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Swift bids to connects VoP schemes across Europe

Finextra

Bank-to-bank payment messaging network Swift is working to facilitate interoperability of Verifcation of Payee schemes across Europe as new research shows that 83% of SMEs across France, Germany, Italy and Spain rank upfront beneficiary checks as important to them in trading across borders.

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Smarter Payments Tracker Eyes Interoperability

PYMNTS

In the latest Smarter Payments Tracker , PYMNTS takes a deep dive into the challenge of interoperability in achieving better cross-border payments services and experiences. In the public sector, corporates and government entities are also collaborating in pursuit of interoperability. Across the pond, meanwhile, the U.S.’s

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The Not-So-Beaten Path To B2B Payments Real-Time Ubiquity

PYMNTS

Further, one of the largest benefits to corporates of faster and real-time payments services is less about the speed and more about the data these networks are able to carry along with a transaction. A lack of interoperability between local payment networks is among the largest of those hurdles, said Halpin.

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Global Data Reporting Pioneer Kani Payments Gets Ready for ISO 20022

Fintech Finance

ISO 20022 is the global messaging standard for financial messages, designed to enable interoperability between financial institutions and other market players.

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SWIFT Readies ISO 20022 For X-Border Payments

PYMNTS

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. “International payments often contain unstructured and ambiguous transaction data, causing unnecessary delays and failed processing.

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How ISO 20022 Can Boost Interoperability, Intelligence

PYMNTS

Payments are getting faster, safer and smarter, as players ranging from established FIs to FinTechs work to move money in better ways than they did before. This makes interoperability that much more difficult to achieve. When you think about interoperability, a key element of that is standardization,” Throckmorton explained. “If

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Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN) and FORUS Digital Announce Strategic Cooperation to Advance Financial Innovation in Africa

Fintech Finance

Digital currency systems could prove to be key in improving financial inclusion and opening up new opportunities to large underbanked communities in many African countries.