Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), present in Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, is the first East African bank to go live on SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi) service. This is a rapid cross-border payments service that includes real-time payments tracking and transparency on transaction fees and foreign exchange rates. The service also enables clients to track the status of their payments from end-to-end and provides an unprecedented level of visibility into each payment. Suraj Shah, Head of Centralised Operations at DTB, said: "As the first East African bank to go live on gpi, we are now offering our corporate customers faster, more transparent and traceable crossborder payments."