SWIFT

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, legally S.W.I.F.T. SCRL, provides a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment.

(source: en.wikipedia.org)

SWIFT Expands Global KYC For Corporates
SWIFT Expands Global KYC For Corporates
December 16, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

SWIFT is launching its global Know Your Customer (KYC) registry to more corporate groups, SWIFT announced in a press release on Monday (Dec. 16). The...

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Ripple Accused Of Making False Claims About SWIFT’s Error Rate
Ripple Accused Of Making False Claims About SWIFT’s Error Rate
November 05, 2019  |  B2B Payments

San Francisco-based blockchain FinTech Ripple is being questioned about its claims that rival cross-border payments firm SWIFT has a 6 percent error rate, AMBCrypto reported...

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B2B Cross-Border Payments Are Speeding Up
B2B Cross-Border Payments Are Speeding Up
October 24, 2019  |  Payment Methods

Cross-border payments still present challenges, but the landscape is changing rapidly.  Swift recently announced that its gpi service can integrate with domestic real-time systems to...

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Citi On Simplifying Cross-Border Payments
Citi On Simplifying Cross-Border Payments
October 16, 2019  |  Digital Payments

The buyer is in Canada. The seller is in Singapore. The transaction wends its way across borders, in the middle of the night, settling instantly. In...

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Bulgarian Fibank Joins SWIFT gpi
Bulgarian Fibank Joins SWIFT gpi
October 07, 2019  |  Faster Payments

First Investment Bank (Fibank) is the first Bulgarian bank to offer the SWIFT Global Payment Initiative (gpi), according to a press release. SWIFT gpi provides...

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Trade Finance Gets Boost Via Banks, APIs
Trade Finance Gets Boost Via Banks, APIs
October 03, 2019  |  B2B Payments

HSBC debuts a new API geared toward trade finance. Separately, cross-border payments embrace business payments using XRP. In Russia, eight banks sign on to the Russian...

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FinTechs Help Global Banks Tackle SMB Challenges
FinTechs Help Global Banks Tackle SMB Challenges
September 27, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Criticism of the world’s correspondent banking network continues to mount — and at the same time, the number of correspondent banking relationships is on the...

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SWIFT’s gpi Gains Ground In Instant Payments
SWIFT’s gpi Gains Ground In Instant Payments
September 26, 2019  |  B2B Payments

SWIFT said this week that a new service will integrate gpi into instant payment offerings across the globe. Separately, in India, seven banks sign on to...

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