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Could Payments Innovations Leave Banks Behind?

Innovations in payments are emerging right and left, and while many of the new methods target consumers, some have the potential to alter the way corporations make payments.

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At a SWIFT conference in March, Cheryl Gurz, manager of the emerging technology segment for BNY Mellon Treasury Services, cited new technologies, including the blockchain technology used by the cryptocurrency bitcoin, as a possible threat to banks’ dominance in cross-border payments. The blockchain is a distributed ledger, hosted on many servers simultaneously.

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