The Payments Association

APRIL 24, 2025

The payments landscape is evolving, but the way we move money across borders has struggled to keep pace. While information travels the world in seconds, global payments still encounter delays, friction, and complex compliance hurdles. This is not just faster payments.

Stablecoins 88

Stablecoins Cross-Border Treasury Settlement 88

The Fintech Times

JULY 11, 2025

With its new EMI licence, Finmo can now issue electronic money and offer a range of new payment services, including account issuance, domestic and cross-border fund transfers, and foreign exchange transactions. Finmo also plans to expand its UK-based compliance and operations team to support these efforts.

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Embedded Finance Finance Cross-Border Security 64

Clearly Payments

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Real-Time Payments (RTP) & Instant Payments Overview : Real-Time Payments (RTP) systems allow funds to transfer instantly between bank accounts, offering 24/7 availability, even outside standard banking hours. Faster Payments (U.K.), Popular Examples : Interac e-Transfer (Canada) , Zelle (U.S.), handled $1.6

Online and Mobile Banking 98

Online and Mobile Banking RTP BNPL Debit Card 98

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 20, 2025

The first step for Waza was providing competitive foreign exchange (FX) and cross-border payments for businesses. Ultimately, Lync aims to give these businesses greater control over their payment operations and easier access to the global financial markets, with reduced need for intervention.

Multi-Currency 97

Multi-Currency Global Payments Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border 97

Fintech Finance

JULY 11, 2025

The PSR Annual Report shows that the UK has made progress in regulating payments over the past year. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) says that it has made progress in fighting APP fraud, making faster payments more available, and making card fees more clear.

Payee 52

Payee Faster Payments Push-to-Card Regulations 52

Finextra

JULY 8, 2025

Home Announcements Payments Dext and Airwallex introduce cross-border payment routing and accounting for SMEs External This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. Businesses can also receive payments using local bank details in 12 countries and over 20 currencies.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 1, 2025

With the acceleration of digital commerce, both users and companies are demanding faster payments, especially in sectors where payments are a challenge, such as sports betting and online gaming. This launch marks a pivotal move to meet the region’s growing demand for secure, seamless, and inclusive financial services.

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Payment Solutions Payment APIs and Integration FinTech Cross-Border 66

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Airwallex, a global financial platform, has launched operations in New Zealand, aiming to provide local businesses with improved cross-border payment solutions. The company has appointed Lowry Gladwell as Associate Director to lead its New Zealand expansion, marking its first local hire.

Cross-Border Payments 90

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Faster Payments Settlement 90

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 16, 2025

Guavapay provides integrated financial solutions including cross-border and mass payment solutions, enabling customers to send money via SWIFT, SEPA, BACS, CHAPS and Faster Payments.

Innovation 98

Innovation Technology Multi-Currency Payment APIs and Integration 98

The Payments Association

JULY 19, 2025

According to HM Treasury, the new classification reflects the sector’s increasing exposure to criminal exploitation, particularly through prepaid products, rapid onboarding, and cross-border digital capabilities. The decision has sparked debate across the payments industry.

Money Laundering 88

Money Laundering Risk Financial Crimes Due Diligence 88

Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

With over 65 licenses globally and now six direct connections to domestic payment systems, this infrastructure enables over 63% of all Wise transactions to be completed instantly (under 20 seconds), with an average fee of 0.62%.

Instant Payments 98

Instant Payments Settlement Accounts Cross-Border Payments 98

The Payments Association

JANUARY 15, 2025

The recently published National Payments Vision sets a forward-looking strategy, outlining priorities such as enhancing the regulatory framework, advancing Open Banking, combating fraud, and building a world-leading payments infrastructure with cross-border interoperability. The result is an improved customer experience.

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SWIFT ISO 20022 Cross-Border Cross-Border Payments 88

Fintech Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

With the introduction of ILS Global Accounts, businesses can now benefit from local collection capabilities, real-time settlement for faster payments, and streamlined treasury management. ” The post Airwallex Enables Businesses to Collect and Hold Funds in Israeli Shekels appeared first on FF News | Fintech Finance.

Multi-Currency 52

Multi-Currency Payment APIs and Integration Cross-Border Embedded Finance 52

Finextra

JUNE 28, 2025

It’s a rare fintech that’s both fast-growing and profitable , pursuing a bold mission encapsulated in its slogan: “Money without borders – instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.” In doing so, Wise saved its users an estimated £2 billion in fees in FY2025 alone. Wise was founded to change this status quo.

Cross-Border 52

Cross-Border Multi-Currency Embedded Finance Authorization 52

Finovate

APRIL 17, 2025

This optimizes payment execution efficiency across multiple banking partners for Swift, SEPA, and UK Faster Payments. Second, Argentex will leverage advanced reconciliation capabilities to ensure accurate financial record-keeping and operational accuracy of both cross-border payments and associated FX trades.

Risk Management 59

Risk Management Risk Multi-Currency Reconciliation 59

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 17, 2025

Guavapay provides integrated financial solutions including cross-border and mass payment solutions, enabling customers to send money via SWIFT, SEPA, BACS, CHAPS and Faster Payments.

Innovation 59

Innovation Technology Payment APIs and Integration Multi-Currency 59

The Fintech Times

MARCH 10, 2025

Becki LaPorte , strategic advisor in the fraud and AML practice at Datos Insights, said: In a fast-changing geopolitical and tech landscape, compliance teams must screen payments against the latest sanctions, PEP, and dual-use goods lists to stay ahead of illicit activity.

Money Laundering 59

Money Laundering FinTech AML Payment Message 59

Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Support for cross-border transactions: your business may currently process international transactions or you may be planning to expand internationally in the future, so the provider must support multiple currencies and relevant local payment systems. Relies on stored customer data for faster payments.

Payment APIs and Integration 68

Payment APIs and Integration Online and Mobile Banking Payment Gateways Gateways 68

CoinRemitter

MARCH 28, 2025

Lower Transaction Costs: Cross-border payments using stablecoins significantly reduce transaction fees by more than 50% compared to traditional banking systems. Faster Settlements: Transactions are processed in minutes rather than days or weeks, which helps businesses improve cash flow management.

Stablecoins 52

Stablecoins Payment Gateways Gateways Cryptocurrency 52

Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

Those breakthroughs gave consumers faster payments and slicker front-ends; but let’s call that Act I. What’s more, startups can pay contractors in stablecoins, skip wire transfer fees and move capital in minutes via lower-cost cross-border transactions. This is where money stops just moving and starts doing.

Stablecoins 52

Stablecoins Cross-Border Blockchain AI 52

The Fintech Times

MARCH 12, 2025

As the government pushes its broader economic agenda, the question remains: does this decision streamline regulation or create new risks for the payments industry? A push for simplification The PSR, which oversees payment systems including Faster Payments and Mastercard , will have its functions largely absorbed by the FCA.

FinTech 59

FinTech Payment APIs and Integration Fraud Prevention Push-to-Card 59

The Fintech Times

JULY 8, 2025

Company milestones Fintech firm Finmo has secured authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority to operate as an electronic money institution (EMI), allowing it to issue e-money, provide domestic and cross-border payments, and integrate with UK clearing systems.

FinTech 59

FinTech Fraud Prevention Online and Mobile Banking Verification 59

The Paypers

JUNE 26, 2025

This overall visibility from the invoice will capture the final payment in order to allow finance teams to operate with optimised security and efficiency. This launch represents a part of Medius broader strategy to eliminate fragmentation in finance operations, as well as offer full visibility from invoice receipt to payment settlement.

Payments 56

Payments Embedded Payments Audit Multi-Currency 56

Fintech Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

With Mastercard Move now fully operational on Viva.com, companies across multiple sectors – including e-commerce, gig economy, and hospitality – can unlock new growth opportunities with: Cross-Border Efficiency, sending funds in near real-time to any eligible Mastercard card across 24 European countries.

Instant Payments 83

Instant Payments Visa Near Real-Time Real Time Payments 83

Tearsheet

JANUARY 9, 2025

. “Embedding payments and financial services into how these companies operate provides a significant opportunity to monetize the flow further and increase the value-added,” says Southall. But this brings along the long-standing challenges of B2B cross-border payment limitations, too.

Embedded Payments 59

Embedded Payments B2C B2B Embedded Finance 59

Payments Dive

JUNE 23, 2025

Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Topics Sign up Search Sign up Search Retail Banking Restaurants Regulations & Policy Risk Technology B2B An article from Dive Brief Fiserv launches new stablecoin The payments processor wants to be an early mover as banks, the U.S. Please let us know if you have feedback. Last week, the U.S.

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Stablecoins Privacy PayPal Use Case 88

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

However, the industry is moving toward best practices and standardized data formats such as ISO-20022 to ease cross-border invoicing. The adoption of ISO 20022 also improves compliance with regulatory requirements by providing clearer, unambiguous data about payment parties and purposes, reducing payment delays and rejections.

ISO 20022 52

ISO 20022 ISOs Compliance Cross-Border 52

The Paypers

JUNE 13, 2025

In addition, the new service aimed to allow Mashreq’s SME customers to generate a link or QR code through the Mashreq Biz app, which could then be shared with their customers to facilitate faster payment collection without requiring any bank details to be provided.  

Accounts 36

Accounts Non-Bank Financial Crimes Instant Payments 36

Payments Dive

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the interest of faster, cheaper and more transparent cross-border payments, the Bank of International Settlements last week produced an interim report aimed at developing a governance structure for an interlinked faster payments system.

Faster Payments 190

Faster Payments Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Settlement 190

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 93

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Faster Payments ISO 20022 93

Fintech News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Siam Commercial Bank ( SCB ), alongside its venture arm SCB 10X and Lightnet , has launched Thailand’s first cross-border payment system utilising stablecoins, according to CoinGape.

Cross-Border Payments 137

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Stablecoins Digital Currency 137

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. Congressional Research Service projects that the pandemic could reduce global trade by anywhere from 13 percent to 32 percent,” according to the May Faster Payments Tracker.

Faster Payments 137

Faster Payments Real Time Payments Cross-Border Payments 137

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Cambridge Global Payments , a FLEETCOR company working on cross-border payments, has partnered with enterprise blockchain solution Ripple on a cross-border payment solution for B2B customers, according to a press release. This isn't Ripple's first foray into cross-border payments.

Cross-Border Payments 114

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Payments Global Payments 114

Faster Payments Council

JUNE 13, 2021

Developed by the FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, this white paper addresses use case and experience requirements for cross-border faster payments, particularly along the dimensions of speed, cost, ubiquity, transparency, and risk. View the Document

Cross-Border 68

Cross-Border Faster Payments Cross-Border Payments FPC 68

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

FLEETCOR , which works in global business payments, announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire cross-border payment firm Associated Foreign Exchange (AFEX) to help boost its own payments network, a press release says.

Cross-Border Payments 121

Cross-Border Payments Cross-Border Payments Underserved 121

Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

After two years of helping banks connect globally to domestic faster payments rails, Swift is planning to expand on that concept.

Faster Payments 171

Faster Payments SWIFT Transactions Payments 171

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

16) that its cross-border platform will be retooled to enable financial institutions to deliver instant transactions. Combining these elements, we are creating a broad platform with faster technology and smarter and better services that the industry can trust as a foundation for innovation towards their own end-clients.”.

Cross-Border 139

Cross-Border SWIFT Cross-Border Payments Value Added Service 139