Cuscal, an Australia-based provider of wholesale transactional services to retail financial institutions, has partnered with JP Morgan to provide its customers with a new platform to facilitate the payment and receipt of foreign currency.
The new platform will provide Cuscal’s customers, including the majority of Australia’s credit unions, with the ability to offer international payment transfers as a retail banking service to their members at competitive foreign exchange rates and with low transaction fees.
The two parties worked together to develop a solution which takes into account Cuscal’s customer requirements. By outsourcing foreign exchange and international payments execution to JP Morgan, Cuscal will offer customers all the functionality of a complete international payments platform without the overheads associated with running a global network of correspondent banks.
All settlement between JP Morgan and Cuscal will occur in Australian dollars. Cuscal will also able to integrate with its existing general ledger and banking platforms, reducing development cost and simplifying operational support.
Adrian Lovney, general manager of Cuscal, said: “As business becomes increasingly global, partnering with JP Morgan now gives customers access to a complete international payments solution working with a brand we have trusted for many years.
“We aim to provide a world’s best practice FX solution to our customers and JP Morgan’s willingness to work closely with us throughout the development and implementation of the solution provided important industry expertise on best practice in international clearing.”