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[![Illustration of OpenFX’s latest funding round showing FX infrastructure, stablecoins, Visa and Mastercard-linked cross-border payments, digital settlement flows and global fintech money movement.](https://obtained.com/hubfs/Illustration%20of%20OpenFX%E2%80%99s%20latest%20funding%20round%20showing%20FX%20infrastructure%2c%20stablecoins%2c%20Visa%20and%20Mastercard-linked%20cross-border%20payments%2c%20digital%20settlement%20flows%20and%20global%20fintech%20money%20movement..png)](https://obtained.com/blog/openfx-funding-round-cross-border-fx-stablecoins) ###### [Cross Border Payments](https://obtained.com/blog/tag/cross-border-payments) ###### [foreign exchange payments](https://obtained.com/blog/tag/foreign-exchange-payments) ###### [global payouts](https://obtained.com/blog/tag/global-payouts) ###### [cross-border FX](https://obtained.com/blog/tag/cross-border-fx) ###### [OpenFX funding round](https://obtained.com/blog/tag/openfx-funding-round) ##### [OpenFX’s latest successful round shows where cross-border FX is actually heading](https://obtained.com/blog/openfx-funding-round-cross-border-fx-stablecoins) Apr 02, 2026 4 min read Another funding round, or a clearer signal about where cross-border payments are going Most funding announcements in fintech sound larger than they are. 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