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Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year

October 19, 2026
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Nuvei Secures South African License to Expand Global Payments Platform
Digital Payments // October 14, 2026

Nuvei has secured a license to offer local merchant payments services in South Africa, the global FinTech company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. The authorization came from the Payments Association of South Africa, according to the release. With this authorization, Nuvei can...

Going Global Exposes Payments’ Weak Spots
Cross-border Payments // October 05, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Spreedly’s Nick Daley Selling in another country can force a merchant to find out how much growth its payments infrastructure can actually support. New markets bring local payment preferences, new providers and different transaction economics, while every connection adds...

Europe’s Payee Checks Set the Pace as US Plans Take Shape
Cross-border Payments // October 01, 2026

A payment moving from one country to another passes through banks, clearing systems and payment networks that operate under different rules. The recipient information used to check the payment and bolster security can be just as fragmented. Payee verification connects some of those far-flung systems....

Citi Rewires Global Payments Through Single Swift Connection
Cross-border Payments // September 29, 2026

Citi now enables its bank clients to access multiple cross-border instant payment markets through a single account structure, the bank said in a Tuesday (Sept. 29) press release. This solution also eliminates the need for these bank clients to have separate local banking relationships, bilateral agreements or local technical infrastructure, according...

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Going Global Exposes Payments’ Weak Spots

October 05, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Spreedly’s Nick Daley Selling in another country can force a merchant to find out how much growth its payments infrastructure can actually support. New markets bring local payment preferences, new providers and different transaction economics, while every connection adds another system that has to be integrated, reconciled and maintained. […]

How AI Shopping Agents, Stablecoins and Smarter Checkout Drive Business Growth

August 11, 2026
Payments used to arrive at the end of a sale, take the money and leave. Now they have a much bigger job. They can help companies earn revenue, see cash,...

Bank of America: Cross-Border Payments Must Work Like Local Ones

July 08, 2026
Watch more: Need to Know With Bank of America’s AJ McCray The greatest obstacle to faster cross-border payments is no longer moving money. It is delivering the same certainty, visibility...

OpenPayd CEO Says Global Payments Need Less Plumbing and More Intelligence

June 25, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With OpenPayd’s Iana Dimitrova For years, the goal in global payments was simple: connect businesses to more rails. The pitch was always speed, lower cost,...

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Relay and Nium Handle $500 Million in Cross-Border Payments in Partnership’s First Year

October 19, 2026
Users of Relay’s small business banking and money management platform have sent over $500 million in cross-border payments through Nium’s global money movement platform since the companies launched their partnership about a year ago, according to a Monday (Oct. 19) press release. The users sent payments to 153 countries during that time. Today, more than […]

Nuvei Secures South African License to Expand Global Payments Platform

October 14, 2026
Nuvei has secured a license to offer local merchant payments services in South Africa, the global FinTech company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) press release. The authorization came from...

Citi Rewires Global Payments Through Single Swift Connection

September 29, 2026
Citi now enables its bank clients to access multiple cross-border instant payment markets through a single account structure, the bank said in a Tuesday (Sept. 29) press release. This solution also eliminates the need for these...

Zelle Readies Stablecoin for First Cross-Border Push

June 18, 2026
Zelle network operator Early Warning Services plans to launch a proprietary U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin as part of its strategy to expand Zelle person-to-person digital payments beyond the United States. The ZelleUSD (ZLUSD)...