SurePay, the IBAN-name verify supplier, affirmation of payee (CoP) and verification of payee (VoP) to over 100 banks, has expanded its providers following a strategic settlement with Swift, the messaging community, and the combination of Swift’s cost pre-validation service.
By collaborating with Swift, SurePay can now service banks on a home, pan-European and international scale, boosting the safety of their monetary transactions. SurePay’s VoP name-matching resolution will function domestically and cross-border, hoping to empower European, British and international banks to pre-validate worldwide funds.
SurePay affords real-time verification of IBAN and beneficiary names primarily based on dwell information sources to validate key cost info earlier than initiating a transaction. It developed the service to assist PSPs add an important layer of verification and danger mitigation to monetary transactions.
Swift’s cost pre-validation service with Beneficiary Account Verification enhances this functionality, taking SurePay’s providers to a world degree.
Bridget Meijer, supervisor of latest markets and partnerships at SurePay, defined the advantages the partnership may assist it provide: “At SurePay, we’re dedicated to having the expertise in place to guard our clients from fraud, misdirected funds, and pointless and dear friction.
“Swift’s technique to allow immediate and frictionless funds and SurePay’s dedication to offering the best-in-class name-matching resolution make for a robust partnership. We sit up for persevering with our mission and journey globally alongside Swift.”
SurePay will leverage Swift’s in depth community of 11,500 establishments throughout greater than 200 nations to deliver the advantages of its enhanced VoP service to a broader European and international viewers.
Making certain interoperability between CoP methods
Thomas Peeters, head of Benelux, Nordics and Baltics at Swift, defined: “Easy errors are the reason for large delays in cross-border funds. Swift’s cost pre-validation resolution utilises native CoP/VoP responses and the pseudonymised and aggregated information from throughout our community to make sure beneficiary info is right earlier than a cost is executed.
“With Europe adopting immediate funds regulation that features a requirement to pre-validate beneficiary account info, interoperability between CoP methods is a straightforward technique to preserve compliance and make sure the easy and scalable stream of pan-European and cross-border funds.”
SurePay buyer Rabobank is among the PSPs that has already built-in Swift’s resolution into its Affirmation of Payee system to allow overseas banks to pre-validate cost information.
Ton Versteeg, specialist funds/market infrastructures at Rabobank, additionally commented: “As a member of the Cost Pre-validation group, we at Rabobank perceive the worth we are able to deliver as an information supplier on the service.
“We’ve built-in Swift’s resolution into our present home Affirmation of Payee system, SurePay, to assist banks past our borders pre-validate if their cost information is right. Doing so significantly expands the affect that home methods can have in tackling fraud and lowering cross-border transaction friction and operational prices.”
