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Cross-border payments underpin global commerce.

Invoice finance is built on speed. Its value lies in releasing working capital quickly, improving liquidity and supporting business growth.

Over the past 15 years, a number of digital-only banks – neobanks – have grown at extraordinary pace, acquiring customers and expanding services across Europe. This growth has been underpinned by speed to market, rapid feature releases and flexible partnerships.  

Protection is no longer confined to the purchase journey. It is moving into the payment moment, where trust, context and data already converge.

The payments industry is undergoing one of the most significant periods of transformation in its history. From the onward march of account-to-account payments to real-time and crossborder innovation, the pace of change is relentless.

Europe is ready forinstant payments.
The infrastructure is built; the technology is proven — what remains is thecollective will to connect. The moment to make seamless, cross-border paymentsa reality for everyone is now.

At Getnet Platforms, we believe in payments made easy — because when payments are simple, innovation becomes easier too.

Real-time is redefining the language of money. Through Getnet Platforms’s Payment Engine, Santander is shaping how it’s spoken — with instant, secure, and global payments thatmove at the speed of life.

Paying suppliers worldwide should be effortless. Yet for more than a decade, Gesban — Santander’s backbone for supplier invoice payments — faced a different reality: every cross-currency transaction meant approvals, manual checks, and reconciliations that took around 15 minutes per operation. Complexity slowed teams, raised costs, and kept global efficiency out of reach. Until automation changed the game.

Sending money without routing control is like rolling the dice with every transaction. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t. That is, until now.

Technology decisions made with an abundance of caution can seem sensible. But in reality always making the safe choice - the option you're already familiar with - can limit growth. What is known and seems comforting today can quietly constrain future possibilities.

Understanding the next evolution in payments

Getnet Platforms — the paytech business of Santander Group — has successfully connected its Payment Engine to Fedwire, the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system operated by the U.S. Federal Reserve. This new rail enhances our global infrastructure and enables the real-time settlement of over $40 billion in daily USD payments, reinforcing our role as a trusted partner for financial institutions and corporates with complex, high-value payment needs.

Organisations working with modern Swift Service Bureau providers vastly reduce theirinfrastructure costs. But the real value is the speed, flexibility, and accessto innovations that would otherwise take years to develop.

Managing payments for thousands of students —across multiple institutions, countries, and payer profiles… is no easy task. Just ask UAX Group, the prestigious educational group behind Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, Claudio Galeno, Xtart, The Valley, and MirAsturias.

Investec successfully implemented an indirect participation model for SEPA payments through Banco Santander’s sponsorship and Getnet Platforms’s ISO20022-compliant APIs.

What’s behind a 200% boost in cross-border sales? Uncover the FX solution powering Getnet’s expansion.

Every September, term once again commences at UAX Group. 30,000 students will descend across its five prestigious institutions, with thousands of transfers shortly following. These will often be from family members with different surnames, international sponsors, or employers with varying reference details.