Case Study: Brookline Bancorp achieves rapid business-banking growth and scalable international payments with Currencycloud

Helping Brookline Bankcorp grow and scale business banking with international offering

Brookline Bancorp, a mid-tier bank based in the greater Boston area, faced limited and costly international banking services that constrained its ability to grow commercial and SME lending. Needing a faster, more competitive foreign exchange and international payments capability than its correspondent banks could provide — and unwilling to build a solution from scratch — Brookline Bancorp chose to partner with Currencycloud to rapidly up‑tier its international offering.

Currencycloud delivered a turnkey, white‑label solution (Currencycloud Direct) that was implemented in months, provided modular self‑service FX and payment capabilities, and handled tech, KYC and onboarding support. The Currencycloud platform gave Brookline Bancorp competitive pricing, greater control and efficiency (reported as a 1000x improvement), and enabled scale without significant new headcount: international transactions rose from about 3 per month to nearly 100, with around 20 self‑serve clients enrolled.

Brookline Bancorp