Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

This marks a first-of-its-kind move for the medical tourism industry, which has largely remained reliant on cash and wire transfers, leading to a lack of financial transparency and limited payment options for individuals seeking treatments abroad. Introducing virtual cards also brings a range of benefits to providers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Does it do so by old-school wire transfer? This is key to not only addressing a payments pain point in B2B transactions, but also to incentivizing adoption of the technology by adding value to data standardization. Many of the biggest challenges of B2B payments occur in the context of cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, cross-border commerce still represents a major growth opportunity for struggling businesses. The value of the global cross-border payments market is expected to grow from $27 trillion in 2020 to $35 trillion by 2022. . Factors Driving Cross-Border Innovation .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

11), Mastercard announced a collaboration with blockchain company R3 to create a blockchain-based tool for cross-border B2B payments. There are barriers to progress, though, with most businesses saying that a lack of standard remittance information is the biggest challenge to adoption of electronic payments information.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

That’s probably sound advice for any market hoping to achieve faster, more efficient payments — especially cross-border — by adopting a unified payments messaging system. According to Lindsay, more than 90 percent of payments data elements are already a part of the ISO 20022 Data Dictionary.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This service also supports a range of existing rails, including commercial card, wire and ACH. BitPesa , an Africa-based FinTech looking to power cross-border transactions and foreign exchange for corporates and consumers across the continent using blockchain, has an expansion plan and has just announced a restructuring to fuel that growth.

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