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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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Fintech Finance

MARCH 26, 2024

Swift’s solution has already been shown to enable cross-border transfers and connect CBDCs on different networks with each other, as well as with fiat currencies. Swift now plans to extend its solution to support a wider range of emerging digital networks in addition to CBDCs, such as platforms for tokenised deposits.

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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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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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Fintech Finance

APRIL 22, 2024

In global commerce, cross-border B2B payments are crucial, yet hindered by complexity, high costs, and slow processing times. In global commerce, cross-border B2B payments are crucial, yet hindered by complexity, high costs, and slow processing times.

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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

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

JUNE 7, 2018

Competition in the cross-border payments market is on the rise as blockchain firm Ripple and payments messaging company SWIFT vie for market leadership. The company also launched a partnership earlier this year with Spain’s Banco Santander to develop a cross-border payments service based on XCurrent.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

DBS Bank has launched a real-time online tracking feature for cross-border collections, a press release says, which will give better digital services for corporate clients. DBS also plans to offer cross-border support in China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan and Vietnam as well in the next few months, the release says.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2018

When it comes to corporate transactions (and, well, payments in general), two inexorable trends include speed and distance. In this case, distance applies to cross-border activity. As has been reported, more than 50 percent of SWIFT gpi payments are made within 30 minutes, and roughly 100 percent are made within 24 hours.

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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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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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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

SWIFT announced Thursday (May 24) that 25 percent of all SWIFT cross-border payment traffic is being sent over the global payments innovation — or gpi — in the 15 months since the service was rolled out. That enables gpi banks to track all SWIFT payment instructions at all times.

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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.

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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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In other payments infrastructure-related offerings, some marquee names have made some strides. For example, tech giant IBM said it launched, via blockchain, its Blockchain World Wire, which is billed as a cross-border payment system that is powered by the Stellar blockchain network. You can find out more here.

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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

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

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

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

AUGUST 30, 2018

About half of Swift Global Payments Innovation transactions are credited within 30 minutes, many within seconds.

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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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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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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

MAY 13, 2020

While the pandemic has created unique circumstances of immeasurable strain and pressure on the global market, it’s also emboldened many to rise to the occasion and ensure business continues to flow with as little disruption as possible. Accelerating PPE Procurement. to multiple vendors in China to facilitate PPE procurement.

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Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Airwallex , a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced a multi-year partnership with the McLaren Formula 1 team , one of the sport’s most iconic brands.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Bridge was founded in 2022 to serve as an alternative payment method to compete with SWIFT and credit cards. Creating a low-cost alternative to traditional payments will make stablecoins more attractive for businesses and could lead to wider adoption in mainstream payment systems.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In the latest edition of the Global B2B Payments Playbook , PYMNTS analyzes how the pandemic is affecting the O2C processes of businesses everywhere, especially those making cross-border transactions. It also examines what tools companies can tap to make these payments swiftly and securely. About The Playbook.

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