The Liquidity Layer: Fixing What's Holding Global Payments Back

While you can send money across town in seconds, moving it across borders still takes days and costs a fortune. Cross-border payments — the $150 trillion backbone of global trade — remain trapped on correspondent banking rails built decades ago, even as domestic payment systems have revolutionised how money moves.

As financial networks and traditional correspondent relationships are being reshaped by the evolving global environment, the infrastructure gap is becoming a critical business problem.

This episode examines why cross-border payments and institutional needs have been left behind, and how emerging technologies are creating new pathways for global money movement.