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Report: Helping Banks Speed Payments Cross Border And Make A Clean Correspondent Bank Break

PYMNTS

Cross-border payments are a necessary, yet often frustrating part of the world economy, with international transactions prone to overlapping government regulations, excessive fees and slow processing times. For more on these and other payments modernization news items, download this month’s Tracker. About The Tracker.

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Tietoevry Banking integrates Visa Direct to its Payment Hub

Fintech Finance

Designed specifically to address these problems, Visa B2B Connect is an innovative multilateral payment network which offers an alternative to the unpredictability corporate clients associate with current cross-border correspondent banking processes.

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Wise Granted Direct Access to Philippines’ Instant Payments Infrastructure, Gets Settlement Account With BSP

Fintech Finance

Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money has been granted direct access to InstaPay, the Philippines’ real-time payment system, and can also directly settle with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) real-time gross payment system, PhilPaSS Plus.

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Nexus Empowers APAC Financial Institutions to Achieve G20 Cross-Border Payment Targets

Fintech News

Bottomline helps financial institutions modernise their payments infrastructure and enable multi-rail connectivity, while also supporting their readiness for industry-wide mandates and initiatives such as ISO 20022 and those similar to Project Nexus. What is Project Nexus, and how does it address today’s cross-border payment challenges?

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ISO20022: The big shift to structured addresses

Finextra

Banks need to adopt either a fully structured or hybrid address format to become compliant. Neglecting this may lead to payment failures, processing delays, higher costs, false compliance hits, and increased scrutiny from regulators and correspondent banks. The benefits are far-reaching.

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Onafriq Partners With Circle to Take a Step Towards More Inclusive Pan-African Financial System

The Fintech Times

This collaboration with Circle marks a step towards compliantly leveraging stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure to boost the Onafriq payment network. Currently, over 80 per cent of intra-African payments route through correspondent banks outside the continent and settle in foreign currencies such as the US dollar or the Euro.

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Cloud Banking Next Step In FI Modernization

PYMNTS

“Cloud payments come with a number of advantages over their traditional counterparts. The first is improved speed, shown by the adoption of cloud technology from global payments network SWIFT.