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RT2: A strategic transformation for UK payment providers

The Payments Association

It enhances resilience, broadens access, improves interoperability, and enables innovation, thereby modernising the UK’s financial infrastructure. According to the Bank of England, RTGS settles approximately £500 billion between banks each day—around a quarter of the UK’s annual GDP—in sterling central bank money.

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BIS CPMI Takes Further Steps to Promote ISO 20022 Harmonisation for Enhanced Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

The announcement should provide clarity to industry regarding the medium-term governance and maintenance of the harmonised data requirements during the period of global transition to the ISO 20022 messaging standard.

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BIS Sets Out Roadmap for ISO 20022 Implementation in Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

These measures provide a clear path for the governance, management, and maintenance of these requirements as the world transitions to the ISO 20022 messaging standard. BIS aims to improve the efficiency of cross-border payments. They also provide impetus to industry-led efforts to create guidelines for faster cross-border payments.

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Successful Migration of the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System to the ISO20022 Global Messaging Standard

Fintech Finance

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) announces that the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System (KEPSS) has been successfully migrated to the ISO20022 Global Messaging Standard (“ISO20022 Standard”). It is the backbone of Kenya’s domestic and regional payment transactions.

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Smarter Payments Tracker Eyes Interoperability

PYMNTS

In the latest Smarter Payments Tracker , PYMNTS takes a deep dive into the challenge of interoperability in achieving better cross-border payments services and experiences. In the public sector, corporates and government entities are also collaborating in pursuit of interoperability. Across the pond, meanwhile, the U.S.’s

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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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Championing Swift Connectivity for Private Banks and Asset Managers in APAC

Fintech News

The Role of Swift in the Securities Space It is important to highlight Swift’s extensive role beyond cross-border payments, noting that approximately 50% of Swift traffic is related to securities, with peaks reaching 26 million messages per day.

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