Citi: Healing Broken PPE Supply Chains With Streamlined Cross Border Payments Innovation in banking infrastructure can facilitate a high-value cross-border B2B transaction in a matter of days â but for hospitals scrambling to procure personal protection equipment (PPE), payments need to occur in a matter of hours. Thor Perplies, commercial bank senior vice president and treasury sales officer at Citi, describes the experience of working with Flywire to quickly move funds to a PPE vendor in China for Boston-area hospitals â and the lessons learned for a post-pandemic global B2B payments ecosystem. |