Nexus set to revolutionize Asean cross-border payments

Mamerto Tangonan, the deputy governor and head of the payments and currency management sector at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, tells Euromoney how southeast Asian countries are using advances in digital payments to revolutionize cross-border transactions.

In the realm of cross-border payments, distributed-ledger technology (DLT) has long been seen as a game changer, poised to transform the industry and supplant the dominant Swift-based correspondent banking system. Yet, despite the initial hype, DLT has faced obstacles in terms of scalability and the tedious process of forging bilateral connections between all involved parties.

Mamerto Tangonan, deputy governor and head of the payments and currency management sector at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), believes that southeast Asia’s Nexus project could offer a viable alternative for faster, cheaper and more transparent cross-border payments.

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