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Temasek-backed Partior Ledger Expands Following US$60M+ Series B Investment

Fintech News

Traditional cross-border payments encounter various challenges, including delays, high costs, lack of transparency, multiple intermediaries, variable processing speeds, and differing compliance standards across correspondent banks.

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RT2: A strategic transformation for UK payment providers

The Payments Association

This is more than 'coding to the spec'; different and new software is required by originating institutions, correspondent banks, intermediate banks, and even regulators or central banks to realise the advantages." Greater access The previous RTGS operated as a closed system, mainly limited to traditional banks.

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Addressing the Silent Crisis of Failed Payments

Fintech News

Whether you’re a small company or a large bank, the challenge remains: ensuring that every payment instruction contains the correct data in the right format.” ” For FIs, the consequences are equally daunting, as they face expenses associated with the correspondent banking network.

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StoneX Announces Adoption of Swift’s Payment Pre-validation Service

Fintech Finance

To counter these challenges, Swift recently introduced its Payment Pre-validation service, which allows for the verification of beneficiary account details before initiating international payments. The cost to repair a failed payment is estimated to be between €50-100 per payment, and in some cases much higher.

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How APIs And Improved Onboarding Can Accelerate Cross-Border SMB Payments

PYMNTS

Streamlining these procedures and implementing application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect banks more efficiently could be the lynchpin to ending these frustrations. The inefficiencies in B2B cross-border payments are well-known among struggling SMB owners, with the correspondence banking model having been in effect since 1973.

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GIACT To Help Streamline Financial Aid For SMBs In COVID-19 Payout

PYMNTS

The government’s PPP provides $349 billion in Small Business Administration (SBA) loans and is part of a $2 trillion stimulus plan , the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

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ACH vs. Wire Transfers: Which Is Right for You?

Nanonets

A well-established network of correspondent banks facilitates cross-border and cross-currency transfers with typically only one or two intermediaries involved. These are: Verification of account information – You must verify that your account information is current with the ACH network (this can be done through your bank).