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Swift bids to connects VoP schemes across Europe

Finextra

Bank-to-bank payment messaging network Swift is working to facilitate interoperability of Verifcation of Payee schemes across Europe as new research shows that 83% of SMEs across France, Germany, Italy and Spain rank upfront beneficiary checks as important to them in trading across borders.

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Swift hires Pérez-Tasso as new CEO

Payments Source

Javier Pérez-Tasso has been named the new CEO of payments messaging standards provider Swift, replacing Gottfried Leibbrandt, who steps down from the post at the end of June.

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

PYMNTS

and China heating to a boil, one of China’s top banks is urging financial institutions (FIs) to cut their use of the SWIFT financial messaging network for cross-border transactions. The bank’s messaging applies to Hong Kong and Macau as well. adopting measures such as locking Chinese banks out of SWIFT, Reuters reported.

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Nium Enables Financial Institutions to Connect to Its Real-Time Payments Network via Swift

Fintech Finance

Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced that financial institutions can now leverage Swift capabilities and their existing Swift infrastructure to connect to Nium’s global real-time payments network. For more information on how to connect to Nium via Swift, visit here.

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SWIFT: The Road To ISO 20022 Adoption

PYMNTS

Cross-border payments are a fragmented space with disparate standards, service levels, and compliance and reporting regulations varying from country to country. With a common language, payments increasingly have more reach, are processed faster with fewer manual interventions, and are more meaningful with richer remittance data.

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SWIFT Readies ISO 20022 For X-Border Payments

PYMNTS

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. ISO 20022 will modernize international and domestic payment rails, enabling right and new payment services.”

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SWIFT Set To Shutter Data Matching Tool TSU

PYMNTS

Payments messaging company SWIFT is gearing up to close its Trade Services Utility (TSU), a workflow engine aimed at facilitating value-added supply chain services. Reports in Global Trade Review (GTR) on Monday (April 8) said SWIFT will switch off its TSU in December 2020.

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