Cross Border Payments

06 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil are examining whether Europe’s TIPS instant-payment infrastructure could be connected with Brazil’s hugely successful Pix network, potentially creating a new real-time... read more

20 Aug 26 @ 16:26

TerraPay has struck a collaboration with Deutsche Bank designed to strengthen its global settlement infrastructure and improve the speed and reliability of cross-border payment flows. The agreement will give TerraPay... read more

29 Jul 26 @ 17:56

ZUG, Switzerland — July 28, 2026 — It’s well known that a cross-border payment goes through a chain of correspondent banks before arriving to the receiver. Every link adds the... read more

16 Jun 26 @ 18:16

Mastercard and Backbase have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping banks modernise international payments, integrating Mastercard Move into Backbase’s AI-native Banking Operating System to enable faster, more transparent and... read more

16 Apr 26 @ 11:46

The US Federal Reserve has taken a potentially significant step towards extending FedNow beyond purely domestic payments. By opening a 60-day consultation on proposed amendments to Regulation J, the central... read more

31 Mar 26 @ 19:07

China is intensifying efforts to position its Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, or CIPS, as a more credible alternative to the Western-dominated architecture that has long underpinned international payments. The move... read more

09 Mar 26 @ 14:45

SWIFT has introduced a new international payments framework aimed at significantly improving the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border retail transactions. The initiative, backed by a coalition of more than... read more

10 Feb 26 @ 17:30

Visa is pushing deeper into one of the world’s most strategically important payment corridors, announcing a partnership with UnionPay International to enable cross-border, real-time payments into mainland China. The agreement... read more

09 Feb 26 @ 13:24

Europe’s long-running ambition to reclaim control over its payments infrastructure has taken a tangible step forward. A new memorandum of understanding signed by Bancomat, Bizum, SIBS, Vipps MobilePay and EPI... read more

19 Jan 26 @ 17:27

Project Agorá, the flagship cross-border distributed ledger initiative led by the Bank for International Settlements, has entered its long-anticipated testing phase. After progressing from design to prototype build during 2025,... read more

15 Jan 26 @ 21:00

Revolut, Visa and Mastercard have failed in a High Court bid to block a proposed UK cap on cross-border card interchange fees. The decision hands a significant legal victory to... read more

06 Jan 26 @ 14:10

A new pilot involving Swift, Ant International and HSBC offers a glimpse of how blockchain-based money could integrate with the plumbing of the global financial system. The test demonstrated cross-border... read more