cross-border payments

Jan

Indonesia’s Artajasa taps the Alipay+ network

For a tourist in Jakarta, the ubiquitous checkered square of a QRIS (Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard) code is as common as a street-side bakso vendor. Since its launch, the national standard has done for Indonesian payments what the steam engine once did for trade—it brought order to chaos. Now,…

Jan

Payments Research

Nium’s revenue growth meets its match in rising costs

In the heady days of 2021, the fintech world seemed to operate on a simple, if gravity-defying, logic: transaction volume was everything, and profitability was a problem for another day. For Nium, a Singapore-based payments firm backed by heavyweights like Temasek and GIC, that “other day” is arriving with a…

Jan

Payments Research

Wise planned 2026 dual listing and the plumbing of cross-border payments

In the sleepy world of correspondent banking, where trillions of dollars lumber across borders through a thicket of intermediaries, a dual listing is usually a bureaucratic footnote. Yet, when Wise, the London-based fintech darling, announced plans for a dual listing of its shares in the US and the UK in…

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