Cross border payments

The payments company hopes to build its brand outside of its U.K. home base while attracting a deeper investor pool.

A focus on client relationships, rather than products, and investments in AI are helping the company in an increasingly competitive market.

The stablecoin issuer has kicked off its initial public offering after reportedly delaying it due to macroeconomic uncertainty caused by Trump's tariff plans last month. It first filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission in April.

Only by facing the realities of geopolitical uncertainty head-on can we hope to preserve the integrity of the global financial system and enable the flow of capital that underpins prosperity everywhere.

Visa, Mastercard, PayPal are among the firms moving the cryptocurrency option closer to the point of sale.

The Spanish bank is integrating machine learning with cards, payments, financial management, savings and other products, while the American banking giant is assessing risk for business transactions. Plus: The CFPB eases a consent order on Wise.

Engineering an orderly transition toward greater currency diversification is urgent. It would strengthen financial resilience and help sustain international economic integration.

As it rolls out dozens of new products to up its game in stablecoins and artificial intelligence, the payment company is also working with sellers wishing to expand activities involving non-U.S. corridors.

The administration's unpredictable policy has already caused shifts in foreign exchange rates and supply chain payments. Uncertainty about future levies will cause added pressure despite the 90-day pause.

The banking industry's march to ISO 20022 compliance by a November deadline has been sluggish, but the messaging organization isn't budging.

As FedWire becomes the latest ISO 20022 migration to get pushed back, Vantage Bank and Wings Credit Union discuss the difficult upgrade.

Prometeo aims to make business-to-business payments and remittances between the U.S. and Latin America easier and cheaper.

The company sells capital markets technology to small banks that have growing international processing needs, betting the lack of client overlap prevents a big bank/small bank competition.

The money-transfer company's move came after the U.S. State Department last week renewed sanctions against the island nation. That, plus Klarna and Standard Chartered get bullish on crypto; Trump's not the first politician to rail at pennies; and other international payments and fintech news.

Countries around the world have lots of incentives to build an alternative to the U.S.-centric global payments system using central bank digital currencies. The U.S. must get in the game or see its economic might begin to wane.

Cross-border person-to-person payments are vital to the survival of millions of vulnerable people. Right now, fees eat away at their money, and slow processing times create unnecessary stress. The financial services industry and partners in government can fix this problem.

Ripple, MoneyGram and FV Bank all bolstered their ability to distribute digital assets, with cross-border transactions emerging as a primary use case.

A punitive tax on payments sent overseas to the families of immigrants would have a cascading set of consequences — all of them bad.

Around the world, low-income communities are routinely cut off from modern payment infrastructures, causing serious economic harm. We must work toward a future in which they are included.

The payments platform is preparing for expansion to a market that has a fast-growing real-time transaction rail, making the country a hot spot for international investment.