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Peter De Caluwe and the two ticks that money is missing
A message can cross the world and tell you it arrived. After Ogone, PayU and a return to the CEO’s chair at Thunes, Peter De Caluwe is working to give money the same courtesy.
Paymob found the business inside the bottleneck
Three students set out to sell online. The trouble was getting paid. Their answer became a payments platform serving more than 390,000 merchants across Egypt and the Gulf.
Thunes
Thunes is a Singapore-headquartered cross-border payments company that operates a proprietary Direct Global Network connecting businesses to bank accounts, mobile wallets, cards and stablecoin wallets in more than 130 countries and 80-plus currencies. Spun out of TransferTo in 2016 and led by co-founder and CEO Peter De Caluwe, Thunes powers real-time money movement for gig-economy platforms, super-apps, banks, remittance companies and PSPs, backed by its in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform. In 2026 Juniper Research ranked it among the top three cross-border payments leaders alongside Swift and Visa.