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SWIFT Delays X-Border Payments Migration To ISO 20022

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Cross-border payments via Swift’s ISO 20022 migration, originally set to roll out by November 2021, have now been set back a year and are expected to come by the end of 2022 instead, according to reports. ISO 20022 is set to make changes to the payment landscape as a whole, according to the company.

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AFFIN BANK Partners With ACI Worldwide to Modernise Payments for Malaysian Businesses

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It will enable interoperability among PayNet, RENTAS, and SWIFT using ISO 20022 standards. As the industry adopts ISO 20022 globally, this modernisation solution meets regulatory mandates, improves system resilience, and integrates future payment services.

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Embracing An ISO 20022 Roadmap

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The push to adopt a messaging standard that is truly global — that would be ISO 20022 — stops at the U.S. As has been much documented, Europe has embraced the payments initiative, which expands messaging capabilities and has as its central core tenet standardized (but flexible) messaging across FX, transactions and payments rails.

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Swift Standardises Payments End-to-End and Gives Banks Ready-to-Use Tracking Services to Enhance Corporate Experience

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Swift has today set out plans to help financial institutions streamline the cross-border payments experience for their corporate customers, by extending ISO 20022 across the entire payment chain and giving banks ready-to-use, white-labelled tracking services that can be activated for customers at the click of a button.

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Fed Acknowledges Roadblocks In ISO 20022 Push

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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. “The wire infrastructure will be the first infrastructure to abandon its propriety formats and move to ISO 20022.”

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Nium Enables Financial Institutions to Connect to Its Real-Time Payments Network via Swift

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Cross-border payments initiated via Swift can be completed on Nium’s network, resulting in faster settlement, end-to-end transparency, and full traceability for most popular corridors. Nium has become the connecting point to the world of real-time money movement,” said Alex Johnson, Chief Payments Officer at Nium.

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

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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. These underlying markets sometimes dictate the speed by which a cross-border payment can travel to an end beneficiary.”.

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