Top fintech stories this week-06 September 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
SWIFT
Swift shifts from MT to XML format
Payment transfers will be shifting to the ISO 20022 standard.
Swift calls for industry collaboration to improve FX efficiency
Greater automation and better use of standards would benefit the FX market.
Swift awarded ESMIG network service provider status
Swift will be supporting its customers through their Target consolidation projects and the migration to ESMIG.
Swift links up with R3 for trading on blockchain
Their trial will monitor the movement of goods and payments on gpi.
Swift gpi delights in double digit growth
Global payments innovation service’s values also exceed $300 billion daily.
Swift releases pay later API standards
To prompt worldwide adoption.
Top fintech stories this week – 14 December 2018
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Swift CEO calls time on seven “intense” years
Gottfried Leibbrandt will step down at the end of June 2019.
Swift adds information check pilot for gpi payments
The pilot for global payments innovation starts with 14 banks.
Sibos 2018: Swift gpi – how global payments are going digital
How is Swift reacting to the Sibos 2018 theme of “Going Digital”?
Swift makes gpi service tracker for all
Standard version of its tracker now available to all Swift customers.
Sibos 2018 video: Alain Raes, Swift – game-changers in fintech and the role of Sibos
Interesting points by Swift’s Alain Raes, CEO of EMEA and Asia Pacific.
Compliance: the big issues uncovered
Fraud prevention and detection, and how evolving tech and faster payments impact financial crime compliance.
Sibos 2018: Swift fights fraud with Payments Controls solution
Part of its Customer Security Programme (CSP).
Sibos 2018: A Swift one
What has Swift been up to since last year’s Sibos in Toronto?
Ebury becomes first fintech to go live with Swift gpi
Global payments innovation powers on.
Top fintech stories this week – 24 August 2018
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German minister calls for independent EU Swift payments network
To bypass the US sanctions on business with Iran.
Swift unleashes gpi for corporates pilot
Corporates and banks to test a new multi-bank payments tracking solution.
Interview: Darryl Twiggs, SmartStream – the time is right for blockchain
Now is the right time to embrace blockchain.
Infographic: the evolution of international money transfers
From the barter system to Bitcoin.
Swift blockchain test promises bank benefits – but one size does not fit all
Deutsche Bank shares lessons learnt.
HSBC live with Swift gpi
160 banks worldwide have signed for Swift’s global payments innovation (gpi).
Swift gpi: move forward or fall behind
Making the case for banks to become Swift gpi-ready.
Banking Technology April 2018 issue out now
You sought symmetry. And fintech came to you.
Swift goes universal for real-time payment tracking
gpi Tracker extended to all payment messages.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 16 January 2018
Post-trade scenarios, a cryptocurrency app and a trading platform. Stars Swift, DeVere Group and Horizon Software.
Fintech journalist shares pointless predictions for 2018
The catastrophic catalogue of conjectures.
Unibank becomes Armenia’s first bank to comply with Swift security standards
Unibank is now fully compliant with the required standards of security for the Swift payment infrastructure.
SWIFT Partners with TCH to Drive Instant Payments in the U.S.
Hot on the heels of the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force final report and call for the industry to implement faster payments in the U.S. by 2020, SWIFT is offering a gateway.
SWIFT Strengthens Security with New Payment Controls
SWIFT has launched a real-time payment controls service to add to its customers’ existing fraud controls. The fraud and cybercrime prevention service permits its customers to screen their payment messages according to their own chosen parameters, “enabling them to immediately detect any unusual message flows before transmission,” according to an April 12 company announcement.
