Fintech News

JULY 31, 2025

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.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

AUGUST 8, 2025

By 2030, payments will be instant, decentralised, and invisible—blending cashless systems, CBDCs, and blockchain into global infrastructure In the ever-accelerating race of financial innovation, the way we pay and get paid is undergoing a profound transformation. In essence, payments are no longer an action; they are becoming infrastructure.

Cross-Border

Fintech News

JUNE 16, 2025

As the global demand for faster, more affordable, and increasingly transparent cross-border payments intensifies, Project Nexus is emerging as a foundational initiative to meet the G20’s ambitious roadmap. Eli Shoshani Eli Shoshani is Head of APAC at Bottomline , a leader in global business payments with extensive expertise in the region.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JULY 23, 2025

In the current ever-evolving global payments environment, payment service providers (PSPs) face growing pressure to bring on network partners—like banks, wallets, and financial institutions—quickly, securely, and in full compliance with regulations. API first integration eliminates costly maintenance cycles and development overheads.

ISO 20022

The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Tokenisation is now a core enabler of secure, interoperable digital paymentspowering embedded finance, asset tokenisation, and evolving identity flows. Once a system for masking sensitive data, tokenisation has evolved into a foundational technology for enabling secure, interoperable, and scalable digital payments.

Security

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.

SWIFT

Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Marking a pivotal point, Indonesias efforts underscore its drive to harness digital technologies for modernising payment systems while safeguarding financial stability and promoting inclusivity. To achieve this, the PoC focused on three key processes: issuance, redemption, and fund transfers.

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

The Payments Association

MARCH 19, 2025

Legacy systems are increasingly unreliable, expensive to maintain, and resistant to modern payment innovations. Enhance cross-border payments by integrating an always-on solution directly and locally with regional and global payment networks, ensuring compliance with constantly evolving regulatory standards.

Payment APIs and Integration

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

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

APRIL 11, 2025

RedCompass Labs , the global experts in payments modernization, has unveiled the world’s most comprehensive payments modernization-specific AI solution, AnalystAccelerator v2.5. delivers cutting-edge applied AI models to help banks accelerate payments transformation. AnalystAccelerator 2.5’s AnalystAccelerator 2.5

ISO 20022

The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

Early deployments across Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe reveal how people are using CBDCs, how merchants are responding, and what this means for cross-border payments in an increasingly interconnected world. Beyond technical proof points, these initiatives underscore the need for global interoperability.

CBDC

The Fintech Times

MAY 2, 2025

With the deadline for mandatory global migration set for November 2025, banks worldwide are under increasing pressure to modernise their payment infrastructures, BPC , the payment solutions provider, reveals in a new white paper. Our mission is to ensure that every institution can transform compliance into a strategic advantage.”

ISO 20022

Finextra

JULY 27, 2025

Rise of Payment Hubs & APIs: Over the last decade, corporates and banks layered API-driven gateways atop legacy cores for faster payment initiation, richer data (ISO 20022), and straight-through reconciliation, yet liquidity still floats in multiple silos.

CBDC

Finextra

JUNE 18, 2025

Our goal was clear: overcome the fragmentation that plagued international merchants, who had to maintain different payment solutions for each country, leading to operational complexity and significant costs. The pilot demonstrated: No impact on customer experience: payment remained seamless at checkout.

ISO 20022

Finextra

AUGUST 7, 2025

In this blog post, let’s explore the biggest roadblocks in global payouts and how to overcome them with a cross-border payments solution for businesses. Batch processing creates delays in global payouts Most legacy systems process payments in scheduled batches. Come, let’s dig right in.f And heres how they hold you back.

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech News

JULY 23, 2025

In a recent webinar, B2B payments service provider Bottomline brought together regional experts to discuss how banks in APAC can close the gap and compete more effectively. Why SaaS Matters Now: The Pressure to Modernise The adoption gap is especially significant given APAC’s leadership in payment innovation.

APACS

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The significance of cross-border payments has never been greater. Yet, despite the rise of instant domestic payments, cross-border transactions remain slow, costly, and inefficient. Domestic instant payment systems (IPS), such as Malaysias DuitNow and Singapores PayNow, have revolutionised payments within their respective countries.

Cross-Border Payments

The Payments Association

JUNE 11, 2025

The platform risk paradox: Managing digital commerce fraud at scale 12 June 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp What is this article about? Andrew Doukanaris Ambassador, TPA "Payment companies must embrace smarter collaboration to stay resilient amid a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Why is it important?

Risk

The Payments Association

JANUARY 22, 2025

The widespread shift to online reliance has created a greater demand for accessing various services online, including government public services and online retail payments. Additionally, standardisation of digital IDs is required to ensure they are interoperable with TSA systems.

Security

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

However, the industry is moving toward best practices and standardized data formats such as ISO-20022 to ease cross-border invoicing. Data Quality: Efficient e-invoicing depends on accurate, structured data, which improves not only invoicing but also payments and cash application.

ISO 20022

Finextra

JULY 31, 2025

They want all payments to be instant and quick. And thats why in today’s blog post, let’s look at the top neobanking features you must offer in 2025 to lead the digital payment software. Real-time payment infrastructure Your customers don’t want to wait for minutes for the payment processing. Let’s dive right in.

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech Finance

MARCH 1, 2024

The impending March 2025 migration deadline of FedWire to the ISO 20022 standard by all financial institutions (FIs) presents a strategic opportunity to revolutionize their payment infrastructure and services, according to a new Datos report, sponsored by Finzly , the pioneering provider of modern payments systems.

ISO 20022

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Kani Payments , the disruptive global data reconciliation and reporting pioneer, today announces it is ready to support the ISO 20022 global messaging standard ahead of the November 2025 implementation date.

ISO 20022

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

PYMNTS recently spoke with Saqib Sheikh, global head of SWIFT’s ISO 20022 program, to learn more about SWIFT’s commitment to assist the financial community in the transition to the new standard in cross-border payments: ISO 20022. Richer Data With A Little Help From Our Friends .

ISO 20022

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

These reports serve as critical resources for financial institutions seeking to implement ISO 20022, a global standard that is reshaping the landscape of financial messaging. The first report, How to ISO 20022, provides a detailed roadmap for financial institutions on how to successfully adopt and implement ISO 20022.

ISO 20022

Payments Source

MAY 20, 2019

Universal standards such as the nonprofit nexo can support card payment acceptance stakeholders through a portfolio of implementation specifications and messaging protocols that harness the power and interoperability potential of the ISO 20022 standard.

Interoperability

The Payments Association

JUNE 7, 2024

Adopting ISO 20022 is essential for modernising cross-border payments, enhancing fraud prevention, and ensuring seamless interoperability and efficiency in international financial transactions. Read more

ISO 20022

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Payments messaging firm SWIFT has released its first set of guidelines for financial institutions using the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard to complete cross-border transactions. “International payments often contain unstructured and ambiguous transaction data, causing unnecessary delays and failed processing.

ISO 20022

Finextra

JULY 19, 2024

Morgan Payments, explores the cross-border impact of SEPA on European and global interoperability and why ISO 20022 is crucial for financial institutions.

ISO 20022

Fintech News

AUGUST 8, 2024

As the industry evolves, adopting robust standards like ISO 20022 becomes crucial for driving these benefits. B2B payments service provider Bottomline ‘s on-demand webinar, “Championing Swift Connectivity for Private Banks and Asset Managers in APAC,” explores these critical developments in depth.

ISO 20022

PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Many countries around the world are rolling out instant payments schemes that bring speed and convenience to payments made within their own borders. Unfortunately, those benefits are often limited when it comes to cross-border payments. Privately-owned companies are also looking to solve the cross-border payments problem.

Interoperability

PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

In today’s digital age, however, speedy transactions depend on payment rails that support rapid settlement and messaging standards that enable sending and quickly processing comprehensive payment details. . Deep Data For Swift, Secure Payments . Interoperability And Adoption . Hurdles And Supports .

ISO 20022

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The global payments ecosystem’s path to faster and real-time payments ubiquity is an evolution, not a revolution. Among corporates, there is an increasing demand that their global payment activity is able to keep up with the pace of doing business. Progress in Tackling Cross-Border Payments Friction.

ISO 20022

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

In corporate payments, high-value transactions with tall demands for compliance, transparency, speed, efficiency and security aren’t just placing a burden on the businesses sending and receiving funds. International payments often contain unstructured and ambiguous transaction data, causing unnecessary delays and failed processing.

Interoperability

Finextra

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As payment markets evolve, further progress hinges on open access facilitated by infrastructure modernisation. We explore the significance of interoperability and the prioritisation of standardisation to enhance cross-border transactions.

ISO 20022

Fintech Finance

MAY 13, 2024

Finastra , a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, today announced it has completed testing and certification through the Federal Reserve for ISO 20022, becoming one of the first vendors in the industry to complete the process for multiple solutions.

ISO 20022

PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Payments are getting faster, safer and smarter, as players ranging from established FIs to FinTechs work to move money in better ways than they did before. This makes interoperability that much more difficult to achieve. When you think about interoperability, a key element of that is standardization,” Throckmorton explained. “If

ISO 20022