SWIFT and the People’s Bank of China Digital Currency Research Institute Establish a Joint Venture Public records show that SWIFT has recently established a Financial Gateway Information Service Co., Ltd. in China with the People’s Bank of China Clearing Center and the People’s Bank of… Read More
Financial service providers and regulators are increasingly focusing on enabling and supporting instant payments, according to Juniper Research. The researchers note that the EU’s Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) has “brought down settlement times significantly,” with the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer Scheme helping to reduce… Read More
Fintech firm Currencycloud has introduced a new API that offers SWIFT GPI tracking of international payments. Previously, the only entities providing cross-border transaction tracking services were banking institutions. Currencycloud aims to enter this market, and plans to make payment tracking as straightforward as tracking packages…. Read More
Tech infrastructure developer TriOptima, a company that helps reduce costs while also lowering risk in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets, is expanding its triResolve margin collateral management service. The extension will reportedly support automated SWIFT payments. The new automated settlement service will provide instant connectivity to… Read More
Major bank-to-bank messaging system Swift processed $40 trillion in messaging transactions back in 2018. Significantly, Swift handled $77 trillion in international payments messages via the gpi platform last year, which indicates that the demand for the program is becoming even more firmly established in the… Read More
Wethaq Capital has announced that it has issued the first pilot Sukuk on its securities market platform for the Islamic capital markets under the supervision of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). Wethaq is operating under an innovation testing license issued by the DFSA. Mohammed… Read More
A representative from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) told an audience at a breakfast briefing in London Monday that cryptocurrency networks cannot outperform conventional payment systems and currencies: “They go down in value like a yoyo, they’re useless and unstable. And even if… Read More
Japan financial authorities are building a regulated global network for cryptocurrency transfers and trades similar to SWIFT, an anonymous source from the Japanese governments has told Reuters. The system will be developed in cooperation with other countries sand should launch within a few years. Reuters… Read More
SWIFT, the company behind the world’s largest electronic payments system, has executed cross-border payments between 7 corresponding countries -Australia, China, Canada, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Singapore and Thailand- and Singapore, in less than 25 seconds. The trial integrated SWIFT’s gpi Instant network and Singapore’s domestic instant… Read More
SWIFT, a global member-owned cooperative and provider of secure financial messaging services, announced on Tuesday it has launched a multi-bank GPI payment initiation and tracking service for corporates. The company revealed in a blog post: “Built in conjunction with banks and corporates, we’ve introduced a… Read More
Two researchers at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) have produced a comprehensive report on Russia, Venezuela, Iran and China’s efforts to create or exploit alternative payment systems that would allow them to circumvent the US dollar as a means of enforcing American foreign… Read More
Bitcoin advocates and companies like Ripple have long been critical of slow and expensive cross-border money transfer services provided by banks and other traditional firms. Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse presides over a vast sum of publicly-tradable XRP crypto tokens which the company has used to… Read More
SWIFT, a global member-owned cooperative and provider of secure financial messaging services, announced on Tuesday it is set to launch Know Your Customers (KYC) Registry for corporates. SWIFT reported that in a first step, from the fourth quarter of 2019, all 2,000 SWIFT-connected corporate groups… Read More
SWIFT, a global member-owned cooperative and provider of secure financial messaging services, announced on Wednesday it is bringing benefits of gpi to DLT and trade ecosystems through its new partnership with blockchain enterprise software firm, R3. SWIFT reported that to support the growing demand amongst trade ecosystems… Read More
An anonymous investigator called “Crypto Reckoning” has published a video containing allegations that three banking partnerships claimed by Ripple, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency project by market cap, are thin at best. Ripple’s creators came from banking, and, according to Cryptocurrencyfacts.com, determined to create Ripple… Read More
SWIFT, a global member-owned cooperative and provider of secure financial messaging services, announced on Wednesday it has launched new “Pay Later” API standard, increasing payment choice for consumers. SWIFT reported that as part of an industry collaboration involving banks, merchants and technology providers, it has… Read More
Arnold Kling, an economist and adjunct scholar at the Libertarian think tank The Cato Institute, has blogged his reflections on a recent interview with blockchain proponents and tech VCs Andreessen-Horowitz (A-H). Like A-H, Kling was around during the Internet’s nascent phase and made money from… Read More
The Chairperson for the International Business Forum, an organization established in 1995 to “provide a trustworthy global business network, especially for Muslim business-people,” says the organization is going to create a cryptocurrency to help Islamic countries evade controls associated with the US dollar, which has… Read More
In early November, SWIFT, the Belgium-based company that operates the global payments network of the same name, announced that “certain Iranian banks” would be cut off from using the service: “In keeping with our mission of supporting the resilience and integrity of the global financial… Read More
Crypterium has announced that as of last week 400,000 users will be given the opportunity to test paying their loans directly via cryptocurrency. Crypterium is already allowing consumers in Australia to transfer crypto and deposit into bank accounts with a partnership with BPAY. Led by former… Read More
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