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ISO 20022 is a global standard for structured financial messaging, defining common data formats used in payments, securities, and trade finance.
Swift says it will defer all payments changes and report back by December, so the November 2026 structured-address date is no longer a planning anchor. The work that survives the slip is field-level lineage for every address component.
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More than 50 banks in 16 countries have signed up to Project Pangea to test instant euro-won settlement using SWIFT-format instructions, on a corridor that trades about $150bn a year against a global FX market doing at least $7.5tn a day.
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Delta Capita's MACH DLT will record and settle ownership inside the depository Vermeg is building for the Central Bank of the UAE, with connectivity to SWIFT messaging. The contract value and start date are undisclosed.
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Citi's live dollar transactions with First Abu Dhabi Bank and OCBC, and SoFi's tie-up with Kraken's parent, both removed a cutoff time, which leaves CFOs deciding what software may release at 2am Sunday.
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Bottomline's bureau claims 15% of Swift cross-border traffic and 10 million transactions a day, so the distribution on offer is genuine; the onchain settlement is still a test, and LINK's 6.8% move priced the first thing.
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