{
  "id": 8085753,
  "title": "Bottomline Debuts SaaS Platform to Improve Payment Messaging",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/bottomline-debuts-saas-platform-to-improve-payment-messaging",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-17T19:35:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
    "slug": "pymnts",
    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/payments-innovation/2026/bottomline-debuts-saas-platform-improve-payment-messaging/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Bottomline Technologies launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform called Global Pay Connect on September 17, 2023, aimed at enhancing payment messaging capabilities for financial institutions. The new platform seeks to enable financial institutions to transcend conventional payment connectivity through API-driven services and integration with third-party data, as highlighted in a press release. Financial institutions are increasingly pressured to accommodate real-time payments, ISO 20022 compliance, cross-border transparency, and novel payment models, as the release points out. Outdated systems pose a significant challenge to the adoption of real-time payments, with 40% of chief financial officers citing this as the most substantial barrier, while only 28% describe their current SaaS adoption as modern, API-enabled, and comprehensive, according to Bottomline research.\n\nGlobal Pay Connect offers connectivity to major global and domestic payment networks such as Swift, SEPA, SIC, Bacs, CHAPS, CHIPS, Lynx, EBICS, and host-to-host connections. The platform also provides modernization through ISO 20022 transformation, payment data enrichment, Message Vault capabilities, and AI-enabled insights for institutions to maximize the value from their payment data. Additionally, Bottomline formed a partnership with blockchain company Chainlink, enabling interoperability between banks and multiple blockchain networks through a single, network-agnostic integration model. Vitus Rotzer, Bottomline's global head of banking GTM, stated that Global Pay Connect serves as the link between current payment infrastructure requirements and the future evolution of payment ecosystems, helping institutions derive greater value from payment data via intelligent validation and AI-enhanced insights while supporting emerging payment models like digital assets and tokenization. As real-time payments gain traction, with 92% of financial institutions planning to enable The Clearing House's RTP® network within the next two years, the shift towards infrastructure modernization could evolve from a long-term project into an urgent spending priority, as reported by PYMNTS on September 8.",
  "summary": "Business payments firm Bottomline introduced a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to improve payment messaging, according to a Thursday (Sept. 17) news release. Global Pay Connect is aimed at helping “financial institutions extend their payments infrastructure beyond traditional connectivity through API-enabled services and third-party data integration,” per the release. “Financial…",
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}