Category Archives: [WISE] Wise plc

[scuttlebit] Wise is probably going to be fine

What are scuttlebits? “we fundamentally believe whoever has the best infrastructure in this space will win in the longer run” (Harsh Sinha, Wise CTO; Wise Analyst Day, 4/3/25) it’s inevitable that the lowest price operator will win the scale needed to become the infrastructure to operate the trillions of cross-border money (Kristo Kaarmann, Wise Co-Founder […]

Wise and the business of cross-border transfers: part 2

Related post: Wise and the business of cross-border transfers: part 1 I concluded part 1 describing how, by looping unit cost advantages back into price, Wise scaled to become a leading player in cross-border payments. From that starting point, it launched several other notable products. The most significant of these is Wise Account, which allows […]

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Wise and the business of cross-border transfers: part 1

Every year, consumers the world over move ~£2tn across borders, with roughly 2/3s of that funneled through a labyrinthine network of banks. A typical cross-border bank transaction might look something like this: Amber, a US resident with a checking account at PNC, places an order to send Rupees to her mother’s account at Seylan Bank […]