From Friction to Flow: How Aniday Scaled Global Payments with Instarem

21 Nov 2025

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From Friction to Flow: How Aniday Scaled Global Payments with Instarem

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Discover how Aniday, an HR tech platform, scaled seamless global payments and streamlined operations with Instarem.

The Company

Aniday is an HR tech platform that helps high-growth companies hire and pay teams anywhere in the world. Its core solutions—Global Employer of Record (EOR), Professional Employer Organization (PEO), payroll, and international recruitment—make it easy for businesses to onboard full-time or contract employees without setting up local entities.

With over 5,000 clients and a network of 50,000+ professional headhunters across 89 countries, Aniday gives companies the infrastructure to expand globally and speed up hiring by 70%.

Operating worldwide with deep expertise in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Aniday works with leading brands such as ST Engineering, HEINEKEN, Pocket FM, Wego, Thomson Medical, and Publicis Groupe. To power cross-border payments, Aniday partners with Instarem to enable fast, seamless commission and payroll disbursements.

The Challenges

As Aniday’s client and headhunter network expanded, so did the complexity of managing global payroll. The company now oversees payroll across 89 countries and pays over 1,000 active headhunters—an impressive scale that brought new challenges in currency volatility, fees, delays, and reconciliation.

Clients increasingly demanded the ability to “hire and pay anywhere, instantly.” But Aniday’s traditional banking setup couldn’t keep pace—especially as its footprint across Asia grew rapidly.

Key operational pain points included:

Multi-currency volatility: Unpredictable FX spreads that could quickly erode margins.
High bank fees: Cross-border transfers incurred 5–8% in fees, adding up fast across multiple transactions.
Transfer delays: Payments often took between 3 and 15 business days to complete.
Complex reconciliation: Fragmented payment flows made it hard to match and verify transactions accurately.

These challenges led to growing operational inefficiencies and shrinking margins—and worse, the risk of delayed payouts to headhunters. In a competitive EOR market, that could undermine trust, retention, and service quality.

The Solution

To overcome rising payment inefficiencies that drained time and resources, Aniday turned to Instarem. What stood out was not just Instarem’s affordability, speed, and transparent FX rates, but also its reliable support, FX hedging capabilities, and scalability—making it the ideal partner for managing payments across 89 countries.

With a 3X growth in clients, we needed payments that were scalable, cost-efficient, and fast for both EOR payroll and headhunter payouts. Traditional banks couldn’t keep up with the speed our clients expected—Instarem helped us enable hiring and payments anywhere, seamlessly,”

— Nguyen Thien Kim, Co-Founder of Aniday

The Results

Since partnering with Instarem, Aniday has completely redefined how it manages global payroll and headhunter payouts—achieving faster payments, lower costs, and smoother reconciliation at scale.

Key outcomes include:

85% faster payouts: Reduced payment time from 5–7 days to under 24 hours—keeping headhunters happy and retention rates high.

80% lower transaction fees: Dropped from $25–50 per cross-border payment to as little as $5 per transaction, helping Aniday offer more competitive EOR pricing.

100% faster reconciliation: Cut reconciliation time from three days per payroll cycle to same-day completion.

2X year-on-year growth: Improved efficiency and affordability enabled faster client onboarding and accelerated business expansion.

“Instarem transformed Aniday from a regional platform into a full-stack global EOR and payroll powerhouse. With 90% savings in cost and time, 24-hour payouts, and seamless Asia coverage, we’re helping clients hire and pay talent anywhere—instantly.” said Nguyen Thien Kim the co-founder of Aniday.