Posts Tagged ‘fintech’

Standard Chartered partners with Visa for efficient cross-border payments. Find out how this network simplifies B2B transactions and reduces costs.

Today, Standard Chartered announced the launch of its new Open Banking Marketplace, a platform for clients to explore APIs.

Supply chains have become global and increasing complexities have made them brittle and dependent, rather than robust and resilient; Covid-19 is a prime example of this.

Hear from Deepa Sinha, VP Payments & Financial Crimes at BAFT on the transforming payments industry and the key topics to look for.

Factoring in Africa allows businesses to sell their accounts receivable at a discount to gain immediate cash flow, is gaining traction across the continent, buoyed by significant growth and the support of institutions like Afreximbank and FCI.

Finastra, a leading provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, alongside Tesselate, a consultancy and integrator for digital transformation, have announced the introduction of a comprehensive, ready-to-implement service aimed at… read more →

The last couple of years have been rough for the economy as a whole and payments in particular. But recovery started building in 2023 and is expected to continue into 2024 — helped by a healthy dose of new technology. 

Following on from our first predictions article, the incremental gains for credit insurance, trade and supply chain finance, TFG surveyed 9 more industry experts looking at what we might expect for technology for trade, treasury and payments in 2024.

One year after our last conversation at Sibos 2022 in Amsterdam, Trade Finance Global spoke with Ben Ellis, SVP and Global Head of Visa B2B Connect, in Toronto to get answers to these questions on cross-border payments.

Visa and Swift today announced a collaboration to streamline international business-to-business (B2B) payments by strengthening connectivity between their networks that move trillions in value globally. Working together, the organisations aim… read more →

Transitioning from documents to pixels, from cash to virtual payment gateways, and from local markets to international ones, the sweeping transformation of global trade into the digital world is redesigning the trade finance ecosystem. The alliance between ClearEye and J.P. Morgan represents the metamorphosis of the future of trade finance digitisation.

Since B2B can attract the most money, the focus quickly turned to helping the corporate treasurer, the SME, and the B2B space.

ICC and Swift, the global leader in secure financial messaging services, have unveiled the first application programming interface (API) industry standards for bank guarantees and standby letters of credit. The… read more →

Visa, and Conferma Pay, a virtual payment firm, have unveiled plans to bolster their ongoing partnership. Their primary focus is to refine Visa Commercial Pay, an array of B2B payment… read more →

Over the past several months, corporates have increasingly been asking for details on a bank’s distribution capabilities when deciding which financial firm to work with.