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ECB steps in over Swift’s ISO 20022 migration delay

Letters obtained by Finextra show an exchange by the ECB and Swift regarding the latter’s responsibility to mitigate risks caused by its decision to delay migration to ISO 20022.

05 May 2020

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Swift delays ISO 20022 cross-border payments migration

Swift is to delay the original ISO 20022 migration date for cross border payments by 12 months, from November 2021 to the end of 2022, as banks struggle with decommissioning and preparing existing infrastructure for the transition.

16 March 2020

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Swift gpi transferred $77 trillion in 2019

Almost doubling the $40 trillion transferred in 2018, Swift’s transmission of $77 trillion in cross-border payments messages over the gpi platform during 2019 implies that demand for the programme is becoming entrenched in the bank-to-bank space.

18 February 2020

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EBAday 2020 to address 'the turning point in payments transformation'

Registration has opened for EBAday 2020, Europe's premier payments and transaction banking conference, taking place this year in The Hague between 19-20 May.

07 February 2020

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Standard Chartered switches on cross-border payments tracker

Standard Chartered has opened a public portal through which clients can track the status of payments messages as they are transmitted over the Swift network.

08 January 2020

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Swift Operations Forum Europe 2019, Amsterdam - Day 2 report

With the accelerating pace of transformation in financial services, day two of SOFE 2019 explored the direction of travel financial institutions should embark on in order to thrive in this new world.

29 November 2019

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Westpac hires Promontory to run AML review

Westpac has hired IBM subsidiary Promontory to undertake an independent review into the failings that led to the bank breaching AML/CTF laws on over 23 million occasions.

28 November 2019

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Swift Operations Forum Europe 2019, Amsterdam - Day 1 report

Financial services innovation and how industry participants can keep up with ecosystem culture were two of the key themes on day 1 of the Swift Operations Forum Europe (SOFE) 2019.

28 November 2019

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HSBC launches trade finance API

HSBC has launched a trade finance API that lets partner financial institutions and their clients see the status of their bank guarantees in real time from their own platforms.

27 September 2019

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Sibos 2019: Recruiting the next generation of finance and technology players

At Sibos 2019, business leaders from across the globe come together to discuss the future of financial services and how engaging and employing skilled individuals now goes beyond salary, security and stability.

26 September 2019

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Nick Ogden launches cross-border liquidity network RTGS.global

Finextra can exclusively reveal that Nick Ogden, creator of fintech heavyweights Worldpay and ClearBank, is spearheading an initiative to improve the speed and performance of international payments. At Sibos in London he is gathering support behind RTGS.global, a new business designed to remedy the problems involved with the invisibility of liquidity between countries.

25 September 2019

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Sibos 2019: Cyber-attackers operate like serial killers

Riffing on the risks involved with thriving in a hyper-connected world, Sibos 2019 in London explores the dangers of cyber attacks and how they can have a contagion effect across broader financial systems and impact financial stability.

25 September 2019

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