Finextra

MARCH 28, 2025

Private sector bank Axis becomes the first Indian financial institution to offer near-real-time, 24/7 programmable USD clearing for its commercial clients with JP Morgans digital assets unit Kinexys.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Mastercard introduced a new product innovation, Mastercard Move Commercial Payments, that will enable banks to facilitate near real-time, predictable and transparent commercial cross-border payments.

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Finextra

APRIL 11, 2025

This collaboration will allow over 3 million migrant workers living in Malaysia to remit funds to home countries in local currencies in near real-time.

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Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

According to the Borderless Payments Report 2023 by Mastercard, 48% of people in the UAE expect to send cross-border payments more frequently. Meanwhile, 36% are likely to receive more cross-border payments, driving the demand for robust international money transfer solutions.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 2, 2025

Following a new partnership between Centiglobe , the cross-border payment infrastructure solutions provider, and Mastercard Move , Mastercard s portfolio of global money movement solutions, customers using Centiglobe’s blockchain-based payments platform will now be able to use Mastercard Move through a single integration.

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Fintech Finance

MAY 1, 2025

This makes QNB the first bank in Qatar to use KDP’s blockchain deposits accounts for 24/7 settlement of their corporate flows, facilitating and automating on-demand multi-currency cross-border payments. Morgan and Bank ABC, and enabled cross-border commercial transactions to be executed between Bahrain and U.S.

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The Fintech Times

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As a result of this collaboration, Checkout.com is going to launch Visa Direct’s Push-to-Card solution in the UAE, facilitating cross-border and domestic transactions in the country. It also marks the first organisation to use Visa’s solution in the region.

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Finovate

MAY 22, 2025

Circle has launched the Circle Payments Network (CPN) to modernize the $190 trillion cross-border payments market with blockchain-based, near-instant settlement. With CPN, Circle is hoping to disrupt the $190 trillion cross-border market and bring stablecoins mainstream for cross-border payments.

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Fintech News

MARCH 18, 2024

Payment giant Mastercard has announced a new partnership with Ant Group’s digital open platform Alipa y to expand its cross-border payment services to facilitate quicker and more secure money transfers to China. As global economic activities continue to recover, demand for cross-border payments will only increase.

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Payments giant Mastercard has launched a new cross-border payments solution in a move to simplify operations, optimise liquidity, reduce counterparty risk and provide end-to-end visibility for banks and their customers.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 27, 2024

DBS and Mashreq have announced a new collaboration to extend same-day and near-instant peer-to-peer cross-border payments to Mashreq’s retail customers in selected markets across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas.

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Finovate

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Mastercard launched Move Commercial Payments , a real-time cross-border payments solution that operates 24/7. Mastercard unveiled an offering this week that will allow commercial users to make cross-border payments in near-real-time. with Lloyds Banking Group and UBS.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Mastercard has launched the Mastercard Move Commercial Payments product in a bid to help banks process near real-time commercial cross-border payments.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 22, 2021

MoneyGram International is expanding its use of Visa Direct across Europe, allowing its customers to use the company website or mobile app to send money in near-real time to Visa debit card holders in various parts of 25 countries in Europe.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

MoneyGram customers can send money in near-real-time to Visa debit cardholders across 575 corridors from 25 countries in Europe. In 2019, MoneyGram was the first company in the industry to enable cross-border transfers from the U.S. using Visa Direct.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 11, 2024

Verituity , a leading provider of intelligent, verified payout solutions, today announced the integration of Mastercard Move , Mastercard’s portfolio of domestic and international money transfer solutions, into its payments platform, enabling near real-time payouts for commercial banks and payers.

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Wharton Fintech

JANUARY 18, 2024

Airwallex CEO and Co-Founder Jack Zhang — empowering businesses to grow beyond borders In today’s episode, Kailee Costello hosts Jack Zhang , the CEO and co-founder of Airwallex. It empowers a lot of the global businesses to grow beyond borders. And we thought there must be a better way of making payments cross-border.

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Fintech Finance

APRIL 15, 2024

Responding to the ever-growing need to move money seamlessly, Mastercard and VoPay today announced a strategic partnership that will offer choice, simplicity and efficiency for near-real-time money movement in Canada and internationally for businesses and consumers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

The world is becoming more interconnected, boosting demand for fast and low-cost services that enable cross-border transactions. This type of interoperability is almost exclusively used for cross-border payments, allowing consumers to make credit card purchases in countries with domestic currencies different from their own.

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Fintech Finance

JUNE 5, 2025

The two parties will combine their expertise to redefine cross-border payments, drawing on Lianlian’s global network and UnionPay International’s MoneyExpress to provide fast cross-border remittance solutions for customers.

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Payments Source

MAY 11, 2018

Today: Australia's open banking squabble; Smartwatch payments win adoption in Europe; Canada's central bank pushes for collaboration on data breaches; Ripple finishes near real-time cross-border trial.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 7, 2020

TransferGo will use Mastercard's push payment service to support near real-time money transfers for European customers.

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 8, 2024

Jersey based Fintech , EWG , launches revolutionary – Lightspeed API – the fast-start route to embedded cross-border payments and FX for Fiduciary, Corporate and Fund Services. Many of our clients are dealing in high value, and often high volume, cross-border payments.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

NymCard explained that through the new collaboration with Mastercard, it can strengthen its BaaS platform, and leverage cross-border services from the ‘Mastercard Move’ portfolio of money transfer solutions. “Digital cross-border payments have been witnessing rapid growth across the MENA region.

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The Paypers

MARCH 19, 2019

(The Paypers) IBM has unveiled a global blockchain network, Blockchain World Wire, that will offer near real-time cross-border payment exchange and international settlement.

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The Payments Association

MAY 7, 2025

helps: Near real-time fraud detection: By leveraging combined alerts from Ethoca and Verifi, avoided.io 4) Cross-border fraud in e-commerce With the continued growth of global e-commerce, cross-border fraud is becoming more prevalent. How avoided.io How avoided.io

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Fintech Finance

MARCH 19, 2024

Mastercard continues to expand its cross-border payment solutions with a new connection to Alipay , China’s leading digital open platform under Ant Group. Insights from Mastercard’s Borderless Payments Report reveal that 68% of consumers would make more online cross-border payments if they were faster.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

MoneyGram is the first cross-border use case for Visa Direct,” Frew told Webster. All of those transactions will happen in near real time, he explained. I think the complexity of the cross border market can be easy to overlook ,” Holmes explained.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

In individual company news, and building upon past coverage that had been tied to cross-border trade and logistics, Cointelegraph noted Wednesday (Jan. 2) that Saudi Arabia has completed a pilot program that linked its own cross-border trade platform FASAH with IBM and Maersk ’s TradeLens platform.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

The recent acceleration of central banks’ exploration and development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) only adds greater legitimacy to the technology, with Sully pointing to cross-border payments as one of the biggest areas of CBDC disruption — although, he acknowledged, the true impact of this tool is not yet understood.

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Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The core integration allows for transaction-level, near real-time reconciliation, safeguarding the financial institution from clients spending funds they have not yet reconciled. Current use cases include disbursements and receivables, as well as cross-border, escrow, title, and ecommerce payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

and also across borders. This innovation will create real opportunity for our partners, ultimately enabling businesses to grow, be more efficient and issue payments more quickly,” said Sheree Thornsberry, Meta EVP and Head of Payments. With Send, Metabank partners can direct and disburse money to U.S.

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Tearsheet

JANUARY 9, 2025

For instance, clients can offer wallet services to their customers holding deposits for extended periods, generating interest, or enabling cross-selling opportunities, like advertising sales. But this brings along the long-standing challenges of B2B cross-border payment limitations, too.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In the latest iteration of the “Executive Insight” series, executives at Citigroup take stock of the treasury function evolution from a somewhat predictable, visible monitoring of cash positions on a daily or weekly basis, marked by batch processing … to today’s necessity of managing cash in near-real-time, sometimes pressure-cooker situations.

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Payments Source

MAY 13, 2020

Cross River Bank, a banking-as-a-service provider to fintechs, has signed Remitly to leverage its new push-to-card international payment service for near real-time remittances.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 14, 2024

Visa Direct, a VisaNet processing capability that enables near real-time funds delivery directly to financial accounts using card credentials, became available to Colombian merchants through a single integration to Nuvei’s full-stack modular payments technology platform.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

17), the bank announced the development of its Wells Fargo Digital Cash, a service designed to allow financial institutions (FIs) to complete cross-border payment book transfers internally across its global network using digitized cash. In a press release on Tuesday (Sept. and Canada, the release noted.

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