The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has partnered with global payments infrastructure provider TerraPay to strengthen its international payment capabilities and expand customer connectivity across global markets.
The collaboration, formalised at Sibos 2026 in Miami, aims to enable NBB customers to reach a wider range of international payment destinations through bank accounts, digital wallets and local payment systems.
NBB Group Transaction Banking head Vineet Munot said: “International connectivity is becoming increasingly important to how our customers operate, and our role is to ensure that NBB’s transaction banking expertise continues to serve those needs with speed and reliability. This collaboration is a strategic step forward in scaling our payments proposition through infrastructure that can improve the cross-border transaction experience.”
“Through TerraPay, we see an opportunity to connect our customers in Bahrain and the region with a wider range of payment destinations, supporting their growth as their requirements become more global.”
TerraPay co-founder and chief business officer Ani Sane said the company assists banks that want to extend their international payment reach without having to build and maintain separate connections into every market, wallet and local payment system. “That is exactly the problem TerraPay solves,” he explained. “By combining TerraPay’s global payout network with Swift connectivity, NBB can use its existing banking infrastructure to access more than 12 billion bank accounts, digital wallets and local payment systems through a single global network.
“This partnership gives NBB a faster and more scalable way to expand into new corridors, broaden customer choice and improve the cross-border payment experience, while allowing the bank to retain control of the customer relationship and its core banking infrastructure.
“NBB is a strong example of how leading banks are choosing TerraPay to extend traditional correspondent banking into the rapidly growing world of instant payments and digital wall.”
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