Tagged: banking circle

November 17, 2025 @ 9:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A. is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary BC Payments Pte. Ltd. has now reportedly been granted a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). A key milestone in Banking Circle’s expansion strategy, BC Payments  Singapore… Read More

August 12, 2025 @ 3:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a step toward advancing digital financial services, Banking Circle, a global correspondent bank, has strengthened its partnership with Elliptic to ensure robust compliance for its EURO-based stablecoin, EURI. Launched in August 2024, EURI is one of the first stablecoins compliant with the European Union’s… Read More

May 26, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A., the technology-led payments bank, announced a strategic partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments. The partnership provides Visa Direct with access “to Banking Circle’s extensive local clearing rails across the world, further strengthening the business’s global payment reach for its… Read More

November 23, 2024 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a Web3 money app, is pleased to announce a global alliance with Banking Circle, a provider of innovative banking services. This collaboration is expected to significantly enhance Wirex’s financial operations across the globe, empowering users with seamless banking solutions. Under the partnership, Banking Circle… Read More

August 26, 2024 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle, a fully licensed next-generation bank with central bank access, has entered a strategic partnership with Skydo, India’s cross-border payments platform for Micro, Small, and medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and freelancers. The collaboration aims to support Indian businesses “operating globally by providing them with seamless, efficient and cost-effective… Read More

August 7, 2024 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A, has received the globally recognized ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information security management systems (ISMS). Underlining the sustained commitment it places “on information security, this certification gives Banking Circle clients continued confidence that it puts legal, regulatory and contractual obligations at the centre… Read More

July 25, 2024 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tech-first businesses, Banking Circle and fundcraft, are working in partnership to deliver seamless access to account openings for fund managers. Banking Circle, a firm focused on the payments space, is “one of fundcraft’s primary bank account providers, making accounts accessible through fundcraft via API integration.”… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

XTransfer, the B2B cross-border trade payment platform, and Banking Circle, the tech-driven payments bank, have entered into a partnership. This collaboration aims to reduce “the cost and processing time of cross-border payments for XTransfer’s clients, particularly benefiting Chinese suppliers with significant markets in Europe and… Read More

May 18, 2024 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With less than 8 months until 9th January 2025 deadline, Banking Circle delivers plug and play solution to help smaller financial institutions On 7th February 2024 the European Parliament mandated “that instant payments (in less than 10 seconds) should be the de facto standard for… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A. announced a partnership with Ant Group to work on a pioneering liquidity management project, “exploring technology innovations on tokenized deposits which will improve efficiency and speed of global fund settlements.” Banking Circle infrastructure and the blockchain platform “developed by Ant Group will… Read More

September 5, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle, the Payments Bank for the new economy, is strengthening its presence in Spain “with membership of the Spanish Association of Fintech & Insurtech (AEFI).” A modern correspondent bank committed to building a local clearing network for all major currencies, Banking Circle says that… Read More

August 27, 2023 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Emmanuel Georges, Banking Circle’s Head of France, recently explained how the payments bank is “powering the payments propositions of businesses around the world.” Emmanuel explained that Banking Circle is a payments bank “meeting the global banking and payments needs of Payments businesses, Banks and corporates”… Read More

May 13, 2023 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Underpinning its ambitious plans to build a super-correspondent bank for global B2B payments, Banking Circle has joined the UK Faster Payments Service (FPS) as a Direct Participant for GBP. This latest initiative means clients now “have access to real-time direct clearing and settlement for both… Read More

February 9, 2023 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new insight report – The perfect payment partner? What merchants are looking for from their PSPs – from Banking Circle, the next generation technology-led Payments Bank, suggests that the services currently “offered by Payment Service Providers aren’t going far enough to support the shift… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The financial services sector has evolved considerably during the past decade, with many new Fintech startups and banking challengers raising substantial funding to fundamentally improve how consumers perform transactions. Individuals and business organizations across the globe have been moving their activities online, a digital transformation… Read More

December 15, 2022 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle Group is pleased to announce that Jim Snabe will become the Chairperson of its Advisory Board. Jim Snabe will work closely with Banking Circle Group CEO & Co- founder, Anders la Cour, and the majority shareholder EQT VIII, “to continue the rapid profitable… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With Banking Circle’s web3 payments solution, payments businesses and banks can process asset-backed stablecoin settlements “in the same way as fiat currencies, providing their customers with faster settlement and lower fees outside of traditional bank rails.” Banking Circle‘s USDC stablecoins solution can be “utilized for… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A. is set to help US payments providers expand out of the domestic market with low-cost and fast cross-border payments across 25 currencies. Underlining the momentum it has gained as an alternative to correspondent banking for cross-border payments, Banking Circle S.A. is “forecasting… Read More

October 2, 2022 @ 1:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Joompay, a pan-European fintech start-up, celebrates the milestone of 250,000 accounts. Users can open an account online in “a manner of minutes, get a Visa payment card and immediately start saving on their purchases with select merchants, such as Joom Marketplace.” Joompay sees that among… Read More

September 15, 2022 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

For businesses operating in different jurisdictions, the cost and delays associated with FX and cross-border payments “remain a major pain point,” according to an update from Banking Circle. Banking Circle‘s study into SME attitudes to banking services “revealed that 42% of respondents thought their bank’s… Read More