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UAE Central Bank Taps SWIFT to Speed up Cross-Border Payments

by Steve Murphy

May 6, 2021

Perhaps a bit of a surprising announcement posted in Finextra has the CBUAE (the Central Bank of the UAE) adopting ...

Credit Cards in Russia: Da to Plastic, Nyet to Credit Management

Russia Considers Blockchain Alternative to SWIFT

by Sam Klebanov

April 6, 2021

The Russian government is experimenting with currency and blockchain-based solutions that would serve as an alternative to the SWIFT payment ...

A Look at Blockchain in Cross-Border Payments

by Sam Klebanov

February 5, 2021

Blockchain has long ceased to be the domain of tech geeks and enigmatic crypto traders that can recite Satoshi Nakamoto’s ...

5 Capabilities of the New SWIFT Transaction Management Solution

by PaymentsJournal

October 20, 2020

If you've ever sent or received a international bank transfer, there's a good chance it was done using SWIFT. SWIFT ...

SWIFT Pivots To Transactional Services Beyond Financial Messaging

by Steve Murphy

September 18, 2020

This PaymentsSource article describes how SWIFT expects to pivot into more transactional services beyond financial messaging in order to support ...

What is ISO 20022?

by PaymentsJournal

September 2, 2020

What is ISO 20022? Currently Playing ISO 20022 payments 101 PaymentsJournal and BNY Mellon ISO 20022 payments 101 PaymentsJournal and ...

SWIFT Announces Plan to Take on Global Card Leaders

by Steve Murphy

April 2, 2020

An interesting Finextra posting covers the topic of a recent announcement by SWIFT that indicates a strategic global initiative to ...

Unpacking the Third Major Digital Transformation: Equinix on Open Banking, Payment Hubs, and the Future of Banking

by PaymentsJournal

March 12, 2020

With the payments industry increasingly going digital, fintechs and traditional financial institutions alike are exploring ways to harness technology to ...