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How is it easier to land a rover on Mars than move money between two businesses? 🚀

13 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Aditya Morley, CEO of Swirepay, explains why moving money between businesses is harder than landing a rover on Mars. He's rebuilding the SWIFT system to speed up wire transfers, launching first in India where instant payments already exist. A partnership with ICICI Bank gave him customers and credibility.

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How is it easier to land a rover on Mars, but move money between two businesses is so difficult? I'm Aditya Morley. I'm the founder and CEO of Swirepay. It goes back into basically making wire transfers faster. So SWIFT wire. We had to launch in India first because instant payments, UPI, was already ubiquitous there. We ended up partnering with one of the largest private banks in India, ICICI Bank, and that set the foundation for the company where we partnered with banks to get customers. With that being business here, wife being supportive. There was a good safety net also, right, which I feel like is critical. You know how expensive Bay Area is, so if you want to, you know, not get paid for 3 years, you're going behind on your mortgage and things like that.