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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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. SWIFT said gpi is set to be the standard for all cross-border payments made on the SWIFT network by the end of 2020.

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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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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. The bank’s messaging applies to Hong Kong and Macau as well. With the economic and political battles between the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

In corporate payments, high-value transactions with tall demands for compliance, transparency, speed, efficiency and security aren’t just placing a burden on the businesses sending and receiving funds. International payments often contain unstructured and ambiguous transaction data, causing unnecessary delays and failed processing.

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Payments Source

APRIL 4, 2019

Payments messaging standards provider Swift has established a new group to help it promote and assure smooth migration of the cross-border ISO 20022 standard.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 9, 2024

. “This includes cross-border payments , KYC and anti-money laundering (AML), external provider matching, international supply chain relationships, environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) reporting, and digital identity applications.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Just weeks after receiving approval to facilitate cross-border payments originating from India, FinTech firm Earthport revealed its newest partner to get operations off the ground. 21) said Earthport is working with India’s third-largest bank, Axis Bank, to enable outbound global payments for its users.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

PYMNTS recently spoke with Saqib Sheikh, global head of SWIFT’s ISO 20022 program, to learn more about SWIFT’s commitment to assist the financial community in the transition to the new standard in cross-border payments: ISO 20022. These infrastructures and processes form the backbone of the global correspondent banking model.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Singapore bank DBS is introducing the ability for small businesses and larger corporates to track their cross-border payments in real time. Corporate cross-border payment volumes have increased by 25 percent in the last 12 months,” said Navinder Duggal, DBS head of cash product management.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Payments messaging company SWIFT is hoping to launch real-time payments services in the Asia Pacific region, according to Verdict reports on Friday (April 20). SWIFT gpi , launched last year, provides financial institutions with infrastructure to facilitate transparent, faster cross-border payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Reports have said the move by the payments messaging company positions the firm take on payments giants Visa and Mastercard. ” Reports noted the importance of SWIFT expanding into the SMB payments arena beyond high-value complex corporate transactions. Sila Raises Funding to Nix ACH. and Sweden, it noted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

SWIFT is expanding its network-wide payments validation toolkit, announcing Thursday (May 2) a new “in-flight” cloud-based payment investigation and resolution service. In a press release, SWIFT said the new feature allows for dynamic query handling between banks on the SWIFT network.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

SWIFT’s gpi initiative is broadening payment tracking capabilities, according to a press release from the payments messaging organization. SWIFT rolled out the gpi Tracker solution last year as a solution to help treasurers track payments in real time with a focus on cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The growing traction of faster payments continues, especially across a cross-border backdrop. In news reported by MoneyControl.com, SWIFT, the payments messaging giant, is reportedly looking at testing instant international settlements with local networks in India to speed transactions and make them more transparent.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT will allow blockchain companies to connect into its global payments innovation (gpi) platform, SWIFT said in its latest report on the future of payments. The initiative follows a collaboration between SWIFT and R3 that was announced in January, reports noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

12) said SWIFT will launch a proof-of-concept test to explore the use of blockchain technology for cross-border payments and settlements by banks. It’s no certainty, however, that a working application using blockchain for cross-border payments will emerge, SWIFT said. An announcement Thursday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Paper checks are often pointed to as an example of how difficult it can be for corporates to change their payment behaviors. With newer digital, automated payment technologies emerging in the B2B space, businesses continue to stick to what’s familiar: paper. A Different Kind Of Challenge.

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Faster Payments Council

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Fall Member Meeting will bring together FPC members for two days filled with presentations on the most pressing issues in faster payments, panel discussions with industry experts, roundtables on timely topics, and engaging networking opportunities. How can we look to this rapidly growing business for new use cases for instant payments?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Payments messaging company SWIFT is expanding its gpi for Corporates (g4C) initiative, adding treasury management technology company BELLIN to its roster of early adopters of the tool. The tool expanded and began requiring SWIFT customers to include their UETR in all payment instructions, even for institutions not part of gpi.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With this latest standard, a payer’s bank can designate funds in advance, assuring upcoming payments will clear. . We have built the world-leading BankID service and the Swish payment method,” said Kirstine Nilsson, Swedbank’s head of business infrastructure, consumer payments and cash management. “We

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

16) said several central banks have confirmed the formation of a task force to explore cybersecurity of cross-border payments and banking to protect interbank transactions. With the pressure of cybercrime mounting in the financial services space, several central banks of the globe are joining together to figure out a strategy.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

A new report from Ernst and Young LLP (EY) and Payments Canada finds Canadian businesses are spending as much as $5.2 billion on payments processing. The analysis was released as Payments Canada moves forward with its Modernization initiative to promote faster payments in the country while ensuring security.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

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. China International Payment Service Corp.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The Financial Stability Board released analysis last year that found SWIFT interbank payment messages reflected a 4.1 Further, he said, not only is the correspondent banking network an outdated strategy to move money across borders, but it relies on legacy infrastructure.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Fifteen major banks will test Swift's pre-validation service for Global Payments Innovation transactions, focusing on quickly identifying and eliminating errors or omissions in payment messages.

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Payments Source

APRIL 24, 2019

Javier Pérez-Tasso has been named the new CEO of payments messaging standards provider Swift, replacing Gottfried Leibbrandt, who steps down from the post at the end of June.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Amid the continuing movements by governments and nations to overhaul payments operations, Vocalink said Wednesday (Dec. 12) that it has secured a contract with Cámara de Compensación Electrónica (CCE), the automated clearing house in Peru, to help transform payments infrastructure in that country.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

A new deal involving SWIFT and 10 Chinese banks represents the latest move in the global competition to facilitate cross-border payments. In a statement , the payments messaging company said the financial institutions (FIs) “have gone live” with the SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (GPI) initiative.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The paper check continues to be a prominent — and, in many cases, dominant — payment method in B2B transactions. PYMNTS research released last October in the “ Bringing Corporate Payments Out of the Dark Ages ” webinar revealed 64 percent of B2B payments are made with checks, despite consumer payments’ acceleration toward electronic tools.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

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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Payments Source

JUNE 15, 2017

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication plans to add instant payments messaging for the European market by late 2018, marking another step in its ongoing faster payments projects.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

The need for faster payments is transcending borders, with FIs in several major global regions making efforts to expand local access to speedier payments. These innovations not only promise to improve payment speed, but to also accelerate financial access and empowerment in different markets. . s payment systems.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Its work with Mastercard allows Montreal to offer business clients the cross-border payments solution operated by Mastercard that aims to accelerate and boost transparency of cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Corporates have growing expectations for faster, more efficient and more secure B2B payments — whether their money is moving from one business unit to another or one country to another. Payments Speed and Security. As businesses continue this shift, it is no longer safe to assume that corporates are not interested in faster payments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Digitization of B2B payments is on the rise, but the trend is challenged by discrepancies across geographic markets, according to the latest World Payments Report by Capgemini and BNP Paribas. But, despite the increased use of digital payments, cash remains king, especially for low-value transactions.

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