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Bank of England to develop analytics data platform for ISO 20022

The Bank of England is working with the BIS Innovation Hub London centre on a project that will explore how technology can enhance the analytical use of ISO 20022 data to shed light on economic conditions, system liquidity and compliance

20 August 2024

News/payments

Iberpay and Santander become first particpants in EPC's OCT Inst scheme

Spain's Iberpay and Santander have signed up as the first participants in the European Payment Council's new OCT Inst scheme for faster international account-to-account payments.

17 May 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: The current state of play of cross-border payments

Moderating the second panel of the day, Niamh Curran, senior reporter at Finextra, discussed real-time cross border payments with Patrik Havander, head of B2B Connect Europe at Visa, Christian Schwarz, director payments Europe at Finastra, Dr Hubertus von Poser, member of the management board at PPI, Colin Williams, global lead for clearing transformation at J.P. Morgan, and Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Svenska Handelsbanken.

23 April 2024

News/payments

Canada's real-time payment system won't launch before 2026

The launch of Canada's oft-delayed Real-Time Rail (RTR) payments system will now not happen until at least 2026, with new tech partners IBM and CGI brought in to the process.

17 April 2024

News/payments

Chips migrates to ISO 20022 message format

The Clearing House's Chips private-sector high-value clearing and settlement system has migrated to the ISO 20022 messaging format.

11 April 2024

News/startups

EBAday 2024: Calling early-stage startups to showcase products

The 19th edition of EBAday, the largest annual European event for payments and transaction banking, will return on 18th – 19th June 2024 at CCL in Lisbon, Portugal.

15 March 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: 40+ banks registered to attend

NextGen Nordics returns to Stockholm on 23rd April, and at seven weeks away from the event day, 200 attendees have already registered.

01 March 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: Payments is ready for a refresh

Finextra is heading back to Stockholm to delve into the most important topics in the Nordic banking world at our NextGen Nordics 2024 conference on the 23rd of April.

06 February 2024

News/payments

Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

28 December 2023

News/payments

Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

27 December 2023

News/payments

Nth Exception launches AI tool for ISO 20022 adoption

London-based fintech Nth Exception has launched Nucleus, a machine learning data fabric to ease financial institutions into ISO 20022 adoption.

15 December 2023

News/cloud

Volante raises $66m

Cloud payments fintech Volante Technologies has raised $66 million in a funding round led by Sixth Street Growth.

07 November 2023

News/payments

Sepa payment schemes ISO 20022 migration delayed

The European Payments Council has postponed the migration of Sepa payment schemes to the 2019 version of ISO 20022 by four months, to March, after concluding that "at least two large Sepa countries" couldn't be guaranteed to make the original November deadline.

25 October 2023

News/payments

Thought Machine and Form3 team on real-time payments in US and Europe

Thought Machine has enlisted cloud-native account-to-account platform Form3 to add FedNow, TCH RTP and Sepa Instant Credit Transfer connectivity to its payment platform.

24 October 2023

News/payments

BIS publishes proposals for harmonisation of ISO20022 data standards

The Bank for International Settlements' Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) has published harmonised ISO 20022 data requirements amid fears over the inconsistent application of the international messaging standard across different jursidictions.

17 October 2023

News/payments

Fed-backed project validates exchange framework for e-remittance information

Having demonstrated the operationally feasibility of an exchange framework to deliver e-remittance information, the Business Payments Coalition (BPC) and Federal Reserve are gearing up for a pilot.

05 September 2023

News/payments

UK Finance launches ISO 20022 ideathon

UK Finance and NatWest are calling for participants to take part in an "ideathon" exploring business applications for ISO 20022.

31 August 2023

News/payments

UK’s CHAPS system migrates to ISO 20022

The UK’s high-value payments system, CHAPS, has migrated to the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard.

21 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday 2023: Customers expect instant payments today

The afternoon of EBAday 2023, day one, in breakout one got straight into a key theme of the event, immediate cross border payments.

21 June 2023

News/payments

EBAday: How Deutsche Bank, BBVA and JP Morgan handled the Russia/Ukraine war

Tackling the core subjects to be covered at EBAday 2023 in Madrid, Spain, Marc Recker, global head of product, institutional cash management, Deutsche Bank; Raouf Soussi Laghmich, head of strategy for enterprise payment, BBVA; and Renata Vilanova Lobo, head of global clearing, JP Morgan, participated in a strategic roundtable, led by Anita Hawse, Europe editor, The Banker, Financial Times.

20 June 2023