Thunes Recognised With Double Win at The Juniper Research Future Digital Awards For Second Year Running

Thunes awarded Platinum for Best Cross-Border Platform and Gold for Best B2B Payments, recognising its position as the engine connecting disparate local and global financial systems.

London, UK - June 25, 2026 - Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announced it has secured two prestigious titles at the Juniper Research Future Digital Awards for Fintech & Payments 2026. This year, Thunes' Direct Global Network won the Platinum Award for Best Cross-Border Payments Platform, while its Business Payments solution was honoured with the Gold Award for Best B2B Payment Platform.

Juniper Research's annual Future Digital Awards recognise organisations that deliver impactful innovation, agility, and market disruption within the financial technology sector. The 2026 awards marks the second year running that Thunes has been recognised, after double wins in 2025. Judged by an independent panel of industry analysts, these back-to-back accolades demonstrate Thunes' continued market momentum and technical leadership in cross-border money movement.

Crucially, the recognition highlights Thunes' core capabilities as the foundational infrastructure for interoperability between fragmented financial ecosystems and local payment systems. By bridging the gap between traditional banks, mobile wallets and digital assets, Thunes ensures value moves universally, instantly, and securely.

Driving Global Connectivity in Payments Infrastructure

• Platinum Winner - Best Cross-Border Payments Platform: Awarded to the Thunes Direct Global Network. Built on proprietary architecture, the Network connects Thunes' Members to over 12 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts, alongside 15 billion cards across 140 countries. It addresses the friction of cross-border transactions by deploying its advanced SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform to give Members secure global money movement with total transparency and real-time settlement capabilities.
  
• Gold Winner - Best B2B Payment Platform: Awarded to Thunes' specialised Business Payments solution. Tailored to offer reliable and transparent financial institutions, neobanks, enterprises, marketplaces, gig economy platforms and software providers, the solution optimises all types of payments for businesses, including salary and supplier payments, invoice payments and prefunding. It enables seamless cross-currency treasury management and localised distribution in dozens of currencies to billions of endpoints, eliminating legacy barriers.

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About Thunes:

Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes' proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 140 countries and more than 90 currencies. Thunes' Network connects directly to over 12 billion mobile wallets, stablecoin wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 220 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay HK and many more. Thunes' Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the Network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection, and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally. Members of Thunes' Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 15 locations, including Atlanta, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, New York, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai. For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/