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U.S. Faster Payments Council Explores the Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World

Fintech Finance

The Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World also highlights the challenges faced by fintech companies, providing insights into regulatory compliance, security, foreign exchange rate risks, lack of transparency, high costs, interoperability, data privacy, competition with financial institutions, and liquidity management.

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FedNow And ISO 20022 Are Here — What Now For FIs And Faster Payments?

PYMNTS

If merchants get their funds faster, that lets them manage liquidity and inventory in a more efficient way, with positive ripple effects up and down supply chains, Ramsey added. Better liquidity management benefits the B2B side of commerce, too, and faster payments also carry a wealth of information.

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SWIFT Set To Shutter Data Matching Tool TSU

PYMNTS

TSU was launched by SWIFT in 2007 to promote the digitization of trade and supply chain processes, including liquidity management, cash flow forecasting and trade finance programs. However, reports said, the solution didn’t work as seamlessly as intended.

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SWIFT Reveals Success, Future Challenges Of Blockchain PoC

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SWIFT has offered another update on its blockchain proof of concept (PoC), reiterating its potential to enrich transaction data, support real-time liquidity management and reconciliation and more. While SWIFT said the PoC was successful, it also highlighted some challenges to adoption.

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Volante: Banks Must Look Beyond Speed With Real-Time B2B Payments

PYMNTS

One of the biggest opportunities is in the ability for real-time payments technologies to not just move money quicker, but to also move rich data along with the transaction, particularly amid spreading adoption of the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard.

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Integrated Workflows Fuel Cross-Border B2B Payments

PYMNTS

Rather than viewing payments and data as two "parallel tracks," initiatives like the ISO 20022 messaging standard have helped to fuel their coupling. As Thakur noted, the opportunity to consolidate complex systems through treasury and banking integrations is vast. Emerging Ecosystems.

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Real Time Heats Up In B2B, While Blockchain Gains Traction

PYMNTS

The partnership supports Payment Canada's need for RTR to enable ISO 20022 messaging standards and remain in compliance with the Bank of Canada 's risk management standards for payment systems, an announcement revealed.

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