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Thunes and Commercial Bank Kyrgyzstan | MBANK Forge Strategic Alliance to Transform Cross-Border Payments in the Silk-Road Region

Fintech Finance

The collaboration empowers local licensed institutions and merchants to conduct a wide range of transactions, including B2B, P2P, B2C, and C2B payments. These services will support diverse cross-border use cases, including foreign education payments, e-commerce transactions, and local acceptance of gig economy payments.

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Citi On Simplifying Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

The transaction wends its way across borders, in the middle of the night, settling instantly. Well, cross-border payments are fraught with friction, especially when it comes to business-to-business, or B2B. Well, cross-border payments are fraught with friction, especially when it comes to business-to-business, or B2B.

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India’s Airpay Lands $4M For C2B/B2B Payments Solution

PYMNTS

India-based Airpay raised new venture capital for its combination of C2B and B2B payment solutions. Last August the firm rolled out PayPal.Me , a peer-to-peer payments solution targeting corporate buyers and suppliers and supporting cross-border transactions. Reports Tuesday (March 21) said Airpay raised $3.6

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Wielding Africa’s Mobile Penetration To Ease X-Border B2B Payments

PYMNTS

Dare Okoudjou, the company’s CEO, recently told PYMNTS why small- and medium-sized businesses are particularly ripe to embrace mobile payments not only to accept funds from consumers but to send and receive payments between each other — even across border. Friction At The Border. ” Driving Small Business Growth. .

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Visa Logs 700M Visa Direct Transactions, Contactless Payments Surge

PYMNTS

Visa ’s fiscal first-quarter results showed an acceleration of cross-border volumes, while contactless payments continued to gain ground in the U.S. Beyond C2B, the company continues to grow its B2B business, said Kelly, with new business in Singapore and Hong Kong for virtual cards. and beyond. Net revenues of $6.05

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African FinTech Payment Startup Chipper Cash Woos Investors, Including Joe Montana

PYMNTS

The company went live in October of 2018, and it’s a no-fee, P2P cross-border startup. The company is also launching a merchant-facing C2B mobile payments app called Chipper Checkout, which will be a paid app. One of the key features of Chipper Cash is how it handles cross-border payments.

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FPC 2023 Spring Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

Some are retail, some are wholesale, some are domestic, some are regional, and some are cross border. C2B) to better capture the benefits of digital and mobile transacting, and how it's beginning to happen in the U.S., These projects are taking different implementation approaches. Speakers have direct experience they will share.

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