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APRIL 15, 2020

For foreign payment service providers looking to facilitate cross-border B2B payments into China, the correspondent banking model often remains the only route to facilitate clearing and settlement. “Getting correspondent bank accounts is the biggest challenge every payment service provider is facing.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

The FinTech space is oversaturated with talk of blockchain technology. But late last week, Visa announced that it will be rolling out Visa B2B Connect, a platform for banks to make payments and settle funds across borders using Chain Core, the blockchain infrastructure developed by Chain.

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2017

FinTech innovators are finally paying attention to the B2B sphere, and much of that focus has landed on the cross-border payments space — a notoriously clunky, expensive and opaque burden for many business payers. Traditional banks are often at the center of that global B2B payments friction. Beyond U.S.

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MAY 24, 2017

With lack of visibility into the correspondent banking system a top challenge for B2B payments, SWIFT is rolling out a way for payers to track their cross-border payments in real time. The company announced Tuesday (May 23) that its Tracker is now available to help businesses track global payments as they occur.

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APRIL 11, 2016

A new report from Citigroup makes the case for this gradual, uneven evolution when it comes to blockchain technology and the banking sector. It’s an important conclusion, especially as banks simultaneously fear and embrace the potential for blockchain to change the way they operate.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In addition, innovators the world over are exploring how technologies like blockchain could address payments speeds and efficiency on an international level. The rise of cryptocurrencies and blockchain emerged from the need for a better way to transact that is not currently offered by the traditional banking system, he explained.

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