Is there any impact to cross-border payments made via PayNow?

The discontinuation of the PayNow nickname feature on 6 June 2026 only affects PayNow funds transfer from a domestic Payer to a domestic retail Payee.

There is no change to cross-border payments made via PayNow e.g. PayNow-DuitNow, PayNow-PromptPay etc. Currently for the PayNow cross-border linkages, to safeguard a retail Payee’s privacy, only selected letters of the Payee’s name will be displayed to Payers. Parts of your account name as a Payee per your PayNow financial institution’s records will be automatically replaced with the symbol “*”. This applies to all Payees of a PayNow cross-border funds transfer.