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Payments Benchmarks 2025 report – cross-border connections

Benchmarks highlight progress on instant payments, ISO 20022 adoption and bilateral links

One of the major unsolved challenges of global payments is how to establish efficient, multilateral, cross-border payments. However, the Payments Benchmarks 2025 highlight the progress central banks are making, from upgrades to real-time gross settlement systems, to adoption of the common ISO 20022 messaging standard and bilateral connections between instant payment systems.

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Asia-Pacific leads payments diversification

Benchmarking data shows wide disparity between geographies as payment systems evolve. The majority of Asia-Pacific economies (62.5%) are seeing the payment system diversify. By contrast, in Europe the payments market is largely unchanged over the past year.

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Model banks analysis – Payments 2024

Breakdowns of key data from the payments benchmark shed light on how the function is governed

Payments Benchmark Data

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