As the money transfer industry continues to grow, Dandelion stands out as an industry leader. Our network powers financial institutions across the globe, enabling them to access emerging markets and enhance customer experience.
For over 35 years, we’ve been shaping this network through innovation and strategic partnerships. The result? Dandelion is the largest real-time cross-border payments network.
But we don’t stop at scale. Our teams work every day to push boundaries, optimize performance, and empower partners by offering the best service in the market.
Let’s take a look at how the Dandelion network evolved in 2025.
▪ 60+ new direct-to-local bank connections launched across key regions.
▪ Our network reached 200 countries and territories.
▪ We expanded our currency coverage to include 123 unique currencies.
▪ We rapidly grew the number of countries our industry leading Dynamic Account Validation services is available in.
To provide partners with the best possible service, the Dandelion team prioritizes increasing our payout option diversification while strengthening the reliability of our real-time rails.
In 2025 alone, we welcomed more than 60 new direct-to-local connections across multiple regions, bringing our global total to over 1,000 active partners. Through these connections, we are able to reinforce our commitment to providing broader access and seamless payouts everywhere our clients need to move money.
This past year marked a major milestone: the Dandelion network reached 200 countries and territories and 123 currencies,reinforcing our position as the industry’s most extensive global payout network.
This scale allows our partners’ clients to enter new markets and offer new payout methods, all while delivering easy, fast, secure experiences to their users.
But Dandelion offers more than just its payout network. Beyond global reach, Dandelion enhances payments with capabilities such as dynamic account validation, helping partners streamline payment processes and improve success rates. We know that validating recipient information is essential to protecting financial institutions and their customers, but not all validation is equal.
While standard static validation checks can confirm account detail formatting, advanced dynamic validation can confirm that an account is active and match it to the intended recipient. The account validation service enables fast, secure, and accurate pre-payment checks, resulting in:
▪ Fewer payment returns
▪ Lower operational costs
▪ Improved sender and receiver experience
▪ Greater predictability for every transaction.
By embedding dynamic validation capabilities within the Dandelion network, partners have been able to reduce failed payments and minimize disruption to payment flows. And there is data to prove it. Thanks to this capability, Straight Through Processing (STP) rates have risen to 98.6% across the Dandelion network.
Because we understand the impact dynamic account validation can have, we significantly grew this capability across our network, reaching more than 6.4k financial institutions across 120 countries.
In 2026, we’ll continue working with banks and mobile wallet providers across our network to bring dynamic validation to more countries, reflecting our mission to make cross-border payments safe, seamless, and accessible for everyone. To that end, we also collaborate with key players of the industry to share our expertise.
Throughout 2025, Dandelion played an active role in the global payments conversation.
Our leaders were present at top industry events and engaged with partners and media to share insights on real-time payments, regulatory evolutions, and the future of the industry.
Highlights include:
→ Juan Bianchi, CEO & EVP of Euronet’s Money Transfer Segment, spoke with The Asian Banker about how Dandelion benefits banks and how we’re preparing for future trends such as stablecoins.
→ Stanley Wachs, Director of Business Development and Head of France, Benelux, Switzerland, and Africa, sat down with Finextra to discuss the growing importance of mobile wallets and modernization of global payment infrastructure.
We look forward to keep engaging in these productive discussions to help move the industry forward and help more businesses and customers navigate the payments landscape.
As we kick off the new year, Dandelion keeps the momentum that defined our progress in 2025. Our focus is on continuing to strengthen,expand, and diversify our network, deepening the value we deliver to partners.
Our commitment to making cross-border payments more accessible remains steadfast, and our drive to innovate is rooted in delivering better outcomes for financial institutions and their customers. This focus pushes us to continually enhance our services and explore emerging technologies that help our partners offer faster, simpler, and more reliable payment experiences.
Together with our partners, we’re excited to keep building a cross-border payments ecosystem that empowers their growth and meets evolving customer expectations.
