As part of Sibos, Swift announced two partnerships that speak to the organisation’s future strategy: one with Wise Platform and another with Visa.

This week I have been at Sibos, Swift's gathering of the banking community, to host the panel "Grasping opportunities in SME payments: The race is on".

When comparing the number of transactions across real-time payments systems worldwide, the gap between RTP and similar systems becomes clear.

UK-based corporate FX player Argentex saw group revenues grow 28% to £25m in H1 23, driving a 16% increase in operating profit to £5.2m.

CAB Payments has announced its first earnings results since it went public via an IPO, with strong top-line numbers in H1 2023.

UK-based B2B payments provider Equals had a strong H1 23, with revenues rising 43% to £45m on the back of transaction values.

At the end of August, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Enterprise, and payments is emerging as one of the key use cases.

In August, the BRICS bloc made the historic step of more than doubling, increasing the significance of the bloc as a sender of consumer remittances.

The Reserve Bank of India is adding voice payment technology to the Unified Payments Interface – India’s instant payments system.