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How China Fuels Alternatives To Correspondent Banking

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For foreign payment service providers looking to facilitate cross-border B2B payments into China, the correspondent banking model often remains the only route to facilitate clearing and settlement. “Getting correspondent bank accounts is the biggest challenge every payment service provider is facing. Timing And Control.

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Reflecting on 2024: A transformative year in payments regulation

The Payments Association

According to Thistle Initatives’ Senior Associate Rohan Chakhraborty, “The emphasis of the requirement to have ‘reasonable grounds to suspect’ fraud or dishonesty on the part of someone other than the payer not only meant that PSPs had increased flexibility in effective APP fraud mitigation, but that the indirect effect of such mitigative processes (..)

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FinTechs Help Global Banks Tackle Their Own SMB Shortcomings

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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. percent decline in correspondent banking activity in 2017.

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Corporates Play Payment Rail Musical Chairs

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Today’s unprecedented market environment has businesses finally taking the plunge to migrate away from checks as payers seek digitization and payees seek transaction visibility. Exploring Correspondent Banking Alternatives. Getting correspondent bank accounts is the biggest challenge every payment service provider is facing.”

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Visa’s Massive Bet On B2B Blockchain Payments

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After all, corporate payers generally depend on that 30-, 60- or 90-day grace period between when they receive an invoice and actually pay their supplier. “The payers and the payees are going to have greater visibility and transparency into transactions,” he said.

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SWIFT Stands Behind Its Global Payments Innovation Initiative

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SWIFT’s gpi uses the interbanking system to move money across borders, a process that itself has been the target of some criticism for being cumbersome, forcing payers to simply wait and see whether their money ends up where it’s supposed to, often not having any idea which banks touch the funds in the process.

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Financial Authorities Press Collaboration To Improve Global Corporate Payments

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A lack of transparency, delays in payment processing and a lack of 24/7 service availability emerged as the top-three pain points for corporate payers transacting across borders. Industry players have warned for several years that correspondent banking is on the decline, yet the drops continue.