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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. What’s next?

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The Journey of Payments and Clearing Systems in India

Finextra

Early Electronic Initiatives (late 1980s/early 1990s): Limited electronic fund transfers began to emerge, mainly within banks or for specific corporate clients, but were not widely interoperable. UPI enabled real-time, instant payments across multiple bank accounts via a single mobile application.

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Unlocking the Future of Global Payments: A Deep Dive into China’s CIPS

Finextra

CIPS, established under the approval of the People’s Bank of China, is a wholesale payment system dedicated to cross-border RMB transactions. The system operates on a “5×24 hours + 4 hours” schedule, ensuring near-continuous availability for global transactions. How Does CIPS Operate?

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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. This can concern payments, conditional payments (a DLT based version of a letter of credit) and the post-trade settlement of securities and derivates (including margin calls).

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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”). KEPSS, which is Kenya’s Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, is operated by CBK to process large-value and time-critical payments.

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Project Meridian FX: Joint Project by the Eurosystem and London Centres, and the Bank of England, to Test Synchronised Settlement in FX

Fintech Finance

The Eurosystem and London Centres of the BIS Innovation Hub, together with the Bank of England , have launched Project Meridian FX, to build on the findings of Project Meridian by focusing on foreign exchange (FX) transactions. Meridian FX will test the usability of the SO for different types of assets and technologies.

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Bank Of England Hires Accenture To Revamp Payments System With Eye On Digital Currency

PYMNTS

s central bank announced on Thursday (July 30) that it has hired IT firm Accenture to revamp and modernize what is known as the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) service, which handles daily transactions worth more than $895 million between large financial institutions (FIs).