Cross border payments

Alipay has worked with First Data, Verifone, Ingenico and others to connect with merchants in North America, but more as a service for Chinese travelers than a direct competitor to existing payment providers.

SBI Ripple Asia has formed a partnership with Dayli Intelligence to build a presence across Asia.

The preparations underscore the trouble Chinese buyers face in persuading the panel that investigates foreign acquisitions to greenlight takeovers.

In India, dLocal wants to enable global e-commerce companies to accept payments from and make payments to India to serve consumers, contractors and supply chains.

Blockchain is already taking a bite out of the fees traditional financial institutions extract from cross-border transactions by providing a workaround that avoids third parties.

Payoneer will work with the mobile wallet eZ Cash to make it easier for its mobile wallet users to convert funds from cross-border payments to funds in the wallet.

The cross-border payments specialist has developed a workaround to comply with a format that requires Chinese characters for certain transactions.

China's Metaverse Foundation collaborated with Russian crypto investment bank CyberTrust to create the Cryptocurrency Fund to support ICO projects from China and Russia through KICKICO's crypto crowdfunding platform.

Ant Financial's Alipay is a big deal in China, and it wants to be a big deal globally. It's got several strategies already in motion, some of which have very big implications for other markets.

Payments are getting more complex as business gets more global, adding channels and expanding ways to sell. Part of the strategy at the matchmaker crowdSPRING is to find a match of its own: AliExpress, Alibaba's online marketplace. It’s also considering a foray into virtual currency.