Cross-border Payments

Cross-border Payments
Papaya to Showcase Workforce Payments Platform in Super Bowl Commercial
February 06, 2024

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...

Cross-border Payments
Closing the Books on the Global Challenge of X-Border Accounting
February 06, 2024

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...

Cross-border Payments
Mangopay and Sprinque Partner to Streamline B2B X-Border Payments
February 06, 2024

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...

Cross-border Payments
New Report Examines Impact of Cross-Border Payments on Business Growth
January 30, 2024

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...

Cross-border Payments
Substack Rolls out Payment Support for International Currencies
January 29, 2024

Substack readers can now pay for their subscriptions in local currencies. It’s part of a wider series of changes by the newsletter publisher announced last week as it seeks to make things easier for international writers and readers, according to a company blog post. “Substack...

Cross-border Payments
Airbnb to Raise Guest Service Fees 2% for Cross-Currency Bookings
January 26, 2024

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...

Cross-border Payments
Multicurrency Corporate Cards Help Safeguard Firms Against Losses in Volatile FX Market
January 25, 2024

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%...

Cross-border Payments
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...

Latin America
Prometeo Co-CEO on What It Takes to Create Latin America’s Connected Financial Ecosystem
January 22, 2024

Open banking promises to forge new financial ecosystems as data is shared among banks, corporates and consumers. Easier said than done. Banks must be on board. Corporates must be on board. And the technological underpinnings must be in place to connect and transmit information in...