Cross-border payments in Latin America have been stuck in a vicious cycle. Want to transfer money? You have to pay exorbitant fees. When the money reaches the recipient? It takes at least three to five days, and sometimes one or two weeks. In the process, exchange rate fluctuations also take a heavy toll. Every step of fund flow is "eaten away," and the true costs for businesses and individuals have long exceeded expectations.
But the root of the problem doesn't lie in the payment channels themselves. There are plenty of payment tools on the market, but the real bottleneck is the underlying infrastructure—the clearing and settlement systems are always fragmented and pieced together. Each uses its own rules, information flow is inefficient, and productivity naturally suffers. To break through this impasse, the system must be fundamentally integrated.
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DegenWhisperer
· 6h ago
That's why I've always said traditional finance should be shattered and rebuilt. The situation in Latin America is even more extreme... Web3 coming to save this thing is really not a joke.
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LiquiditySurfer
· 7h ago
Damn, the Latin American system is really outrageous, just a bunch of middlemen bleeding everyone dry.
The fragmentation of the clearing and settlement system hits the nail on the head. Without unified standards, everyone is doing their own thing.
Wait, does that mean Web3 payment solutions don't stand a chance here?
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SmartContractWorker
· 7h ago
That's why it's important to pay attention to blockchain. The traditional payment system should have been overhauled long ago.
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DataPickledFish
· 7h ago
Damn, this is why friends in Latin America always complain about cross-border transfers... Just the fees can eat up half of the amount.
If you ask me, the lack of a unified underlying system is just a fight within ourselves; no matter how efficient it is, it's useless.
Clearance and settlement need to be fully unified; otherwise, this bottleneck will never be resolved.
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BTCRetirementFund
· 7h ago
Bro, this analysis is spot on. Latin America really needs to rely on on-chain solutions, as the traditional clearing system should have gone bankrupt long ago.
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StealthDeployer
· 7h ago
Cross-border payments in Latin America are indeed a nightmare. I have friends doing business there, and every time they transfer money, they get a big cut, and it takes half a day to arrive... The problem isn't really about the number of payment tools, but rather that the underlying clearing system is too fragmented.
Cross-border payments in Latin America have been stuck in a vicious cycle. Want to transfer money? You have to pay exorbitant fees. When the money reaches the recipient? It takes at least three to five days, and sometimes one or two weeks. In the process, exchange rate fluctuations also take a heavy toll. Every step of fund flow is "eaten away," and the true costs for businesses and individuals have long exceeded expectations.
But the root of the problem doesn't lie in the payment channels themselves. There are plenty of payment tools on the market, but the real bottleneck is the underlying infrastructure—the clearing and settlement systems are always fragmented and pieced together. Each uses its own rules, information flow is inefficient, and productivity naturally suffers. To break through this impasse, the system must be fundamentally integrated.