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JULY 9, 2020

There’s no single path to payments infrastructure innovation. This week’s examination of the latest initiatives to target B2B payments friction from the ground up finds a mix of strategies. For some, like Currencycloud and Steamchain, the path involves bypassing legacy payment rails and embracing blockchain.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2020

Although SWIFT revealed plans for its account-to-account functionality last month, the announcement only began making headlines a few days ago. Reports have said the move by the payments messaging company positions the firm take on payments giants Visa and Mastercard. Billhop Eases B2B Card Acceptance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

For a few years the corporate banking space has been discussing the potential for ISO 20022 to streamline payments, with industry forces like SWIFT and SEPA promoting its adoption. But, according to Nordea, obstacles remain for ISO 20022 to take off as a payments messaging standard and provide corporates the efficiency they need.

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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. “In 2024, cross-border payments volumes will continue to grow rapidly.

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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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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

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

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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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

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

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

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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The payment messaging entity SWIFT this past week began implementing its SWIFTNet Instant service that is tied to the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement service. The service, as has been reported, lets customers make instant payments from inside the Single Euro Payments Area (also known as SEPA ).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

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.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2018

Payments messaging service SWIFT has received clearance to provide access to the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) payment scheme, the company said Tuesday (Aug. In an announcement on its website, SWIFT said that, beginning Nov. Both schemes facilitate instant domestic payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Corporates have growing expectations for faster, more efficient and more secure B2B payments — whether their money is moving from one business unit to another or one country to another. Payments Speed and Security. As financial institutions gather for this year’s Sibos conference kicking off in London today (Sept.

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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

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The guarantees mean that B2B suppliers will be guaranteed payment, even if end customers do not pay. Beyond those company-specific announcements, The Moscow Times reported that eight foreign banks have signed on to what is billed as the “Russian version” of the SWIFT payments messaging service.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Paper checks are often pointed to as an example of how difficult it can be for corporates to change their payment behaviors. With newer digital, automated payment technologies emerging in the B2B space, businesses continue to stick to what’s familiar: paper. Speaking The Same (Payments) Language.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Reuters had previously reported last week that such a task force would form following the $81 million bank heist from Bangladesh Bank , a crime that infiltrated the SWIFT payments messaging network. The funds were stolen from Bangladesh’s central bank’s account at the New York Federal Reserve.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Payments infrastructure news tends to be global in scope, as firms and stakeholders eye efficiency and speed in transacting in new and existing markets far-flung in nature. That latter solution lets users access multiple instant payment systems across Europe via single access point, leveraging existing SWIFT infrastructure.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2018

Russia is reportedly looking to use the platform to replace SWIFT’s inter-bank communications network. European Union sanctions against Russia for its annexation of Crimea in 2014 sparked concerns that SWIFT may remove Russia from its system.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

The interbank messaging firm SWIFT has had a rough few months. Cyberattackers were able to steal $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank by compromising the SWIFT messaging system , forcing the company — and financial services players everywhere — to take a renewed look at payments security measures.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Axis’ participation in Earthport’s network is its latest effort to stay on the cutting edge of global payments and FinTech.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

With faster payments functionality beginning to take off in the U.S., the outlook of how accelerated transaction times might impact B2B payments and, more specifically, the issue of late payments to suppliers, remains unclear. “We see faster payments coming into the U.S. As Rimilia expands into the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT has taken recent steps to promote interoperability of its payments network, recently announcing that it would allow blockchain platforms to loop into SWIFT’s global payments innovations (GPI) service to facilitate real-time transactions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New Payments Platform (NPP) Australia , the nation’s real-time payments service that went live earlier this year, is now seeking collaboration from FinTech firms and developers through the launch of a developer sandbox. Reports in the Australian Financial Review ( AFR ) on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Separately, SWIFT said this past week that it has launched a pilot program that focuses on an integrated gpi payments service that quickly identifies and eliminates payment message errors. SWIFT has said it is working with 14 banks globally.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT announced on Tuesday (Feb. SWIFT noted that these cases present KYC challenges because data exchanged between all these parties is often incomplete or out of date. SWIFT’s KYC Registry offers entities a unified platform through which they can upload and share standardized KYC data.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Deep Data For Swift, Secure Payments . ISO 20022 introduced a range of data fields that allow transactional details to be remitted along with payments. NACHA also offers a tool to help firms send ISO 20022-approved remittances data for B2B payments. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

Last January, the bank was part of a group of financial institutions that signed onto SWIFT’s global payments innovation initiative , an effort to streamline cross-border payments via the SWIFT payments messaging network.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

The bank is using SWIFT’s gpi service , and is also reportedly in discussions with the payments messaging company to join a consortium to develop a real-time payments solution for cross-border transactions in the Asia Pacific region.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Payments messaging technology provider SWIFT recently opened up its Know Your Customer (KYC) platform, the KYC Registry , directly to corporates. The initiative enables 2,000 corporate groups on the SWIFT network to utilize the KYC Registry by uploading and maintaining their KYC data with financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Cross-border payments, trade finance, smart contracts — blockchain has the potential to disrupt B2B processes, but FinTech players are only beginning to take these concepts onto a real-world stage. But there’s another reason why proponents of blockchain are so confident the technology can make waves in the payments space: security.

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