Banking Circle: Driving Expansion Across Asia-Pacific

Industry: Cross-border payments infrastructure
GFTN member since: December 2024
Key markets: Europe, Asia-Pacific, Australia

Banking Circle is a fully licensed European bank providing financial infrastructure to payment companies, banks, and marketplaces. Its cloud-based platform connects local clearing systems via a single API, enabling faster, more transparent cross-border payments in 24 currencies. Trusted by over 650 institutions, it processes over €1 trillion annually.

The challenge

While expanding across Asia-Pacific, Banking Circle looked at various ways to showcase how it solves industry pain points and contributes to the broader financial services ecosystem. Beyond market entry, the goal was to build credibility, visibility, and meaningful connections with banks, regulators, and fintechs shaping the region’s digital finance landscape. The company benefitted from the GFTN platform to amplify its story, not just as a cross-border payments provider, but as a key enabler of financial infrastructure innovation.

Amplifying market presence

Through global convening platforms from GFTN , including the Singapore FinTech Festival, Banking Circle has strengthened its visibility and positioned itself as a leading voice in next-generation payment infrastructure. These platforms enable Banking Circle to engage directly with senior decision-makers, regulators, and ecosystem partners across key markets, reinforcing its leadership in payments infrastructure.

Driving innovation dialogue

As Banking Circle continues to build the infrastructure to support tokenised deposit and blockchain settlements, GFTN provides a trusted environment to share these innovations, exchange insights with peers, and shape conversations around the future of institutional payments.

Insight-led expansion

Through regional forums convened by GFTN, Banking Circle contributes to and gains from market intelligence and access to networks that inform its Asia Pacific growth strategy, from understanding payment system evolution to identifying regulatory and partnership pathways.

Building strategic partnerships

Leveraging the neutral convening power of GFTN, Banking Circle engages with global FinTechs to explore collaboration opportunities, showcasing its clearing and settlement expertise as part of its mission to build the payments infrastructure for the global financial economy.

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