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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Payments messaging company SWIFT is gearing up to close its Trade Services Utility (TSU), a workflow engine aimed at facilitating value-added supply chain services. Reports in Global Trade Review (GTR) on Monday (April 8) said SWIFT will switch off its TSU in December 2020.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Having reflected on what the top priority is for businesses looking to enter the cross-border payments space, we now turn our attention to the future, and how the sector will evolve in 2024. ” The post How Will the Cross-Border Payments Space Evolve in 2024?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Payments messaging company SWIFT is expanding its gpi for Corporates (g4C) initiative, adding treasury management technology company BELLIN to its roster of early adopters of the tool. The tool expanded and began requiring SWIFT customers to include their UETR in all payment instructions, even for institutions not part of gpi.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Fifteen major banks will test Swift's pre-validation service for Global Payments Innovation transactions, focusing on quickly identifying and eliminating errors or omissions in payment messages.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

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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Payments Source

APRIL 4, 2019

Payments messaging standards provider Swift has established a new group to help it promote and assure smooth migration of the cross-border ISO 20022 standard.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The network says more than $100 billion in Swift GPI payment messages are sent daily, enabling payments to be credited to the end beneficiaries within minutes — and some within seconds.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

SWIFT is expanding its network-wide payments validation toolkit, announcing Thursday (May 2) a new “in-flight” cloud-based payment investigation and resolution service. In a press release, SWIFT said the new feature allows for dynamic query handling between banks on the SWIFT network.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

A new API standard for the pre-authorization of funds is being rolled out by SWIFT, clearing a path for a revolution in financial services enabled by open banking, the company said in a press release on Thursday (Sept. With this latest standard, a payer’s bank can designate funds in advance, assuring upcoming payments will clear. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a payment messaging firm, has chosen Javier Pérez-Tasso as its new chief executive officer, according to a press release. Pérez-Tasso joined SWIFT in 1995, and in 2015 was appointed as chief executive for the Americas and U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT will allow blockchain companies to connect into its global payments innovation (gpi) platform, SWIFT said in its latest report on the future of payments. The initiative follows a collaboration between SWIFT and R3 that was announced in January, reports noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

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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Payments Source

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The payments messaging network Swift has told its client banks that the threat of cyberattacks "is very persistent, adaptive and sophisticated — and it is here to stay.".

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

Competition in the cross-border payments market is on the rise as blockchain firm Ripple and payments messaging company SWIFT vie for market leadership. The company also launched a partnership earlier this year with Spain’s Banco Santander to develop a cross-border payments service based on XCurrent.

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Payments Source

APRIL 11, 2016

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) has created a service to help financial institutions comply with requirements governing payments messaging.

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Payments Source

APRIL 11, 2016

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) has created a service to help financial institutions comply with requirements governing payments messaging.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

SWIFT and SAP are collaborating to facilitate corporate-to-bank connectivity into the SWIFT network, the companies recently announced. The payments messaging firm and the enterprise software conglomerate revealed they are working together to streamline corporate treasury’s integration into the SWIFT network via financial institutions.

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The Paypers

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

TechQuartier , a Germany-based fintech, has announced an ecosystem partnership with electronic payment messaging system SWIFT.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

SWIFT announced Thursday (May 24) that 25 percent of all SWIFT cross-border payment traffic is being sent over the global payments innovation — or gpi — in the 15 months since the service was rolled out. SWIFT said gpi is set to be the standard for all cross-border payments made on the SWIFT network by the end of 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reportedly sent letters to several heads of top banks in the country questioning why they have yet to fix gaps in their SWIFT systems, according to The Economic Times of India. The scam went undetected for so long, reports noted, because PNB had not integrated SWIFT into its core banking system.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Sources have revealed that Venezuela might use a Russian-operated international payments messaging system in an effort to get around U.S. Bloomberg reported that press officials for the Venezuelan and Russian central banks didn’t immediately comment, while SWIFT declined to comment.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Payments messaging company SWIFT is hoping to launch real-time payments services in the Asia Pacific region, according to Verdict reports on Friday (April 20). SWIFT gpi , launched last year, provides financial institutions with infrastructure to facilitate transparent, faster cross-border payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The growing traction of faster payments continues, especially across a cross-border backdrop. In news reported by MoneyControl.com, SWIFT, the payments messaging giant, is reportedly looking at testing instant international settlements with local networks in India to speed transactions and make them more transparent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

SWIFT’s gpi initiative is broadening payment tracking capabilities, according to a press release from the payments messaging organization. SWIFT rolled out the gpi Tracker solution last year as a solution to help treasurers track payments in real time with a focus on cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2017

SWIFT is opening up its KYC registry to more banks around the globe. The payments messaging company said Monday (July 17) that its KYC Registry is now open to all supervised financial institutions around the globe. The Registry enables banks and FIs to share and access KYC data and documents.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

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. The PoC includes 34 banks, each with their own node in SWIFT’s DLT sandbox.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2017

Financial messaging firm SWIFT made its first public embrace of blockchain technology last year with a whitepaper exploring the use of the technology for smart contracts. 12) said SWIFT will launch a proof-of-concept test to explore the use of blockchain technology for cross-border payments and settlements by banks.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication says a pre-validation system it will launch soon to catch payment message mistakes prior to dispatch should increase the number of payments reaching beneficiaries in less than 30 seconds.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

A new deal involving SWIFT and 10 Chinese banks represents the latest move in the global competition to facilitate cross-border payments. In a statement , the payments messaging company said the financial institutions (FIs) “have gone live” with the SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (GPI) initiative.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2016

Bad news broke on Monday morning (April 25) for global payments messaging platform SWIFT as BAE Systems released analysis concluding that cyberthieves hacked into SWIFT’s software , causing the $81 million bank heist from the Bangladesh central bank.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

This makes China’s international payments play a bit unconvincing to some. But payments messaging service SWIFT has been brought on by China to help strengthen CIPS’ capabilities. Reports said Friday (March 25) that the company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that sees SWIFT aiding CIPS in its development.

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Payments Source

JUNE 15, 2017

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication plans to add instant payments messaging for the European market by late 2018, marking another step in its ongoing faster payments projects.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 14, 2024

Accessible through Banking Circle’s SWIFT membership as a plug and play solution means the development and administrative costs and timelines usually linked to direct participation with the clearing houses (ACH) or cumbersome sponsor bank integration can be eliminated.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

As SWIFT continues to promote the adoption of the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard across financial institutions, the company said it is zeroing in on the potential for ISO 20022 harmonization in the high-value payments space. To highlight that potential, SWIFT revealed on Thursday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This week's look at payment rail innovation is all about speed, both for legacy rails and new ones. SWIFT has revealed plans to develop new real-time rails, while VSoft is wielding traditional bank rails to facilitate its real-time payments capabilities. SWIFT to Launch New Real-Time Rails.

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