CROSS BORDER PAYMENTS BLOG

For the people of Afghanistan, the Taliban takeover in August 2021 meant that much-needed foreign finances, aid and remittances failed to be

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the introduction of open banking is still slow.

The International Day of Family Remittances is celebrated every year on the 16th of June.

International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8th March every year, is a symbolic day for the empowerment of women globally. This year, this...

Fintech has remained the most funded sector in Africa in 2020, pulling in 24.9% of the total tech startup funding in the continent....

A reflection from Dare Okoudjou I am writing this article after one of the most extraordinary years in our lifetimes. What started as a...

What better way to start the year than the news that diaspora remittances have crossed the Kes. 300 billion annual mark. Data from the...

Lithuania took its first steps into the world of financial technology for a rather pragmatic reason. Back in 2016, the Bank of Lithuania,...

Having finally agreed a trade deal just in time for Christmas, some people expressed surprise that financial services were not included...

- caso ECUADOR - By Maria Gabriela Valverde Farfán Hasta mediados de febrero de 2020 el mundo tal como era, cambió. Las necesidades de...

By Andrew Kulankash Financial inclusion though not one of the Sustainable Development Goals is seen as a great enabler for about 8 of the...

By Melissa Erisen (IAMTN) Remittance amounts have been growing over time and reached a record high level in 2019, attaining a value of...

Banking and payments are changing. The days of the banks’ complete dominance are over, and we are now in a new world of interconnected...

By James Tall (IAMTN) In April 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic took a firmer hold of the world’s markets, the World Bank estimated that...

The COVID-19 pandemic is dramatically accelerating a worldwide trend toward cashless payments. At the local level, more and more...