Cross Border Commerce

Cross Border Commerce
ISO 20022 Can Help Solve X-Border ‘Failed Payments’ Frictions, But Challenges Remain
January 22, 2024

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 Payments
Digital Wallets, Pay by Bank and Push to Card Can Transform Cross-Border Payments
January 19, 2024

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...

Cross-border Payments
Interoperability and Transparency Are Key Challenges as Cross-Border Payments Modernize
January 15, 2024

When three quarters of a given market are dissatisfied with the way things are going, that’s a market ripe for innovation and technology in the service of making things better.  No matter where you look, cross-border payments are tied to hundreds of billions of dollars...

Cross-border Payments
Visa and CIBC Collaborate on Sending Remittances to Digital Wallets
January 09, 2024

Visa and CIBC have formed a new collaboration to help the bank’s clients send remittances across borders more conveniently.  With Visa Direct’s money movement capabilities, the clients of CIBC and its digital banking division Simplii will be able to send money to more digital wallets in the Philippines, China,...

Cross-border Payments
ZilBank.com Launches X-Border Transaction Service for South Korean Entrepreneurs
January 05, 2024

B2B payment platform ZilBank.com launched an initiative aimed at empowering South Korean entrepreneurs and freelancers by enabling seamless payments to the United States. The program seeks to promote worldwide business expansion without being limited by geographic barriers, the company said in a Friday (Jan. 5) press release. By using cloud...

Cross-border Payments
Unlocking Trapped Liquidity Is Holy Grail for Cross-Border B2B Payments
January 04, 2024

Taking the friction out of cross-border payments is fundamental to spurring global growth.  For businesses that increasingly expect a B2B payment experience mirroring the convenience available in consumer transactions, unmet behavioral expectations around streamlined cross-border payments are beginning to track those already met around the...

Cross-border Payments
HSBC Prepares to Debut Global Payments App Zing
January 02, 2024

HSBC is reportedly readying a global payments app to take on companies like Wise and Revolut. Dubbed Zing, the app will first be offered in Great Britain, though the CEO of the bank’s personal banking operation told Bloomberg News on Tuesday (Jan. 2) that the plan...

Cross-border Payments
Intermex Partners With Visa to Expand Money Transfer Services
December 19, 2023

International Money Express (Intermex) has partnered with Visa to extend its money transfer services to more than 20 countries that it didn’t previously serve. With this collaboration, Intermex customers will be able to make fast transfers to eligible Visa cards and bank accounts in those countries, Intermex said...

Cross-border Payments
MyFinity Partners With Convera to Increase Global Coverage
December 13, 2023

MiFinity has partnered with Convera to increase the country coverage of its PayAnyBank (PAB) service. The integration of Convera’s B2B cross-border payments capabilities into MiFinity’s PAB service furthers MiFinity’s commitment to providing cross-border payment solutions to its global customer base, the company said in a Tuesday (Dec. 12) press...