Cards & Payments

Visa and the International Finance Corporation have announced a new risk-sharing facility aimed at broadening digital payments funding across emerging markets. The initiative is designed to help financial institutions in underserved regions connect more consumers and small businesses to...

A Swiss industry initiative developing a Swiss franc-denominated stablecoin has moved into controlled live testing, marking a new stage for the Swiss Stablecoin Pilot. Financial market infrastructure operator SIX and digital payment app TWINT joined the project on Tuesday,...

Tokenized Deposits have moved a step closer to broader institutional use after HSBC and Standard Chartered completed what the banks described as the first bank-to-bank transaction of its kind via SWIFT's digital blockchain-backed ledger. The banks reported the completion...

Ripple, a blockchain payments company, has entered into a partnership with South Korean regional bank Jeonbuk Bank to deploy faster Cross Border Payments for busin ess customers. The collaboration makes Jeonbuk Bank the first regional bank in South Korea...

As international trade and digital remittances continue to expand, the need for robust cross-border compliance frameworks has never been greater to mitigate the risks of global financial crime.

The ability to move capital across borders efficiently is the lifeblood of the global economy, supporting everything from international trade and foreign direct investment to the management of global portfolios. However, for many years, the infrastructure supporting these flows...

Swift, the organization that powers the worldwide network linking over 11,500 financial institutions in more than 200 markets, announced a new consumer payments campaign that will give people in Germany receiving money from family, friends as well as businesses abroad a...