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Correspondent Banking Continues Its Decline Despite Regulator Efforts

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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. Correspondent banking decreased by 4.1

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SWIFT Readies ISO 20022 For X-Border Payments

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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

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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. 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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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

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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 Reveals New API Standard For Pre-Authorization Of Funds

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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 KYC Registry Goes Global

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The payments messaging company said Monday (July 17) that its KYC Registry is now open to all supervised financial institutions around the globe. Expanding access to the registry means its members will benefit from more information and collaboration in their correspondent banking and funds distribution networks, SWIFT said.

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