Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Swift today announced that it is rolling out new AI-enhanced fraud detection to help the global payments industry step up its defence as bad actors grow increasingly sophisticated.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 2, 2020

After tests with several banks that established Swift's ability to connect its Global Payments Initiative faster payments rail to domestic networks, the financial and messaging standards organization is activating the service in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Digital currencies could render the SWIFT global payments network unnecessary, RT.com reported, citing the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). In this case SWIFT it may not be necessary, because it will be a different kind of technological interaction,” Skorobogatova said during a virtual meeting, per RT.com.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

SWIFT , a global provider of secure financial messaging services, announced Wednesday (Sept. 16) that its cross-border platform will be retooled to enable financial institutions to deliver instant transactions. SWIFT said the planned platform will leverage its reach across more than 11,000 institutions in 200 countries.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Pelican, a provider of payments and artificial intelligence technology, is supporting Swift's development of a new service for low-cost cross border payments across its Global Payments Initiative and high-speed rails.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Belgium-headquartered payments solution provider SWIFT is introducing a new service for real-time cross-border payments and transfers called gpi Instant. He added that SWIFT’s gpi Instant targets four main issues: “speed, security, transparency and compliance.” Global payments routed to the U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

SWIFT announced Thursday (March 21) that six Spanish banks, representing 85 percent of the cross-border payments market in Spain, have adopted SWIFT global payments innovation or gpi. SWIFT gpi enables banks to conduct end-to-end tracking of the cross-border payment.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

and China heating to a boil, one of China’s top banks is urging financial institutions (FIs) to cut their use of the SWIFT financial messaging network for cross-border transactions. adopting measures such as locking Chinese banks out of SWIFT, Reuters reported.

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Payments Source

JUNE 28, 2019

Naval Group, an international technology company specializing in naval defense systems, is among the first to complete a cross-border payment through Swift's global payments innovation early adopter program.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

The rise of the global economy and the demand for swift and secure cross-border payments is driving the development of more efficient infrastructures, and spurring financial institutions (FIs) to experiment with emerging tech. The bank recently announced it had been testing moving international funds using Ripple.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Thunes , the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announced its proprietary Direct Global Network now provides banks with access to over 3 billion mobile wallets around the world via their existing Swift connectivity.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Cross-border payments are expected to surge over the next few years as the economy becomes increasingly global and interconnected. The latest Smarter Payments Tracker looks at the infrastructure developments that are making cross-border payment systems faster, more seamless and interoperable.

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Fintech Review

APRIL 8, 2025

With Bivials Swiss IBAN Accounts, businesses can transact through SEPA and SWIFT across more than 160 countries and in 90+ currencies via the Bivial Dashboard and APIs. These new international accounts are ideal for companies looking to grow their global reach through cross-border transactions. About Bivial AG.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 30, 2024

Swift has today announced two AI-based experiments in collaboration with its member banks, to explore how the technology could assist in combatting cross-border payments fraud and save the industry billions in fraud-related costs. That’s an incredibly exciting prospect, but one that will require strong collaboration.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2016

SWIFT’s year has been filled with controversy, the apex of which occurred when reports surfaced that cyberthieves infiltrated Bangladesh Bank via the SWIFT messaging system in February, resulting in $81 million stolen from the bank’s account at the New York Federal Reserve. Among its criticisms was a lack of speed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The movement toward cross-border payments — done digitally, at lower cost and completed faster — is an inexorable one. Headlines in recent weeks have centered on the efforts by Ripple and messaging service SWIFT to improve cross-border money transfer activities. dollars to Philippine pesos.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

According to the latest Smarter Payments Tracker , global payment usage is at an all-time high. So, why do cross-border payments present so many challenges? payment systems will have to become more international in scope. Revenues are forecast to hit $2 trillion by 2020, according to McKinsey.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook , there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed, security, compliance, transparency and ubiquity. How Cross-Border Payments Are Made. So, what’s the problem? What’s Changing?

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication says its Global Payments Innovation service surpassed two million cross-border payments during September.

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Payments Source

MARCH 12, 2019

Ideally, Swift would like to see its worldwide bank network fully adopt its Global Payments Innovation initiative as well as the ISO 20022 messaging standard for cross-border payments.

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Payments Source

APRIL 5, 2016

Swift is moving into the testing phase of its global payments initiative, saying 21 banks have started a pilot for clearer communication amongst banks making and accepting cross-border payments.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

A dozen global transaction banks are now using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication's new global payments initiative service to improve cross-border payment delivery.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Global payments company Thunes has launched a new service that enables banks to send payments directly to mobile wallets worldwide. This eliminates the need for separate technical integration and allows for faster, more transparent cross-border payments.

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Payments Source

MAY 21, 2019

Seven European banks are testing Swift's Global Payments Innovation real-time cross-border payments through the continent's Target Instant Payment Settlement process.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Over the past year Wise Platform , Wise’s global payments infrastructure for banks, financial institutions and larger enterprises, has further enhanced its product suite for partners and significantly expanded its global regulatory footprint.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2020

Cross-border payments via Swift’s ISO 20022 migration, originally set to roll out by November 2021, have now been set back a year and are expected to come by the end of 2022 instead, according to reports. ISO 20022 is set to make changes to the payment landscape as a whole, according to the company.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2019

” Cross-Border Payments in the Crosshairs. One of the areas of corporate finance experiencing the biggest exposure to these disruptors is global payments. “If you look at cross-border payments, at the highest level they are the settlement engine for a rapidly globalizing economy,” said Kohli.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Mastercard launched Move Commercial Payments , a real-time cross-border payments solution that operates 24/7. The new commercial payments tool leverages a multi-rail system that includes SWIFT, Visa Direct, and Mastercard’s proprietary networks. with Lloyds Banking Group and UBS.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

Financial messaging service SWIFT said this past week that it has fashioned a partnership with R3 , a blockchain startup. The partnership will integrate the R3 platform into the SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) offering. I think that today, that is not what SWIFT is.”.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The payments division of Western Union has integrated with the Swift Global Payment Initiative for faster transfers, and has added international currency options.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

In a press release sent to PYMNTS on Monday (March 4), ONPEX revealed it will provide Wirexend with its cross-border payments and Banking-as-a-Service technology so that Wirexend can offer its own business customers with global payment capabilities, enabling customers to access to SWIFT and SEPA money transfer services.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Global Payments Innovation service now moves 55 percent of Swift's cross-border transactions as it nears its second anniversary.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The global payments ecosystem’s path to faster and real-time payments ubiquity is an evolution, not a revolution. Among corporates, there is an increasing demand that their global payment activity is able to keep up with the pace of doing business. Progress in Tackling Cross-Border Payments Friction.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the launch of Nium Verify , a real-time bank account verification solution for businesses and individual accounts, available across 50 markets.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

ABB, Nestle, SBB and others reportedly sent an open letter to banks promoting their support for SWIFT’s gpi (global payments innovation) initiative and urging those FIs to take part in exploring how to improve cross-border payment processes.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

AscendantFX Capital , which works in technology-based payment innovations, has joined the SWIFT Network for the benefits it offers, including better transparency and faster payments, the company announced in a Wednesday (Aug. SWIFT gpi’s technology is revolutionary for the payments industry and gives power back to the customer.”

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