When it comes to cross-border payments, there are necessary and unnecessary frictions. That’s according to Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman, who discussed the challenges facing cross-border payments Thursday (Feb. 15) during a speech at the BCBS-FSI High-Level Meeting for Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. “As one...
Papaya Global will use a Super Bowl commercial to showcase the launch of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform for executing worker payments. The new workforce payments platform provides an end-to-end solution, the FinTech company in the workforce payments industry said in a Tuesday (Feb. 6) press release. Embedded payments...
One of the biggest challenges to account for in cross-border payments is, well, the accounting. It’s a silent but often deadly snarl that can tangle up business’ plans to tap into the potential of international expansion. That’s because cross-border payments, traveling across far-flung tax codes...
Mangopay, a payment infrastructure provider for marketplaces and platforms, and Sprinque, a B2B payments platform, partnered on B2B cross-border payments. The collaboration aims to offer merchants and marketplaces a customizable payments infrastructure, enabling them to tap into B2B cross-border opportunities, the companies said in a...
In an era of disruptive technologies, cross-border payments are quietly undergoing a revolution. The emerging paradigm centers around cost-effective, real-time payment options with maximum visibility for both sender and receiver. Beyond driving international sales, cutting-edge payment solutions provide a range of benefits to CFOs and...
Airbnb will add about 2% to its guest service fees when guests pay with a currency different from the one set by the host in their listing. This additional amount for cross-currency bookings will be added to guest service fees, beginning April 1, the online marketplace...
Corporate card usage has surged in popularity, especially among small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) grappling with inflationary pressures and rising costs. However, despite this trend, the traditional financial services sector continues to hinder the widespread adoption of business credit cards, resulting in a mere 28%...
The farther payments travel, the greater the potential is for failure. Cross-border transactions, as they wend their way across currencies and time zones, with any number of parties and counterparties in the mix, are rife with complexities. Streamlined, standardized messaging, at least conceptually, aids straight-through...
Cross-border money movement’s digital makeover rests with a variety of endpoints. More specifically, the more ways there are to send and receive, the more options there are to house stores of value, and the more streamlined international payments become. To that end, and as PYMNTS reported...