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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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SWIFT: The Road To ISO 20022 Adoption

PYMNTS

Cross-border payments are a fragmented space with disparate standards, service levels, and compliance and reporting regulations varying from country to country. With a common language, payments increasingly have more reach, are processed faster with fewer manual interventions, and are more meaningful with richer remittance data.

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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. ISO 20022 will modernize international and domestic payment rails, enabling right and new payment services.”

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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. Adoption of ISO 20022 will continue the transformation of correspondent banking already ongoing,” SWIFT said in its Wednesday (July 31) announcement.

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SWIFT Ties gpi To eCommerce And DLT

PYMNTS

Payments messaging company SWIFT said it will test gpi Link, “a gateway to interlink eCommerce and trading platforms with the SWIFT gpi payment service.”. SWIFT said the first part of this proof-of-concept effort will involve Corda , an R3 blockchain platform.

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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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SWIFT Pre-Validates, Singapore Eyes Mobile Payments Push

PYMNTS

We designed an ecosystem that is both competitive and interoperable, planned it around the existing financial system and built up the necessary infrastructure and features to support that desired outcome,” said Ong Ye Kung, MAS board member and education minister, in a speech. The upshot, said SWIFT, is predictability on costs.

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