Benefits

Scale payments and accelerate time-to-market with a single, AI-powered payments hub

Support new payment rails and regulatory changes with a flexible, configurable payments hub enabling innovation and minimizing complexity.

Unified payments in a single hub

Consolidate all payment rails into one modular payments hub with a single implementation, reducing integration effort and ownership cost.

Reduced operational complexity

Increase straight‑through processing with automated repair and lower operating costs through centralized, configurable payment rules delivered out of the box.

Simplifiy regulatory compliance

Accelerate compliance with ISO 20022‑native processing and pre‑certified workflows that reduce change effort and operational burden.

Continuous availability

Rely on a resilient, scalable platform designed for 24/7 availability and consistent performance, even at peak transaction volumes.

Customers worldwide trust Global PAYplus

Customer Story

First American Trust scaling high-volume payments

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Working with knowledgeable people that truly understand our business and want us to succeed fuels us to keep going further with Finastra.

Rob Abriola Business Systems Analyst, First American Trust
Rob Abriola of First American Trust, a Finastra Global PAYplus customer
Customer Story

Lloyds Bank collaborates with Finastra to drive payments transformation

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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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Industry Recognition

Finastra is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Banking Payment Hub Platforms.

Global PAYplus supports enterprise payments modernization with centralized, ISO 20022-native, multi‑rail processing built for scale, resilience, and regulatory change.

Global Reach

Single payment hub to support multi-country, multi-rail payment experiences

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Global

Swift, Swift GPI, Visa Direct, and Citi Worldlink

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Asia Pacific

RITS, CHATS, FXYCS, HVCS, PhiliPaSS, CITAD, BAHTNET, NPP, UPI, PAYNOW, PromptPay, NAPAS 247, and more

(Oceania & Pacific - 10, East Asia - 11, Southeast Asia - 16, South Asia - 3)

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Europe and the UK

EURO1, STEP1, STEP 2, TARGET2, SEPA Instant and OCT, TIPS, Faster Payments, Bacs, CHAPS, and more

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Americas and Canada 

Fedwire, CHIPS, RTP, FedNow, ACH, and Lynx

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Middle East and Africa

Zahav, SAMOS, SADAC, and Authenticated Collections

Highlights

Lead the future of payments with a single solution

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Modernize payments without compromise

Global PAYplus enables banks to modernize payments processing while maintaining control, reducing risks and costs, and increasing agility, resilience, scalability, and performance across high‑volume, mission‑critical environments.

Optimize payment capabilities without sacrificing stability, compliance, or operational efficiency as complexity, volumes, rails, and demands grow.

Future-proof US ACH payments with Global PAYplus

Support high‑volume ACH processing with a scalable Global PAYplus payments hub built to handle peak demand without performance degradation.

Support new use cases, higher throughput, and operational resilience as ACH volumes grow and processing windows continue to shrink.

Embracing the future of cross-border payments

Enable faster, predictable, more transparent cross‑border payments while maintaining control over cost, risk, and regulatory requirements.

Support evolving customer expectations with flexible processing designed for scale, interoperability, and long‑term global reach.

Finastra OperatorAssist

Improve payments processing, operational efficiency, and customer experience with intelligent automation that reduces manual effort in investigations, repairs, and accelerates payments resolution.

Support faster decision‑making, improved productivity, and scalable operations while achieving potential efficiency gains between 20-30% across payments teams.

Instant Payments and Beyond

Prepare for instant payments, alternate rails, and emerging forms of digital money with a platform designed to support real‑time processing alongside existing payment rails.

Capture new opportunities by aligning technology and strategy to scale instant payments globally without disrupting core operations.

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Discover our Payments-as-a-Service solution for community banks and credit unions

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Frequently Asked Questions

Global PAYplus FAQs

Finastra Global PAYplus is an ISO 20022‑native, modular, multi‑cloud, multi-country, multi-rail payments hub that centralizes processing for real‑time, high‑value, mass, and cross‑border payments. It streamlines operations through a configurable rules engine, pre‑certified workflows, and API‑based connectivity.

Global PAYplus is ISO 20022‑native and continuously updated to support new market infrastructures, clearing schemes, and compliance mandates. Banks benefit from reduced regulatory risk, faster compliance cycles, and lower update effort, freeing resources to focus on innovation rather than mandatory change.

Absolutely. The platform is designed for scale and resiliency, supporting millions of payments daily with contingency management, and 24/7 availability. It is trusted by Tier 0 to Tier 2, and large super‑regional banks worldwide.

The platform delivers high availability through microservices, blue‑green deployments, and cloud‑agnostic infrastructure. Banks gain uninterrupted operations, faster recovery times, and the ability to scale smoothly during peak volumes, critical to meeting 24x7 customer and market expectations.

The solution is cloud‑agnostic and can be deployed on‑premises, on private/public cloud, or as a fully managed Payments‑as‑a‑Service (PaaS) offering, giving financial institutions flexibility and control over their modernization strategy.

By consolidating multiple payment types into a single hub, eliminating legacy interfaces, automating workflows, and utilizing microservices and containerization, banks benefit from lower TCO, reduced maintenance, and faster updates.

Modernize your institution's enterprise payments processing

With over 30 years of payments experience, our experts can help plan your next phase of payments transformation.

We selected Finastra’s payment hub as it supports multiple payment types within one standalone system, while enabling seamless integrations of new services as and when we need them. With Finastra’s solution and industry expertise, we will gain the necessary agility required to keep pace with regulatory and industry demands.

Bernhard Strauch
Head Securities & Payments Services at LGT Financial Services Ltd