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How Regulators are Paving the Way for Innovation in the Payment Space

New trends in payments are emerging, with regulator-led innovations sparking 'coopetition' among governments, private companies, and big tech. In this FinextraTV interview, Thoughtworks' Head of Financial Services Practice Muralikrishnan Puthanveedu explains how these moves are creating a foundation for a thriving digital economy — advancing financial inclusion, consumer experience, and global prosperity. Examples like the Fed’s ISO 20022, Europe’s digital identity leadership, UK's New Payment Architecture (NPA) and the BIS’s work in breaking down payment barriers showcase a regulatory push toward seamless, data-driven, interconnected global payment systems.

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Open Banking - Payment Method or Payment Solution?

In a conversation with FinextraTV, Moshe Winegarten, Chief Revenue Officer at Ecommpay, and Todd Clyde, CEO of Token.io, discuss the future of open banking and the evolving payments landscape. The discussion highlights a global shift towards instant payments in 84 countries and the consolidation of payment service providers (PSPs). Open banking emerges as a cost-effective and faster alternative to traditional card payments, which it is predicted to replace. The interview also addresses challenges like payment discrimination and the need for localised virtual accounts to improve acceptance rates. As account payments grow, building the necessary infrastructure and forging partnerships will be critical to support this shift and optimise payment success rates.

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AFP: Truist Bank exec says speed and simplicity is how to delight customers

Finextra sat down with Chris Ward, EVP enterprise payments for Truist Bank, to talk about what he sees coming in the future of payments.

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Sibos: Financial institutions are “nowhere near” 2027 G20 targets

Alan Marquard, executive vice president, applications at Mastercard commented on their current progress towards 2027 goals as reported by FSB in their second annual assessment in a session on G20 targets at Sibos in Beijing: “we're four years in the journey to 2027, and we're nowhere near there. I find that completely unsurprising. The metrics were set up as quantitative metrics, but set at a global level without clarity on who was responsible for achieving them.”

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Latest Developments in Real Time Payments: Innovation and Interoperability

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024 in Beijing, China, Peter Reynolds, Executive Vice President Real Time Payments, Mastercard, highlights how 2024 has welcomed a new era with 100 countries now with live real time payments systems, covering 87% of the world’s GDP. Exploring the substantial growth across account-to-account payments and the conversion of cash to digital payments, the interview examines how the financial ecosystem is opening with digital wallet payments, QR Code acceptance and the promise of interoperability.

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AFP: FedNow vs. The Clearing House’s Real Time – where does Request for Payment fit in?

Taking to the stage on the penultimate day of the AFP conference in Nashville’s Music City Center, were Netflix’s Joshua Karoly, The Clearing House’s Cheryl Gurz, US Bank’s Mike Thomas in a panel led by Strategic Resource Management’s Dean Nolan.

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How Will New Technologies Shape the Future of Payments?

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024, Pilar Fragalà, Chief Commercial Officer of CBI, explores the impact of digital technologies and regulations on payment services. Highlighting the role of AI, APIs, and blockchain in enhancing security and speed, while PSD2 and PSD3 drive open banking and consumer protection, the discussion focuses on innovations like embedded finance and instant payments that offer transparency and flexibility. Addressing growing fraud risks, the interview examines how technology can prevent fraudulent transactions by verifying IBAN and beneficiary details in real time.

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Why Cross Border Real Time Payments are the Next Big Thing

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024 in Beijing, China, Ainsley Ward, Vice President Payments Solutions, CGI, explores the topic of instant mandates and the implementation of Verification of Payee (VoP) across Europe. Cross border real time payments as a concept presents a new era of opportunity for the financial services industry because infrastructure is at a point where it can support this form of money movement and nearing the end of the ISO 20022 rollout in November 2025, mandates are ensuring payments are instant across the SEPA inclusion zone. It is evident that change is afoot and that is not stopping any time soon; while the payment environment changes, traditional networks like Swift, Visa and Mastercard will have to fall in line to allow the blossoming of these new real time schemes.

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AFP: Does the US need Faster Payments?

How much choice is too much choice? The second day of AFP in Nashville, Tennessee, saw BNY Mellon’s Sumner Francisco, Finzly’s Karuna Kathir, PTap Advisory’s Peter Tapling and Walmart’s Sarah Arnio, take to the stage to discuss the adoption and benefits of Faster Payments and the differences between rails such as instant payments, same-day ACH, and push-to-card transactions.

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Sibos: PBoC to promote the ‘healthy development of cross-border payments’

“The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) will continue to promote healthy development of cross border payment in the principles of openness, cooperation and mutual benefit,” said Lu Lei, deputy governor, The People's Bank of China, during the Sibos’s opening plenary.

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Why Corporate Treasurers are Focused on Real Time Treasury

In an interview with FinextraTV in the lead-up to Sibos 2024 in Beijing, China, Rachel Whelan, Managing Director, APAC MEA Head of Corporate Cash Management and Global Head of Payments and TFX Product Management at Deutsche Bank, comments on the four key drivers that are encouraging corporate treasurers to leverage real time treasury and the impact this change in business model would have on the way in which traditional treasury structures are set up. 2024, a year with elections in multiple countries and numerous geopolitical events, has also seen macro level developments such as the interest environment changing rapidly and high volatility when it comes to cash visibility. Further, risk management remains the biggest requirement for treasuries because it relies on the visibility of data and the movement of funds across the world and technological disruption in the form of AI, open banking and APIs will increase the speed of change and bolster foundations for the G20 instant payments roadmap to be fulfilled.

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Embracing the Shift: Instant Payments and Infrastructure Transformation

Michael Engel, Managing Director & VP of Banking Software at Diebold Nixdorf, highlights the growing shift from traditional to instant payments, driven by increasing demand for speed and agility in transactions. While methods like SEPA and the digital euro gain momentum, the challenge of integrating these with legacy systems persists. Engel emphasises the importance of affordable, cloud-native, microservices-based platforms to boost scalability and security, especially in e-commerce. Success stories show banks launching new services within weeks, a dramatic improvement from the previous six to nine months. As consumer expectations rise, financial institutions must balance innovation with reliability.

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Bank of Kenya migrates national payment system to ISO20022

Earlier this week, the Bank of Kenya announced the successful migration of the Kenya Electronic Payment and Settlement System (KEPSS) to the ISO20022 Global Messaging Standard.

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The Future of Payments 2025 – Digital, Instant, Profitable?

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The Future of Embedded Finance in Africa 2025

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Paysend launches Paysend Libre in Mexico to reach underbanked population

In a push for financial inclusion in Mexico, Paysend has launched Paysend Libre backed by Mastercard.

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Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

Ushering in a new era of real-time payments

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Mastering the Transition to ISO 20022

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Flutterwave's Send App launches in Malawi

Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payment technology company, today announced that its flagship remittance product, Send App by Flutterwave, has launched commercially in Malawi. Customers can continue to use Send App to facilitate faster, easier, and more affordable cross-border money transfers into Malawi.