AstroPay is now integrated with BR-DGE’s platform, making it available as an alternative payment method (APM) for BR-DGE’s merchant customers across sectors like ecommerce, travel, gaming, and digital goods. The partnership represents a meaningful step in AstroPay’s growth, expanding its reach through BR-DGE’s modular infrastructure, broad distribution network, and strong presence in high-demand verticals.

As an independently-owned, vendor-agnostic payment orchestrator, BR-DGE enables merchants to scale, enter new markets, introduce innovative features, optimise costs, and effortlessly adapt to the future payment’s world.

AstroPay multicurrency wallet users enjoy a range of financial benefits. Individuals and businesses can receive and withdraw international payments from global clients and platforms with ease, eliminating common transaction hurdles. With multi-currency storage and conversion capabilities, travelers and digital nomads can efficiently manage their money while benefiting from competitive exchange rates.

AstroPay also allows users to make cross-border transactions effortlessly while benefiting from best-in-class foreign exchange rates, ensuring they get the most value for their money while spending abroad. Users also experience faster and lower-cost transactions, avoiding the high fees and slow processing times that often accompany traditional banking methods.

Diego Steinberg, COO of AstroPay, commented on the partnership: “In global, digital world, people expect to be able to send money across borders as easily as they do within their own country.

“We are delighted that BR-DGE has selected our digital wallet and payment platform to expand its payments offering. BR-DGE is a trusted and industry-leading payment orchestration platform, and through our partnership they can continue to help numerous enterprise merchants to enhance their tech stacks and customer payment processes.”

Tom Voaden, VP commercial at BR-DGE, added: “BR-DGE is solving the disconnect between ecosystem players by working as an anchor point and single source of payment orchestration.

“AstroPay is a fast-growing and increasingly important payment method for millions of people around the world and is now available to our merchant and payment providers.

“We’re fully committed to the continued expansion of our payments acceptance network and range of available payment methods, to ensure our customers can stay ahead of consumer demand. Adding AstroPay is the next step in that journey.”