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Airtel Payments Bank Expands Women Business Correspondents Network to 100,000, Advancing Financial Inclusion and Empowerment

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This International Women’s Day, Airtel Payments Bank recognises the pivotal role women play in expanding financial access, particularly through the remarkable work of women business correspondents (BCs) who are bridging the gap between banking and underserved communities. Over 80% of these correspondents work in Tier 3 and beyond towns.

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Empowering Financial Institutions: An Interview with the CEO of Almond FinTech

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Through identifying the optimal cryptocurrency, the optimal blockchain, as well as the optimal exchange for each individual settlement, our SOE empowers financial institutions and their diverse customer sets with the fastest, most cost-efficient cross-border funds transfer technology available — regardless of location.

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RTGS.global and TransferMate Announce Strategic Partnership to Streamline Cross-Border B2B Payments

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Partnering with TransferMate, who have built a world leading, regulated payments infrastructure, will empower businesses making cross-border payments to transact as easily as if making a domestic funds transfer. “This is a game-changer for the market,” continued Treacher.

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

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Rising Demand for Correspondent Services Wise Platform’s Correspondent Services, launched at Sibos last year in collaboration with Swift , allows partners to send and receive international payments instantly.

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TransferWise On The Faster Future Of Cross-Border Payments

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The traditional correspondent banking network is one major speedbump that stops financial institutions (FIs) from providing speedy, inexpensive, cross-currency and cross-border transfers, Lembo explained, but financial services providers can adopt new technology and approaches to safely streamline these transactions.

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Banking-As-A-Service (BaaS) Making Payments Faster And ‘Smarter’

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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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ACLEDA Bank and BPC Celebrate 10 years of Driving Next-generation Banking in Cambodia

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Concurrently, BPC’s customer service portal opened up digital self-service channels for tasks like PIN changes, funds transfers, and utility payments. In addition to innovations in ATM Management self-service channels, ACLEDA utilised the BPC technological platform to upgrade merchant POS acceptance functionality.

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