The Fintech Times

AUGUST 8, 2024

We are in a unique position to bring industry groups together to create a solution that will help everyone reduce mistaken payments and combat scams and frauds.”

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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.

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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. Reports in the Financial Times this week highlighted the increasing competition in the market as Ripple continues to add banks to its XCurrent blockchain messaging system.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2024

The Real-Time Rail is a complex, large-scale, multi-year infrastructure program that includes two key technical components: the build of the Real-Time Rail exchange component provided by Interac, which was completed in June 2023 and will allow for the exchange of payment messages in real-time.

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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.

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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. But as the Tracker explores, there are several initiatives in the works to tackle those challenges — including in the corporate sphere.

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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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The Paypers

JUNE 24, 2016

(The Paypers) The Federal Reserve (Fed) has made efforts in pushing ISO 20022 global payments messaging standard adoption.

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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

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. SWIFT has struggled in recent months with a slew of cyberattacks , with one of the most high-profile attacks targeting the Bangladesh central bank, which uses the SWIFT payments messaging system.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

First Investment Bank ( Fibank ) is the first Bulgarian bank to offer the SWIFT Global Payment Initiative (gpi), according to a press release. There are other advantages as well, with real-time traceability through the identifying technology in the payment message.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The release of the Payments API follows Cashplus’ launch of its Account API and Application API as the company builds out its suite of integrations that target business currency accounts. “This is only the beginning of our API roadmap initiatives,” said CEO Rich Wagner in a statement last year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

SWIFT Deepens Faster Payments Presence Across Europe. Global payments logistics service provider EFiS is broadening its collaboration with payments messaging firm SWIFT to facilitate connection to faster payments networks in Europe. Yelp Renews Antitrust Complaint Against Google.

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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

MARCH 9, 2018

The tool uses ISO 20022 payments messaging standards and technologies that are part of SWIFT’s gpi (global payments innovation) initiative combined with blockchain technology to enable the recording of transactions linked to Nostro Accounts.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

Last January, the bank was part of a group of financial institutions that signed onto SWIFT’s global payments innovation initiative , an effort to streamline cross-border payments via the SWIFT payments messaging network. Commerzbank has made efforts to become more progressive in its financial 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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

This week, reports in the Financial Times highlighted the competitive pressure between SWIFT and Ripple as the two companies rival for the top spot in the cross-border payments market. SWIFT, a payments messaging company, has introduced its Global Payments Innovation (GPI) initiative to boost innovation in global payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

According to EBA Clearing, account-servicing payment service providers across Europe will be able to use the technology for payments made in Euros starting in November of this year. Intesa Sanpaolo first partnered with Dovetail in 2012 and first offered a look into their European payments initiative a few months later.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Months prior, the bank also said it joined SWIFT’s global payments innovation initiative, an effort that focuses on innovation in the cross-border payments space using the SWIFT payments messaging network with a focus on faster payments and data collection.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Indian bank IndusInd and Saudi Arabian British Bank (SABB) recently teamed up to establish payment infrastructure between the two countries. Payments messaging firm SWIFT will begin allowing blockchain companies to connect into its global payments innovation (gpi) platform for cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2016

Bad news broke on Monday morning (April 25) for global payments messaging platform SWIFT as BAE Systems released analysis concluding that cyberthieves hacked into SWIFT’s software , causing the $81 million bank heist from the Bangladesh central bank.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

The Federal Reserve is pushing for adoption of the ISO 20022 global payments messaging standard, a move industry analysts say could streamline B2B payments, especially cross-border.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

and fees associated with payments using CIPS are unclear. This makes China’s international payments play a bit unconvincing to some. But payments messaging service SWIFT has been brought on by China to help strengthen CIPS’ capabilities. CIPS is largely seen as an effort to propel the yuan onto the global currency stage.

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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

“Developing a new and better cross-border B2B payments solution by improving worldwide connectivity in the account-to-account space is central to Mastercard ’s ambition,” the firm’s executive vice president of New Payment Platforms Peter Klein said in a statement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

The bank is using SWIFT’s gpi service , and is also reportedly in discussions with the payments messaging company to join a consortium to develop a real-time payments solution for cross-border transactions in the Asia Pacific region.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS , Citi’s Global Head of Payments and Receivables Manish Kohli explained how APIs that pre-validate payments data can reduce errors and costs while improving speed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Payment rails are getting more attention these days, and there is an increasing focus on offering a standardized, relatively seamless experience that can be locked and loaded by various operators with minimal hassle. that develops solutions for digital currency. Open Banking. We offer a single API across all banks,” Kirsch told Webster.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below, PYMNTS looks at the latest news in cross-border payments innovation as industry players complete, collaborate and innovate. SWIFT gpi Links Into Real-Time Payments. Payments messaging firm SWIFT announced Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

Cyberattackers were able to steal $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank by compromising the SWIFT messaging system , forcing the company — and financial services players everywhere — to take a renewed look at payments security measures.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The industry push for SWIFT’s ISO 20022 adoption continues to encourage financial institutions to adopt the payments messaging standard for more efficient transmission of transaction data, which can have particular impact for high-value cross-border B2B payments. Beyond the Payment.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

“Although it’s helpful to streamline things like global payments, we really need to be aware of geographical differences and work to make sure we’re interpreting the way that ISO is used in other countries,” Estep said. TURNING CONFUSION INTO CLARITY. DEFINING THE VALUE BY WALKING BACK CONVERSION.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

In a PYMNTS interview , Tim Coats, Oxbury co-founder, chief customer and regulatory officer, said Faster Payments will become a key rail for the farming and agricultural space to accelerate cash flow through its supply chain. SWIFT Certifies Fiorano ISO 20022.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

There are signs that the wheels are beginning to churn once again, however, and though not every industry will recover at the same pace, there is evidence that global trade is once again on the rise. Yet as cross border trade picks back up, the foreign exchange and global payments needs of businesses will intensify.

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