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Nium Enables Financial Institutions to Connect to Its Real-Time Payments Network via Swift

Fintech Finance

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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The Not-So-Beaten Path To B2B Payments Real-Time Ubiquity

PYMNTS

Friction associated with traditional payment networks is plentiful, he told PYMNTS in a recent interview — and while real-time payment networks can address many of the related woes, their adoption will greatly rely on their ability to address corporates’ biggest pain points. Progress in Tackling Cross-Border Payments Friction.

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Why Payments Are Only A Piece Of SMBs’ Global Finance Puzzle

PYMNTS

For the financial services world to address businesses’ global payments needs, Conibear said they must take a holistic approach that goes beyond facilitating cross-border payments or improving upon legacy payment rails. Beyond Payments Initiation. Open banking and PSD2 initiatives in the U.K.

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More Banks Join SWIFT’s Global B2B Payments Pilot

PYMNTS

Payments messaging firm SWIFT is looking to gain support for its global payments initiative and, most recently, announced the latest backers of the pilot program. The company said it will hope to improve the transparency and speed of global payments with the program. “The

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Italy Makes Its Move In Real-Time Payments

PYMNTS

The largest retail bank in Italy has made its first major step onto the stage of real-time cross-border payments. Intesa Sanpaolo announced Tuesday (April 18) that it has successfully completed its first testing activities with EBA Clearing, using technology by Dovetail for pan-European real-time payments.

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Time For B2B Payments To Get Standardized, Says Nordea

PYMNTS

For a few years the corporate banking space has been discussing the potential for ISO 20022 to streamline payments, with industry forces like SWIFT and SEPA promoting its adoption. But, according to Nordea, obstacles remain for ISO 20022 to take off as a payments messaging standard and provide corporates the efficiency they need.

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SWIFT Enters China’s X-Border Payments Efforts

PYMNTS

China has received some criticism and skepticism over its cross-border payments initiative, spearheaded as CIPS — the Cross-Border Inter-Bank Payments System. Analysts point out that the payments system operates just 11 hours a day and only out of Shanghai.

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