About
About GL Insight
GL Insight is an independent research and advisory firm focused on payments. We track how money moves worldwide, across real-time rails, cross-border corridors, card networks and stablecoins, with particular depth in Asia-Pacific.
What we do
We publish free analysis of the payments market and sell two services built on the same work.
- The research library: articles on payments and stablecoins, free to read.
- The weekly newsletter on global payments.
- Rate of Flow, the GL Insight podcast on payments.
- Research projects: custom reports, sponsored studies and due diligence research.
- Advisory: strategy and market entry advice, an analyst retainer, and briefings, workshops and board or investor sessions.
Banks, payment companies and investors use our research projects and our advice when they decide where to compete and how.
What we cover
- Stablecoins and tokenized money: issuers, reserves, licensing and the banks and networks building on stablecoins.
- Cross-border payments and remittances: correspondent banking, remittance corridors, Swift and the new links between national systems.
- Real-time payments and payment links: instant payment systems such as UPI and PayTo, and the fraud and pricing questions they raise.
- Cards, networks and acceptance: card networks, issuing, routing, surcharging and merchant acceptance costs.
- Merchant payments, wallets and QR: qR payment schemes, mobile wallets and how merchants get paid in person and online.
- Payments regulation, policy and fraud: new payment rules, central bank policy, licensing and payment fraud.
Independence
Our research is objective and independent. Clients can sponsor it, every sponsor is named, and sponsorship does not change the findings.
Clients and media
Past clients include start-ups, venture capital firms and multinational companies in financial services and technology. See the Clients page.
GL Insight is quoted in The Straits Times, The Business Times, Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, Deal Street Asia and Tech in Asia, among others. See Media and press; journalists can write to press@glinsight.com.
Contact
GL Insight is operated by GL Insight Pte. Ltd. To discuss a research project or advisory work, contact us.
GL Insight research projects and advisory
Research projects and advisory for banks, payment companies and investors, covering strategy, market entry, regulation and due diligence.