Insights from the Frontline of Cross-Border Payments

The Future of Global Payments: Fragmentation, Tokenization, and Opportunity

Traditional cross-border payment infrastructure, defined by pre-funding requirements, slow settlements, and intermediary chains, places unnecessary strain on liquidity, introduces risk, and limits growth. But this is changing. The rise of decentralised, collaborative networks .......

Solving the challenge of settling tokenized assets

As the transformative power of tokenization evolves rapidly, so does the need for adequate settlement of tokenized assets. In this whitepaper, we dive into the opportunities and challenges to settle trading of tokenized assets, in particular aspects of reducing counterparty risk and cross-border payments. While many.....

Delivery vs. Payments - Resurgence of Tokenization 

We at Centiglobe have over the past half-year witnessed how tokenization, the process of creating a digital token representing an asset on a blockchain, has undergone a significant surge across various sectors, spanning from carbon credits and stocks to real estate and fish farms. Consultancy firms like McKinsey .....

Innovation of payments - Programmable Payments

As global payments continue to become faster and more cost-effective, it will be increasingly challenging for banks to distinguish their offerings for end clients. Soon, outdated practices such as obscure cut-off times and non-transparent foreign exchange rates will be a thing of the past....

One Bank Oligopolies or open, collaborative networks? 

In the Annual Economic Report (June 26 2022) BIS released an interesting study on the monetary system and the future of cross-border payments. BIS predicts that the future technology......

How will DLT affect corporate global cash management?

Centiglobe Insights - How will DLT affect corporate global cash management?In this edition we take a look at corporate liquidity management and how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can improve global cash management in the future.