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JUNE 13, 2025

bn Indias foreign exchange reserves surged by $5.17 IANS Updated On Jun 14, 2025 at 08:46 AM IST Copy Link Share on WhatsApp Share on Linkedin Share on X Share on Telegram Share on Facebook Mumbai, June 13 (IANS) Indias foreign exchange reserves surged by $5.17 Mumbai, Indias foreign exchange reserves surged by $5.17

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The country’s foreign exchange reserves declined by USD 4.531 billion to stand at USD 629.755 billion in the week ended January 28, RBI data showed on Friday. In the previous week ended January 21, the reserves had decreased by USD 678 million to USD 634.287 billion.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

London-based global payments and foreign exchange company moneycorp has announced its expansion into Canada. On the corporate side, moneycorp said it will be working with clients seeking “risk management hedging solutions” to help buffer the impact from “volatile currency markets,” the company said in its press release.

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CFO News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Foreign currency assets rose $3 billion to $487.29 Expressed in dollar terms, FCA consists of the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves. billion for the week ending Nov 25. However, gold reserves fell $73 million to $39.94

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

More bad news for Wells Fargo : The financial institution has fired four foreign exchange (Forex) bankers following an investigation into that business by both the bank and regulators. According to The Wall Street Journal , the reason for their terminations has not been released.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This new financing will help us to accelerate the development of the company both in terms of products, with the addition of local currency accounts, payment card, integration with accounting software, and geographically, as we will target new markets in South-East Asia,” Statrys Founder and CEO Bertrand Theaud said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The expansion and teaming with Western Union Business Solutions will help it reach Western Union's global payments network, which spans 200 countries and territories in over 130 currencies worldwide, the release stated. We are looking forward to working together with this international player in our ecosystem.".

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Visa has announced that it will sell cross-border payments company Earthport’s foreign exchange (FX) business to Pollen Street Capital’s Currency Holdings, according to a report. Visa, which acquired Earthport in May 2019, said the sale will help to speed up Earthport’s growth of its larger core payments business.

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Global Finance

MAY 21, 2025

Goldbod will give us better control over our gold exports and help shore up our foreign exchange reserves, said Ghana Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson. Suppressing illegal trade is expected to result in increased revenues, with the ripple effect boosting reserves and stabilizing the local currency, the cedi.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Flywire will work with Mastercard to provide discounted foreign exchange rates on cross-border tuition payments for students, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. Students will be able to use their own currencies to pay through Mastercard credit or debit cards.

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CFO News

MAY 4, 2025

This enables exporters and importers to invoice and pay in their respective domestic currencies enabling the development of a bilateral foreign exchange market.

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Global Finance

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key features include secure global remittance networks, same-day express transfers to BEA Hong Kong accounts, foreign currency time deposits, and real-time foreign exchange services in 11 currencies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Cloud-based clearing bank ClearBank has begun offering multi-currency bank accounts using an API, according to a press release. Beginning in the fourth quarter this year, the bank will allow users to access over 30 multi-currency accounts. ClearBank will remain in charge of the clients' funds.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Offshore investments become a hedge against currency volatility. High inflation, currency volatility, and foreign exchange scarcity have eroded wealth and significantly contributed to a decline in net worth for many people. Wealth preservation and growth in Africa are highly challenging.

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CFO Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Use our guide to understand and explore the factors that can make it advantageous to embrace a risk management strategy for foreign exchange. The foreign exchange market can be a highly complex task for small-to-medium enterprises to navigate when conducting business overseas. The Foreign Exchange Market.

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

The accounting treatment of currency hedging (timing) mismatches remains a major problem that has become more acute in the wake of the health crisis. When payments were in foreign currencies, this may have affected their results because of currency hedging. Delay in FX hedging, accounting treatment.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

Singapore-based cross border-payments platform TranSwap will partner with Currencycloud , which provides B2B embedded cross-border solutions, to let businesses collect and hold numerous currencies in the U.S., EU and other countries, a press release states.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

Cross-currency money transfer firm Western Union has announced the launch of Digital Location, a new tool that enables people to send money from home. Western Union’s cross-border, cross-currency money-movement and payments network is available in over 70 countries worldwide.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The partnership, by making use of Goldman’s technology and security capabilities with GTreasury’s platform, will allow businesses to pay vendors in their local currencies and at lower costs than they used to be able to, the release states, and it will allow real-time tracking that reduces the need for payment-related supplier inquiries.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA Merrill) is introducing a new solution for other financial institutions (FIs) in the interbank payment system to automate foreign exchange (FX) conversion. The solution is supported across 89 countries and can make conversion in 41 currencies, the bank noted.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

Exposure to the risks of endless shifts of foreign exchange (FX) rates keeps executives on their toes: Deloitte recently found FX volatility to be the most common concern among surveyed corporate treasurers. However, foreign exchange risk mitigation goes beyond hedging, said Mark Frey, COO at Cambridge Global Payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

FLEETCOR , which works in global business payments, announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire cross-border payment firm Associated Foreign Exchange (AFEX) to help boost its own payments network, a press release says. AFEX provides services in over 100 currencies and has over 35,000 customers, according to the press release.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

marketplace lending company Funding Options is teaming up with Caxton FX to introduce a prepaid multi-currency payment card for small businesses (SMBs). 7), while also helping SMBs save on foreign exchange (FX) costs. Employees who use the prepaid card can have their transactions monitored by managers in real time. .

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Future CFO

APRIL 10, 2022

Digital money will be the future, said PwC recently when releasing its 2022 PwC Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Global Index. It’s estimated that more than 80% of central banks are considering launching a central bank digital currency,” the company noted in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2020

Buyers will be able to pay suppliers in their own countries’ currencies with ease, according to the release. Risk will be less of an issue because of the increase in transparency and tighter control on foreign exchange payments, along with the currency exposures for those with stake in procurement and treasury.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

.” SBI Ripple Asia said in the report the banking consortium will look at both technical and operational activities required in domestic and foreign exchange services “to utilize blockchain and other new technologies, consolidate domestic and foreign exchange services and build 24-hour and real-time remittance infrastructure.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

HSBC is increasingly relying on blockchain technology to facilitate its foreign exchange trading services, reports in Financial Times said Monday (Jan. 14), with more than three million FX transactions having already been processed by the bank in the past year via blockchain.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

In other news, the government of Iran is aiming to limit digital currency exchanges with so-called “currency smuggling” regulations, CoinDesk reported. The country’s parliament reportedly put forward a proposal to have digital currency as a part of foreign currency and “currency smuggling” rules already in place.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Citi has recruited foreign exchange management firm Kantox to enhance its FX services for corporate clients, the companies said in a press release on Monday (Oct. enabling those firms to access a custom platform that integrates with Citi’s existing foreign currency payments solution.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Ghana’s decision to exclude international banks from funding cocoa production may have opened opportunities for its domestic financiers and traders to invest in the sector, but analysts fear that the move leaves the country’s currency, the Cedi, vulnerable to weakening.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Ripple is the company behind the XRP digital currency, The Wall Street Journal reported. MoneyGram has tapped into foreign exchange markets for settlements in the past. As a result, the company had to purchase currencies ahead of time regularly. firm that is publicly traded, Ripple Inc. per share.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Foreign exchange solutions company OANDA is enhancing its application programming interface (API) that opens up its foreign exchange (FX) technology to third-party apps. The company announced news on Thursday (March 8) that its Exchange Rates API has been updated to include real-time FX rates.

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Global Finance

JUNE 11, 2025

“We have recently extended our open banking API solutions to deliver a seamless digital-first experience to our custody FX solutions in multiple restricted currency markets, as well as being a key channel for our clients to access our bank-grade digital-asset custody service to capture the opportunities from this exciting asset class.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

18) that it would improve its Sri Lanka operation with the launch of a new digital foreign exchange (FX) program, reports said. As the world’s supply chains move into settlements in local currency, Deutsche Bank wanted to make sure it offered that service for clients in Sri Lanka. Deutsche Bank announced on Tuesday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

In addition, Deutsche Bank has also made headlines for its work in Sri Lanka helping with a new digital foreign exchange program. That program is intended to keep the bank in line with modernity from other entities, which are beginning more and more to use local currency conversions when operating on cross-border deals.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bank of America (BofA) is introducing a cross-border payment tracker and expanding SWIFT gpi to support more than 140 currencies, accessible through the integrated CashPro platform. The financial institution or corporate client gets transparency into fees and foreign exchange rates as well as visibility of payment settlement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

The currency decline continues: The Swedish krona fell Wednesday (Aug. The decline comes amid political uncertainty in that Nordic country, the prospect of a widening trade war that could hurt it and increasing attention to the benefits of currency hedging among commerce and payments businesses. Such lows were last seen in 2009.

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