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Cross-Border Payments Payment Networks Real Time Payments 
Fintech News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Thunes, a global payments company specialising in cross-border transactions, has expanded its Direct Global Network to Taiwan. This expansion offers a real-time alternative to traditional cross-border payment systems for transfers to bank accounts in Taiwan.
Fintech Finance
JANUARY 22, 2025
Mesta , a fintech platform reshaping global payment networks with hybrid fiat and stablecoin payment rails, unveiled its cross-border payment platform. It combines real-time fiat payment rails with blockchain-powered stablecoin rails, addressing inefficiencies in global payments and trade.
Fintech News
APRIL 21, 2025
Circle Internet Group announced the launch of its Circle Payments Network (CPN), a new system designed to connect financial institutions for cross-border payments using regulated stablecoins. The post Circle Launches Stablecoin Payments Network for Cross-Border Settlements appeared first on Fintech Singapore.
The Payments Association
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
UPI is revolutionising cross-border payments, expanding Indias digital payment influence through global integration, regulatory reforms, and strategic partnerships. The introduction of the unified payments interface (UPI) in 2016 marked a transformative shift in India’s digital payments landscape.
Bank Automation
JANUARY 13, 2025
The Clearing Houses Real-Time Payments network is ready for cross-border payments from a technical perspective but is waiting for U.S. adoption of the network to grow to initiate the service.
Finextra
JUNE 29, 2025
Market Size Value of cross-border payments is estimated to reach a minimum $ 250 trillion by 2027. Global non-cash commercial payments will grow at a CAGR of 11.3% 60% of corporate banks agree that cross-border real-time payments infrastructure brings a revenue opportunity.
Fintech Finance
JANUARY 9, 2025
Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the launch of the Diners Club International Card for its travel customers. This milestone makes Nium one of the first global card issuers in the travel space to offer cards across the four major schemes.
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The Fintech Times
JANUARY 12, 2025
Nium , the global infrastructure provider for real-time cross-border payments, has launched a new card for travel customers in partnership with banking and payment services company, Diners Club International.
Fintech Finance
JUNE 4, 2025
By leveraging the new regulatory approvals, Thunes gains the ability to contract directly with American businesses for real-time cross-border payments, via its Direct Global Network, connecting to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts as well as 15 billion cards in over 130 countries and 80 currencies.
The Payments Association
MAY 16, 2025
Cross-border payment solutions : Cross-border commerce represents a significant growth opportunity but introduces substantial challenges. Currency conversion, fluctuating exchange rates, varying local regulations, and regional preferences for payment methods add layers of complexity.
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The Fintech Times
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Given Taiwan’s prominent role in global trade and its economic growth, the expansion by Thunes aims to enhance the operational efficiency and security of cross-border payments, meeting the demands of the regions financial sector. per cent increase compared to January 2024.
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The Payments Association
APRIL 28, 2025
Key insights from the PAY360 2025 survey on current challenges and opportunities in the payments sector. It highlights how industry leaders are prioritising AI, cross-border payments, and digital currencies while grappling with regulatory, technological, and customer demands. Why is it important? What’s next?
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money has been granted direct access to InstaPay, the Philippines’ real-time payment system, and can also directly settle with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) real-time gross payment system, PhilPaSS Plus.
The Payments Association
MARCH 19, 2025
Legacy systems are increasingly unreliable, expensive to maintain, and resistant to modern payment innovations. Enhance cross-border payments by integrating an always-on solution directly and locally with regional and global payment networks, ensuring compliance with constantly evolving regulatory standards.
Fintech Finance
JULY 6, 2025
Developed by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in partnership with the African Union and the AfCFTA Secretariat, PAPSS enables real-time, efficient, and cost-effective cross-border payments in local currencies.
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The Payments Association
MARCH 19, 2025
The payments landscape is evolving with digital assets, real-time transactions, and new regulationsbusinesses must adapt to stay efficient and compliant. The payments industry is undergoing a profound transformation. These innovations offer businesses and consumers a way to move money faster, cheaper, and more securely.
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Finextra
JUNE 11, 2025
Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) (2010): NPCI launched IMPS, enabling instant 24x7 interbank fund transfers, a crucial step towards ubiquitous real-time payments. RuPay Cards (2012): NPCI launched Indias domestic card payment network, reducing reliance on international schemes and promoting domestic processing.
Fintech News
APRIL 24, 2025
billion Nium is a global payments platform that makes cross-border money transfers easier for businesses and financial institutions. Using real-time payment technology, Nium helps companies speed up international transactions, simplify operations, and scale. Nium Valuation: $1.4 Coda Valuation: $2.5
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The Fintech Times
MARCH 12, 2025
Dima Kats, CEO and founder of Clear Junction, a provider of cross-border payments for regulated financial institutions, sees it as a predictable step in line with the UKs National Payments Vision (NPV), which had already signalled major regulatory restructuring. .
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Fintech News
OCTOBER 20, 2024
Nium, a global payments infrastructure provider, announced that financial institutions can now connect to its real-time payments network using their existing Swift infrastructure. This eliminates the need for complex and costly API integrations, making cross-border payments faster and more affordable.
Fintech News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
This collaboration makes Nium the first fintech payment service provider to join the Partior network, unlocking new capabilities such as programmable enterprise liquidity management and Just-in-Time multi-bank payments for financial institutions.
Fintech Finance
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced that financial institutions can now leverage Swift capabilities and their existing Swift infrastructure to connect to Nium’s global real-time payments network.
Fintech News
AUGUST 13, 2024
In a recent webinar hosted by the Fintech News Network, experts from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Wise, Airwallex, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions explored the latest trends and developments in cross-border payments, emphasizing the pioneering role of Southeast Asia in this rapidly evolving landscape.
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced a partnership with Ecobank Transnational Incorporated., the leading independent pan-African financial services group, to enable seamless cross-border payments across 35 African markets for more than 32 million customers.
Fintech Finance
APRIL 24, 2024
The replacement RTGS system, slated for readiness in August 2024, makes support for ISO 20022 a prerequisite for all international payments from the SWIFT deadline. The shift in cross border payments is the first step in what will become a broader adoption of the ISO 20022 standard in the payments environment as a whole.
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Finextra
APRIL 17, 2025
The five central bank partners in Project Nexus, a Bank for International Settlements initiative to interlink domestic real-time payment rails across borders, have commenced a procurement execercise to appoint a technical network operator.
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Fintech News
MAY 7, 2024
FXC Intelligence, a data platform specializing in the cross-border payment and e-commerce sectors, has released its annual selection of the world’s top cross-border payment companies, recognizing the leading publicly traded companies, startups and private companies operating in the space worldwide.
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.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
PNC Treasury Management joined the Ripple cross-border payments network that uses blockchain to facilitate global transactions. Payments sent from across borders can be received in real time via RippleNet , the firms noted, providing a boost to corporate payees’ cash flows.
PYMNTS
MAY 20, 2020
Accomplishing this task poses a unique set of challenges, however, particularly when it comes to real-time payments. The 27 EU member states have their own financial systems, and many have also implemented their own domestic real-time payments rails. The Past and Future of EU Real-Time 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?
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
The global payments ecosystem’s path to faster and real-time payments ubiquity is an evolution, not a revolution. That is to say, mass adoption will take time, and the factors driving that adoption will almost certainly continue to change and shift as end users’ needs do the same.
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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
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. .
PYMNTS
MARCH 17, 2020
In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, PYMNTS finds a slew of new markets around the world adopting entirely new payment networks that can support their demand for real-time transactions. Curacao Takes Steps Toward Instant Payments. UAE Taps Ripple For Global Payments.
PYMNTS
MAY 22, 2020
If you want to know how consumers feel about faster payments, talk to the millions of Americans who still have not received stimulus money as of mid- to late-May. Detailing similar efforts in India and the Asia-Pacific region, the new Tracker looks at faster payments systems getting built around the world to ignite whole economies.
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PYMNTS
MAY 22, 2019
As the need for speed increases worldwide, banks and other financial players are adapting payments to work smarter — not harder. As transaction times grow tighter and cover more distance, several companies are looking to add solutions for cross-border payments that still satisfy regulatory requirements.
Finovate
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Through the partnership, banks can use Partior’s network to access Nium’s global payments infrastructure without needing additional API integration, offering seamless real-time transactions. The company’s global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments supports 100 currencies across 220+ markets. .
Fintech Finance
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
This comprehensive guideline provides essential insights and best practices for financial institutions (FIs) as they navigate the complex landscape of instant payments. With contributions from industry experts, the guideline aims to help FIs enhance their operational readiness for real-time payments, including RTP® and FedNow®.
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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.
The Paypers
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Nium expands into Australia to offer a comprehensive real-time payments network and allow businesses to send payments internationally.
Fintech Finance
JUNE 18, 2024
Instant cross-border payments processed by STET , one of the leading European clearing and settlement systems, (CSM) and ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, have reached a new record high.
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Fintech News
AUGUST 27, 2024
Payments giant Visa and global neobank Revolut have announced a global partnership aimed at simplifying international payments for businesses. This collaboration introduces instant card transfers for Revolut Business customers through Visa Direct, a real-time payment network.
The Fintech Times
JUNE 21, 2024
Since 2017, STET , the European clearing and settlement systems (CSM) and ACI Worldwide , the real-time payments software provider, have been working together to offer seamless, instant payments across the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). How was this achieved?
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