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Open Banking Targets SMB Apps, Payments Data

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This week’s look at the latest in Open Banking and bank-FinTech collaboration initiatives explores how service providers throughout the globe are unlocking data and embracing API integrations to elevate financial services — with a particular focus on small businesses (SMBs). Nacha Unlocks Payments Data.

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Bank Of China Advises Country’s Banks To Avoid SWIFT Messaging

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According to Reuters, the report urges increased use of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System ( CIPS ) instead of the Belgium-based SWIFT system. In theory, this would help protect China’s global payments data from possible U.S. Gaining richer payments data is one of the key selling points for the new standard.

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Global Data Reporting Pioneer Kani Payments Gets Ready for ISO 20022

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It replaces ISO 15022, which has been in place since 1992 and was designed to overcome interoperability and integration challenges between different clearing systems, improving the transparency and speed of transaction data in payments messages.

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JPMorgan: Using Transaction Data To Help Merchants Optimize Cash Flow

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When optimizing payment operations, “it can all boil down to: How do you help a merchant approve the most transactions at the lowest possible cost?” said Wimmer, who oversees the data and analytics efforts of firm’s payments-focused businesses. Payment data can be what they call ‘your canary in the coal mine,’” Wimmer said. “If

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Addressing the Silent Crisis of Failed Payments

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Surprisingly, one of the most common reasons behind payment failures is incomplete or inaccurate data. To address this issue effectively, having a reliable source of truth for payment data is indispensable. This proactive approach eliminates the costly consequences of failed payments.

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Volante: Banks Must Look Beyond Speed With Real-Time B2B Payments

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One of the biggest opportunities is in the ability for real-time payments technologies to not just move money quicker, but to also move rich data along with the transaction, particularly amid spreading adoption of the ISO 20022 payments messaging standard.

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Why Real-Time B2B Payments Adoption May Be A Molehill, Not A Mountain

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While financial institutions upgraded their technology to handle electronic batch payments, it was corporates’ systems that prevented quicker adoption. The process added friction not only to payment processes, said Cooley, but also in terms of reconciliation and the ability to access payment data.