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B2B Cross-Border Payments Quiz: Beginner Level

Ten beginner questions on how one business pays another across a border — the parties, the bank details, the currency conversion and the messaging.

This B2B cross-border payments quiz covers the basics of business-to-business money transfer: paying a supplier, collecting from a customer abroad, and what sits between the two bank accounts.

Pick an answer for each question. A correct answer shows why it is right; a wrong one is marked incorrect and you can try again. Your score counts first attempts only.

QuizBeginner10 questions

How Well Do You Understand B2B Cross-Border Money Transfers?

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  1. Question 1. In a B2B cross-border payment, who is usually the payer?

  2. Question 2. What is the beneficiary in a B2B cross-border payment?

  3. Question 3. What does FX mean in cross-border payments?

  4. Question 4. What is a common reason a business sends a cross-border payment?

  5. Question 5. What is an invoice payment in a B2B cross-border context?

  6. Question 6. What is the purpose of beneficiary bank details?

  7. Question 7. What is SWIFT commonly used for?

  8. Question 8. What is settlement in a B2B cross-border payment?

  9. Question 9. Why might a B2B payment provider ask for KYB information?

  10. Question 10. What is a payment corridor in B2B cross-border payments?

What the B2B cross-border payments quiz covers

  • The payer, the beneficiary and the beneficiary bank details

  • Invoice payments and why businesses pay suppliers abroad

  • Foreign exchange (FX) and payment corridors

  • What SWIFT carries, and what settlement means

  • Why a provider asks for KYB information

How to read your score

Your score is the number of questions you answered correctly on the first try, out of 10.

  • 9 or 10: You know this material well. Try a harder quiz in the series, or the FX arithmetic one.

  • 6 to 8: A solid working knowledge with a gap or two. Re-read the explanations for the questions you missed.

  • 3 to 5: The basics are there. The explanations are written to fill exactly these gaps, so take the quiz again tomorrow.

  • 0 to 2: Start with the entry-level quiz and the glossary, then come back to this one.

For the primary source behind several of these questions, see BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures: cross-border payments.

More quizzes and further reading

Ten more quizzes in the series, from entry level to FX arithmetic:

Further reading on this site:

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