Transforming payments and financial messaging, worldwide for over 30 years

Global coverage of market infrastructures and rails

Payments and financial messages delivered on-time, safely and securely, worldwide

True multi-entity solutions

All payments and financial messages managed and controlled centrally to boost operational efficiency and STP rates

Adaptable through configuration, not customization

No more expensive and risky customizations with agility through self-service business rules

Multiple deployment options

Run the solution as you want - customer or Finastra managed cloud, SaaS, or on-premise, including access to one of the world's largest Swift Service Bureaus

Modern architecture

Our payments and financial messaging solutions are built on our Global Payments Framework (GPF) enabling financial institutions to modernize infrastructure, improve operational efficiency, realize rapid ROI, and drive future innovations

Reliable

Finastra solutions are globally proven, trusted, and acknowledged as leaders in the field of payments and financial messaging

Whatever your size and need, our integrated payments and financial messaging solutions have you covered.

Finastra Financial Messaging

Streamlined financial messaging and seamless market infrastructure connectivity

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Finastra Payments To Go

Payment transformation made easy

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Finastra Global PAYplus

Accelerate payments modernization and innovation worldwide

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Finastra Bacsactive-IP

Online access to a full range of Bacs and Faster Payments services for UK customers.

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Finastra RapidWires

Affordable, efficient, and secured wire processing automation

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Our customers stories

Customer Story

Driving digital banking transformation through payments modernization

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By implementing Finastra Global PAYplus, we have significantly reduced manual intervention and processing and the time it takes to process a payment. Our STP rate for domestic payments is now nearly 100%, and for cross border, it is more than 90%, which has helped improve our customers’ satisfaction.

Vu Thi Xuan Tho (Ms.) Deputy Director, Payment Center Head Office

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STP rates for domestic payments

90%

STP rates for cross-border payments

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Customer Story

Lloyds Bank collaborates with Finastra to drive payments transformation and deliver an enhanced banking experience

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We chose Finastra as our core payment platform provider because they have a proven track record of delivering reliable, scalable, and open solutions. They helped us modernize our international payments platform, leading to improved STP rates and compliance with ISO 20022. The flexible nature of our collaboration allowed us to create compelling propositions for our clients. Finastra is more than just a technology provider, they are a trusted partner who brings us insights and innovations from other markets.

Steve Everett MD, Cash Management and Payments at Lloyds Banking Group
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Customer Story

Prominent New Zealand bank works with Finastra to adopt the new ISO 20022 financial messaging standard

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Finastra understands our Payments business after working with us for a number of years and was able to provide a solution that solved these challenges, without us needing to upgrade our core payments platform immediately.

John Forrester Westpac NZ Head of Payments
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Customer Story

Jefferson Bank strengthens its market position with Finastra's payments solution

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Finastra Payments To Go gives us access to the same payment processing technology used by big banks, enabling us to provide our customers with state-of-the-art payment services in addition to the experience they have come to expect from us.

Fred Gibbons, VP Deposit Operations at Jefferson Bank
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Berkshire Bank implemented Finastra Payments To Go intelligent payment hub

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We have more actionable data due to the dashboard reporting. Another feature we benefit from are the Insight Dashboard reports. This is near real-time data that's accessible and can be used for immediate decision-making

James Bellevue SVP of Electronic Banking and Deposit
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VyStar Credit Union increases efficiencies and improves members experience with Finastra Payments To Go

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We were exploring different vendors that met the new needs that we had as a growing organization. As part of that, we looked at Payments To Go. It definitely met the needs not only of our members but gave us a lot of efficiency gains that we were looking for as a credit union.

Stephanie Curtis SVP of Operations at Vystar Credit Union.
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Payments and financial messaging solutions trusted by institutions worldwide for over 30 years

Backed by decades of global payments expertise and thousands of successful implementations, our suite of solutions enables institutions of all types and sizes to drive operational excellence and innovation.

All financial institutions must adapt to stay relevant

Experience the future of payments and financial messaging with Finastra, ensuring reliability while meeting the evolving expectations of customers

Drive innovation and deliver increased business value at pace, with faster Time to Revenue

Our modern architecture delivers a secure, scalable, and resilient platform with lower Total Cost of Ownership

Meet evolving regulatory requirements and timelines with confidence

Choose a partner with industry recognized depth of functionality and experience

Envision what's next - innovate for growth

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Instant payments

The list of use cases and extent of global coverage are expanding – whether through regulation or market forces – don’t risk your clients migrating to fintechs.

Instant Payments in the US

Instant Payments in Europe

Instant Payments in Switzerland

Cross-border payments

With increasing digital payment volumes, customers expect greater coverage, transparency, predictability, and reliability.

ISO 20022 adoption

Go beyond compliance. ISO 20022 messaging opens a world of possibilities to improve operations and automation. The clock is ticking—how are you responding? See our advice for CBPR+.

Payments transformation

A modern, responsive and resilient payments and financial messaging architecture is essential to meet customer demands. 

ACH payments

Modernizing ACH isn’t optional—it’s a competitive necessity. Learn how modern payment hub solutions can drive ACH growth.

Our payments and financial messaging solutions power the global economy

Payments credentials

Customer base

300+customers worldwide
75%of the world’s top 20 banks
750+Go Lives/year

Market coverage examples

25%+US Wire payments
40%+US CHIPS payments
50%+Australian RTGS payments
50%+Swiss CHF payments
40%+UK CHAPS payments
15%+European T2 payments
50%+South Africa direct debits

Live performance examples

8M+instant payments/day
70K+batch transactions/minute
$7T+payments value/day
99%+domestic STP rates
95%+cross-border STP rates
99%+availability

Financial messaging credentials

Customer base

3Swift Service Bureaus worldwide
425+FM customers worldwide
3KBacs & Faster Payments customers
625Go Lives/year

Market coverage examples

15+market infrastructures
30+payment rails
50%Swiss market share

Live performance examples

2M+messages processed daily
1M+SIC payments processed in the Swiss Service Bureau
99.99%uptime (FM platform)
100%uptime (Bacs platform)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Payments FAQs

Payments is a business unit at Finastra offering a comprehensive suite of solutions that enables banks to process real-time, cross-border, ACH, and high-value payments efficiently. It includes an enterprise payments hub for large banks, a mid-market offering delivered through Payments as a Service (PaaS), and a SaaS-based financial messaging solution for secure connectivity to both Swift and non-Swift market infrastructures.

Corporates, credit unions, and financial institutions worldwide rely on Finastra to modernize payments infrastructure and meet evolving customer and regulatory demands.

Finastra’s GPF eliminates the limitations of rigid, one-size-fits-all payment and messaging solutions. Instead, it gives financial institutions the agility and flexibility to modernize on their terms with a proven, composable, and future-ready approach.

Finastra’s Payment hubs are designed to overcome the limitations of legacy systems and fragmented payment infrastructures. By addressing these challenges, we deliver a modern, scalable foundation with advanced capabilities that enable financial institutions to stay compliant, accelerate time-to-market, and operate with confidence. 

Finastra offers modular, composable, cloud-native  payment hub solutions that consolidate all payment rails into a unified hub, enabling financial institutions to streamline, automate, and secure the handling of financial transactions, as well as improve Straight-Through Processing (STP) rates.

Finastra provides ISO 20022-native solutions and pre-certified, configurable, best-practice payment workflows to reduce risky and expensive customizations and offer simplified compliance with global and regional regulations.

Finastra enables banks to process instant and real-time payments through integration with schemes such as SEPA Instant, FedNow, RTP, NAPAS, PromptPay, and other global networks. The platform’s microservices and API-based architecture ensures transactions are executed and settled in seconds, improving customer satisfaction.

Yes. Finastra’s open, API-driven architecture enables simplified integration with existing third-party systems, including banks’ own systems. This allows financial institutions to modernize payments operations without replacing their existing infrastructure, supporting gradual migration and interoperability across systems and channels.

Finastra’s Payment hubs deliver end-to-end payments processing with tailored solutions for both enterprise (Global PAYplus) and mid-market (Payments To Go) institutions, avoiding the compromises of a one-size-fits-all approach. Our solutions leverage a modular, composable, cloud-native architecture with APIs and microservices, enabling high agility, security, scalability, resiliency, and simplified integration with value-added services.

Yes, they include enterprise-grade security compliance at both regional and global levels, access to sophisticated value-added services across fraud prevention, AML, and sanctions screening.

Finastra embeds advanced security measures, including encryption, authentication, RBAC, and real-time monitoring, within its Payments platform. The solution integrates fraud detection tools and compliance checks that help institutions identify suspicious activity early, protect sensitive data, and meet regulatory requirements. 

Yes, the modular, composable, API-, and microservices-based design ensures scalability and resilience for high transaction volumes and new payment schemes.

Finastra’s Payment hubs transform the efficiency and effectiveness of payments operations by delivering actionable insights and measurable business outcomes. With a modern, composable and cloud-native architecture institutions achieve efficiency, agility, and compliance at scale.

You can request a demo directly through the Finastra website by filling out our contact form or reaching out to a regional sales representative. 

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