The Opportunity

The surging demand for swift, transparent cross-border transactions isn’t merely driven by ecommerce and retail remittances; it’s also fueled by corporations seeking efficient fund movements. Forbes projects the cross-border payments market to skyrocket to $250 trillion by 2027, propelled by robust trade, burgeoning travel and tourism, and steadfast G20 commitments.

  • Cross-border e-comm will surpass $3.3 trillion by 2028 – Juniper
  • 75% SMEs are planning to expand their international operations – Mastercard
  • Cost of a $200 remittance is targeted to reach 3-5% – G20 commitment
  • By 2030, the B2B cross-border payments market could reach $56.1 trillion – FXC

Seen together, these numbers paint a vivid picture of the opportunity for banks to become key players in this space.

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Top 3 issues Plaguing the Cross-border Payments Industry

High Cost

At 11.48%, banks are the priciest service providers

Long Settlement Times

Anywhere between real-time to upto a few days

Transparency

Swift surveyed 7000 consumers and small businesses and identified transparency as a crucial factor for low-value international payments

Outside of solving for these challenges, banks also need to stave off competition from fintechs, card networks, money transfer providers. Find out how

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Real-time Payments Proving Pivotal

Real-time payments (RTP) could prove to be the silver bullet that banks could embrace to succeed.

2 primary models that bear critical significance

Bi-lateral cross-border payments

  • Several countries are linking their RTP systems through bilateral agreements.
  • Linking national fast-payment systems to reduce intermediaries and lower money transfer costs.
  • APAC leading the market.

Multi-lateral cross-border payments

  • A multilateral platform spans multiple jurisdictions as a cross-border payment system.
  • Complement or replace traditional correspondent banking relationships.

6 Key Considerations for Banks to Succeed in Cross-border Payments

Finacle Payments

The cross-border payments offering from Finacle Payments is a cloud native, microservices driven, highly available and scalable platform; and supports all models of cross-border RTP and has been developed inhouse. We have wide experience assisting banks in their cross-border payments journey.

  • Successfully helped banks complete their cross-border payments through SWIFT on CBPR+ MX journey.
  • As part of the bi-lateral cross-border payments infrastructure; Finacle Payments is live on rails such as Hong Kong cross-border and is ready for Australia NPP cross-border payment.
  • Supports infrastructure for other bi-lateral models such as UPI-PayNow, PromptPay-DuitNow etc.
  • Multilateral cross-border networks like SEPA Credit Transfers, SEPA Direct Debits, SEPA Instant, Target 2, TIPS implemented for clients.
  • Infrastructure can support cross-border frameworks such as GCC BUNA, BIS Nexus, Visa B2B, Visa Direct, Mastercard Send, Partior, Ripple etc.

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