Canonical URL: https://giftcard.news/gift-cards/loyalty-platforms-face-challenges-when-expanding-internationally-due-to-2bcd4e2e8f3d/ --- description: The company’s May 2026 commentary highlights regional gift card coverage, vendor integration and currency settlement as programme planning issues. title: Runa Examines Gift Card API and Settlement Needs for Global Loyalty Programs image: https://giftcard.news/images/social/v1/runa-examines-gift-card-api-settlement-needs-global-loyalty-programs-5a63b9bc448af76d3d015199995bd674.jpg --- 1. [Home](https://giftcard.news/) 2. [Gift Cards](https://giftcard.news/gift-cards/) # Runa Examines Gift Card API and Settlement Needs for Global Loyalty Programs The company’s May 2026 commentary highlights regional gift card coverage, vendor integration and currency settlement as programme planning issues. By [Daniel Brooks](https://giftcard.news/author/daniel-brooks/) May 20, 2026 2 min read Share [ ](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiftcard.news%2Fgift-cards%2Floyalty-platforms-face-challenges-when-expanding-internationally-due-to-2bcd4e2e8f3d%2F%3Futm%5Fsource%3Dx%26utm%5Fmedium%3Dsocial&text=Runa%20Examines%20Gift%20Card%20API%20and%20Settlement%20Needs%20for%20Global%20Loyalty%20Programs "X") [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiftcard.news%2Fgift-cards%2Floyalty-platforms-face-challenges-when-expanding-internationally-due-to-2bcd4e2e8f3d%2F%3Futm%5Fsource%3Dlinkedin%26utm%5Fmedium%3Dsocial "LinkedIn") [ ](https://wa.me/?text=Runa%20Examines%20Gift%20Card%20API%20and%20Settlement%20Needs%20for%20Global%20Loyalty%20Programs%20https%3A%2F%2Fgiftcard.news%2Fgift-cards%2Floyalty-platforms-face-challenges-when-expanding-internationally-due-to-2bcd4e2e8f3d%2F%3Futm%5Fsource%3Dwhatsapp%26utm%5Fmedium%3Dsocial "WhatsApp") ![Source image for Loyalty Platforms Face Challenges When Expanding Internationally Due to Regional Gift Card Brands](https://giftcard.news/images/variants/v1/runa-examines-gift-card-api-settlement-needs-global-loyalty-programs-source-image-w1280.webp) Photo: Source: runa.io [Runa](https://giftcard.news/company/runa/) identified gift card coverage, supplier APIs and currency settlement as planning issues for loyalty platforms expanding internationally, in commentary published on May 20, 2026\. It argued that adding a separate payout supplier in each market can create work for product, partnership and finance teams. The company described a pattern in which each new market requires another supplier, API and settlement arrangement. In its account, product teams then maintain more integrations, partnership staff manage additional contracts and finance teams reconcile more currencies and payment schedules. Runa recommended a common payout integration spanning several markets. It said its own network provided access to thousands of gift card brands across more than 30 countries, alongside prepaid [Visa](https://giftcard.news/company/visa/) and push-to-card options. The article described the Runa Reward Card as US-dollar-issued and stated that foreign exchange and international transaction fees could apply to spending outside the United States. Those qualifications accompanied the company’s argument that prepaid cards could complement local gift card coverage. Runa also reported processing more than 40 million payouts a year and operating at 99.999% uptime. These were the company’s platform figures in the May 2026 commentary, rather than statistics for the loyalty industry as a whole. The piece positioned integration, settlement and recipient experience as decisions to address early in an expansion plan. It did not announce a particular loyalty client’s international launch or quantify that client’s savings. ## Sources and documents ExpandCollapse * [Why Loyalty Platforms Stall at the Border](https://runa.io/blog/why-loyalty-programs-stall-at-the-border?utm%5Fsource=giftcard.news) — runa.io ## In this article ### Companies * [Runa](https://giftcard.news/company/runa/) * [Visa](https://giftcard.news/company/visa/) Share [ ](https://x.com/intent/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiftcard.news%2Fgift-cards%2Floyalty-platforms-face-challenges-when-expanding-internationally-due-to-2bcd4e2e8f3d%2F%3Futm%5Fsource%3Dx%26utm%5Fmedium%3Dsocial&text=Runa%20Examines%20Gift%20Card%20API%20and%20Settlement%20Needs%20for%20Global%20Loyalty%20Programs "X") [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiftcard.news%2Fgift-cards%2Floyalty-platforms-face-challenges-when-expanding-internationally-due-to-2bcd4e2e8f3d%2F%3Futm%5Fsource%3Dlinkedin%26utm%5Fmedium%3Dsocial "LinkedIn") [ ](https://wa.me/?text=Runa%20Examines%20Gift%20Card%20API%20and%20Settlement%20Needs%20for%20Global%20Loyalty%20Programs%20https%3A%2F%2Fgiftcard.news%2Fgift-cards%2Floyalty-platforms-face-challenges-when-expanding-internationally-due-to-2bcd4e2e8f3d%2F%3Futm%5Fsource%3Dwhatsapp%26utm%5Fmedium%3Dsocial "WhatsApp") ![Portrait of Daniel Brooks](https://giftcard.news/images/variants/v1/daniel-brooks-editorial-portrait-w320.webp) About the author ## [Daniel Brooks](https://giftcard.news/author/daniel-brooks/) Journalist — Payments, Security & PCI DSS Daniel Brooks covers payment networks, financial technology, payment security, gift card fraud and PCI DSS for Gift Card News. 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