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New Partner Alert 🚨: Evolve Bank & Trust

New Partner Alert 🚨: Evolve Bank & Trust

Today I want to announce that we’ve just launched with our newest partner, Evolve Bank & Trust!

The Routefusion difference. Why the best companies work with us.

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The Routefusion difference. Why the best companies work with us.

The Real Problem is: without Routefusion, your team will end up in an endless loop of evaluating providers, integrating providers, doing compliance, upgrading API's, fixing bugs across multiple vendors, and ultimately building a form of Routefusion underneath your primary product.

One of the hardest decisions a startup can make

One of the hardest decisions a startup can make

3 months ago, Richard Scappaticci Jr [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#], Ben Rubin [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#], Brooks Pike [https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#], and I, made an extremely difficult decision. Routefusion has a very aggressive product roadmap; we realized if we didn't make some major architectural decisions with

What is Correspondent Banking?

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What is Correspondent Banking?

I find myself fielding a lot of questions from clients about “correspondent banks” and the purpose they serve in international financial markets, plus the role they play in delivering an international payment from a payor in one country to a payee in another country. Having been in FX and payments

What is an MT103?

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What is an MT103?

An MT103 is a standardized SWIFT payment message used for cross-border payments aka international wires. Why are they so important? If you haven't read our piece on SWIFT payments [https://routefusion.com/blog/what-are-swift-payments-and-why-should-i-use-them/] , I would start there. In that article, we discuss how payments can get delayed becasue of

What are SWIFT payments and why should I use them?

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What are SWIFT payments and why should I use them?

SWIFT payments Yummy! SWIFT payments are the most hated and the most loved type of payment that exists today. Why you ask? Well without SWIFT we wouldn't have an interconnected global banking system, BUT with it, in 2021, we get an antiquated system for sending messages aka moving money around

What are local payments and why should I use them?

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What are local payments and why should I use them?

Local Payments what does this mean and how does it affect your product and customers when deciding on your embedded cross-border payments solution? Local Payments Local payments have many names. They are also referred to as, International ACH, local payouts, borderless transfers, low-value payments, real-time payments, etc. At Routefusion we

Integrating Routefusion with our new GraphQL API

Integrating Routefusion with our new GraphQL API

Unfolding payments in a simple GraphQL API. Summary This walkthrough will show you how to implement the routefusion API for products looking to deliver a 100% self-serve workflow to their customers to unlock cross-border payments. The implementation guide will take you through the execution of each workflow required will look

How to create recurring payments with Google Cloud Functions and the Routefusion API

How to create recurring payments with Google Cloud Functions and the Routefusion API

Ciao! At Routefusion we love programmable money. So today, to start the new year, we are going to do a brief tutorial on how you can create recurring payments using Google Cloud functions and the Routefusion API! This tutorial will assume you already have a GCP account and project setup,

The future is fintech, crypto, and tokens and it always has been

The future is fintech, crypto, and tokens and it always has been

Fast forward 10 years... We now have a world in which majority of our fiat currency has been converted into USDC, most people are transacting over new networks and our pets heads are falling off

It's Expensive To Be Poor

It's Expensive To Be Poor

As much as we would like to believe that our banking system equally serves all of our people, it very blatantly does not. According to a study conducted by the FDIC in 2017 [https://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/2017/2017report.pdf], approximately 25% of US households were considered unbanked or

6 Reasons Why You Want To Work For A Startup

6 Reasons Why You Want To Work For A Startup

Working for a startup isn’t for everyone. It takes a whole lot of patience and dedication to making it work. There will be nights you fall asleep to the soothing sounds of slack notifications, weekends you spend prospecting instead of out with friends, and days where all you do

The Rosetta Stone for Forex

The Rosetta Stone for Forex

If you hang around software engineers long enough, you will probably hear the classic saying from Phil Karlton, "There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, and naming things". Here at Routefusion [https://routefusion.co] we have stumbled across the age old issue of naming, time and

Partnership series: Routefusion & AFEX

Partnership series: Routefusion & AFEX

If you have read our post about how Routefusion began [https://blog.routefusion.co/pivot-pivot-pivot-the-story-of-how-we-founded-routefusion-and-why-we-will-probably-pivot-again/] you will know that Routefusion [https://www.routefusion.co] is connecting the plumbing in the financial services space starting with the fractured international payments market. One of our first partnerships ever was with an amazing

Pivot, Pivot, Pivot, the story of how we founded Routefusion and why we will probably pivot again.

Getting Started

Pivot, Pivot, Pivot, the story of how we founded Routefusion and why we will probably pivot again.

It all started three years ago, I had this crazy idea to start a bank... For some reason I have always been intrigued by banks, I don't know if its because I love the idea of building systems that manage peoples money, or the fact that banks are this big