Cross-Border Payments

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The past decade has transformed cross-border payments from a slow, opaque process into one that is faster, cheaper and increasingly transparent. Yet the dream of seamless global transactions that are instant ...

Scanning to pay is set to gain momentum on the global stage. The simple act of pointing a phone’s camera at a QR code to make a purchase is getting a ...

Traditional cross-border payment systems weren’t built for today’s global workforce. Millions of creators, freelancers and on-demand workers now expect to be paid instantly. And in many countries with volatile fiat ...

Watch more: Live Roundtable: AWS and Convera’s Vishal Arora and Sudipto Das Cloud migration is no longer the endgame for payments companies. It’s the starting line. When global business payments giant Convera spun out ...

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Global Payments has reportedly begun marketing a $6.2 billion bond sale to support its acquisition of Worldpay. The company is marketing the bond sale in as many as four parts ranging ...

In B2B payments, the distance between a decision and a dollar is shrinking fast. Higher rates, cross-border volatility and software that now thinks for itself are pushing chief financial officers to ...

Global Payments’ new point-of-sale software, Genius, has been resonating with merchants since the launch of its configurations for restaurants and retail in the second quarter, executives said Tuesday (Nov. 4) ...

Would you take a new payment rail that claims to handle transaction volumes that are multiples higher than global industry stalwarts and blue chip networks at face value? Or might you ...

Forget stablecoins. In the alphabet soup of digital assets, another term that has begun surfacing is tokenized deposits. Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr on Thursday (Oct. 16) called tokenized deposits “more ...

Cross-border payments are among the most complex transactions in finance. They’re an intricate choreography of data, regulation and risk management that must work seamlessly and securely. As artificial intelligence transforms how money ...

Global Payments’ planned acquisition of Worldpay was OK’d Monday (Oct. 20) by the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority. “The CMA has cleared the anticipated acquisition by Global Payments Inc. of ...

Global bank Standard Chartered integrated the digital payment network Visa Direct to add greater speed, transparency and cost efficiency to its SC PrismFX and low-value global disbursements offerings. The integration enables ...

Stripe has begun rolling out stablecoin payments for subscriptions, saying this offering will support artificial intelligence companies and other firms with recurring business models. This offering will initially be rolled out ...

Five years ago, the G20 nations set out an ambitious goal: to make international payments faster, cheaper, more transparent and more accessible by 2027. The vision was bold but supported by ...

Japan’s PayPay’s valuation could reportedly exceed $20 billion as it prepares to go public. The SoftBank-owned payments app is set for an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S. in December, ...

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser’s multiyear effort to rebuild the once-sprawling bank into a leaner, technology-driven institution is beginning to deliver results. The bank reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings results Tuesday (Oct. ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is reportedly working to expand its operations in India. The bank is expanding its payment services in the country to help clients process and move money globally, ...

The Financial Stability Board said in a press release Thursday (Oct. 9) that a 2027 cross-border payment benchmark deadline is unlikely to be met. The FSB, which represents the G20 nations, ...

Non-custodial stablecoin wallet MiniPay has integrated Noah’s financial infrastructure to enable freelancers, creators and sellers to receive global payouts. This solution enables these customers to receive ACH/SEPA transfers in U.S. dollars ...

Payment service provider Coinflow has raised $25 million in new funding. The company says its Series A round, announced Wednesday (Oct. 8), will help boost adoption of what it calls the ...

The digital divide that once separated who paid how across borders is narrowing fast. In the United States, digital wallets have become the great equalizer. They’re used almost as readily ...

Stablecoins were once the province of private issuers, characterized by opaque backing, fragmented liquidity and minimal oversight. At times, they behaved more like speculative assets than steady payment mechanisms. However, established banks ...

The stablecoin market topped $300 billion in value this week, a new all-time high. It has grown 42% this year, double the 21% growth of the overall cryptocurrency market. The rapid ...

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User choice is the dominant behavior when it comes to retail payments. For much of cryptocurrency’s history, users haven’t chosen it at checkout. However, that could be changing, at least across ...

Immigrants in the United States are reportedly sending more money home amid heightened deportations. Remittances to many areas of Latin America are increasing by double digits, and the region is on ...

The global banking establishment is entering 2026 confronting a growing array of existential questions. Chief among them is whether the future of money can be built without undermining the trust ...

In business, achieving clarity often accelerates action and progress, which is more valuable than simply moving fast. For much of global trade’s history, the speed of clarity has been more like ...

Mastercard is expanding its longtime partnership with corporate payments firm Corpay. The two companies now allow corporations, small businesses and financial institutions to make near real-time payments to 22 new markets ...

Thunes is offering its Pay-to-Banks solution to financial institutions via their Swift connectivity. The new solution lets the 11,000 banks within the Swift network connect to Thunes’ network with no additional ...

Financial messaging network Swift is adding a blockchain-based shared ledger to its technological infrastructure. The move is designed to make “instant, always-on cross-border transactions possible at unprecedented scale,” Swift said in ...

Retailers already face an uphill battle managing inflation, tariff-driven price shifts and the looming holiday rush. Now comes another challenge: learning a new language. It’s the language of agents. As Mirakl ...

Watch more: What’s Next In Payments: AWS, Nilesh Dusane In today’s connected economy, the lines between what’s table stakes and what’s transformative are shifting. To keep pace, financial institutions are re-architecting systems ...

Cross-border payments company Ebury is reportedly considering launching its initial public offering (IPO) in London in the spring of 2026. The company’s board and bankers are discussing that as a potential ...

Citi has integrated its cross-border payments solution with Dandelion’s digital wallet network. The collaboration, announced Thursday (Sept. 25), lets Citi’s institutional clients use the bank’s WorldLink Payment Services to deliver “near-instant, full-value payments” into ...

Swift is introducing rules to speed cross-border payments for consumers and small businesses. The rules, created in partnership with more than 30 banks, enable retail customers to have peace of mind ...

Watch more: What’s Next: i2c, Seth Perlman When it comes to the future of payments, the stakes are high and unforgiving. Consumers expect services to be available around the clock, fraudsters are ...

It’s not just students in New England layering up with their college sweaters this autumn. As enterprise CFOs plan their budgets and strategies for 2026, they’re layering up too, with ...

Shield raised $5 million in seed funding to continue building its neobank for global trade businesses. The company helps exporters accept payments from international buyers in USDT stablecoins and settle them ...

When corporate treasurers thought about innovation, it was typically unlikely that their minds drifted to remittance counters in Manila or Mexico. However, as enterprises come to demand faster, cheaper and more ...

HSBC expanded its tokenized deposit service (TDS) to include cross-border transactions. The real-time solution for corporate clients conducted its first U.S. dollar cross-border transaction this month between Hong Kong and Singapore ...

MoneyGram plans to launch a new stablecoin-based solution for cross-border finance in Colombia and then expand it to additional markets. The solution will be available to customers in Colombia in an ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift In the high-speed theater of global commerce, payments remain stuck in slow motion. Settlements stretch across days, working capital gets tied up in transit, and intermediaries from ...

The office of the CFO and crypto assets might sound like strange bedfellows. After all, CFOs and other finance leaders are the staid stewards of corporate balance sheets; while digital assets ...

Swift conducted tests to demonstrate the potential impact of artificial intelligence in preventing cross-border payments fraud. The global messaging system collaborated with 13 banks on experiments using privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to ...

In global B2B trade, inefficiency doesn’t always look like congestion at a port or tariffs at a border. Billions of dollars in cross-border B2B trade are tied up not in ships ...

Tokenization has emerged from a niche concept to a strategic imperative across financial services, increasingly underpinning payment security and the trading of real-world assets. The catch-all moniker might be viewed as ...

Watch more: Need to Know If businesses can’t see their cash, they might as well not have any. That’s especially true against today’s volatile global backdrop, where multinational companies are rethinking how ...

Watch more: The Unsexy Payment Infrastructure Powering the Future of eSports, Creator Economies Most of the digital economy’s spotlight falls upon the glamorous. Think viral content, multimillion-dollar games and tournaments, blockbuster ...

A top official at England’s central bank reportedly sees some potential in stablecoins. Sarah Breeden, deputy governor for the Bank of England (BOE), said at a conference in London Wednesday (Sept. 3) that ...

Airwallex acquired OpenPay to bring the latter’s billing and analytics capabilities to its financial platform. The deal is designed to bolster the platform, strengthening Airwallex’s position against other players like Stripe ...

Money movement platform Thunes has expanded its partnership with digital asset infrastructure company Ripple. This latest collaboration, announced Tuesday (Sept. 2) combines Thunes’ network with Ripple’s blockchain-powered payments solutions to allow Ripple’s enterprise customers to more ...

Cross-border payment and digital financial network Obita received more than $10 million in an angel round. The new funding will be used for research and development, compliance infrastructure development and market ...

Circle is teaming with Finastra to help banks integrate stablecoin settlement into cross-border payment flows. The partnership, announced Wednesday (Aug. 27), will use Finastra’s payment hub solutions to connect financial institutions ...

Singapore-based cross-border payments infrastructure platform Tazapay closed a Series B funding round. The round was led by Peak XV Partners and included participation from digital asset giants Ripple and Circle, according ...

Latin American delivery/financial services app Rappi has launched a partnership with global wallet platform AstroPay. The collaboration, announced in a news release Tuesday (Aug. 26), is being billed as the region’s ...

In the rush to expand internationally, merchants may be overlooking a simple but potent tool: the one-click checkout. While digital wallets and real-time payments grab headlines, the frictionless final step ...

The European Union is reportedly speeding up its efforts to launch a digital euro, in part by considering the use of a public blockchain rather than a private one. The shift ...

Stablecoins may have begun as plumbing for crypto trading, but in emerging market the digital holdings are being eyed as payment options to pay for groceries, rent and utility bills ...

Small business-focused FinTech Payoneer is expanding its online checkout offering in partnership with Stripe. The collaboration is aimed at cross-border small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) wishing to sell direct-to-consumer, according to ...

Mastercard has partnered with Zand, a United Arab Emirates-based, artificial intelligence-driven FinTech and financial services group. The collaboration will use Mastercard Move to enable seamless cross-border transfers, from bank accounts to ...

Money transfer company Wise says it is taking part in Google’s new remittance offering. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Aug. 12), will let American consumers use Wise’s services on Google Wallet online ...

Nuvei says it is employing stablecoin rails to expand its global money movement capabilities. This expansion will allow for faster and more cost-effective payouts to bank accounts, including in emerging markets where traditional infrastructure ...

Payoneer now enables real-time, 24/7 global intracompany transfers via Citi’s tokenized liquidity and payment platform, Citi Token Services. With this capability, Payoneer can transfer funds between its global accounts in participating ...

Riva Money raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round to support the global rollout of its blockchain-powered technology that facilitates global money transfers. The company will use the new funding ...

Money movement platform Thunes launched a partnership with payroll company Ontop. The collaboration is designed to give freelancers and remote workers real-time access to their earnings around the world, according to ...

Western Union is acquiring money transfer service International Money Express (Intermex) for $500 million. The deal is designed to bolster Western Union’s retail business in the U.S. while helping it speed ...

Payments company Corpay has teamed with Circle to expand global stablecoin usage. The collaboration involves Corpay working with a Circle subsidiary to embed Circle’s USDC stablecoin into Corpay’s cross-border pay-in and pay-out rails, the companies ...

Cross-border payments platform dLocal has debuted a solution for Brazilian merchants centered around the country’s Pix payments system. The new solution, SmartPix, lets merchants process tokenized Pix payments, including recurring and on-demand charges, ...

From Wall Street boardrooms to Silicon Valley’s open-plan war rooms, companies as diverse as SoFi, Coinbase, Visa, PayPal and Robinhood all sounded the same note during their financial earnings calls for ...

Stablecoins are shifting from cryptocurrency novelty to enterprise-grade payment infrastructure. A growing cohort of financial leaders, from Fortune 500 treasury desks to FinTech integrators, is moving stablecoins from theory to operational ...

Watch more: How Stablecoins Are Transforming Enterprise Financial Strategy Keeping an open mind is key to learning. Few innovations across payments and finance may require industry leaders to keep an open mind ...

Mastercard and BMO are expanding the Canadian bank’s money transfer service. The expansion adds new destinations and currencies, allowing BMO’s Canadian personal banking clients to send money to family and friends ...