How to Move Money in the 21st Century

The tools that exist today for tracking and managing financial operations are outdated. Furthermore, payment complexity is increasing as businesses become global.

Large companies try to keep up by creating homegrown solutions with many engineers and operations specialists. For example, companies like Airbnb and Uber have 200+ employees tracking their real-time financial health.

Then there are the breakdowns in these payment operations, such as when Citibank accidentally wired $900M to a hedge fund.

• Payouts send money outside of the business, such as bank wires and ACH, paying vendor invoices, creating transaction logs, etc.
• Payins bring money into the business by accepting various payment methods, optimising payment routes and authorisation rates, identifying fraud and failure, allowing for rewards, gift cards, payment splitting, etc.

The payment acceptance methods - credit cards, e-wallets, crypto, gift cards, bank transfers - differ by company and geography and can take months to implement. For payouts, a bank transfer involves a series of manual approvals.