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B2B PaymentsBlockchain Makes Headway Over Legacy X-Border Rails
There’s no single path to payments infrastructure innovation. This week’s examination of the latest initiatives to target B2B payments friction from the...
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B2B PaymentsInstaReM Rolls Out BizPay In Australia For SMB Payments
To help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) bolster their cashflow, Nium’s InstaReM brand has rolled out BizPay in Australia. BizPay, which was...
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B2B PaymentsInstaReM Helps Singapore SMBs Tap T&E Credit Lines For Cash
Securing loans or credit has never been easy for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Now, InstaReM, the SMB and consumer operation of...
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B2B PaymentsNium, Formerly InstaRem, Drops Bank License Pursuit
Singapore FinTech startup Nium — formerly branded InstaReM — is dropping its pursuit to compete for a digital wholesale banking license in...
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NewsTop News In Payments: Western Union Advances Real-Time Payments To India; InstaReM Rebrands To Nium
In today’s payments news, cross-border payments firm Western Union is advancing real-time money transfers to customers in India. Also, digital cross-border payments...
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Payments InnovationInstaReM Rebrands To Nium, Launches Open Money Network
Digital cross-border payments provider InstaReM has announced that it is rebranding to become part of Nium, the first global payments platform that...
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Global PaymentsFinTech InstaReM Launches Remittance Service In Canada
Cross-border payments provider InstaReM is rolling out its digital money transfer services in Canada, the company said in a press release. By...
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Smarter PaymentsDeep Dive: Why Cross-Border Payments Need Transparency Overhaul
FIs and enterprises are facing increased pressure to make cross-border payments fast and seamless as consumers grow used to such products in...
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Smarter PaymentsKBank On Rethinking Bank-FinTech Relations
Remittances had a record year in 2018 despite the frictions that still exist when senders move money cross-border to receivers in need....
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Smarter PaymentsBanks Tap FinTechs For Remittance Overhaul
The cross-border payment market is thriving, and trends are expected to continue over the next few years. In fact, cross-border payments are...
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B2B PaymentsInstaReM Launches Faster Singapore-China B2B Payments
Cross-border payments company InstaReM is expanding its InstaReM for SMEs solution into Singapore, targeting cross-border trade and B2B payments between Singapore and...
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Smarter PaymentsDeep Dive: Cross-Border Payments Interoperability
The world is becoming more interconnected, boosting demand for fast and low-cost services that enable cross-border transactions. Such experiences require payments interoperability,...
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Smarter PaymentsVisa’s Approach To Simplifying Cross-Border Payments
For merchants and FIs alike, cross-border payments can be a significant struggle. Compliance with governmental regulations, currency fluctuations and other factors can...
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Smarter PaymentsHow Visa’s Using Blockchain Tech To Simplify X-Border Payments
Global payments revenues are at an all-time high, and experts predict that they could even climb to be a $2 trillion industry...
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Safety and SecurityWhy Trust Is The Super Glue To Making Cross-Border Payments Work
Trust is important for all of payment, commerce and financial services – it is more or less the glue that holds transactions...
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B2B PaymentsDigital Banking Partnerships Gain Traction in the US
Digital-only bank N26, based in Europe, has linked with Axos to launch in the US. Elsewhere in Europe, Lloyds has partnered with...
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Digital BankingInstaReM CEO: Why We Want A Digital Banking License
When Facebook’s Libra news broke like a tidal wave on the payments and commerce ecosystem a few weeks ago, there was no...
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Cross Border CommerceInstaReM Launches Card Issuing Platform
Southeast Asian FinTech InstaReM, which specializes in digital cross-border money transfers and payments, has announced a new API-based digital platform that will...
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Smarter PaymentsDeep Dive: Modernizing Cross-Border Payments Infrastructure For Speed, Access
Cross-border, B2B payments generated approximately $125 billion in revenue last year, a figure that continues to rise. FIs and FinTechs need to...
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InternationalInstaReM Eyes Singapore Digital Banking License
While it gears up to apply for a digital banking license in Singapore, cross-border payments firm InstaReM is reportedly seeking lending business...
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Smarter PaymentsBuilding Project Libra’s Infrastructure From Scratch
Facebook’s Libra crypto push brings together 28 companies (so far), across industries, to shape its charter and go-to-market approach. However, what do...
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Smarter PaymentsMeet Facebook Libra’s Founding Architects
As payments become smarter, they will require a new underlying ecosystem to support them. The urgency to develop more efficient infrastructures is...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsInstaReM And Kasikornbank Team Up For Cross-Border Payments
Digital cross-border money transfer company InstaReM has announced a partnership with Kasikornbank to power cross-border payments for the bank’s customers in select...
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Smarter PaymentsInstant Payments Mean Instant Security Challenges, Says EBA CLEARING
European banks have increasingly used faster payments since the November 2017 launch of EBA CLEARING’s RT1 instant payments system. Even as financial...
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Smarter PaymentsReal-Time Payments Fraud: An FI Infrastructure Issue
As the need for speed increases worldwide, banks and other financial players are adapting payments to work smarter — not harder. Faced...
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Faster PaymentsIs Real-Time Payments A Threat To Credit Cards?
Faster, faster, faster — that’s the motto driving so much of payments innovation today. Real-time payments offers promise for both small and...
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Smarter PaymentsIn India, Faster Payments Deliver ‘Instant Gratification’ To Migrants
For many Indian migrant workers, sending remittances involves the anxiety-inducing experience of giving cash to couriers or postal services and hoping for...
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Smarter PaymentsFaster Payments’ Impact On India’s 100M Migrant Workers
For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and consumers, payments that arrive promptly are worth far more than payments of the same dollar value...
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B2B PaymentsFirst Data, InstaReM Pair On Corporate Card Issuance
Singapore-based FinTech startup InstaReM, which enables banks and consumers to send money across borders, announced a partnership with First Data to assist businesses...
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InvestmentsInstaReM Raises $41M To Expand Into Latin America
InstaReM, the Singapore FinTech startup that enables banks and consumers to send money across borders, raised $41 million in venture funding. According...
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Digital PaymentsSenders As Issuers: A New Space For Cards In Global P2P
When InstaReM CEO and Co-founder Prajit Nanu started putting together a global remittance firm for consumers and businesses in 2014, he had...
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BlockchainRipple Adds Five Members, Expands Footprint Into Emerging Markets
Enterprise blockchain for global payments provider Ripple announced Wednesday (Feb. 21) that interest in its network has accelerated globally, and the company...
