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Blockchain grabbed some headlines this past week as DLT helped foster new cross border payment initiatives, notably from Alipay and Ripple. Elsewhere, Faster Payments gains...
Ripple has seen more than 200 banks sign on to its blockchain powered cross border payment efforts. Progress? Sure, but perhaps a sea change is...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes The National Bank of Kuwait’s rollout of SWIFT Global...
With the payments acceleration trend of recent years promising disruption in peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, these initiatives were viewed only in the context of consumer payments...
Promsvyazbank, the Russian state bank that was hit by sanctions by the U.S., has lowered its security deposits that go to Visa and Mastercard, reported...
SWIFT has noted that gpi payments make up more than half of its cross-border traffic. The Fed sees marquee tech names pushing for faster payments,...
SWIFT said Tuesday (December 18) that its SWIFT gpi payment service is being used for more than half of SWIFT’s cross-border traffic. In a press release,...
When PYMNTS asked cross-border payments experts at the end of last year what they thought the driving trend would be for the industry in 2018,...
Real-time payments is a goal in Peru, as the automated clearing house there links with Vocalink. Retailers want real-time transactions, too, and SWIFT continues to broaden...