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Optimising Cross-Border Payments Globally: Shaping the Economy of Tomorrow

Fintech News

Cross-border payments are the fundamental infrastructure that facilitates the flow of money within an increasingly interconnected global economy, underpinning commerce between individuals, businesses, and governments worldwide. Similarly, South Korea’s instant RTGS-based systems facilitate secure, fast settlements.

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CBDC in Corporate Payments and Transaction Banking

Finextra

Emergence of SWIFT & RTP: The 1980s–1990s saw global messaging standards (MT-103, MT-202) and real-time rails (Fedwire, TARGET2) democratize cross-border settlement but reliance on intermediaries, queue times, and compliance checks remained major pain points.

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OBL celebrates seventh anniversary of PSD2 and the creation of open banking

Open Banking

Over the course of the past seven years, OBL has facilitated its implementation through the Open Banking Standard and helped to foster an ecosystem worth 4 billion to the economy. Support regulated third party providers and banks and building societies to use the Open Banking Standard. Create security and messaging standards.

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Successful Migration of the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System to the ISO20022 Global Messaging Standard

Fintech Finance

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) announces that the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System (KEPSS) has been successfully migrated to the ISO20022 Global Messaging Standard (“ISO20022 Standard”). It is the backbone of Kenya’s domestic and regional payment transactions.

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Finastra Facilitates Connection of Swiss Banks in Readiness for New SIC Instant Payments Service

Fintech Finance

Using Finastra’s cloud-based Service Bureau offering, Swiss banks can seamlessly transition to facilitating instant interbank payments. It is expected that the 50 largest banks must be able to facilitate instant interbank payments in Switzerland and Liechtenstein by August this year.

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Three Years On, Open Banking Broadens For Business Banking

PYMNTS

Citi is accelerating its migration to the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard and has tapped a third-party FinTech to aid in the process. Citi is using Volante’s VolPay for ISO 20022 Migration technology to build out its core ISO 20022 capability, which will allow the bank to send and receive messages that use the standard.

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Finzly Among the First to Receive Fed Certification for Fedwire ISO 20022

Fintech Finance

Finzly , the pioneering provider of modern money movement systems to financial institutions, has announced its achievement as one of the first Third-PartyService Providers (TPSP) to be certified for compliance to ISO 20022 messaging standards for Fedwire.