Lex Blog

Money, explained.

Practical guides to payments, currencies, and investing. Understand what happens to your money, at home and across borders.

Payments

Understand Pix keys, QR codes, timing, and how a local payment fits into a supported Lex transfer.

A practical guide to CLABE numbers, SPEI references, payment receipts, and Mexican peso transfers with Lex.

Why an ACH transfer can stay pending, how business days affect it, and what to check when funding Lex.

Understand domestic US wires, account details, cutoffs, and the tradeoff between speed and total cost.

What FedNow means for everyday payments, which questions to ask your bank, and why it does not imply instant Lex funding.

Sort codes, account numbers, bank limits, and the role of a UK pound transfer in a supported Lex journey.

Understand IBANs, ordinary and instant euro transfers, and how to check the SEPA route available in Lex.

CBU, CVU, aliases, and the difference between receiving pesos in an account and holding a peso stablecoin.

Understand correspondent banks, conversion costs, and how local transfers plus stablecoins can offer another route.

Compare Lex, Western Union, and MoneyGram by total cost, usable money received, timing, and cash-pickup needs.

What a payment QR contains and how to request, scan, review, and send supported assets with Lex.

What wARS and the broader wFIAT family do, how backing and redemption differ from market prices, and what Lex supports.

Understand Aerodrome, Uniswap v4, liquidity, price impact, and the amount you actually receive from a currency conversion.

What stock-token buyers hold, how current Coinbase and Robinhood products differ, and why holder rights have conditions.