Powering the
On-Demand Economy.
At Nium, we operate at the intersection of an increasingly interconnected world, where the traditional finance industry has been disrupted, and on-demand is in demand. Our payments infrastructure is leading a transformation in payments, enabling anyone, anywhere to make and receive payments instantly, regardless of the location or currency.
Latest company news
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced that its monthly payment volume grew by 3X in Oceania, over the last year.
Investment banking veteran, Andre Mancl, joins as CFO; Fraud risk expert, Philip Doyle, to lead regulatory compliance operations
Nium expands its operational hub in Vilnius through new hires and a new office facility that will better serve its growing customer base across Europe.
Nium has been named ‘Best Business Payments System for Global Payments’ at the Fintech Futures PayTech Awards 2024.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, is strengthening its presence in Latin America by applying for essential licenses, joining key fintech associations, expanding its employee presence, and signing new customers.
Nium expands ability for customers to receive in more than 40 countries and 15 currencies, offering one of the most extensive networks. The expansion takes a more inclusive route, serving emerging and developing markets.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, has been named to the prestigious ‘World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024’ list by CNBC.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced the appointment of Spencer Hanlon to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Nium, the global leader in real-time global payments, today announced a collaboration with Air France and KLM to power “closed loop” electronic payments between the airlines and selected travel agents.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced a partnership with BS2, a digital bank in Brazil specializing in fintech solutions for businesses. BS2 will use Nium’s Global FX product to lower FX costs and provide more real-time payouts between Brazil and popular trading corridors with China and the UAE.
Remote, the leading global HR platform for distributed companies, has selected Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, to enhance its international payroll capabilities.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced it has raised US$50 million in a Series E funding round. The round was led by a sovereign wealth fund in Southeast Asia and values the company at US$1.4 billion
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced the expansion of its platform to serve the multi-trillion-dollar global marketplace opportunity.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, announced today that HappyEasyGo, a leading online travel agency, has selected it for virtual card payments.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced a partnership with Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region, to empower customers with a cutting-edge global payments solution.
Strategic alliance between Nium and Borderless AI will allow for employers to seamlessly pay employees and contractors in 100 currencies across more than 190 countries
Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, is proud to announce its collaboration with Malta’s Children in Need Foundation, alongside Padel Malta, in the island’s first-ever 24-hour padel marathon.
Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Thredd, a leading global payments processor, to issue virtual cards in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
Nium announces global payments expansion in Indonesia; adds to recent successes in Korea and Thailand
Nium, the leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced the appointment of Alexandra Johnson as the company’s first Chief Payments Officer. With this newly-created position, Nium sets itself up to closer align itself with partners across the payments ecosystem. Johnson will work across Nium’s markets, leading the Global Banking and Payment Operations teams. She will report into Prajit Nanu, Co-Founder and CEO of Nium.
Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, and Asia’s leading payments, banking, and capital markets research firm, Kapronasia, today launched “Breaking Borders: The Revolution of Real-Time Cross-Border B2B Payments in Asia” - a new data-backed white paper that addresses cross-border B2B payment challenges, current initiatives, and the important role of intermediaries.
Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, today announced it is now registered as a Financial Services Provider in New Zealand.
The Fintech Marketing Hub, in partnership with Innovate Finance, released its 4th edition of “Fintech’s 30 Most Influential Marketers.” The list celebrates marketing excellence and innovation, with honorees from globally renowned fintech brands.
Nium, the leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced the recent appointment of Rissy Ruddy as Chief Human Resources Officer. She will lead all people functions and oversee Nium’s employee growth, reporting into Prajit Nanu, Co-Founder and CEO of Nium.
Nium, the leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced its partnership with luxury tour operator Scott Dunn to issue virtual cards to its global network of hotel providers.
Weel’s partnerships with Nium and Visa provides a strong foundation for Weel to take its highly successful product offering to overseas markets. Nium’s end-to-end solution and licensing in over 40 markets, coupled with Visa’s acceptance in over 200 markets, will enable Weel to pursue a faster go-to-
Nium, the leader in real-time cross-border payments, today announced its partnership with Secret Escapes, one of the world’s leading luxury travel and experiences companies, to deliver enhanced payment services for its global network of hotel partners.
Global payments leader enables inbound transfers of up to 50 Million JPY, offering a faster, cheaper, transparent alternative
Payments leader seizes opportunity to drive adoption of real-time payments in the region
Ebury, one of the world’s largest fintech companies specializing in transactions for SMEs, today announced its partnership expansion with Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, to deliver a groundbreaking global remittance service in Brazil.
Nium has won ‘Best Technology Initiative’ at The Cards and Payments Awards 2024. This accolade recognises Nium’s best-in-class payments infrastructure and its role driving the adoption of real-time global payments around the world.
Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, has been named to the prestigious Forbes Fintech 50 - a list of the most innovative companies in financial technology - for the second year in a row.
Nium unveils three enhancements to the platform that aim to provide greater visibility into cross-border payments and ease of integration for clients.
Mumbai, 6 February 2024 – Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, proudly announces it has received in principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India for two prestigious payment licences – the Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) Licence and the Payment Aggregator (PA) Licence.
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21 November 2023 — Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, and Jeonbuk Bank (JB Bank), a leading South Korean financial institution, have announced a groundbreaking partnership.
New platform innovations to solve transparency and speed challenges of global money movement.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and SINGAPORE – October 23, 2023 — Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, today announced Nium Global FX – a product that allows for guaranteed and competitive FX rates. This includes the ability to lock and hold an FX rate for up to 24 hours and settle FX conversions o
MUMBAI - 12 October 2023 — Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, in partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) are thrilled to unveil a spectacular set of events to electrify the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 in India from 5 October to 19 November 2023.
Singapore, 19 October, 2023 - Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, has expanded its B2B travel payments offering in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, building on rising demand for its virtual card solution offering globally.
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The leader in real-time global payments honored for a fourth year in a row from a pool of 19,000 companies for its achievements in cross-border payments.
Our Story.
Our CEO Prajit experienced first-hand the challenges of traditional global payments - high
foreign exchange fees; complex time-consuming transactions; and tons of paperwork.
Nium’s origins lies in InstaRem, co-founded in 2014 by Prajit and Michael Bermingham. The
driving force behind the company was Prajit’s own frustrating experience with cross-border
remittance payments, and his desire to simplify the process for businesses and consumers alike.
InstaRem quickly won customers across the globe thanks to its intuitive user experience,
competitive rates, and broad reach. Core to the success of the InstaRem service is an advanced
global payments platform - a platform built for simplicity, scale, and speed.
That platform is Nium. Our extensive network, diverse range of licenses, and powerful APIs work
together seamlessly to accelerate our customers' business growth both locally and
internationally.
Today, Nium is the global infrastructure for on-demand money movement and the fastest way to
send money across borders.
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Our Purpose.
To solve the payment challenges that unlock the full potential of the global economy.
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Our Mission.
To build the payment infrastructure for on-demand money movement.
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Our Vision.
To be the real-time, global money movement standard.
I was determined to fix the problem — and that’s how Nium’s journey began.
Prajit Nanu, Founder and CEOI was trying to organize a get-together from India with friends in Thailand. I picked a spot and needed to send a small deposit for the booking. The resort asked me to send money to their account as a bank-to-bank transfer. I thought it would be simple, but my bank wanted tons of paperwork. Luckily, I found an Indian friend based in Thailand that I could transfer the money to in India, and he paid for the resort in Thai baht. But it got me thinking: Why is it so hard to move money around the world?
Our History.
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- Co-Founder Prajit Nanu had a personal challenge moving money
- First license application submit—Australia
- $500k seed round from GFC
- Instarem launches in Australia
- Headcount hits 10 employees
- Opened offices in India, Singapore and Australia
- MSB License approval in Canada
- Series A of $5M led by Vertex Ventures
- Hit milestone of 100k monthly transactions
- Expanded to over 10+ corridors
- Office in the United States opens
- MSB License approval in Hong Kong, Singapore and part of the US
- $13M Series B led by GSR Ventures
- $1B in dollars processed
- Offices in the UK, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the EU open
- Headcount hits 100+
- MSB license approval in Malaysia, EMI License in EU
- Launched multi-currency bank accounts
- Launched real-time delivery in 50+ countries
- Raised $38M Series C lead by Vertex Growth and Atinum
- Nium platform launches
- Launched card issuing in first market–Asia and Australia
- FSTP License approval in Japan; Remittance license approval in Indonesia
- Raised $38M Series C led by Vertex Growth and Atinum
- EMI License in UK
- Raised $200M Series D
- Acquired Ixaris, the world’s 3rd-largest B2B travel card issuer
- Headcount hits 700
- Opened Japan office, bringing global total to 17
- Launched card issuing in EU and UK
- Acquired Wirecard Forex, payment services company in India
- Headcount hits 900+ Nium'ers
- Became the Official Fintech Infrastructure Partner of the ICC
- Announced Great Place To Work Certified™ in India, Malta, Singapore as the United States
- Headcount hits 1000+ Nium'ers
- New offices in Singapore, San Francisco, and Amsterdam
- Enhanced Payroll Solution Released
Our Guiding Pillars.
To Be the Leading Payments Infrastructure for Businesses.
Our payments infrastructure is optimized for fast-growing businesses, replacing legacy systems with next-generation infrastructure delivering real-time processing, data-rich messaging, and standards interoperability to make it easier for them to move money around the world.
To Provide Flexible Options for Global Money Movement.
We support businesses with the most currencies and channels-including wallets, accounts, cards, and more-with the broadest reach to ensure that money can move seamlessly to anyone, anywhere. We prioritize optionality, giving our customers and the market at large what it needs today and tomorrow.
To Deliver On-Demand Payments to Anyone, Anywhere.
We enable real-time money movement to more than 100 countries - shorter settlement windows, immediate funds receipt, most efficiency. We support new money movement requirements for gig workers, creators, and businesses that have been built around the new workforce.
Co-Founder Corner.
Prajit Nanu
Co-Founder and CEOPrajit Nanu leads Nium’s corporate and product strategy as we move toward on-demand money movement. Under his leadership, Nium has won several accolades, including being named twice to the CB insights Fintech 250 and the Financial Times list of High-Growth Companies. Prior to co-founding Nium, Prajit held leadership positions in various global organizations. He was the Global Sales Director at TMF Group, a multinational professional services firm headquartered in Amsterdam, and was the Vice President of Sales and Account Management at WNS Global Services, a business process management company.
Michael Bermingham
Co-Founder and Chief Business OfficerMichael brings with him over 15 years of experience in the OTC derivatives, spot FX, and financial services industries. Prior to Nium, Michael was a Director at Gain Capital Forex.com Australia, where he managed all aspects of the company’s Australian entity from licensing and product implementation phases to live operations. Michael also led Gain Capital’s Operations and Compliance Teams in the UK and US in his decade at the company. Before that, he was at the Wall Street Technology Association where he spearheaded their Vendor Affiliate Program, enabling vendors to directly meet with clients which provided them opportunities to market their products and services.
Pratik Gandhi
Co-Founder and Chief Operating OfficerPratik has accumulated over 25 years of leadership experience, having worked for companies such as Arthur Andersen, Xerox, PepsiCo, and Telstra before specializing in banking in the last 15 years. Prior to joining Nium’s consumer and SME arm InstaReM in 2016, Pratik was Chief Financial Officer at Fullerton India Credit, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. He was also the Chief Finance Officer and Head of Portfolio Management at Standard Chartered Bank Singapore, and the Regional Chief Finance Officer for Consumer Finance Business at Citibank.
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