Thunes playbook cover with a green globe and the title: How to win with strategic cross-border infrastructure, for Payment Service Providers.

E-book

A Practitioner-Level Playbook for Challenger PSPs

With global cross-border payment flows forecast to reach $320 trillion by 2032, this playbook provides a strategic framework for challenger PSPs to move beyond basic market coverage toward infrastructure depth and real-time operational agility.

A Practitioner-Level Playbook for Challenger PSPs

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What’s inside?

Key Insights:

  • Strategic Agility over Coverage: Success is defined by how quickly providers can activate target corridors, scale disbursements, and maintain regulatory credibility.
  • Dynamic Liquidity: Moving away from static pre-funding that restricts working capital toward 24/7 centralized funding pools and digital asset settlement.
  • Mass Payouts at Scale: Transitioning from batch processing to on-demand, white-labeled disbursements to secure long-term marketplace and gig platform relationships.
  • Active Compliance: Implementing real-time transaction monitoring and dynamic risk scoring directly on the payout leg to satisfy enterprise clients.

A Plan for Success

  • The 2026 Payment Landscape: How shifting end-user expectations toward digital wallets and stablecoins are reshaping global transaction requirements.
  • Three Operational Priorities: Focus areas covering corridor strength, scalable payout systems, and resilient liquidity frameworks.
  • Infrastructure Readiness Checklist: A diagnostic tool for treasury, compliance, and operations teams to identify structural gaps before scaling.
Thunes playbook intro page: title 'Introduction: The Infrastructure Imperative for challenger PSPs' with opening paragraphs and a green bar chart at the bottom. Infographic-panel comparing Traditional vs Optimised funding models, with a circular 'Funding model comparison' diagram and labels Screenshot of a green-themed presentation titled 'PSP Infrastructure Readiness Checklist' with white rounded content cards and Yes/No checkboxes, showing sections 'A Strategic Reach' and 'B Mass Payouts' A dark green page showing a chart-style infographic with white rounded cards containing bold green headings and text, titled 'Interpreting your results'.