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A Letter From – Singapore

FNA’s Amanah Ramadiah shares key takeaways from the Singapore Fintech Festival, exploring how AI, Project Nexus, and collaborative frameworks are redefining the future of cross-border payments and financial crime prevention

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A Letter From - Toronto

FNA’s Chloe Wang and Gian Giacomo Della Torre recap their Toronto mission, focusing on National Fraud Portal (NFP) presentations and strategic workshops for Intelligent Liquidity Optimization (ILO) with Canada’s leading banks.

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A Letter From – New York

FNA’s Phillip Straley and Jeremie Feuillette share critical takeaways from New York, detailing how Fed reviews, USD liquidity buffers, and the shift to ISO 20022 are driving the need for advanced payment controls.

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FNA at Arab Payment Week

FNA’s Phillip Straley joins Arab Payment Week in Abu Dhabi to discuss the future of cross-border payments, highlighting the need for national collaboration to fight fraud and drive wholesale liquidity efficiencyration to fight fraud and drive wholesale liquidity efficiency

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The Next Generation RTGS: Liquidity Saving Mechanisms as an Overlay Service

As legacy RTGS systems age, integrating Liquidity-Saving Mechanisms directly into core central bank ledgers limits agility and increases complexity. By extracting these mechanisms into an independent "LSM Overlay Service," financial institutions can algorithmically resequence payments to save up to 69% in liquidity while enabling faster, modular infrastructure upgrades.

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Liquidity-Saving Mechanisms in Trade Credit Networks: Optimising Corporate Liquidity

Trade credit drives corporate supply chains but exposes firms to cascading late-payment and default risks. By applying interbank Liquidity-Saving Mechanisms (LSMs) to corporate networks, a new Financial Market Infrastructure could drastically reduce liquidity requirements, clear gridlocks, and provide unprecedented visibility into supply chain health.

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Molecular Settlement: Making Atomic Settlement Work in a Positive Interest Rate Environment

While "atomic settlement" promises instantaneous and simultaneous asset transfers, it creates unsustainable liquidity costs for financial institutions in a positive interest rate environment. By deploying smart algorithms to group individual trades into efficient "molecules," institutions can achieve near-instant settlement without sacrificing critical liquidity savings.

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