Fintech News

JUNE 11, 2024

Licensed as a Major Payment Institution (MPI) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), OPAL offers domestic and cross-border payments, payment accounts, and e-money services. Customers can receive funds in up to 33 different currencies via SWIFT and local payout rails.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

PCBB and Finzly , two leading innovators in the financial payments industry, have formed a strategic partnership to deliver enhanced international payment services to Finzly’s customers. The post PCBB and Finzly Partnership Boosts International Payment Services appeared first on FF News | Fintech Finance.

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Fintech News

JUNE 4, 2024

This partnership will integrate Mastercard Move , a comprehensive suite of money transfer solutions, into Temenos Payments Hub. Mastercard Move’s solutions facilitate secure and swift international money transfers, offering cost-effective options to route and deliver funds through Mastercard’s extensive global network.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SWIFT , a global provider of secure financial messaging, announced a new service Thursday (Oct. 1) that promises to improve the experience for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and consumers who send low-value payments across borders. SWIFT said this latest improvement is another building block for its new strategy.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced that financial institutions can now leverage Swift capabilities and their existing Swift infrastructure to connect to Nium’s global real-time payments network.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America (BofA) is introducing a cross-border payment tracker and expanding SWIFT gpi to support more than 140 currencies, accessible through the integrated CashPro platform. Customers can make payments via Bank of America’s SWIFT gpi solution. and Ireland at SWIFT. . and Ireland at SWIFT. .

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 7, 2024

This innovative platform is set to transform the landscape of cross-border payments, delivering new standards in traceability, transparency, and efficiency. Furthermore, once the transaction is sent, the payment can be tracked on its journey through to final credit to the beneficiary.

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Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform specializing in emerging markets, today announced a strategic partnership with MoneyGram, a leading global financial technology company that connects the world’s communities.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 4, 2024

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) today announced a collaboration with Mastercard , a leading global technology company in the payments industry, to accelerate the implementation and delivery of Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s portfolio of money transfer capabilities, to banks and their customers.

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Nanonets

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

= Cross-border payments have become increasingly popular as businesses and individuals alike seek to capitalize on opportunities in foreign markets. Yet, these payments can be fraught with challenges, from foreign exchange risks to compliance with local regulations. What Are Cross-Border Payments?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2018

SWIFT announced Sunday (October 21) successful test results of its new instant cross-border payments proof of concept, involving banks in China, Singapore, Thailand and Australia. In effect, this is already a live real-time cross-border payment, SWIFT said in the press release.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America has launched a cross-border payment tracker through its Swift GPI module that allows clients real-time visibility into their international payments.

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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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Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Swift has announced the launch of its first-ever “The Innovation Challenges” that invites participants to create AI-based solutions aimed at improving the efficiency and security of cross-border transactions. They will be granted access to the Swift Challenge sandbox environment.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When you think about financial technology, it is easy to think about solutions which are making payments faster, easier and more accessible. Having discussed the myths , hype and usage of buy now pay later (BNPL), we now turn our focus to cross-border payments. Can any risks be mitigated pro-actively?

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The initiative showcases how regulatory requirements can be embedded directly into cross-border payment processes, aligning with G20 priorities to make these transactions faster and more cost-effective. We are optimistic about the potential of these early results to enhance cross border payments.”

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Fintech Finance

JULY 12, 2024

Cross-border payments are becoming increasingly important to international economies. The G20 roadmap for enhanced cross-border payments aims to improve the speed, access, transparency, and cost of international payments by 2030.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

On the other hand, it also means they must learn to navigate a highly fragmented and complex international payments ecosystem. Each country has its own rules and regulations dictating how businesses can make and receive payments, as well as its own, unique financial infrastructure. To learn more, download the playbook.

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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

JULY 31, 2019

international transactions per capita every year, up from 0.5 So, why do cross-border payments present so many challenges? Some payments providers are also leveraging blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to meet these needs, expediting the cross-border payment process.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

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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Fintech Finance

MARCH 19, 2024

Swift today announced it has been selected to build a service that will reduce the risk of misdirected payments and increase defences against payment fraud, providing Australians with more confidence when sending money.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 31, 2024

SurePay , the IBAN-name check provider, confirmation of payee (CoP) and verification of payee (VoP) to over 100 banks, has expanded its services following a strategic agreement with Swift , the messaging network, and the integration of Swift’s payment pre-validation service.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 2, 2024

StoneX has announced that it is one of the first financial organizations to enable Swift ’s new leading-edge solution for cross-border payments. Cross-border payments have long been a complex area marked by ongoing regulatory and compliance changes, bank offline hours, and increasing competition.

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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

JULY 25, 2018

Financial messaging company SWIFT, along with a number of corporates and banks, announced Wednesday (July 25) plans to begin testing a multi-bank standard to further improve the cross-border payments experience for multi-banked corporates.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Individual jurisdictions around the globe are pressing for both faster and more efficient cross-border payments. China’s central bank, for instance, took steps last month to boost the efficiency of cross-border transactions involving Chinese parties by lengthening its clearing window time span. In the U.S.,

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Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

dLocal , the leading cross-border payment platform specializing in emerging markets, today announced its strategic partnership with Ontop , a global payroll platform that facilitates salary payments from companies to remote workers around the world. for corporate transactions and as much as 6.3% for remittances.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

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. ISO 20022 will modernize international and domestic payment rails, enabling right and new payment services.”

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The Paypers

MAY 23, 2017

(The Paypers) SWIFT has launched a cross-border payments Tracker that enables international payments to be traced in real-time.

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Payments Source

MAY 23, 2017

Calling it a first in international payments, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication [Swift] is providing a cross-border, real-time payments tracker for banks handling global transactions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Money constantly flows across borders in the increasingly interconnected global economy, from workers overseas back to their families, and from buyers to their suppliers. Any complications cause major headaches, and international payments are often more involved and costly than those made domestically.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 8, 2018

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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Fintech News

APRIL 24, 2024

According to Wise , this alliance marks T2P as the first fintech in Thailand to offer international money transfers without exchange rate mark-ups or hidden fees through its e-wallet app – DeepPocket. Taweechai Pureetip Taweechai Pureetip, CEO of T2P said, “At T2P, we aim to empower our users with seamless, convenient and fast payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

SWIFT announced Thursday (Oct. 11) that Santander , the retail and commercial bank, has gone live on SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi) service in Spain, the U.K., In a press release , SWIFT said Santander will go live in Chile and Mexico on SWIFT gpi by the end of this year. Argentina and Poland.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The feature will make use of SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) technology, and help over 240,000 corporate and small and medium-sized business (SMB) clients in Singapore and Hong Kong with tracking cross-border payments and collections in real time. There won't be any extra fees.

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