Fintech Finance

JANUARY 11, 2024

Faster Payments Council (FPC) , a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, today published its latest research report, titled The Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

According to the new Simplifying Cross-Border Payments Playbook , there are five key criteria that an ideal cross-border payment solution should meet: speed, security, compliance, transparency and ubiquity. How Cross-Border Payments Are Made. So, what’s the problem? What’s Changing?

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

So, why do cross-border payments present so many challenges? Despite rapid market growth, international payments have been hampered by country-specific regulations, while transactions being channeled through intermediary banks can take days to complete and often come with fees. Currently, there are 0.7

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

MAY 29, 2025

Conduit , a leading cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins, announced today it closed a $36 million Series A funding round. To date, Conduit has saved clients over 60,000 hours in settlement times and generated fee savings worth over $55 million.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2019

The modern-day financial services landscape has a need for speed, and one of the slowest areas of the market can be seen in cross-border payments. Remittance and peer-to-peer payment technologies have accelerated transaction speeds for consumers tired of waiting days for money to move across borders.

Cross-Border Payments

Finovate

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Mastercard launched Move Commercial Payments , a real-time cross-border payments solution that operates 24/7. The new commercial payments tool leverages a multi-rail system that includes SWIFT, Visa Direct, and Mastercard’s proprietary networks. with Lloyds Banking Group and UBS.

Cross-Border Payments

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Having reflected on what the top priority is for businesses looking to enter the cross-border payments space, we now turn our attention to the future, and how the sector will evolve in 2024. “In 2024, cross-border payments volumes will continue to grow rapidly. .”

Cross-Border Payments

The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Wise , the fintech focused on money transfer, has been granted direct access to the Philippines’ real-time payment system, InstaPay, enabling it to enhance the cross-border payment experience for around 13 million of its customers.

Real Time Payments

Fintech News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The company has recently applied for a Payment Institution License in Brazil, which will allow it to offer payment services, including managing funds in BRL and facilitating real-time payments through the Pix system.

Cross-Border

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When you think about financial technology, it is easy to think about solutions which are making payments faster, easier and more accessible. Having explored the evolution of cross-border payments to date, we now turn our attention to the biggest barriers that may be limiting and slowing the growth of the space.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In this regard, payment networks, payment rails and financial institution (FI) infrastructures can all collaborate together to adapt to emerging use cases, including the need to move data along with money. Bank Of America Wields SWIFT gpi. Scotiabank Launches Real-Time Payments For Businesses.

Innovation

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Cross-border payments still present challenges , but the landscape is changing rapidly. . Swift recently announced that its gpi service can integrate with domestic real-time systems to facilitate rapid cross-border transactions. Traditionally, most cross-border payments are made through Swift.

Cross-Border Payments

The Fintech Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

Nium , the global real-time cross-border payments provider, is looking to strengthen its presence in Latin America by applying for new payment licenses, joining fintech associations, growing its team, and signing new customers.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Cross-border payments are expected to hit $39 trillion by 2022, with $572 million worth of payments consisting of remittances sent from migrant workers to their families abroad. Developments From Around The World of Smarter Payments. Deep Dive: How Correspondent Banking Makes Remittances Sluggish And Expensive.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They frequently face delays and rack up fees as they pass through multiple FIs, and parties making these payments often wrestle with currency conversions and value fluctuations. International B2B Payments Pains. Transfers are passed between FIs until they reach intended recipients, and each bank adds extra steps and fees along the way.

Cross-Border Payments

Faster Payments Council

MARCH 15, 2023

With the system joining the existing RTP system, both promising to modernize the way money moves and allow for greater use of instant payments, it seems the shift to real-time payments is 'inevitable'. Join our panel discussion on the real-time payments revolution. What are your options?

FPC

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

One of the biggest areas facing skepticism with blockchain technology and B2B payments is the idea that corporates don’t need real-time payments, as would be provided by Visa B2B Connect. Real-time payments, however, enable a company to wait as long as they want to without forcing the supplier to get paid late.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Cross-border payments firm Western Union has rolled out full application programming interface (API) access to domestic and global payment applications, the company said in a press release on Monday (Oct. Domestic and cross-border payments are supported in over 130 currencies.

International Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Launched in July, Citi Payment Insights provides real-time payments visibility, including processing status and timelines, charges deducted across correspondent banks, the amount credited to the beneficiary and the ability to action payments on demand via its electronic banking platform.

Cross-Border

Fintech Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

Nium , the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced a partnership with BS2 , a digital bank in Brazil specializing in fintech solutions for businesses.

Settlement

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

For real-time payments, the infrastructure is there, and now comes the demand. He likened the strategy to the 80/20 rule, where the bank may make 20 percent of its revenues from payment services and 80 percent from account holdings. But, he added, there’s an incentive for merchants to shift to real-time payments.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

percent of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017, SWIFT found, with the company’s Head of Payments Markets, Asia-Pacific, Michael Moon noting, “Experts suggest that capital controls and uncertainties over future regulations mean that a significant reversal of the decline in RMB usage for trade and payments is unlikely in 2018.”.

B2B

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

However, blockchain is also gaining ground, and currency is offering a boost to the payments infrastructure. To that end, IBM said it launched its Blockchain World Wire , billed as a cross-border payment system that is powered by the Stellar blockchain network. Africa As Greenfield Payments Opportunity.

SWIFT

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It was in a convergence of these trends that Visa launched its real-time payments solution, Visa Direct , a technology enabling push payments onto recipients’ Visa cards. Deploying Visa’s existing user network means the capability for clients to accept payments is already built into the solution.

Use Case

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Citi noted that traditional methods of cross-border accounts receivable are inefficient, involving multiple collections service providers with silos between invoicing, collections and reconciliation. If you are doing open banking (through those other rails), you are still going through the corresponding bank system,” he told Webster.

Central Bank

The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Transaction data, particularly in the context of cross-border payments, has grown increasingly vital as transactions move towards near-real-time processing, with the goal of achieving real-time transactions. There is a significant collaborative effort among countries to set up these rails.

APACS

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The results come across hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of payments each day, and across hundreds of financial institutions (FIs), with the roster including 60 of the largest banks in the world.

Cross-Border

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Reports in The Japan News said that MUFG and Recruit are collaborating on a possible digital currency with the potential to facilitate B2B payments, and with plans to launch their joint venture in the first half of next year. Credit Unions Embrace RTP. It’s moving slowly.”.

B2B

Evolve Payment

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

More Instant Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Payments Waiting days for payments to clear will become a thing of the past in 2024. Instant payments will become the norm, enabled by technologies like real-time payment networks and blockchain.

Industry Trends

PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2018

To do a risk-free payment in real time, he said, is more appealing than might be seen with any other platform. To move to a real-time payments system is also a ponderous (and again, costly) task. No one really knows where the money is … or what the money is for,” he asserted.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS , Ripple Senior Vice President of Business and Corporate Development Kahina Van Dyke explained why building new infrastructure from the ground up can be an effective way to combat friction in the legacy correspondent banking system that lacks transparency and is plagued by slow transaction speeds and high FX costs.

Innovation

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

When PYMNTS asked cross-border payments experts at the end of last year what they thought the driving trend would be for the industry in 2018, the consensus was all about collaboration , particularly between banks and FinTech firms. “The modern-day client expects a seamless transaction experience,” he said.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below, PYMNTS looks at the latest news in cross-border payments innovation as industry players complete, collaborate and innovate. SWIFT gpi Links Into Real-Time Payments. Payments messaging firm SWIFT announced Monday (Sept. Deutsche Joins JPMC’s Blockchain Initiative.

SWIFT

The Payments Association

MAY 14, 2025

Rewiring the cross-border payments paradigm: Risk and security in correspondent banking confirmation May 12 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp Whats the article about? Introduction The cross-border payments model is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

JANUARY 22, 2025

APAC has solidified its position as the leader in global real-time payments, processing nearly 70% of the worlds 266 billion transactions in 2023. What makes APAC unique is its blend of diverse regulatory frameworks and a multitude of exotic currencies, creating a dynamic payments environment.

Real Time Payments

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

trillion in cross-border payments, the APAC region is poised to benefit significantly from the surge in cross-border money movement. Real-time payments have allowed consumers and businesses to experience how beneficial, fast, and easy payments can be, changing their expectations of cross border money movement.

Cross-Border