Cross-Border Payments - Navigating Legal Challenges

Introduction

This new webinar will explore some of the common legal and regulatory challenges that arise in the context of cross-border payments, with practical advice and real-life examples of how to navigate these challenges.

Cross-border payments are a crucial part of international trade and economic activity. They typically involve significantly more complexity as compared to domestic payments, involving the use of multiple intermediaries, different legal and regulatory regimes and system interoperability.

When expanding into new jurisdictions, firms need to consider these complexities at an early stage and ensure that their operations are structured to take account of these challenges and mitigate the associated risks.

This short webinar will identify key legal and regulatory issues which commonly arise in relation to cross-border payments and how firms can seek to address these in practice. This webinar will also link these common issues to broader themes around cross-border payments, including those identified in the Financial Stability Board (FSB)'s work on this topic. The FSB has identified four particular challenges in relation to cross-border payments, namely high costs, low speeds, limited access and insufficient transparency.

What You Will Learn

This short webinar will cover the following:

• Licensing: navigating differences in regulatory licensing and oversight frameworks across jurisdictions
• Financial crime: AML/CFT, fraud and sanctions screening compliance and suggested processes in a cross-border payments context
• Data privacy: Key considerations when transferring payment data cross-border
• Systems and infrastructure: navigating regulatory barriers to accessing local payment systems and infrastructure
• FSB's work on cross-border payments: key challenges identified and how the FSB is seeking to address these

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 15th January 2026

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