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Paying staff abroad looks like a payments problem, but the real risk sits in local tax rules. Our respondents say to agree currency and pay dates early, and keep compliance local.
Charitarth SindhuNovember 11, 2026
The fee on the invoice is rarely what hurts. Exchange rate markups, bank deductions and border duties do the damage. Meanwhile, the G20 looks likely to miss its targets.
Charitarth SindhuNovember 4, 2026
Cross-border expansion rarely fails at the API. Three industry voices explain how licensing, settlement, FX and local payment methods catch payments companies out in a second country.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 27, 2026
Coinbase and Thunes will connect stablecoin infrastructure to payouts in more than 140 countries. Unlike Visa's USDC step days earlier, neither announcement names a stablecoin, corridor or launch date.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 22, 2026
Checkout.com will process for Samsung beyond the Middle East and add Samsung Pay to its Flow checkout. Its own figures imply a net take rate of about 0.16%, so scale is the prize.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 22, 2026
Fifth Third's Newline will let US fintechs offer Visa corporate cards issued for local use in more than 40 countries. The release lists none of the countries and no launch client.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 21, 2026
The Alipay+ operator is licensed for card acquiring and stored value in the UAE. Fintechbits notes the release sets no launch date for Antom or WorldFirst, so merchants have no date to sign up.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 16, 2026
The People's Bank of China has cleared Visa to start building a domestic clearing unit. Fintechbits compared the timelines: Mastercard needed nearly four years to get from the same stage to a licence.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 14, 2026
Canada's bank-trust-issued dollar token now has somewhere to go. RemitBee's RPass turns CADD into local-currency payouts abroad, skipping the usual detour through US dollar stablecoins.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 10, 2026
Payward, the company behind Kraken, has plugged into Singapore Gulf Bank's real-time clearing network so institutions in Asia and the Gulf can settle dollars at any hour, starting with a select group of clients.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 8, 2026
A Bahraini lender has become the first named client for a Shari'a-accepted overnight return on correspondent balances, but the announcement discloses no yield, no balance size and no go-live date.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 4, 2026
About 17% of stablecoin-linked card volume at Visa sits in business and commercial programs. The number is real, but it measures cards funded with stablecoins, not companies settling invoices on-chain.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 3, 2026
