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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

s share of the foreign exchange market has dropped, while the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reported that Asia, particularly Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, are picking up the pieces. s share of the global currencies trading market, according to FT — down from 41 percent in 2013. 37.1% | The U.K.’s

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CFO News

APRIL 1, 2024

Over the years, the RBI's responsibilities have expanded to include monetary management, financial system regulation, foreign exchange management, currency issuance, payment system oversight, and developmental functions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Traffic on Russia’s digital currency exchanges jumped more than 5.5 Qrator Labs, for its part, connected the rising figures with heightened interest in the currency markets. The organization also noted large growth in denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) events on digital currency exchanges.

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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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CFO News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.153 billion to reach $585.895 billion for the week ending October 13, according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Foreign currency assets dropped by $178 million to $519.35 The increase comes after a decrease of $2.166 billion in the previous week. billion to $43.58

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE will test central bank digital currencies in cross-border payments, according to a recent statement by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). The post China, HK, Thailand and UAE to test digital currency transactions appeared first on FutureCFO.

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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

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Lenders including Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Virgin Money had to stop foreign currency services after exchange provider Travelex was hit by a ransomware gang, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. Travelex’s network of branches continue to provide foreign exchange services manually.”.

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CFO News

MARCH 6, 2023

Self-sufficiency in food production, a sizeable foreign-exchange war chest and a vast software exports industry helped cushion the commodity and hard-currency shortages that, in various degrees, hobbled the region’s frontier markets: Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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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

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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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Currency hedging has long been a part of global business and trade — but now it is becoming more important thanks to increasing economic and political volatility. Hedging — as in preparing for currency fluctuations and other factors — is something that eCommerce firms need to embrace, too, as another PYMNTS story demonstrates.

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CFO News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The stability of any currency depends on the country's forex reserves and trade deficit. According to reports, India' s foreign exchange holdings were USD 532.87 billion in October this year, significantly lower than USD 642.45 billion a year earlier.

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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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Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A strong US dollar will have credit effects on rated Asia Pacific companies, with those that have a significant portion of their debt and debt-servicing costs, or other costs, denominated in US dollars while earning revenues in depreciating currencies more vulnerable to the negative credit effects, said Moody’s recently.

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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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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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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Some central banks have been able to accumulate reserves on current account improvements or investment inflows, while others still see their currencies under pressure from US Fed tightening prospects, the credit rating agency noted. Asia Pacific sovereigns are seeing diverging reserve dynamics, said Fitch Ratings recently.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Gulati discussed what this trend means for the way that multi-entity SMBs manage a range of financial workflows across borders, and how technology can ease the biggest friction pain points like foreign exchange volatility and domestic compliance. Cross-Border Headaches. All of this is really manual," noted Gulati. "If

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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

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

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Foreign exchange (FX) volatility can be detrimental to businesses with heavy reliance on cross-border operations. “During the past quarter, exchange rates across the world have been in a state of fluctuation, partly due to trade issues — not just Brexit, but also the U.S. Trade tensions between the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Businesses can pay invoices immediately or dictate a payment date while retaining a fixed foreign exchange rate when they upload an invoice to the platform. Custom remittance information can be sent directly back to the foreign vendor, while the service also supports custom reporting for a buyer’s own back-office processes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In this week's roundup of payment rail innovation, PYMNTS finds B2B payments use cases serve as an important driver of adoption, with FinTechs and financial service providers embracing payment rails old and new to enable real-time B2B payments and foreign exchange. China Touts Proprietary Digital Currency. and abroad.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

London specialty business lender Just Cashflow (JCF) is partnering with London FinTech Ebury to roll out foreign exchange (FX) services, Just Cashflow announced in a company blog. . The services put an end to uncertain currency exchange due to Brexit and locks-in rates for future transactions. JCF is a subsidiary of JLG.

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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 16, 2020

Currency Conversion Headache. One of the biggest challenges in cross-border trade for any kind of business relates to foreign exchange. A B2B invoice may be issued and paid in one currency, but the recipient of those funds has to convert that money into their local currency. A Shifting Market.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

businesses are over-exposed to risks related to interest rate and foreign exchange volatility, according to new Citizens Bank research. corporates have raised concerns over the negative impact that foreign exchange volatility might have on profits, particularly as ongoing global trade disputes impact the FX markets.

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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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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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