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Instant payment services are being developed by payment market infrastructures (PMIs) all over the world. Banks also see real-time services from PMIs as an opportunity to develop new products. The benefits these domestic instant payments systems bring will also be felt in cross-border payments once the systems start to inter-operate.

December 2017 As financial authorities express concern about de-risking in correspondent banking, a similar phenomenon is emerging in trade finance, driven by the high costs of KYC compliance. There is a danger that some banks in some regions, such as Africa, will have difficulty connecting to the trade finance world. Banks need to collaborate to help...

Cyber security is top of mind for industry executives, as high-profile security breaches continue to reverberate. SWIFT’s Customer Security Programme (CSP) has mobilised its members to take decisive action. What benefits are being gained from such collaboration? In an industry where robust safeguards at one institution can be undermined by weak security at...

At regular intervals the long-term survival of the current correspondent banking model is questioned. Whilst initiatives like SWIFTgpi improve the speed, transparency and traceability of cross-border payments and non-banks offer alternative payment services, they still rely on the underlying settlement mechanism of nostro-vostro accounts held by correspondent...

Increasing financial inclusion is seen as key to reducing poverty and driving economic growth in developing countries, but more than 50% of adults in the world’s poorest households still don’t have access to a bank account. Many of the world’s leading financial institutions have pledged to support World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s target to open up banking...

Geopolitics and regulatory uncertainty can have serious repercussions on markets at large; investors become more conscious of the risk of losing money and start to move their investments from riskier to safer assets. How does these impact financial institutions? What do they need to do? How can they better manage this uncertainty and maintain a competitive...

Cross-border payments and securities transactions have grown sharply since the 1970s, as exchange controls were relaxed and barriers to trade across borders were lowered. Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) have evolved in line with the growing volumes of cross-border activity. Much of this progress was dependent on official support, and often driven by...

As market conditions such as negative interest rates and the evolution of oil prices add uncertainty to global treasury operations, corporates also face a myriad of geopolitical and operational uncertainties when considering their longer term strategy. The unclear impact of the new US administration on financing global treasury businesses, the unknown impact...

A look back on SGSS' third edition of the European Investor Summit, held on 8 June 2022. The event gathered over 150 Asset Owners, Fund Managers and Financial professionals in Paris for one day to discuss challenges and opportunities of our industry.