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PAY360 2025 unpacked: Key survey findings shaping the future of payments

The Payments Association

Key insights from the PAY360 2025 survey on current challenges and opportunities in the payments sector. It highlights how industry leaders are prioritising AI, cross-border payments, and digital currencies while grappling with regulatory, technological, and customer demands. Why is it important? What’s next?

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

The Payments Association

The recently published National Payments Vision sets a forward-looking strategy, outlining priorities such as enhancing the regulatory framework, advancing Open Banking, combating fraud, and building a world-leading payments infrastructure with cross-border interoperability. The result is an improved customer experience.

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TerraPay and Paramount partner for real-time payouts

The Paypers

Better real-time payouts in Canada By collaborating with the Canadian pay-by-bank provider, TerraPay’s network of money transfer operations can facilitate improved real-time payments to recipients in Canada.

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RAKBANK Completes International CBDC Transaction Using eCNY and Digital Dirham

The Fintech Times

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have a lot of potential to uproot the cross-border payments market. RAKBANK has successfully exchanged a remittance using China’s digital Yuan (eCNY) in exchange for the Digital Dirham, the UAE’s CBDC.

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RBI Discusses CBDCs for Cross-Border Payments with HKMA, US Fed, and SWIFT

Fintech News

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated discussions with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) , the US Federal Reserve, and the international payment platform SWIFT to explore the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border payments.

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Central Bank Of Russia: Electronic Money Could Render SWIFT Obsolete

PYMNTS

According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), as of July, some 36 central banks published studies on the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) also known as a digital fiat currency, the report stated. “In SWIFT currently expedites cross-border payments for 11,000 banks across more than 200 countries.

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What Is the Top Priority for Firms Looking To Offer Cross-Border Payments?

The Fintech Times

When you think about financial technology, it is easy to think about solutions which are making payments faster, easier and more accessible. Having discussed the myths , hype and usage of buy now pay later (BNPL), we now turn our focus to cross-border payments. Can any risks be mitigated pro-actively?