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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. RT2 offers four key advancements: enhanced resilience, expanded access, wider interoperability, and improved functionality. Why is it important? What’s next?

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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 its announcement , SWIFT noted that this standardization will be especially impactful for high-value corporate payments within the correspondent banking sphere.

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

Fintech News

The challenge today is that many countries operate their own IPS, but cross-border payments still rely on slow and expensive correspondent banking arrangements. Ricky Lim : The traditional correspondent banking model involves multiple intermediaries—each adding transaction costs, each introducing potential delays.

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Greater Flexibility: BVNK Wallet Offers Stablecoin, Crypto and Fiat Payments All in One Place

The Fintech Times

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

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UBS Successfully Pilots Blockchain-based Payment Solution for Cross-Border Transactions

The Fintech Times

Xiaonan Zou , UBS head of digital assets, group treasury, adds: “We see the interoperability between UBS Digital Cash and other digital cash initiatives as key for the financial industry.

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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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Key considerations for the adoption of digital currencies

Finextra

They will need to co-exist with existing clearing and settlement processes and infrastructures, and this means interoperability is crucial. By removing the need for correspondent banks and facilitating direct transfers, digital currencies can improve transfer times and enhance the efficiency of cross-border payments. billion in April.