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THE ARAB MONETARY FUND (AMF) HOLDS A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP TO ELABORATE ON THE VALUE OF MULTI-CURRENCY DIMENSION OF BUNA TO EXECUTE CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS

The workshop is hosting high-level guest speakers from Arab Central Banks  and global settlement banks representing the currencies that are onboarded to Buna

More than 200 senior officials will attend the workshop, representing central banks and a wide spectrum of financial institutions from the region and beyond

 

Abu Dhabi, 3 June 2021: The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) holds today, Thursday June 3, 2021, a workshop to elaborate on the value that Buna (the cross-border payment system owned by the AMF) is offering to its growing network of participant banks, by allowing and facilitating the usage of a diversified list of eligible Arab and international currencies in cross-border payments, through its centralized and multi-currency payment system.

Additionally, the workshop will further elaborate on the strategic role that Buna and its participant banks can jointly play, to leverage the volume of payments in Arab and international currencies and fuel the growth of trade and economic activities among Arab countries and between the Arab region and international markets.

BANCA D’ITALIA AND ARPCSO ANNOUNCE BUNA-TIPS EXPERIMENT DELIVERING SUCCESSFUL CROSS-BORDER, CROSS-CURRENCY, CROSS-SYSTEM INSTANT PAYMENTS

Banca d’Italia and the Arab Regional Payments Clearing and Settlement Organization (ARPCSO) announced today the successful completion of a joint experiment aimed at linking for the first time the instant payment settlement platforms with multi-currency features (TIPS and BUNA) operated by the two organizations. The results of the experiment have been presented at an international webinar held under the auspices of the Italian Presidency of the G20 on 27-28 September.

The experiment simulated the payment of €1 by a current account holder of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo in favour of a customer of Jordan Ahli Bank, who received the money in Jordanian dinars (JOD). During the experiment, a number of cross-currency transactions were settled in both TIPS and Buna IPS, by debiting Intesa Sanpaolo’s TIPS account in EUR and crediting Jordan Ahli’s JOD account in BUNA. The average end-to-end response time for these transactions was approximately 15 seconds.

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