cross-border Resources & Insights
Curated resources and insights on cross-border across payments, fintech infrastructure, standards, regulation, and operational controls.
Research Library (40)
- SWIFT - CBPR+ Structured Postal Address Guide (2026) — Guide to the CBPR+ structured postal address format for SWIFT messages, outlining required fields, formatting rules, ...
- The Fed - Payment Stablecoins and Cross Border Payments: Benefits and Implications for Monetary Policy Implementation (Jul 2025) — Analyzes how payment stablecoins could improve cross-border payments while altering bank deposits, reserves, and tran...
- Designs for a new eraTOKENISATION FRAMEWORKS — Brief on Designs for a new eraTOKENISATION FRAMEWORKS.
- FINTECH & PAYMENTS PAYMENT RAILS WITHOUT BORDERS: THE RISE OF STABLECOINS (Jul 2023) — Analyzes how stablecoins are emerging as borderless payment rails, with implications for speed, cost, and global reac...
- Law Working Paper N° 937-2026 June 2026Gina-Gail S. Fletcher Duke University (Jun 2026) — Brief on Law Working Paper N° 937/2026 June 2026Gina-Gail S. Fletcher Duke University.
- Project Agorá: A shared programmable platform for wholesale cross-border payments — Brief on Project Agorá: A shared programmable platform for wholesale cross-border payments.
- Quantum-Resilient Organizational Identity: Governance, Business Wallets, and PQC Corridors — Brief on Quantum-Resilient Organizational Identity: Governance, Business Wallets, and PQC Corridors.
- SWIFT - RMB Tracker (Feb 2026) — SWIFT's February 2026 RMB Tracker likely assesses the renminbi's share and trajectory in global payments and trade fl...
- Currency Freedom — Examines the strategic case for greater choice and flexibility in currency use, likely focusing on how currency compe...
- FXaaS - The competitive edge in the Real-Time Economy — Argues that FX as a Service helps firms compete in a real-time economy by embedding foreign exchange capabilities int...
- USD Demand and the Use of Intermediary Currencies — Analyzes why the US dollar remains the dominant intermediary currency in foreign exchange markets, emphasizing networ...
- McKinsey - Global Payments Report 2025 — Analyzes the global payments industry's growth, margin pressures, and shifting revenue pools, highlighting how real-t...
- Alisa DiCaprio, Marcello Miccoli, Philip Montalvao, Andrew Usher, and Jeanne Verrier - Do Capital Controls Slow Cross-Border Payments in the Last Mile? Preliminary Evidence, WP-26-68, April 2026 (Apr 2026) — Preliminary evidence suggests capital controls can slow the final stage of cross-border payments, affecting speed and...
- UNSW Law & Justice - The Missing Link - Legal and Regulatory Challenges in Interlinking Fast Payment Systems (2026) — Analyzes the legal and regulatory barriers to linking fast payment systems across jurisdictions, arguing that interop...
- BIS - Cross-Border Payments Survey (Dec 2025) — BIS survey findings on cross-border payments likely assess progress, frictions, and priorities in speed, cost, access...
- BIS - Enhancing cross-border payments step by step: insights from the 2025 monitoring su rvey (May 2026) — Brief on Enhancing cross-border payments step by step: insights from the 2025 monitoring su rvey.
- BIS - Monitoring cross-border payment developments: a regional analysis of AMF member countries (Feb 2024) — Brief on Monitoring cross-border payment developments: a regional analysis of AMF member countries.
- BIS - Project Rialto Technical Report — Technical blueprint for Project Rialto showing how central bank money settlement could support instant cross-border p...
- BIS - The Eurosystem’s comprehensive payments strategy (Aug 2003) — Outlines the Eurosystem's strategy to build an integrated, efficient euro area payments market through harmonised inf...
- BIS Bulletin 119 - Enhancing Cross-Border Payments (Dec 2025) — BIS Bulletin 119 examines how to improve cross-border payments by addressing frictions in speed, cost, transparency a...