Cross-Border Payments

Switzerland-based AMINA Bank has integrated Ripple Payments to reduce the friction between blockchain and traditional banking rails and enable the bank’s clients to move funds seamlessly. This integration makes AMINA Bank, ...

Across the Middle East, governments, banks and global payments firms are treating digital payments as foundational infrastructure for future economic activity. The focus is not limited to consumer convenience or ...

Brazil’s Pix real-time payments network already moves more money than cards or cash in Latin America’s largest economy. Now, the same digital rails that let Brazilians scan a QR code ...

Ant International, HSBC and Swift say they have tested a new cross-border payment solution. The initiative involved the cross-border transfer of tokenized deposits using ISO 20022 messaging standards, with the help of Swift’s global messaging ...

Lumanu has extended its payments and compliance platform for the global creative economy to deliver real-time payments to creators and contractors in more than 195 countries and territories. The company did ...

Embedded banking provider ClearBank has launched a collaboration with foreign exchange (FX) and payments solutions company Finseta. The partnership, announced in a news release Tuesday (Dec. 9) is designed to deliver ...

JPMorganChase said BMW has achieved a landmark using its Kinexys payments system. The carmaker has become the first corporation to carry out a fully preprogrammed foreign exchange (FX) transaction using programmable ...

Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s ...

Merchants chasing global growth are learning that cross-border sales succeed only when payments feel as local as possible. That is the new message emerging from the latest Payments Optimization Tracker, ...

Travel is an experiential sector where every detail matters. A small surprise can either spoil or enhance the experience. This has put pressure on payments innovation. As global travel continues to ...

Cross-border payments are easier said than done. Particularly for multinational businesses or mid-size firms looking to expand overseas. The reality is that cash routed across borders still travels through a ...

Business payments company Sokin has raised $50 million in a new funding round. The Series B round brings Sokin’s valuation to $300 million, and will help accelerate the company’s expansion, bolster its financial ...

The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert Friday (Nov. 28) reminding money services businesses (MSBs) that they should be vigilant in reporting suspicious activity around cross-border ...

Over the coming weekend, global payments infrastructure will cross an invisible but meaningful threshold. And there’s no going back. After years of planning and incremental rollout phases, Swift’s existing MT messaging ...

Brazil is considering a tax on cross-border cryptocurrency payments, Reuters reported Tuesday (Nov. 18), citing unnamed sources. Such a move could close a loophole in Brazil’s normal tax on international transactions, ...

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The past decade has transformed cross-border payments from a slow, opaque process into one that is faster, cheaper and increasingly transparent. Yet the dream of seamless global transactions that are instant ...

Scanning to pay is set to gain momentum on the global stage. The simple act of pointing a phone’s camera at a QR code to make a purchase is getting a ...

Traditional cross-border payment systems weren’t built for today’s global workforce. Millions of creators, freelancers and on-demand workers now expect to be paid instantly. And in many countries with volatile fiat ...

Watch more: Live Roundtable: AWS and Convera’s Vishal Arora and Sudipto Das Cloud migration is no longer the endgame for payments companies. It’s the starting line. When global business payments giant Convera spun out ...

In the early 2000s, the web’s magic wasn’t in the browser wars or the dot-com frenzy. It was in HTTP. The hypertext transfer protocol quietly standardized how information moved, making ...

Global Payments has reportedly begun marketing a $6.2 billion bond sale to support its acquisition of Worldpay. The company is marketing the bond sale in as many as four parts ranging ...

In B2B payments, the distance between a decision and a dollar is shrinking fast. Higher rates, cross-border volatility and software that now thinks for itself are pushing chief financial officers to ...

Global Payments’ new point-of-sale software, Genius, has been resonating with merchants since the launch of its configurations for restaurants and retail in the second quarter, executives said Tuesday (Nov. 4) ...

Would you take a new payment rail that claims to handle transaction volumes that are multiples higher than global industry stalwarts and blue chip networks at face value? Or might you ...

Forget stablecoins. In the alphabet soup of digital assets, another term that has begun surfacing is tokenized deposits. Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr on Thursday (Oct. 16) called tokenized deposits “more ...

Cross-border payments are among the most complex transactions in finance. They’re an intricate choreography of data, regulation and risk management that must work seamlessly and securely. As artificial intelligence transforms how money ...

Global Payments’ planned acquisition of Worldpay was OK’d Monday (Oct. 20) by the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority. “The CMA has cleared the anticipated acquisition by Global Payments Inc. of ...

Global bank Standard Chartered integrated the digital payment network Visa Direct to add greater speed, transparency and cost efficiency to its SC PrismFX and low-value global disbursements offerings. The integration enables ...

Stripe has begun rolling out stablecoin payments for subscriptions, saying this offering will support artificial intelligence companies and other firms with recurring business models. This offering will initially be rolled out ...

Five years ago, the G20 nations set out an ambitious goal: to make international payments faster, cheaper, more transparent and more accessible by 2027. The vision was bold but supported by ...

Japan’s PayPay’s valuation could reportedly exceed $20 billion as it prepares to go public. The SoftBank-owned payments app is set for an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S. in December, ...

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser’s multiyear effort to rebuild the once-sprawling bank into a leaner, technology-driven institution is beginning to deliver results. The bank reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings results Tuesday (Oct. ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is reportedly working to expand its operations in India. The bank is expanding its payment services in the country to help clients process and move money globally, ...

The Financial Stability Board said in a press release Thursday (Oct. 9) that a 2027 cross-border payment benchmark deadline is unlikely to be met. The FSB, which represents the G20 nations, ...

Non-custodial stablecoin wallet MiniPay has integrated Noah’s financial infrastructure to enable freelancers, creators and sellers to receive global payouts. This solution enables these customers to receive ACH/SEPA transfers in U.S. dollars ...

Payment service provider Coinflow has raised $25 million in new funding. The company says its Series A round, announced Wednesday (Oct. 8), will help boost adoption of what it calls the ...

The digital divide that once separated who paid how across borders is narrowing fast. In the United States, digital wallets have become the great equalizer. They’re used almost as readily ...

Stablecoins were once the province of private issuers, characterized by opaque backing, fragmented liquidity and minimal oversight. At times, they behaved more like speculative assets than steady payment mechanisms. However, established banks ...

The stablecoin market topped $300 billion in value this week, a new all-time high. It has grown 42% this year, double the 21% growth of the overall cryptocurrency market. The rapid ...

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User choice is the dominant behavior when it comes to retail payments. For much of cryptocurrency’s history, users haven’t chosen it at checkout. However, that could be changing, at least across ...

Immigrants in the United States are reportedly sending more money home amid heightened deportations. Remittances to many areas of Latin America are increasing by double digits, and the region is on ...

The global banking establishment is entering 2026 confronting a growing array of existential questions. Chief among them is whether the future of money can be built without undermining the trust ...

In business, achieving clarity often accelerates action and progress, which is more valuable than simply moving fast. For much of global trade’s history, the speed of clarity has been more like ...

Mastercard is expanding its longtime partnership with corporate payments firm Corpay. The two companies now allow corporations, small businesses and financial institutions to make near real-time payments to 22 new markets ...

Thunes is offering its Pay-to-Banks solution to financial institutions via their Swift connectivity. The new solution lets the 11,000 banks within the Swift network connect to Thunes’ network with no additional ...

Financial messaging network Swift is adding a blockchain-based shared ledger to its technological infrastructure. The move is designed to make “instant, always-on cross-border transactions possible at unprecedented scale,” Swift said in ...

Retailers already face an uphill battle managing inflation, tariff-driven price shifts and the looming holiday rush. Now comes another challenge: learning a new language. It’s the language of agents. As Mirakl ...

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: AWS, Nilesh Dusane In today’s connected economy, the lines between what’s table stakes and what’s transformative are shifting. To keep pace, financial institutions are re-architecting systems ...

Cross-border payments company Ebury is reportedly considering launching its initial public offering (IPO) in London in the spring of 2026. The company’s board and bankers are discussing that as a potential ...

Citi has integrated its cross-border payments solution with Dandelion’s digital wallet network. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Sept. 25), lets Citi’s institutional clients use the bank’s WorldLink Payment Services to deliver “near-instant, full-value payments” into ...

Swift is introducing rules to speed cross-border payments for consumers and small businesses. The rules, created in partnership with more than 30 banks, enable retail customers to have peace of mind ...

Watch more: What’s Next: i2c, Seth Perlman When it comes to the future of payments, the stakes are high and unforgiving. Consumers expect services to be available around the clock, fraudsters are ...

It’s not just students in New England layering up with their college sweaters this autumn. As enterprise CFOs plan their budgets and strategies for 2026, they’re layering up too, with ...

Shield raised $5 million in seed funding to continue building its neobank for global trade businesses. The company helps exporters accept payments from international buyers in USDT stablecoins and settle them ...

When corporate treasurers thought about innovation, it was typically unlikely that their minds drifted to remittance counters in Manila or Mexico. However, as enterprises come to demand faster, cheaper and more ...

HSBC expanded its tokenized deposit service (TDS) to include cross-border transactions. The real-time solution for corporate clients conducted its first U.S. dollar cross-border transaction this month between Hong Kong and Singapore ...

MoneyGram plans to launch a new stablecoin-based solution for cross-border finance in Colombia and then expand it to additional markets. The solution will be available to customers in Colombia in an ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift In the high-speed theater of global commerce, payments remain stuck in slow motion. Settlements stretch across days, working capital gets tied up in transit, and intermediaries from ...

The office of the CFO and crypto assets might sound like strange bedfellows. After all, CFOs and other finance leaders are the staid stewards of corporate balance sheets; while digital assets ...

Swift conducted tests to demonstrate the potential impact of artificial intelligence in preventing cross-border payments fraud. The global messaging system collaborated with 13 banks on experiments using privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to ...

In global B2B trade, inefficiency doesn’t always look like congestion at a port or tariffs at a border. Billions of dollars in cross-border B2B trade are tied up not in ships ...

Tokenization has emerged from a niche concept to a strategic imperative across financial services, increasingly underpinning payment security and the trading of real-world assets. The catch-all moniker might be viewed as ...

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A top official at England’s central bank reportedly sees some potential in stablecoins. Sarah Breeden, deputy governor for the Bank of England (BOE), said at a conference in London Wednesday (Sept. 3) that ...

Airwallex acquired OpenPay to bring the latter’s billing and analytics capabilities to its financial platform. The deal is designed to bolster the platform, strengthening Airwallex’s position against other players like Stripe ...

Money movement platform Thunes has expanded its partnership with digital asset infrastructure company Ripple. This latest collaboration, announced Tuesday (Sept. 2) combines Thunes’ network with Ripple’s blockchain-powered payments solutions to allow Ripple’s enterprise customers to more ...

Cross-border payment and digital financial network Obita received more than $10 million in an angel round. The new funding will be used for research and development, compliance infrastructure development and market ...

Circle is teaming with Finastra to help banks integrate stablecoin settlement into cross-border payment flows. The partnership, announced Wednesday (Aug. 27), will use Finastra’s payment hub solutions to connect financial institutions ...

Singapore-based cross-border payments infrastructure platform Tazapay closed a Series B funding round. The round was led by Peak XV Partners and included participation from digital asset giants Ripple and Circle, according ...

Latin American delivery/financial services app Rappi has launched a partnership with global wallet platform AstroPay. The collaboration, announced in a news release Tuesday (Aug. 26), is being billed as the region’s ...

In the rush to expand internationally, merchants may be overlooking a simple but potent tool: the one-click checkout. While digital wallets and real-time payments grab headlines, the frictionless final step ...

The European Union is reportedly speeding up its efforts to launch a digital euro, in part by considering the use of a public blockchain rather than a private one. The shift ...