2023 saw cross-border payments navigate complicated landscapes. Global remittance flows continued their ascent, albeit at a slower pace, highlighting regional disparities and vulnerability to economic headwinds like higher prices and slower growth. Could blockchain be the transformative technology that builds a truly inclusive, efficient, and accessible ecosystem for sending money across borders?

Digital bank Chase has today been announced as the Official Banking Partner of the Home Nations Football Teams. 

Chase will be working with the England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales Men’s, Women’s, Youth & Para national teams, across a four-year period. The partnerships will see the Chase logo appear on training kit worn by the Men’s and Women’s teams. 

STICPAY, a leading global e-wallet service provider and payment gateway, today announces new partnerships with more than 20 leading Asian local payment providers in a move that makes global payments for Asia’s developing market communities more accessible, integrated, and cost-effective.

More than half of European small businesses struggle with accessing financing. In response, the Swedish fintech company Froda expands its partnership with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, to scale embedded SMB lending across Europe. This enables other fintechs, banks, and neobanks to access Froda’s card-based embedded lending product to offer business loans to their customers.

Dwolla, a leading U.S.-based account-to-account payment solution, announced the launch of its groundbreaking Open Banking Services today. These built-in open banking integrations extend Dwolla's account-to-account (A2A) offering to include instant account verification, balance checks and fraud mitigation. Dwolla's Open Banking Services empower mid- to enterprise-sized businesses with the functionality they need to offer fast and secure A2A payments through Dwolla's single API.

Kraken, one of the longest-standing and most secure cryptocurrency exchanges, is delighted to announce the launch of Kraken Institutional, a new umbrella brand for a number of Kraken’s existing products and services aimed at institutions, asset managers, hedge funds, and high net-worth individuals. Kraken Institutional intends to provide a one-stop shop for innovative and bespoke solutions for the unique needs of Kraken’s institutional client base.

Klarna today announced its AI assistant powered by OpenAI.

Yapily, a leading provider of open banking solutions, is delighted to announce its partnership with Uncapped, a pioneering fintech providing working capital funding to scaling brands retailers and merchants across UK, EU and US. This collaboration significantly bolsters progress in the financial lending sector and democratises access to capital for online companies.

Rabobank, a leading global Money Market Dealer, has completed a series of groundbreaking pilots to execute more than €2 billion in commercial paper transactions on a first-of-its kind blockchain platform.