cross-border Resources & Insights
Curated resources and insights on cross-border across payments, fintech infrastructure, standards, regulation, and operational controls.
Research Library (54)
- SWIFT - CBPR+ Structured Postal Address Guide (2026) — Guide to the CBPR+ structured postal address format for SWIFT messages, outlining required fields, formatting rules, ...
- Cross-Border Payments: Towards the Next Chapter — FSB opening remarks assess progress on the G20 cross-border payments roadmap, noting end-2027 targets remain challeng...
- 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...
- Deepening Divides: The Cost of a More Fragmented Financial System (Jun 2026) — Analyzes how increasing fragmentation in the US and global financial system can raise costs, weaken efficiency, and a...
- Designs for a new eraTOKENISATION FRAMEWORKS — OMFIF and Luxembourg for Finance examine how tokenisation can move from concept to implementation, focusing on founda...
- Deutsche Bank Corporate Bank Postal Address Requirements for Cross-Border Payments Overview — Deutsche Bank outlines the November 2026 CBPR+ change ending support for fully unstructured postal addresses in cross...
- 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...
- Regulating DeFi Platforms - ECGI Law Working Paper No. 937/2026 (Jun 2026) — Examines how decentralized finance platforms should be regulated, as set out in an ECGI law working paper by Gina-Gai...
- Quantum-Resilient Organizational Identity: Governance, Business Wallets, and PQC Corridors — Analyzes how quantum computing threatens organizational digital identity, especially legacy signature trust, and prop...
- What Makes a Postal Address Ready? — Explains that preparing for the November 2026 Postal Address Mandate requires defining what a "ready" address looks l...
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- 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 Papers No 167 - Cross-border Payment Technologies: Innovations and Challenges — BIS Papers No 167 examines innovations in cross-border payment technologies and the challenges they raise, with empha...
- BIS - Cross-Border Payments Survey (Dec 2025) — BIS survey findings on cross-border payments likely assess progress, frictions, and priorities in speed, cost, access...