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13 APAC-Born Companies Recognized Among Top Global Cross-Border Payment Leaders of 2025

Fintech News

MAY 11, 2025

FXC Intelligence, a data platform specializing in the cross-border payment and e-commerce sectors, has released its annual Cross-Border Payments 100 list, highlighting the 100 most influential players in global payments. Released on May 08, the 2025 Cross-Border Payments 100 recognizes industry leaders across the sector.

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Digital Rupiah Inches Closer with Successful Completion of PoC

Fintech News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Marking a pivotal point, Indonesias efforts underscore its drive to harness digital technologies for modernising payment systems while safeguarding financial stability and promoting inclusivity. These advancements will expand the utility of the Digital Rupiah within Indonesias financial ecosystem and potentially in cross-border contexts.

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CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

The Payments Association

JUNE 3, 2025

James Hurren explores what early CBDC deployments across Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe reveal about usage, adoption, and the future of cross-border digital money. Usage patterns differ, technological approaches diverge, and key challengesfrom privacy concerns to merchant adoptionremain unresolved.

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German Central Bank Joins MAS-Led Project Guardian

Fintech News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As a member of the Project Guardian policymaker group, the Bundesbank will contribute to cross-border collaboration by working with other central banks and institutions to develop common standards and improve interoperability for this emerging technology.

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Central Bank Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Interoperability Cross-Border

Key considerations for the adoption of digital currencies

Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

They will need to co-exist with existing clearing and settlement processes and infrastructures, and this means interoperability is crucial. By removing the need for correspondent banks and facilitating direct transfers, digital currencies can improve transfer times and enhance the efficiency of cross-border payments.

Digital Currency

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SC Ventures and G+D Complete Pilot on Different Types of CBDC Systems

Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This PoC involved executing real-time cross-border test transactions between various Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) systems. The project tested the feasibility of conducting multilateral cross-currency transfers through the UDPN, involving both Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and non-DLT-based CBDC technologies.

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Project Meridian FX: Joint Project by the Eurosystem and London Centres, and the Bank of England, to Test Synchronised Settlement in FX

Fintech Finance

JUNE 17, 2024

The project will provide insights on how operators of real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems could enable interoperability with new payments technologies, such as distributed ledger technology (DLT).

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Why Cross-Border Payments Still Present Challenges

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

So, why do cross-border payments present so many challenges? For example, if, in a particular market, different transaction limits apply for consumer versus business remittances, or for domestic versus cross-border transactions, we can provide these custom controls. Currently, there are 0.7

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How Visa’s Using Blockchain Tech To Simplify X-Border Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Cross-border payment revenues currently account for approximately $200 billion, a significant slice of the payments pie. Differing regulations between sending and receiving countries are challenging to navigate, and cross-border transactions can take up to several days to complete as they are routed through intermediary banks.

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Trade Finance Poised for Digital Revolution Though Obstacles Remain

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The paper discusses the contrasting trajectories of digital payments and digital trade finance, noting that cross-border payments have achieved rapid digitalization and benefited from a horizontal solution like Swift GPI.

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Eurosystem Completes First of Many Experiments To Test DLT Central Bank Money Settlements

The Fintech Times

MAY 18, 2024

Eurosystem , the monetary authority of the eurozone, has been exploring the possible use cases of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to conduct wholesale settlement in central bank money. It has now completed its first experiment using DLT, giving the monetary authority a glimpse into the potential merits of the tech.

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Project mBridge Reaches MVP Stage, Expands International Participation

The Fintech Times

JUNE 6, 2024

This project aims to create a multi-central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform for instant cross-border payments and settlements, leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT). This allows it to serve as a testbed for additional technology solutions and interoperability with other platforms.

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Credit Unions Find Opportunity In Payments Disruption

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Esser highlighted three key areas with major opportunities for improvement in the credit union market, with CULedger finding blockchain a promising technology to address them. Esser highlighted the friction that traditionally emerges when central banks hold control in a cross-border transaction.

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How Banks Are Teaming Up To Bring Blockchain To Trade Finance

CB Insights

AUGUST 23, 2018

HSBC, Standard Chartered, and others belong to a range of consortia that have had successful pilots using distributed ledger technologies (DLT) to process live trade finance transactions. Benefits of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) . Live briefing: Consumer Banks in The Digital Age.

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Augmenting Trust With Technology In Global Trade Finance

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In cross-border trade, trust has historically been a critical part of the equation. From invoice fraud to cyberattacks, the threats hampering trust in cross-border trade continue to grow. Corporate buyers must trust that their suppliers will deliver what they promised. ” Lower Trust, Higher Costs.

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2024 Might be Full of Central Bank Digital Currency Launches, Know How

CoinRemitter

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The intended wholesale CBDC is based on Emirati Dirham and Saudi Riyal, which aims to simplify cross-border transactions. Australia: The Reserve Bank of Australia announced a partnership with two other banks and two software companies to explore a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based CBDC.

Digital Currency

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Indonesia Completes Rupiah Digital PoC, Advancing Wholesale CBDC Exploration

Fintech News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

This phase, part of the Immediate State of Project Garuda, focused on testing a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based wholesale cash ledger system to assess its feasibility, security, and compatibility with Indonesia’s financial ecosystem.

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Payments Space

13 APAC-Born Companies Recognized Among Top Global Cross-Border Payment Leaders of 2025

Digital Rupiah Inches Closer with Successful Completion of PoC

Trending Sources

CBDCs in practice: What we’ve learned from the early movers

German Central Bank Joins MAS-Led Project Guardian

Key considerations for the adoption of digital currencies

SC Ventures and G+D Complete Pilot on Different Types of CBDC Systems

Project Meridian FX: Joint Project by the Eurosystem and London Centres, and the Bank of England, to Test Synchronised Settlement in FX

Why Cross-Border Payments Still Present Challenges

How Visa’s Using Blockchain Tech To Simplify X-Border Payments

Trade Finance Poised for Digital Revolution Though Obstacles Remain

Eurosystem Completes First of Many Experiments To Test DLT Central Bank Money Settlements

Project mBridge Reaches MVP Stage, Expands International Participation

Credit Unions Find Opportunity In Payments Disruption

How Banks Are Teaming Up To Bring Blockchain To Trade Finance

Augmenting Trust With Technology In Global Trade Finance

2024 Might be Full of Central Bank Digital Currency Launches, Know How

Indonesia Completes Rupiah Digital PoC, Advancing Wholesale CBDC Exploration

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