What was the problem?
A fast-growing HR tech platform expanded from 5 to 25 countries in 18 months. Each new country meant new banking relationships, new compliance research, and new manual payment workflows. Finance headcount couldn't scale with geography — the team of 3 was being asked to run payroll in Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia, Poland, and 21 more countries simultaneously.
How Bitwage helped
Bitwage's Global Settlement Engine unified all 25 countries under a single API and dashboard. Local rails (PIX in Brazil, SEPA in Europe, local bank transfers across Asia and Africa) were pre-integrated. A single BatchPay CSV submission routes each contractor to the optimal rail automatically. Compliance documentation — W-8BEN, local equivalents — is collected during contractor onboarding.
Measurable outcomes
“We went from 5 to 25 countries and our finance team didn't grow by a single person. Bitwage handles the routing, the compliance, the rails. We just upload the CSV.”