In an environment where customers are increasingly willing to switch banks or fintech providers to meet their payment needs, financial institutions must address inefficiencies in payment processing or face the consequences. The persistent reliance on manual processing and delayed adoption of ISO 20022 highlights significant untapped opportunities for banks to reduce the number of failed payments.

This report presents confirmation from our research that banks implementing payment data validation solutions achieve substantial improvements. It is based on Datos Insights’ Q3 2025 survey of 150 global financial institutions on cross-border payments.
Clients of Datos Insights’ Commercial Banking & Payments service can download this report.
About the Author
Robin LoGiudice
Robin LoGiudice is a Strategic Advisor with the Commercial Banking & Payments team at Datos Insights. She has over 30 years of experience as a payment technologist and product innovator. Robin has consulted with many of the top 100 global financial institutions as well as Fortune 100 corporations to drive digital transformation and payments modernization projects. Recognized as a thought...