Tagged: international payments

August 7, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BigPay, a Capital A venture firm, recently revealed that it has added 38 new countries to its global remittance services network. This reportedly includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the UK, and 34 nations across Europe, including France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Spain…. Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Pay, a contactless, borderless, and secure user-to-user cryptocurrency payment feature by Binance, announced its partnership with Bolt Global, a technology company that builds platforms and services “for the next generation of the internet.” The partnership will “allow Binance users from over 150 countries to… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 8:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BPC, the international payments solution provider, has been selected as partner by NanoPay in Mexico, and has launched its anti-fraud solution SmartVista in order to safeguard credit card transfers for its clients. Daniel Hernández, Business Development Director and Country Manager Mexico at BPC, said: “The… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Latin American digital asset exchange Bitso has introduced a cryptocurrency remittance service in Colombia. The service, which should enable individual consumers and businesses to send and receive “digital dollars,” is reportedly one of the first crypto-based remittance products offered in Colombia to date, according… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published for public feedback a report on “the approach for monitoring progress toward meeting the targets for the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-border Payments.” The report provides preliminary recommendations “about key performance indicators (KPIs) that could be used to monitor… Read More

July 8, 2022 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

International payments Fintech, Till Payments recently announced a partnership with Alipay+, a suite of cross-border payments and marketing solutions operated by Ant Group, in order to integrate Alipay into its Education product offering while exploring the potential integration of other virtual payment methods offered by… Read More

July 5, 2022 @ 5:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Online payments platform, Payset, is utilizing bank accounts from Banking Circle to offer fast, “low-cost” global payments. Providing customers with multi-currency accounts, pre-paid cards and currency exchange services, Payset helps businesses “hold, exchange and move money around the world quickly, effortlessly, and affordably.” Working with… 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 27, 2022 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spire, a GCC Open Banking services provider, has announced a partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA),  a technology leader in the global payments sector. The collaboration will “help banks revolutionize consumer engagement and enhance user experiences in the region by integrating Spire ‘Ingage’ and Mastercard’s Merchant… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram, which claims to be an international “leader” in the evolution of digital P2P payments, and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source public blockchain that allows money to be tokenized and transferred globally,… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mambu, the cloud banking platform, has partnered with Western Union, a global “leader” in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, in order to integrate its solution “into the latter’s next-generation real-time multi-currency digital wallet and digital banking platform in Europe.” Mambu will “enable Western Union… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Fintech Monzo notes that you can now send funds abroad from your Monzo Business account. Monzo confirmed that they have partnered with global Fintech firm Wise (LSE:WISE) in order to give clients a simple, affordable way to send funds overseas. The money… Read More

May 31, 2022 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Junction has recently announced it is providing a range of cross-border payments services to NovaPay, the payment arm of one of the “major” retail logistics brands in Ukraine. The Nova Poshta group is a postal and courier company that “provides express delivery services for… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  SWIFT, in collaboration with Capgemini, is conducting new experiments to test how we can interlink domestic CBDCs and “take the next step towards seamless cross-border payments involving digital currencies.” Interest in Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is “on the rise.” A report from the… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA), a tech leader in the international payments sector, has announced a strategic partnership Saudi Arabia-based HyperPay, which claims to be the fastest growing e-commerce payments services provider in the MENA region, in order to drive the adoption of digital payment solutions across… Read More

May 12, 2022 @ 3:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ebury, the Banco Santander-backed provider of corporate banking services to SMEs that trade globally, has reportedly agreed to acquire Bexs in a deal that further expands its international payments offering to Brazilian markets. The transaction, currently subject to regulatory clearance, reportedly includes the companies Bexs… Read More

May 5, 2022 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Transact365, a UK-headquartered global payments platform powering merchants in emerging markets, has appointed David Lambert as its new Chief Executive Officer. An original co-founder and former Commercial Director at Transact365, Lambert will be responsible for overseeing the Fintech firm’s expanding merchant client base and card… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BPC has announced its expansion into the Americas in order to support the payments and processing requirements of traditional financial institutions, payments processors, and Fintech firms. The company is launching its full suite of SaaS Cloud services “on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) from Ashburn, Virginia,… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EBA CLEARING, SWIFT and The Clearing House (TCH) announced that they intend to introduce a pilot service for “immediate” cross-border (IXB) payments “with the support of banks from both sides of the Atlantic.” The pilot service “is scheduled to begin by the end of this… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EBANX, a payments Fintech with an international presence, and VTEX, a digital commerce platform for large firms and retailers, has announced a partnership aimed at “broadening cross-border payments for Brazilian e-commerce companies in Latin America.” Via this collaboration, Brazilian firms will be able to enjoy… Read More