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Swift drives global interoperability and innovation, aligning with the UK’s National Payments Vision to enhance seamless, secure payments. The UK governments preferred approach is to upgrade the UKs Faster Payments System (FPS) while assessing the longer-term requirements for the UKs retail payments infrastructure.
The ISO 20022 payments messagingstandard — 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.
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 messagingstandard for the Fedwire Funds Service. If payments are not fully enabled for ISO 20022 by the time SWIFT rolls the system out, messages might get cut off.
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.
When analysts from SWIFT and its ISO 20022 Registration Authority took a look at the various efforts behind adoption of the global messagingstandard in 2014, a report found that while implementation projects were on their way across Europe, Russia and Africa, among the laggards were the U.S. and Canada.
Financial messaging service provider SWIFT , for one, recently tested an effort to send money instantly between countries’ real-time payment systems. Around the Faster Payments World. While the Federal Reserve dives into domestic faster payments, other players have been working to accelerate money globally.
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the cost of adoption and process disruption and weigh that against the cost of continuing to rely on legacy, sometimes outdated, technologies.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.
This year is a critical one for this initiative, the Fed said, with the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force having already issued the results of its assessment and recommendations for continued progress. This includes the implementation of ISO 20022 messagingstandards across organizations like NACHA and SWIFT.
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