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SWIFT Ties gpi To eCommerce And DLT

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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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SWIFT Ties gpi to eCommerce and DLT

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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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Bulgarian Fibank Joins SWIFT gpi

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First Investment Bank ( Fibank ) is the first Bulgarian bank to offer the SWIFT Global Payment Initiative (gpi), according to a press release. SWIFT data shows that about 36 percent of gpi transfers reach their destination within 5 minutes. About 53 percent reach in an hour, and 96 percent reach the same day.

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SWIFT Enters China’s X-Border Payments Efforts

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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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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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Russia’s Sberbank Develops Instant B2B Payments Service

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Last year, Sberbank agreed to invest more than $500 million in the Yandex.Market eCommerce solution to develop a payment solution and introduce new features on the platform. Other B2B payment initiatives in Russia have come from Visa , which announced earlier this year that it would be expanding its corporate payment services in the country.

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More Banks Join SWIFT’s Global B2B Payments Pilot

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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.