Standard Chartered Bank: Cooperates with Ant International to launch a pilot program for bank-to-wallet payment solutions.

Standard Chartered Bank announced on September 9th that, leveraging the Swift infrastructure, Ant International and Standard Chartered Bank have conducted end-to-end production trials of a bank-to-wallet payment solution based on the ISO 20022 financial message standard. Through Ant International's global wallet gateway service Alipay+, the first transaction between Standard Chartered Bank customer accounts and partner electronic wallets has been successfully completed. This solution connects 1.7 billion user accounts from 36 global digital wallets within the Alipay+ ecosystem, significantly simplifying global remittances.