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Corpay Cross-Border Announced as FINA’s Official FX Payments Supplier

By: via Business Wire

The Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) and Corpay, a FLEETCOR® (NYSE: FLT) brand and global leader in business payments, are today delighted to announce a multi-year collaboration that will see Corpay Cross-Border group provide their foreign exchange (FX) solutions to FINA. This new deal was announced on the occasion of the 19th FINA World Championships Budapest 2022, which is playing host to the leading aquatics athletes from across the globe.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220622005024/en/

FINA and the wider FINA Family will gain access to Corpay’s innovative foreign exchange solutions to help manage currency exposure for international payments. In addition, Corpay Cross-Border’s award-winning trading platform will enable FINA to manage global foreign exchange payments from one single point of access.

As the global governing body of six aquatic disciplines – Swimming, Water Polo, Diving, High Diving, Artistic Swimming and Open Water Swimming – FINA’s collaboration with Corpay Cross-Border will create valuable opportunities for the global aquatic’s community, event hosts and FINA partners providing international payments and foreign exchange solutions and capabilities.*

FINA President Captain Husain Al-Musallam expressed his confidence in the partnership with Corpay: “We are very excited to have Corpay Cross-Border join the FINA family at such an exciting time for the Federation. With more than seventy international events annually, this collaboration is certain to help drive financial efficiencies with the multiple foreign currency transactions we undertake with our event hosts, member federations and partners on an annual basis.”

Corpay Cross-Border President, Mark Frey continued “Corpay Cross-Border is very honoured to join the FINA family as their Official FX Payments Supplier. I am confident that FINA and the broader FINA Family will benefit from access to our comprehensive cross-border payments and FX risk management solutions, along with our payments experience gained within the world of sports.” “We look forward to helping them power their global payments and execute their plans to manage their currency risk for many years to come.”

About Corpay

Corpay is a global leader in business payments, helping companies of all sizes better track, manage and pay their expenses. Corpay provides customers with a comprehensive suite of online payment solutions including Bill Payment, AP Automation, Cross-Border Payments, Currency Risk Management, and Commercial Card Programs. As the largest commercial issuer of Mastercard in North America, Corpay handles over a billion transactions each year. Corpay is part of the FLEETCOR (NYSE: FLT) portfolio of brands. To learn more visit www.corpay.com.

About International Swimming Federation/ Fédération Internationale de Natation

Founded in 1908, FINA is the global governing body for aquatics sports. FINA’s main objectives is to promote and encourage the development of Aquatics throughout the world, ensuring fair competition and universality in participation. Comprising 209 affiliated National Member Federations on six continents it is headquartered in the Olympic capital city of Lausanne (SUI). FINA and its aquatic disciplines are a pillar of the Olympic Movement and give a decisive contribution to the success of the Games. Five FINA disciplines currently feature on the quadrennial Olympic programme – Swimming, Water Polo, Diving, Artistic Swimming and Open Water Swimming.

1 “Corpay” (a Fleetcor (NYSE: FLT) brand) in this document primarily refers to the Cross-Border Division of Corpay https://payments.corpay.com/cross-border; a full listing of the companies that are part of the Corpay brand is available here: https://payments.corpay.com/compliance.

* Subject to credit and compliance approval from the relevant Corpay company.

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