The Asia-America-Africa Trade Triangle: Why Cross-Border Payments Are the Missing Link
A component manufacturer in Shenzhen ships a container of smartphone parts to an assembly partner in Vietnam. A US consumer electronics brand places the order, wires payment in dollars, and takes ownership of the finished units. Six weeks later those phones are on a distributor’s shelf in Lagos, sold in naira, with a share of […]
What ISO 20022 Means for Cross-Border Payments And Why You Should Care
Introduction ISO 20022 is not the most glamorous topic in fintech. It is a messaging standard ;a technical specification for how financial institutions communicate with each other. But the changes it is enabling in cross-border payments are significant, practical, and worth understanding even if you are not a payments engineer. This blog explains what ISO […]
