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One of the major unsolved challenges of global payments is how to establish efficient, multilateral, cross-border payments. Economies – especially those in developing countries – are being held back by inefficient correspondent banking chains. Know-your-customer checks are essential to the fight against money laundering and organised crime, but they slow down payments and raise the cost.

However, the Payments Benchmarks 2025 highlight the