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Successful Migration of the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System to the ISO20022 Global Messaging Standard

Fintech Finance

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) announces that the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System (KEPSS) has been successfully migrated to the ISO20022 Global Messaging Standard (“ISO20022 Standard”). KEPSS, which is Kenya’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, is operated by CBK to process large-value and time-critical payments.

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Project Meridian FX: Joint Project by the Eurosystem and London Centres, and the Bank of England, to Test Synchronised Settlement in FX

Fintech Finance

The project will provide insights on how operators of real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems could enable interoperability with new payments technologies, such as distributed ledger technology (DLT). The experiments will take place towards the end of 2024. The experiments will take place towards the end of 2024.

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ISO 20022 – Expanding like no tomorrow

ACI Worldwide Blog

In the domestic Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)/Wire and cross-border payment spaces, transformation to the most recent ISO 20022 (HVPS+ and CBPR+) messaging standards has been ongoing since 2022. ISO 20022 is a messaging standard used across the financial industry.

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Eurosystem's T2 wholesale payment system goes live

The Paypers

The European Central Bank has announced the launch of the new real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system and central liquidity management.

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Faster Payments Interoperability

Faster Payments Council

Developed by the FPC Network Committee, this white paper explores different models that can connect systems together to achieve payments interoperability such as point of origination, network to network, or with an intermediary, and how settlement could work in those models. View the Document

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Risk, fintechs and regs spark real-time payment reforms in U.K.

Payments Source

s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system. payments authority, Pay.UK, is developing a New Payments Architecture that will upgrade Britain’s Faster Payments real-time retail system. The Bank of England is upgrading the U.K.’s Separately, the U.K.

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BOE: Banks Don't Get Protection From Digital Currencies

PYMNTS

Later in the summer, the BoE hired IT firm Accenture to revamp and revitalize its Real-Time Gross Settlements (RTGS) service, which handles daily transactions for financial institutions.