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Morgan Stanley Partners with Wise to Enhance Cross-Border Payment Capabilities

The Fintech Times

Morgan Stanley is teaming up with Wise to bring faster and smoother cross-border payments to its corporate clients, making it the first investment bank to integrate Wises global payments platform.

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Cross-Border Real-Time Payments Make Tangible Progress as Over 50% Consumers Use Them, Says GlobalData

Fintech Finance

Around 63% of global consumers use international real-time payments (RTPs) services to send money to family and friends and 51% use them only to pay for goods and services, according to the 2024 Financial Services Consumer Survey* conducted by GlobalData , a leading data and analytics company.

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ECS Fin To Test Apifiny's Blockchain Program

PYMNTS

Apifiny debuted Roxe earlier this year as a way to beat some of the long-held friction points in the traditional banking system, with its "fragmented" nature where assets couldn't be transferred between different markets, countries or various settlement systems, the release stated.

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EMQ Closes Funding Round With $20M For Cross-Border Tech

PYMNTS

He said the company wants to “deliver a network infrastructure that complies with regulatory requirements and streamlines the complexities in processing real-time international payments across the whole payment ecosystem” and help to “make infrastructure a competitive advantage for next-generation enterprises.”.

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Ingenico opens up Russia to international merchants

The Paypers

(The Paypers) Ingenico Group is transforming how international online merchants can do business in Russia, by offering domestic processing and cross-border settlement for international payments.

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Morgan Stanley Selects Wise Platform to Enhance Payments Capabilities for Corporate Clients

Fintech Finance

Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move and manage the worlds money, today announced that it has been selected by Morgan Stanley , a leading global financial services firm, to facilitate Morgan Stanleys foreign exchange international settlement capabilities for its corporate customers.

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How Tariffs are Impacting Payments and Credit Card Processing

Clearly Payments

Cross-Border Tariffs & International Payments Tariffs often target goods crossing international borders. Payment implications include: Larger B2B invoices, often triggering higher interchange fees. Greater exposure to cross-border settlement issues if goods are sourced globally.