6 Leading Banks Back SWIFT's New International Payments Platform

Six of the world's biggest banks endorsed a new platform for international payments set for launch in November 2022 by SWIFT, the global interbank messaging network.

• Citi, Bank of China, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, BNY Mellon and Standard Chartered plan to use the new platform, an announcement Thursday said.
• SWIFT is a global messaging network connecting banks and other financial institutions for cross-border payments. It links more than 11,000 institutions, and in June alone has transmitted more than 350 million messages containing financial information.
• The new platform is set to include features such as upfront validation of beneficiary details, extension of SWIFT's high-speed system to lower-value payments and incorporation of the universal messaging standard for international payments, ISO 20022.
• There have been suggestions that SWIFT could be made redundant by growth in use of digital currency – be it crypto, stablecoins or central bank digital currencies.

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