Tagged: foreign exchange

February 25, 2025 @ 10:10 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, African payment technology firm Flutterwave announced that its foreign currency exchange solution, Swap, is now accessible through the Send App. This helps Nigerians access foreign currencies at competitive exchange rates. Send App users can now convert or transfer Nigerian Naira (NGN) to US… Read More

January 5, 2024 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is set to become the next “great place” to invest in as Western European businesses “seek new places to nearshore, offshore, or get access to growing consumer markets,” according to an update from iBanFirst. iBanFirst, a global provider of foreign… Read More

October 23, 2023 @ 1:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nium, a provider of real-time global payments, today announced Nium Global FX, a product it says allows for guaranteed and competitive FX rates. This includes the ability to lock and hold an FX rate for up to 24 hours and settle FX conversions on a… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 6:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, announced its partnership with Alpaca, a developer-first API brokerage platform, to support Alpaca’s global payments and foreign exchange (FX) needs. The announcement comes on the heels of several recent Airwallex wins “in the wealthtech category,… Read More

August 25, 2023 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C), which claims to be a global leader in foreign exchange (FX) markets, has made a strategic investment in Rextie, Peru’s fintech for FX services. The investment makes Rextie Latin America’s first FX fintech “to receive an investment from one of the largest… Read More

July 17, 2023 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A report from FX-as-a-Service pioneer, MillTechFX, has revealed that many corporates in North America are looking to diversify their FX counterparties after the recent banking crisis highlighted the potential risks associated with having only one or two banking partners. The report entitled ‘The MillTechFX North… Read More

May 2, 2023 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has reportedly made its initial entry into Latin America with a launch in Brazil. Revolut‘s global account will provide local consumers with foreign exchange and remittance capabilities in 27 different currencies, along with having a payment card that is accepted in over 150 nations…. Read More

April 3, 2023 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

This final report – issued as part of the G20 cross-border payments program – focuses on facilitating increased adoption of payment versus payment (PvP) “to reduce foreign exchange (FX) settlement risk and improve cross-border payments.” It analyzes “the causes of non-PvP settlement, takes stock of… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining capital markets, announced a significant innovation to its automated novation service in foreign exchange (FX): it can now novate agency trades while maintaining anonymity. This reportedly “unlocks more of the FX options market for novations by including agency flow and… Read More

November 26, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Moneycorp, the global foreign exchange and payments provider with more than £38 billion of trades across 120 different currencies, has implemented an API and distribution agreement with BankClarity, which claims to be the leading banking tech provider to non-bank financial institutions. The partnership means that… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LMAX Group, the operator of institutional exchanges for trading FX and digital assets, is expanding its global technology infrastructure in Asia Pacific “following the launch of a matching engine in the Equinix IBX Data Centre in Singapore (SG1).” SG1, which went live earlier this year,… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) and HSBC Bank plc announced that the blockchain-based solution they are using for bilateral FX settlements is “expanding to include the offshore yuan (CNH).” The offshore yuan “marks the fifth currency to be settled between the two banks using… Read More

September 1, 2022 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FX HedgePool, the peer-to-peer matching platform for institutional foreign exchange transactions, has acquired $8 million via Series A funding, led by Information Venture Partners, along with contributions from Fidelity International Strategic Ventures (FISV) and NAventures, National Bank of Canada’s corporate VC unit. The investment round… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Derivative Path, a provider of capital markets tech and derivatives execution services to regional and community banks, announced it is working with Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking (TxB) to offer “an automated, digital-first payments platform to help financial institutions with spot foreign exchange and international payments.”… Read More

June 30, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global financial services platform iBanFirst recently confirmed the acquisition of the London-headquartered FX provider, Cornhill. The strategic acquisition aims to further build on iBanFirst’s funding partnership with private equity company arlin Equity Partners, launched in June of last year. As mentioned in the update, this… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Currencycloud, the Fintech firm that is focused on simplifying business in a multi-currency world, has introduced Weekend FX, offering customers with the ability to provide competitive FX rates 24/7, “even after the markets close on a Friday evening.” As noted by Currencycloud: “Gone are the… Read More

February 24, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Fintech challenger bunq notes that managing your funds has become even easier when using their platform. The team at bunq writes in a blog post that consumers do not want to spend a lot of time on money admin, because there are so many… Read More

January 16, 2022 @ 2:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Many Brits’ holidays will cost far more than necessary given the lack of knowledge around foreign exchange (FX) charges and international transaction costs, according to research by Opinium that was commissioned by bank challenger Tally. Four out of seven (57 per cent) people don’t know banks… Read More

October 27, 2021 @ 11:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Bosonic’s layer 2 blockchain infrastructure will be a clear player in digital asset markets because it addresses the key issues of counterparty credit and settlement risk, founder and CEO Rosario Ingargiola said. The company draws from Ingargiola’s two decades of experience with building algorithmic,… Read More

October 23, 2021 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Bank (ETR: DBK) announced that it has completed “its first set of live trades on its electronic foreign exchange (e-FX) hub, based in SG1.” The e-FX hub, which was created with assistance from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), allows Deutsche Bank’s customers to… Read More