Fintech Finance

APRIL 17, 2025

Swift today announced the launch of an enhanced solution for managing payment investigations that could save the financial industry millions and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify and resolve issues when international payments are delayed. Financial institutions spend more than USD 1.6

Cross-Border Payments

The Fintech Times

MARCH 6, 2025

They have existed in today’s market for some time but have had limited capabilities to manage stablecoin, crypto and fiat payments in one place. BVNK will hold on to or exchange balances and deal with third-party payments through its multi-rail access, all in a single product. Why stablecoins?

Stablecoins

Fintech News

JANUARY 27, 2025

In China, travellers can use Alipay and 13 international payment apps to make seamless payments. Alipay+ is accepted at offline merchants in key Asian, European, and Middle Eastern destinations, providing a wide range of travel payment options.

Tax Refunds

Fintech News

JUNE 16, 2025

We already work with the key messaging and integration standards used in cross-border initiatives and have connections with both domestic and international payment systems. This makes it easier for banks—especially those already operating IPS and cloud infrastructure—to connect to new payment rails like Nexus with minimal disruption.

Cross-Border Payments

The Fintech Times

JUNE 2, 2025

Al Etihad Payments (AEP), a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), is enhancing Jaywan , the UAEs domestic card scheme, by signing co-badging agreements with international card schemes, including Discover , Mastercard , UnionPay and Visa.

Agreements

The Payments Association

JANUARY 15, 2025

Swift drives global interoperability and innovation, aligning with the UK’s National Payments Vision to enhance seamless, secure payments. The UKs payments landscape is at an inflexion point. Swift uses its Payment Pre-validation service to connect different Verification of Payee (VoP) schemes.

SWIFT

Fintech Finance

JULY 24, 2025

” Users also benefit from Bluecode’s growing interoperability with European and international payment ecosystems, which ensures broad acceptance both within and beyond Europe.

Mobile Payments

The Payments Association

JANUARY 21, 2025

Payments providers will need to prioritise interoperability and compliance to unlock growth while addressing security and volatility concerns. Nick Charteris CEO, Optimus Cards UK Limited The Payments Report 2024 highlights key trends transforming the payments ecosystem.

Payments Trends

Fintech News

MAY 11, 2025

This technology-driven approach enables Thunes to support a wide variety of use cases including gig economy payouts, e-wallet interoperability, and financial inclusion efforts. Thunes has been featured in the FXC Intelligence Cross-Border Payments 100 list for all seven years. XTransfer claims over 600,000 enterprise clients globally.

Cross-Border Payments

Finextra

JULY 16, 2025

The pressure to solve real challenges — such as low banking penetration, financial exclusion, limited access to credit cards, lack of interoperability, and acceptance barriers for traditional (and international) payment methods — planted the seeds for fintech and digital banks.

Payment APIs and Integration

Fintech News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Project Nexus seeks to change all of this by enabling real-time, cost-efficient cross-border payments. Instead of countries negotiating individual payment linkagesan effort that could take decadesNexus offers a standardised solution. It aims to make seamless international payments as easy as domestic transfers.

Cross-Border Payments

The Fintech Times

JULY 16, 2025

billion by 2029, there is still a critical issue regarding interoperability, with many mobile wallets still not being fully connected to banks, global networks or each other. In regions with high remittance flows and currency volatility, they provide a stable store of value and enable faster, cheaper international payments.

Underserved

Fintech News

JULY 23, 2025

In a recent webinar, B2B payments service provider Bottomline brought together regional experts to discuss how banks in APAC can close the gap and compete more effectively. The Role of Standards: ISO 20022 and the Power of Interoperability Javeri described ISO 20022 as “not new, but the foundation” for future-ready payments.

APACS

The Fintech Times

JULY 25, 2025

Accepting payments both within and beyond Europe Users also benefit from Bluecode’s growing interoperability with European and international payment ecosystems, which ensures broad acceptance both within and beyond Europe.

Risk

Finextra

JUNE 30, 2025

They will need to co-exist with existing clearing and settlement processes and infrastructures, and this means interoperability is crucial. A typical use case is the clearing and settlement of international payments. The transfer volume of stablecoins hit highs of $717.1 billion in April. Let’s explore.

Digital Currency

Fintech Review

MAY 4, 2025

Wise Business Provides borderless accounts and real-time FX conversions with transparent mid-market rates, removing hidden fees from international payments. Mercury A US digital bank for startups offering business checking, savings, and seamless domestic and international payments.

Payment APIs and Integration

The Payments Association

MARCH 17, 2025

Cross-border interoperability : Enabling UK stablecoins to integrate with international payments frameworks. A proportionate framework could help balance innovation and risk, supporting the UKs competitiveness in the evolving payments landscape.

Regulations

The Paypers

JUNE 25, 2025

Better real-time payouts in Canada By collaborating with the Canadian pay-by-bank provider, TerraPay’s network of money transfer operations can facilitate improved real-time payments to recipients in Canada.

Cross-Border

PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

An interoperable cross-border solution could remove these frictions and provide smooth transfers between two real-time payment systems, while a single, globally accessible faster payments service could offer swift end-to-end transfers. Current Efforts . and Australia’s NPP. Mixed Demand and ISO 20022. Disharmony.

Interoperability

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

In the latest Smarter Payments Tracker , PYMNTS takes a deep dive into the challenge of interoperability in achieving better cross-border payments services and experiences. International payments often contain unstructured and ambiguous transaction data, causing unnecessary delays and failed processing.

Interoperability

Fintech News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Google India Digital Services and NPCI International Payments (NIPL), a subsidiary of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), aim to provide Indian consumers with more flexibility in making digital payments overseas.

Interoperability

NFCW

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ritesh Shukla, chief executive of NPCI’s International Payments Limited division, added “This strategic partnership will not only simplify foreign transactions for Indian travelers but will also allow us to extend our knowledge and expertise of operating a successful digital payments ecosystem to other countries.”

Cross-Border

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) has entered into a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Digital Transformation (MDT) of Trinidad and Tobago to develop a real-time payments platform similar to India’s ‘Unified Payments Interface’ (UPI).

Real Time Payments

Fintech News

JULY 16, 2024

By combining Visa Direct’s capabilities with our flexible Payments Hub and integrated account services, we are empowering banks to turn on a new distribution option with ease and provide their customers with seamless and secure international payment experiences.”

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Interledger Foundation , an organization building and advocating for an open, interoperable payment network, and Chimoney , a fintech company providing multi-currency wallets and infrastructure for cross-border payments, today announced their work to power cross-border payments between more than 130 countries worldwide.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech News

JUNE 4, 2024

Roberto Tittarelli Roberto Tittarelli, EVP New Payments Platform Europe, said, “With the integration of Mastercard Move’s money transfer solutions with Temenos’ payments capabilities, banks will benefit from a streamlined process to deploy, scale, and maintain ongoing interoperability for cross-border payments.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

JULY 11, 2024

The standard helps facilitate interoperability and cross-border transactions, also giving Swiss banks the opportunity to implement international payment capabilities in the future. The post Finastra Facilitates Connection of Swiss Banks in Readiness for New SIC Instant Payments Service appeared first on Fintech Finance.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Cross-border payment revenues currently account for approximately $200 billion, a significant slice of the payments pie. international transactions per capita every year, up from 0.5 Despite the increase in the market, international payments still face significant difficulties. Currently, there are 0.7

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

Fintech Finance

AUGUST 22, 2024

Through a new cross-border payments collaboration between Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and The Bank of New York Mellon ( BNY ), Australian businesses and individuals who receive international payments from BNY’s customers may now be paid in as little as 60 seconds1 regardless of who they bank with.

Near Real-Time

The Fintech Times

MAY 12, 2025

As national payment infrastructures become more interoperable and networked on a regional, and soon global, scale, stablecoins may start to lose their perceived ‘indisputable’ advantages in the cross-border sector. Will the rug be pulled from under stablecoins by incumbent instant payment schemes? At least, not yet.

Interoperability

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Additionally, the standardisation provided by ISO20022 reduces the complexity of payments and significantly enhances efficiency. The ISO20022 Standard will enhance interoperability between domestic and international payment systems, facilitating easier cross-border transactions and increase the ease of doing business globally.

Message Standards

Fintech Finance

JULY 3, 2024

Network International (Network) , the leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, in partnership with NPCI International Payments Ltd. NIPL), has enabled the acceptance of QR code-based Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments across Network’s point-of-sale (POS) terminals in the UAE.

Point-of-Sale (POS)

Fintech Finance

JULY 16, 2024

By combining Visa Direct’s capabilities with our flexible Payments Hub and integrated account services, we are empowering banks to turn on a new distribution option with ease and provide their customers with seamless and secure international payment experiences.”

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2024

At least three financial institutions in 92% of the world’s countries and territories send payments over the Swift network, demonstrating the cooperative’s commitment to interoperating the global financial system and ensuring access to cross-border payments.

Cross-Border Payments

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 15, 2024

RTGS.global , the next generation settlement company revolutionising cross-border payments, has today announced the launch of a unique solution for Payment Service Providers (PSPs) that will enable them to offer cheaper and faster international payments to their retail and corporate customers.

Cross-Border

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Morgan itself, the company has said, moves $6 trillion daily in payments. Here, then, is where blockchain can be most readily deployed into use cases that streamline international payments — and where J.P. Morgan’s “endpoints,” as described by Farooq, are large corporates. But the ecosystem has room to expand.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Although there are more efficient cross-border transactions being enabled, several roadblocks are still in the way, including payment tracking and issues with interoperability between market systems. Effective cross-border payments need systems that enable them to shift away from legacy infrastructure.

Cross-Border Payments