Fintech News

APRIL 21, 2025

USD payouts are trackable, and a single integration with Thunes’ platform eliminates the need for businesses to build separate correspondent banking networks. Businesses can pay suppliers in their local currencies, helping to lower exchange rate and reconciliation costs, with clear references for each payment.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Correspondent banking relationships are vital for facilitating international transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A new report from the International Finance Corporation, a part of the World Bank Group, finds correspondent banking relationships are down, an unintended consequence of regulatory reform. 8) said 27 percent of global banks surveyed have reported a drop in the number of correspondent banking relationships.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In the wake of an investigation of over 200 billion euros ($229 billion) in suspected money laundering at Danske Bank’s Estonia branch, Deutsche Bank has said it has sharply cut down on its correspondent banking services, according to a report by Reuters. The 200 billion euros were moved from 2007 to 2015.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Deutsche Bank’s Institutional Cash and Trade announces the launch of dbX, paving the way for its next generation, fully integrated correspondent banking ecosystem.

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The Payments Association

MARCH 15, 2024

Exploring innovative solutions to address the challenges and opportunities in global financial connectivity as traditional correspondent banking relationships diminish. Read more

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 7, 2025

The service is fully operational and accessible via the banks mobile applications and branch networks, enabling seamless transactions across African borders. With this launch, businesses and individuals can benefit from faster, more cost-effective, and secure payments without relying on correspondent banks or third-party currencies.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 8, 2019

Despite controversy surrounding Ripple’s digital token, one bank is pushing forward to use it in cross-border payments.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 8, 2018

The fact remains that the vast majority of international payments are still done via banks and through the correspondent (SWIFT) network, writes Rosie Faulkner, vice president and money laundering reporting officer at Earthport.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Wise has spent the last 14 years building an alternative to traditional correspondent banking. With over 65 licenses globally and now six direct connections to domestic payment systems, this infrastructure enables over 63% of all Wise transactions to be completed instantly (under 20 seconds), with an average fee of 0.62%.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Regulators must define a “minimum set of data” to be shared between banks that would still “serve the purpose” of fraud detection and prevention, said Michele Gentile, head of group correspondent banking, APAC, UniCredit, at Sibos today.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 6, 2025

The service is fully operational and accessible via the banks mobile applications and branch networks, enabling seamless transactions across African borders. With this launch, businesses and individuals can benefit from faster, more cost-effective, and secure payments without relying on correspondent banks or third-party currencies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Correspondent Banking . Financial institutions (FIs) traditionally offer remittances through correspondent banking relationships , in which banks in different countries open deposit accounts to handle cross-border payments. Correspondent banking is not the only way that money transfers can be conducted.

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Finextra

JUNE 19, 2024

Taking to the stage on the second and final day of EBAday in Lisbon, Portugal were Erik Frantz, executive director, financial institutions – banks, CaixaBank; Roisin Levine, head of UK and Europe partnerships, Wise Platform; Rafael Linde, head, international development and global relationship management, Cecabank; Dean Sposito, head of institutional (..)

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Fintech News

JULY 14, 2024

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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The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2025

In the last few years, stablecoins have emerged as a new global payment rail for businesses and an alternative to the correspondent banking system. With our embedded wallet, were making stablecoin, crypto and fiat payment rails interoperable, to give our customers true payments flexibility. Why stablecoins?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

A new report by the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI) said the decline of correspondent banking relationships disproportionately impacts Islamic financial institutions (FIs). Islamic banks in Southeast Asia added that cash management services were most impacted for them.

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The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In addition to their role in correspondent banking, they also have the potential to streamline and simplify the settlement of tokenised assets in the capital market.”

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 12, 2016

(The Paypers) Wells Fargo , ANZ and Swift have deployed a prototype that envisions the role blockchain plays in correspondent banking.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 24, 2025

.” Transactions on RTGS.global’s network are conducted Payment vs, Payment (PvP), therefore no deduction fees are taken at the point of transaction, nor is there a requirement to pre-fund either bank account as with correspondent banking services.

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Fintech News

JUNE 4, 2024

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched Project Rialto to test the potential for improving instant cross-border payments through a combination of a modular foreign exchange (FX) component and wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDC).

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 30, 2025

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. This collaboration with Circle marks a step towards compliantly leveraging stablecoins and blockchain infrastructure to boost the Onafriq payment network.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The traditional correspondent banking network is one major speedbump that stops financial institutions (FIs) from providing speedy, inexpensive, cross-currency and cross-border transfers, Lembo explained, but financial services providers can adopt new technology and approaches to safely streamline these transactions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

A press release issued Wednesday (July 31) said ISO 20022 has the potential to promote efficiency in the correspondent banking community and modernize cross-border transactions. “Adoption of ISO 20022 will continue the transformation of correspondent banking already ongoing,” SWIFT said in its announcement.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Following its collaboration with Dandelion, HSBC now offers fee-free transfers to over 100 destinations in more than 60 currencies, providing a seamless, real-time payment experience that bypasses the traditional correspondent banking model.

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The Paypers

MARCH 20, 2018

(The Paypers) The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published updated data on correspondent banking relationships using data provided by SWIFT.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

The following Deep Dive examines how cross-border remittances are typically conducted via a correspondent banking model and details how these payments’ slow processing times and high fees are exacerbated by complex and overlapping government regulations. How Correspondent Banking Works. Obstacles To Smooth Remittances.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Criticism of the world’s correspondent banking network continues to mount — and at the same time, the number of correspondent banking relationships is on the decline. percent decline in correspondent banking activity in 2017.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

These challenges are only exacerbated when payments move across international borders, usually accomplished via correspondence banking. Banks are typically required to establish direct links with financial institutions (FIs) in other nations to make or receive cross-border payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

MoneyGram has partnered with Suez Canal Bank to let customers send money right into Egyptian bank accounts, according to a press release. The deal will expand MoneyGram’s presence in Egypt and give it access to Suez Canal’s large network of correspondent banks around the globe.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Leverages banks’ existing investments in Swift messaging infrastructure, with a single technical connection that allows corridors and currencies to be added with minimal cost and resources. Fully compatible with existing correspondent banking arrangements between respondents and correspondents.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 12, 2024

BS2 also serves as Nium’s Brazilian Real (BRL) Correspondent Bank, assisting in real-time payment settlements for cross-border Pix transfers. BS2 is leveraging Nium’s Global FX product to reduce costs and enable real-time payouts between Brazil and key trading partners like China and the UAE.

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The Paypers

JANUARY 15, 2019

(The Paypers) Euro Exim Bank has signed up for payment network RippleNet, putting Ripple ’s digital currency XRP on a potential path to replace correspondent banking.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Inefficient, paper-bound processes, oligopolies that can charge high prices, the Rube Goldberg structure of correspondent banking, and excessive regulation all make it expensive for migrants to send money home. Technology is a big part of the answer.

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Finextra

APRIL 29, 2024

Service level agreements used in cross-border payment arrangements define minimum service levels for correspondent banking relationships, the links between payment systems and payment instrument rulebooks.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2024

PSPs save money as they no longer need to set up correspondent banking to hold money overseas, nor do they need to pay banks per transaction. This puts PSPs in control of their own liquidity and allows them to buy and sell with speed overseas.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

This network is quickly becoming more popular as a replacement for correspondence banking models, partnering with BNY Mellon and Microsoft to enable payments at 11,000 FIs in more than 200 countries around the world. The first is improved speed, shown by the adoption of cloud technology from global payments network SWIFT.

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