Several recent valuations have seen key cross-border payments companies’ potential sale price move. What does it tell us about the potential IPO landscape?

X, formerly Twitter, recently announced plans to launch a P2P payments service later this year. However, there are a number of challenges the app will face.

Western Union’s Q4 24 revenue rose 1% to $1.1bn, with a major driver being the company’s recently launched media network business in the US.

PayPal has announced its Q4 2024 earnings, closing out the “transition year” that saw it refocus the business to prioritise profitable growth.

We consider how recently released figures for FedNow stack up against the US’s privately owned, incumbent RTP system.

Following our report on the size of the cross-border payments market, one detail of note was the digital share of the B2B services market.

Growing customer account balances have contributed to a continued shift in Wise’s revenue mix in Q4 24, during which underlying revenue grew 13%.

This year has already seen a wave of new launches in the B2B payments space as companies continue to tap into this global opportunity.

In December, the ECB published an update on payment attitudes in Euro-using countries in 2024, showing cash is still very much in the picture..