Paying invoices and moving funds aross borders for small and medium business (SMB) is expensive and full of uncertainties. How much does the recipient actually get once the transaction is finished? (Hint: it’s not always what was sent.)  How long does it take a San Francisco firm to pay an invoice to a contractor in Berlin or Hyderabad? (Hint: it’s hard to know exactly when it gets there).

Since there’s no such thing as an international wire, entrepreneurs in the virtual currency space have been looking at how these new math-based “rails” can move money faster at lower cost across borders. In this Payments on Fire episode, Marwan Forzley, CEO of Align Commerce, talks with Glenbrook’s George Peabody about how his firm moves value for its SMB customers from the sender’s currency to the receiver’s over bitcoin rails.