drive up service costs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

Corporate payments are still not a guaranteed use case for cryptocurrencies. Co-Founder Dmitry Lazarichev explained to PYMNTS why the company remains confident in cryptocurrency’s potential for corporate payments. Cross-Border Payments Friction.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Cross-border transactions are getting smaller in size and more frequent, rendering the correspondent banking model increasingly obsolete as new use cases pile up.

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Payments Source

MAY 11, 2016

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology commonly associated with bitcoin, is getting a lot of attention as a way to jettison fee-snagging correspondent banks from remittances, but Align Commerce insists blockchain has even more uses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

With FinTech driving innovation and competition in the cross-border payments space, governments can no longer afford to ignore changing and heightening demands for greater speed, transparency and efficiency in global transactions. times global GDP in 2016.

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