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Swift may bring PayID into cross-border payments push soonish

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29 Sep, 2026
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Warwick Ponder
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29 Sep, 2026
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Australian Payments Plus (AP+) and Commonwealth Bank have joined a Swift initiative to let Australians send money overseas using familiar identifiers at an unspecified date, as domestic account-to-account access and the industry roadmap remain unsettled.
Swift may bring PayID into cross-border payments push soonish
AP+ chief executive Lynn Kraus and Managing Director of Swift’s Payments Platform, Juan Martinez. Background generated by AI.

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) and Commonwealth Bank have joined a Swift initiative to let Australians send money overseas using familiar identifiers at an unspecified date, as domestic account-to-account access and the industry roadmap remain unsettled.

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