Fintech News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In a global financial landscape where efficiency and accuracy are paramount, the challenge of failed payments is a significant hurdle for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and financial institutions (FIs), particularly in a vibrant market like Singapore.

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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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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. Payment rails are undergoing significant innovation, a trend that promises to continue into the 2020s in various areas.

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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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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. Canadian payments network Interac has experimented with blockchain for consumer payments.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Cross-border payments are expected to surge over the next few years as the economy becomes increasingly global and interconnected. The latest Smarter Payments Tracker looks at the infrastructure developments that are making cross-border payment systems faster, more seamless and interoperable. A Call for Transparency.

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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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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. Currently, there are 57 real-time payments rails operating in more than 72 countries, with even more under construction.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Amid an embrace of mobile payments and a push toward consumer choice, sometimes payments infrastructure must change. This week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said it has launched SGQR (short for the Singapore Quick Response Code ), billed as a single label that combines several QR payment codes.

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Broadridge Financial Solutions , the investor communications and technology-driven solution provider, has launched a new managed service for connectivity, message processing and workflow management for instant payments.

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The Fintech Times

AUGUST 8, 2024

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) and the Australian Banking Association (ABA) have completed the design of the new Confirmation of Payee (CoP) service which will enable people paying to an account with a name, BSB and Account number to confirm the account name of the payee before the payment is made.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

There’s no single path to payments infrastructure innovation. This week’s examination of the latest initiatives to target B2B payments friction from the ground up finds a mix of strategies. For some, like Currencycloud and Steamchain, the path involves bypassing legacy payment rails and embracing blockchain.

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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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The payment messaging entity SWIFT this past week began implementing its SWIFTNet Instant service that is tied to the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement service. The service, as has been reported, lets customers make instant payments from inside the Single Euro Payments Area (also known as SEPA ).

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Banking technology provider Cashplus is introducing a new application program interface (API) designed to allow small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to make mass payments to their vendors simultaneously. The Payments API is rolling out ahead of the U.K.’s A press release Monday (Nov. 19) said Cashplus, based in the U.K.,

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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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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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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. and fees associated with payments using CIPS are unclear.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Last year Nordea released its Future of Payments report, urging the corporate payments industry to become standardized across banks. The ISO 20022 payments messaging format can be an instrumental component to global payments standardization, particularly as industry heavyweights like SWIFT promote its adoption.

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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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Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2024

Payments Canada has announced a path forward for the Real-Time Rail (RTR) , Canada’s fastest payment system. The new system will allow payments to be sent and received as well as cleared and settled in real-time 24/7, 365 days a year. The second piece is the build of the real-time clearing and settlement component.

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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

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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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.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Payments technology developers and regulators are beginning to voice their support for ISO 20022, the payments messaging standard that proponents say can streamline global payments with an easier way to link data to a transaction. Up next is Switzerland.

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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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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. ” Payments Security. . ” Payments Security.

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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

MAY 23, 2018

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories focus on Facebook’s enhanced Marketplace and the latest on faster payments in Europe. SWIFT Deepens Faster Payments Presence Across Europe. Yelp Renews Antitrust Complaint Against Google.

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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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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 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. Swendseid said she is confident that, once wire payments move to the ISO 20022 standard, ACH payments will soon follow.

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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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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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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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