Blogs by Erika Baumann

While Sibos was a little different this year, what remains the same is that the payments industry is still banking on ISO 20022 to become the de facto standard of payments messaging. In an interesting session, Saqib Sheikh, the global head of the ISO 20022 program for SWIFT, referred to ISO 20022 as the next-generation standard for how entities speak to one another in payments. This simple definition makes sense, and it seems adoption would be a no-brainer. Having a common language to streamline the payments process is obviously important. However, the U.S.