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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. With the economic and political battles between the U.S.
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The phase 1 implementation of the ISO20022 migration strategy that was scheduled for November 2020 is being postponed by the Federal Reserve Bank, the U.S. SWIFT announced last year that it is planning to allow its users to send data-rich ISO20022 messages across its global network starting in November 2021.
Ideally, Swift would like to see its worldwide bank network fully adopt its GlobalPayments Innovation initiative as well as the ISO20022 messaging standard for cross-border payments.
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Panel members included Russ Waterhouse , EVP at The Clearing House; Mike Kresse , SVP card and money movement at FIS; Jane Larimer , CEO at Nacha; David Scola , chief executive, Americas and UK at SWIFT; and Jeremy Allaire , CEO at Circle. Moving Beyond ACH .
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The current market, the company’s report said, involves banks using proprietary payment formats, creating a “potential deadlock: Do banks risk losing business by insisting on using their own formats?” Or do corporates limit their choice of bank by insisting on their preferred format?”.
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