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How Swift is moving the global financial industry towards instant and frictionless payments

The Payments Association

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 uses its Payment Pre-validation service to connect different Verification of Payee (VoP) schemes.

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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

As Nilixa Devlukia, CEO at Payments Solved, observes, these projects illustrate the benefits of shared infrastructure, adding that technical standards are beneficial to building interoperable CBDCs that function seamlessly across borders and jurisdictions. In Europe, the drive for CBDCs is also motivated by strategic autonomy.

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Oradian’s Core Banking Powers Salmon’s Quick Success in New Market

Fintech News

of all monthly retail payments to digital transactions. Oradian’s custom API capabilities improve system interoperability and scalability, allowing financial institutions to keep pace with evolving requirements and streamline financial workflows. As of 2023, the country had converted 52.8%

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Google signs deal to take UPI beyond India

NFCW

Google Pay is to take India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) real-time payments system to other countries after signing a deal with the service’s manager, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). NPCI is the umbrella organization for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India.

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How are digital IDs reshaping industries for a secure and seamless future?

The Payments Association

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.

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Brazil Could Lead The Way On Central Bank Digital Currencies With 2022 Rollout

PYMNTS

Roberto Campos Neto, president of Brazil’s central bank, said his country’s new digital currency will work in concert with its new instant-payments system. “To Brazil’s instant-payments system, dubbed “Pix,” is slated to a widespread rollout in November. Digital wallets that use QR codes will be interoperable with the system.

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CIMB Bank Taps ACI Worldwide to Advance Payment Transformation

Fintech Finance

“CIMB’s payment transformation is a bold re-architecture of our core payments infrastructure to unify all payment flows. Malaysia’s Real-time Retail Payments Platform (RPP) was introduced by the national payments network and central infrastructure provider PayNet in collaboration with ACI.