Mastercard and Corpay Launch Strategic Partnership in Cross-Border Payments

Mastercard and Corpay today announced an  expansion of their partnership to deliver an enhanced suite of corporate cross-border payment  solutions.  

As a result, Mastercard’s financial institutions and their customers will now have simplified access to  robust, end-to-end cross-border payments choices, including carded and non-carded solutions  supporting all ticket sizes. 

Under the agreement, Mastercard will become a minority investor in Corpay’s cross-border business.  The $300 million investment – for an approximately 3% equity stake – represents an enterprise  valuation of $10.7 billion, or 20x forward EBITDA multiple.  

The partnership will strengthen solutions offered to financial institutions: 

• Corpay will be the exclusive provider of industry-leading currency risk management and  integrated large-ticket cross-border payments solutions to Mastercard’s financial institution  customers 
• The companies will extend their decades-long virtual card collaboration, with Corpay  exclusively offering Mastercard virtual card programs to its customers 
• Mastercard Move’s proven service focusing on disbursements and remittances for small ticket  transactions will be offered to a broader set of small and mid-sized businesses in a range of  new markets, including to existing Corpay customers 

“This represents the natural extension of our commercial cross-border solutions,” said Raj Seshadri, Chief Commercial Payments officer, Mastercard. “Our work with Corpay expands our reach into the  large and growing cross-border B2B payments space helping our financial institution partners deliver  on the non-carded needs of their commercial customers, simply and efficiently.”  

“We’re incredibly excited about this investment and new partnership with Mastercard,” said Ron Clarke, Chairman and CEO of Corpay. “We expect Mastercard’s sponsorship of our cross-border  solutions will accelerate our financial institution revenue build.” 

Corpay’s Cross-Border business offers innovative solutions that help banks, institutional investors  and businesses mitigate foreign exchange exposure from their day-to-day business. Additionally,  Corpay’s award-winning payments platform and network enable their customers to process large  ticket and mass payments at scale in more than 160 currencies around the world. 

Mastercard Move’s cross-border services provide financial institutions and other customers with  reach to more than 10 billion end points across more than 200 countries and growing. The  Mastercard Move network supports a number of delivery channels – bank accounts, mobile wallets,  cash-out locations and cards – and payment types.