Fintech News

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Nium, a global payments infrastructure provider, announced that financial institutions can now connect to its real-time payments network using their existing Swift infrastructure. This eliminates the need for complex and costly API integrations, making cross-border payments faster and more affordable.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Swift, the global financial messaging service provider, is collaborating with Google Cloud to develop innovative anti-fraud technologies. Federated learning allows participating institutions to train AI models on their own data and share only the learnings, not the data itself, with a central server managed by Swift.

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Finextra

JUNE 29, 2025

Market Size Value of cross-border payments is estimated to reach a minimum $ 250 trillion by 2027. Global non-cash commercial payments will grow at a CAGR of 11.3% 60% of corporate banks agree that cross-border real-time payments infrastructure brings a revenue opportunity.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2025

Swift today announced the launch of an enhanced solution for managing payment investigations that could save the financial industry millions and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify and resolve issues when international payments are delayed. Financial institutions spend more than USD 1.6

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 1, 2024

In a move to make cross-border transfers more accessible and seamless for customers, HSBC Singapore has been working alongside money movement solutions provider, Dandelion. This enhancement tripled HSBC’s cross-border payment capabilities, adding 50 new destinations and 40 new currencies.

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Fintech News

JUNE 2, 2024

Swift, the global financial messaging cooperative, has announced two AI-driven experiments in collaboration with member banks to combat cross-border payments fraud which could potentially save the industry billions in fraud-related costs.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Money20/20 , the global fintech show, is gearing up to return to Asia from 22 to 24 April 2025, with plans to spotlight cross-border payments. During this year’s show, Money20/20 plans to focus on Asias innovations, emerging payment networks, and regulatory leadership that shape the payment ecosystem in the region.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 24, 2023

The international cooperative reports improvements in meeting some G20 cross-border payments goals, but says the industry is falling short on others.

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Fintech Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this exclusive Fintech Review interview, Adam Swartzbaugh, CEO of Almond FinTech , discusses transformative cross-border payment technology. Almond’s blockchain-driven Settlement Optimization Engine (SOE) addresses critical speed, transparency, and cost challenges in cross-border payments.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated discussions with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) , the US Federal Reserve, and the international payment platform SWIFT to explore the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border payments.

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Fintech Finance

DECEMBER 11, 2024

To better combat fraud in cross-border payments, Swift, the global provider of secure financial messaging services, is working with Google Cloud to develop anti-fraud technologies that use advanced AI and federated learning. The central server aggregates these learnings to enhance Swifts global model.

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Fintech News

MAY 21, 2024

Swift has announced a major upgrade aimed at improving the cross-border payment experience for corporate customers. The financial messaging network will extend ISO 20022 across the entire payment chain and provide banks with ready-to-use tracking services.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Swift today published new data which reveals continued progress towards meeting the G20’s goal for the speed of cross-border payments, reporting that 90% of cross-border payments made over the Swift network reach the destination bank within an hour.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

SWIFT , a global provider of secure financial messaging, announced a new service Thursday (Oct. 1) that promises to improve the experience for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and consumers who send low-value payments across borders. SWIFT said this latest improvement is another building block for its new strategy.

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The Payments Association

JANUARY 15, 2025

Swift drives global interoperability and innovation, aligning with the UK’s National Payments Vision to enhance seamless, secure payments. The UKs payments landscape is at an inflexion point. The result is an improved customer experience.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The collaboration progresses a strategic relationship the two organisations announced in October 2022, and reflects a commitment by Swift, GSS and the GSS Advisory Board, comprising 35 of the world’s leading financial institutions, to reduce inefficiency in the global payments ecosystem.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Mastercard introduced a new product innovation, Mastercard Move Commercial Payments, that will enable banks to facilitate near real-time, predictable and transparent commercial cross-border payments. Fully compatible with existing correspondent banking arrangements between respondents and correspondents.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Temenos today launched a SaaS enterprise service for cross border payments, empowering Payment Service Providers (PSPs), including banks, electronic money institutions (EMIs) and fintechs, to swiftly launch and lower the cost of cross border payment services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

SWIFT , a global provider of secure financial messaging services, announced Wednesday (Sept. 16) that its cross-border platform will be retooled to enable financial institutions to deliver instant transactions. SWIFT said the planned platform will leverage its reach across more than 11,000 institutions in 200 countries.

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Finextra

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Japanese banks MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho are participating in a pilot using stablecoins and the Swift network for cross-border payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America (BofA) is introducing a cross-border payment tracker and expanding SWIFT gpi to support more than 140 currencies, accessible through the integrated CashPro platform. Customers can make payments via Bank of America’s SWIFT gpi solution. and Ireland at SWIFT. . 10) press release.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 12, 2024

Cross-border payments are becoming increasingly important to international economies. The G20 roadmap for enhanced cross-border payments aims to improve the speed, access, transparency, and cost of international payments by 2030.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This helps to reduce payment failures, operational inefficiencies, and compliance risks in cross-border payments. With payment failures costing the global economy an estimated US$118.5 ” said Alex Johnson, Chief Payments Officer at Nium.

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Fintech News

JUNE 11, 2024

Licensed as a Major Payment Institution (MPI) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), OPAL offers domestic and cross-border payments, payment accounts, and e-money services. Customers can receive funds in up to 33 different currencies via SWIFT and local payout rails.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 29, 2025

Banks, digital wallets and remittance businesses will now have an easier time sending money to Uzbekistan as Paysend , the digital payment network extends its cross-border payment facilities. Over two million Uzbeks live abroad and remittances hit $2.5billion in Q1 2024 alonean 8.6

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Payments Dive

JUNE 20, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search Retail Banking Restaurants Regulations & Policy Risk Technology B2B An article from Dive Brief Tensec raises $12M to boost growth Meanwhile, other cross-border payment firms have raised millions in recent weeks to bolster their international expansion.

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Fintech News

JUNE 4, 2024

This partnership will integrate Mastercard Move , a comprehensive suite of money transfer solutions, into Temenos Payments Hub. Mastercard Move’s solutions facilitate secure and swift international money transfers, offering cost-effective options to route and deliver funds through Mastercard’s extensive global network.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Swift today announced that it is rolling out new AI-enhanced fraud detection to help the global payments industry step up its defence as bad actors grow increasingly sophisticated. Available from January 2025, the service is the result of extensive collaboration with banks from around the world and a successful pilot earlier this year.

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The Fintech Times

MAY 28, 2025

This dual licensing enables the company to offer cross-border payment services that integrate traditional fiat currencies with blockchain-based stablecoin transfers. This is a major leap in making global money movement truly borderless, said Kebbie Sebastian, founder and CEO of Merge.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced a partnership with Ecobank Transnational Incorporated., the leading independent pan-African financial services group, to enable seamless cross-border payments across 35 African markets for more than 32 million customers.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Swift has announced the launch of its first-ever “The Innovation Challenges” that invites participants to create AI-based solutions aimed at improving the efficiency and security of cross-border transactions. They will be granted access to the Swift Challenge sandbox environment.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 24, 2024

The replacement RTGS system, slated for readiness in August 2024, makes support for ISO 20022 a prerequisite for all international payments from the SWIFT deadline. The shift in cross border payments is the first step in what will become a broader adoption of the ISO 20022 standard in the payments environment as a whole.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

It may seem that cross-border payments were in the … well … crosshairs this past week, with a number of country-by-country and company-by-company initiatives using blockchain and other methods to speed payments and lower fees. These shortcomings make the cross-border payment industry ripe for disruption and innovation.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 8, 2025

The license approval marks a major milestone in PayFuture Group’s growth strategy, enabling EU merchants to expand their global reach into emerging markets through alternative payment methods (APMs) and with future capabilities to support card payments.

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Global provider of secure financial messaging services SWIFT has announced the translation availability for its ISO 20022 customer testing environment for cross-border payments.

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Fintech Finance

JANUARY 11, 2024

Faster Payments Council (FPC) , a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, today published its latest research report, titled The Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 11, 2025

Clear Junction , a global leader in cross-border payments for regulated financial institutions, has once again been recognised in the 2025 FT 1000 , the Financial Times’ prestigious ranking of Europe’s fastest-growing companies.

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