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How China Fuels Alternatives To Correspondent Banking

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Gradually, however, and with a focus on expanding access to digital financial services, China has begun to open up its market to non-Chinese PSPs, with PayPal having recently become the first foreign PSP to launch in the country through its acquisition of China-based GoPay, completed late last year. ” The M&A Route.

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

Fintech Finance

Wise has spent the last 14 years building an alternative to traditional correspondent banking. Fast and convenient withdrawals: Wise customers in the Philippines moving funds from their Wise account to their local banks or e-wallets will see the money arriving in under 20 seconds.

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RT2: A strategic transformation for UK payment providers

The Payments Association

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. Democratised access will foster fintech-bank collaboration, driving innovation. RT2 is substantially expanding direct participation.

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SMBs Seek New Avenues To Cross-Border Payments

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businesses has broadened growth opportunities and opened up new revenue streams, the banking and financial services space hasn’t quite caught up to the modern needs of U.S. An alternative to this payment strategy is to open up a bank account in each market in which a business operates. New Goals, Old Tech.

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Ripple XRP To Power X-Border B2B Payments For MoneyGram

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No doubt by now most payments watchers are familiar with Libra , the Facebook plan to bring a new global cryptocurrency to market that seemingly seeks to do nothing less than upend global banking. In addition, she said, many of these merchants in non-European and non-U.S. markets seek to trade with one another. The Roadmap. “I

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Danske Bank Whistleblower Lashes Out At UK Business Structures

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Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, is being investigated over what has been termed “massive money laundering flows” from Russia and several former Soviet states. The probes are ongoing and relate to transactions tied to the bank’s Estonian branch — and focus on $150 million that made its way through accounts of non-Estonian holders.

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G20 Report Raises Concerns Over Interbanking Decline

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Reports Wednesday (July 5) said the FSB released the results of a survey that found banks across the globe are reducing the number of correspondent banking relationships, used for cross-border payments, as they grow increasingly concerned about falling out of compliance with anti-money-laundering and other regulations.