For banks that deal with small businesses and B2Bs, the future lies in the right infrastructure for low-value payments. SWIFT's new pilot aims to run low-value payments on gpi's rails
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CT’s inaugural Hong Kong conference saw over 200 treasury-related professionals enjoy a day of thought-provoking discussion centred around the future of treasury in an increasingly digital and tech-savvy world
With 60 banks now part of the Swift global payments initiative (gpi) network carrying out payments worth $100 billion a day, real-time cross-border funds transfer with full traceability is on the horizon
Jul 16, 2018
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Some of the world’s top companies – also including Roche, GE and others – join Swift’s global payment initiative pilot. But whether other “Swift corporates” will be able to go GPI-active remains to be seen.
While today's technology makes it possible to process payments instantly, deep-rooted issues such as reconciliation, AML, compliance and FX seriously hamper banks’ abilities to evolve.