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Thunes Pulse - May 2026
Welcome to your May edition of the Thunes Pulse Newsletter. This month, we’re focusing on the practical application of digital liquidity and real-time connectivity, highlighting how we’re bridging traditional finance and next-gen rails to make money movement seamless for our Members worldwide.
Here’s what’s inside:
🪙 Regulated stablecoins moving from policy to practice
📈 Leading digital asset adoption in payments
🔗 Scaling global payments through local rails
⚖️ Why real-time compliance is your competitive advantage
🤝 Thunes & WireBarley: Powering 1.1 million users across Asia
🇳🇿 Thunes launches real-time payments into New Zealand
🏆 Thunes' Chloé Mayenobe honoured with ‘Inspiration Award’
📅 Meet Thunes at industry events
Stay ahead with our expert insights. Let’s dive in!
Read time: 5 mins
Regulated stablecoins and digital liquidity become routine
Stablecoins have moved beyond the experimental phase and are now becoming a core component of day-to-day payment operations.
We explore how regulated digital assets are providing a 24/7 liquidity model, offering faster settlement cycles and reducing the idle capital tied up in pre-funded accounts. Learn why "last-mile" execution is the critical factor in making digital liquidity work for the real economy.
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Leading Digital Asset Adoption in Payments
Thunes has supported the evolution and adoption of stablecoin payments for several years, as market participants embrace the opportunity of regulated, trusted stablecoin infrastructure.
Stablecoins have evolved into a fundamental part of global payments today, bridging digital and fiat networks to solve long-standing cross-border inefficiencies.
One thriving application of stablecoins is to replace costly, slow ‘pre-fund and wait’ legacy models with ‘just-in-time’ 24/7 liquidity on open blockchain networks. But as adoption and innovation continues to grow, along with integration and interoperability with existing payment infrastructure, we look forward to new use cases and capabilities emerging.
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How Payments Scale with Global Reach on Local Rails
Global scale in payments isn't imposed from the top down; it’s built from the local level up. We explore how the primary friction in cross-border flows has shifted to the "last mile” – the domestic endpoint.
To succeed, global providers must navigate diverse local infrastructures, from UPI in India to Pix in Brazil, ensuring that global volume meets local reality for seamless settlement.
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Why Real-Time Payment Compliance Is a Competitive Advantage
As payment speed accelerates, legacy batch-based compliance is no longer fit for purpose. In a real-time world, providers need controls that run at the speed of the payment itself.
We discuss why integrating AI-assisted screening and dynamic risk scoring directly into the payment infrastructure is the ultimate competitive advantage for modern PSPs and MTOs.
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Thunes and WireBarley Launch Real-Time Payment Solution for 1.1 Million Users Across Asia and Beyond
Thunes has teamed up with Asia-Pacific payment platform WireBarley to power real-time, cross-border payments for 1.1 million users.
By integrating with our Direct Global Network, WireBarley is modernising B2B and consumer capital flows across key North Asian corridors, including South Korea, the U.S., and Vietnam, establishing a new high-speed digital bridge for the region.
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Thunes Launches Real-Time Payments into New Zealand
We are pleased to announce the expansion of our Direct Global Network with the launch of direct, seamless Pay-to-Bank services into New Zealand.
This move strengthens our footprint in the high-growth APAC region, allowing Members to send NZD instantly to bank accounts. As New Zealand upgrades its financial infrastructure, we’re providing the rails to support this transition.
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Thunes Deputy CEO Chloé Mayenobe Honoured with Inspiration Award by Women in Payments EU & UK
We are incredibly proud to share that our Deputy CEO, Chloé Mayenobe, has been awarded the "Inspiration Award" at the 2026 Women in Payments EU & UK Awards.
Recognised for her vision and leadership in driving global financial access, this honour celebrates Chloé’s commitment to challenging the status quo and inspiring the industry to bridge fragmented financial ecosystems.
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Join us at these payment and industry events
May 2026
Stablecon Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 19-20 May
SiGMA Asia Summit | Manila, Philippines | 31 May-3 Jun
June 2026
Swift Connect Africa | Cape Town, South Africa | 1-3 Jun
Money20/20 Europe | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2-4 Jun
EBAday | Copenhagen, Denmark | 16-17 Jun
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