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Fed Acknowledges Roadblocks In ISO 20022 Push

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The Federal Reserve is pushing for adoption of the ISO 20022 global payments messaging standard, a move industry analysts say could streamline B2B payments, especially cross-border. Swendseid said she is confident that, once wire payments move to the ISO 20022 standard, ACH payments will soon follow.

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Fed Looks To Keep Momentum Going On Payments Improvements

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Payment System paper, in which the Fed outlined initiatives for the payments industry and its stakeholders to promote progress. For the Fed, progress means improving the speed, security and efficiency of the payments system, and to focus on international payments capabilities and promote collaboration within the field.

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Embracing An ISO 20022 Roadmap

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The push to adopt a messaging standard that is truly global — that would be ISO 20022 — stops at the U.S. As has been much documented, Europe has embraced the payments initiative, which expands messaging capabilities and has as its central core tenet standardized (but flexible) messaging across FX, transactions and payments rails.