“Reference exchange rate drops slightly at week’s beginning

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) set the daily reference exchange rate at 24,245 VND/USD on July 15, down 3 VND from July 13.

With the current trading band of +/- 5%, the ceiling rate applicable for commercial banks during the day is 25,457 VND/USD and the floor rate 23,033 VND/USD.

At commercial banks, the opening-hour rates also fluctuated slightly.

At 8:20 am, Vietcombank listed the rates at 25,237 VND/USD (buying) and 25,457 VND/USD (selling), both down 3 VND from the rates two days ago.

BIDV also cut both rates by 3 VND, listing the buying rate at 25,237 VND/USD and the selling rate at 25,457 VND/USD.”

@ Newshounds News™

Read more:  Vietnam Net

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News Update: Fedwire ISO 20022 Timeline

In 2022, the Fed announced that the Federal Reserve Banks planned to adopt the ISO 20022 standard for the Fedwire Funds Service in a single-day implementation strategy on March 10, 2025. 

ISO 20022 is a globally accepted messaging standardization approach introduced in 2005 by the International Organization for Standardization with the goal of using the same language for all financial communications.

The Fedwire migration marks a significant turning point in the modernization of the American payment system that complies with best practices and international standards.

Here are three key updates you need to know about the upcoming migration schedule/planned timeline.

Compliance Window:
At the end of October 2024, the compliance testing window will officially close. Any financial institution that wants to remain in compliance with ISO20022 needs to complete its testing with the Federal Reserve by that time.

Post-Launch Integration
Compliance testing will resume two weeks following the launch (around late March).

Managing Non-Approvals
Organizations may choose to keep using the current method without paying penalties if they have not achieved compliance by the testing deadline. It’s crucial to remember that ongoing use of Fedwire Direct requires compliance with ISO standards if a third-party solution is used for data loading. Therefore, financial institutions might not be able to use the solutions that are already available if these standards are not adopted and will be forced to manually load their wire transactions to the Fedwire Direct portal.

In partnership with the Federal Reserve, Alacriti has been proactive about ISO 20022. Alacriti’s solutions have all APIs built to the ISO 20022 standard, which is imperative for the RTP® network and the FedNow® Service, and also to accommodate the implementation that Fedwire has planned for 2025.

@ Newshounds News™

Read more:  Alacriti, ISO 20022 Timeline

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SAB 121 IN THE NEWS AGAIN?

“The crux of the problem is the accounting rule forces assets under custody to be disclosed as both an asset and liability on the balance sheet, contrary to accounting convention.
This expands the size of the balance sheet on which banks have their capital requirements assessed. Hence, providing crypto custody would require banks to set aside large amounts of capital, making it prohibitively expensive.”

“The saga has taken up a considerable legislator time. In May both the House (228 v 182) and Senate (60 v 38) voted in favor of a resolution to cancel SAB 121, followed by a Presidential veto. Last year the Government Accountability Office (GAO) ruled that SAB 121 was a rule that should have received Congressional approval. Plus, legislators wrote to bank regulators about SAB 121 multiple times.”

“In March 2022 the SEC published SAB 121, apparently without consulting banking regulators. The rule impacts all listed firms, not just banks. However, if the potential impact on banks was immediately obvious to journalists, it’s odd that the SEC didn’t consider it.”

“The issue is bigger than cryptocurrency. It’s widely believed that tokenization – of securities, funds and other real world assets – will see the rewiring of the financial system. The Bank of International Settlements, the central bank of central banks, frowns on crypto but is making a big push on tokenization.

In order for tokenization to progress in an institutional framework, it’s essential for assets to be held in custody by banks. The world’s largest custodian banks are American. BNY Mellon, State Street, JP Morgan, Citi and Northern Trust provide custody for $160 trillion in assets.”

“While the United States prides itself on its sophisticated markets, institutional work on tokenization is happening elsewhere.”

“Several U.S. firms are involved in the Singapore and European work. Resolving the custody issue could see a significant acceleration in activity on home soil.”

@ Newshounds News™