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

PYMNTS

The ISO 20022 payments messaging standard — and faster payment networks’ adoption of it — has proven to be a significant value-add to financial service providers’ faster payments offerings. The world is moving more toward standards, and ISO is one of them,” said Halpin.

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Fedwire’s ISO 20022 Migration Delayed By Federal Reserve Bank 

PYMNTS

The Payments Market Practice Group asked the Federal Reserve to reassess its approach to the project, which involves a three-phased migration to the ISO 20022 messaging standard for the Fedwire Funds Service. The Federal Reserve will announce an amended adoption strategy after the assessment is complete. .

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How Swift is moving the global financial industry towards instant and frictionless payments

The Payments Association

The UKs roadmap to faster, more efficient payments A key area of focus outlined in the National Payments Vision is enabling interoperability between domestic and international systems, supported by the adoption of ISO 20022 messaging standards while ensuring the security of the UKs payment systems.

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In the age of crypto, is FATF playing catch-up on Recommendation 16?

The Payments Association

Implementing Travel Rule compliance requires the development of new technical standards and tools, many of which are still in their infancy. The FATFs role in shaping the future Despite these criticisms, the FATF is crucial in forging international consensus on AML and CTF standards.

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SWIFT Reveals Success, Future Challenges Of Blockchain PoC

PYMNTS

The solution deploys Hyperledger to assess the potential for blockchain to enhance bank-to-bank transactions. The PoC includes 34 banks, each with their own node in SWIFT’s DLT sandbox.

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Can On-Demand Pay Stop QSRs’ Employee Churn?

PYMNTS

Improved messaging can support the faster payment sending and processing necessary for rapid cross-border transactions, and many financial services companies are assessing the potential of the ISO 20222 messaging standard to accelerate their operations.

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Why Real-Time B2B Payments Adoption May Be A Molehill, Not A Mountain

PYMNTS

With any change in payment behavior, businesses must assess the cost of adoption and process disruption and weigh that against the cost of continuing to rely on legacy, sometimes outdated, technologies. Speaking The Same (Payments) Language. This is particularly true, he said, when supporting faster payment capabilities across borders.