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RAKBANK Completes International CBDC Transaction Using eCNY and Digital Dirham

The Fintech Times

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have a lot of potential to uproot the cross-border payments market. The cross-border payment was completed using the Central Bank of the UAE’s (CBUAE) mBridge platform and marks a significant step forward in the international payments market.

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Barriers to Cross-Border Payments Growth With Visa, PayU GPO, Aquanow, Kinesis and Axletree

The Fintech Times

When you think about financial technology, it is easy to think about solutions which are making payments faster, easier and more accessible. Having explored the evolution of cross-border payments to date, we now turn our attention to the biggest barriers that may be limiting and slowing the growth of the space.

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Wise Platform Boosts Global Payments with Enhanced Infrastructure for Faster, Cheaper Cross-Border Solutions

Fintech Finance

As a result, Wise Platform is helping more partners offer faster, cheaper, secure, and convenient international payments directly from their own platforms. Since launch, banks and financial institutions in 11 countries have adopted Wise Platform’s Correspondent Services, seamlessly integrating the solution with minimal configuration.

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

The Fintech Times

Having reflected on what the top priority is for businesses looking to enter the cross-border payments space, we now turn our attention to the future, and how the sector will evolve in 2024. Most notably, the European Payment Council ’s ‘One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer (OCT Inst)’ scheme went live in December.

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

PYMNTS

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. Developments From Around The World of Payments Modernization. billion by the end of this year.

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Cross-border payments still too reliant on correspondent banks

Payments Source

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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Cross-Border Payment Efforts Look To The Blockchain And Beyond

PYMNTS

It may seem that cross-border payments were in the … well … crosshairs this past week, with a number of country-by-country and company-by-company initiatives using blockchain and other methods to speed payments and lower fees. These shortcomings make the cross-border payment industry ripe for disruption and innovation.