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Tackling money laundering in trade
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Rich, quality payments: The case for ISO 20022
November 5, 2019Saqib Sheikh, SWIFT’s global head of ISO 20022 programme, recently sat down with The Banker to outline why the migration to ISO 20022 is so important to the industry.