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2.3KX-Border Commerce And Saving One Rhino At A Time
When navigating the payments complexities of international trade, it pays to carry a compass (app). Here’s your compass. The first PYMNTS.com X-Border...
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1.4KFlywire Helping Irish Schools Comply With New Regulations Around International Students
Flywire, a provider of cross-border payments and receivables solutions for businesses, schools and healthcare providers announced news on Tuesday (Aug. 28) that...
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3.0KFlywire And Volvo Give Cross-Border Car Leasing Wheels
Cars for international students can be a surprising complicated issue. Buying a car outright can be a hassle — it’s costly, and it...
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2.5KPayPal Helps SMBs Go Global In The Flip Of An API
Selling goods across borders is a big opportunity for small businesses in the U.S. and around the world. That’s not lost on...
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996Payoneer Opens UK Office To Capitalize On Increased Demand From UK Merchants
In international business news this week, Payoneer, a cross-border payments company, officially unveiled a new office in London on Tuesday (June 20). In a...
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2.4KX-Border Marketplaces And The Search for Better Payout Solutions
Cross-border retail is on its way to becoming a $1T business opportunity and online marketplaces are leading the way, according to the...
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5.1KNEW REPORT: How P2P Gives B2B X-Border Merchants A (Revenue) Lift
By 2020, some 940 million cross-border shoppers are expected to spend $1 trillion on eCommerce, or online payment, transactions. For marketplaces, this...
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3.2KChina’s State-Owned Companies Must Pay For X-Border Deals
Shougang Group, a state-owned steel company in China, is reportedly on the hunt for assets to purchase that are outside of its...
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3.6KEuropean Commission eCommerce Legislation Would Help Cross-Border Commerce
The European Commission has proposed legislation that could remove some of the regulations that is limiting cross-border eCommerce between EU members. According...
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2.0KOANDA And Western Union Partner On Cross-Border Transfers
OANDA said Wednesday (May 16) that it had partnered with Western Union Business Solutions to offer cross-border money transfers, via OANDA Money...
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4.0KWhy No One Talks About Cross-Border Receivables
In B2B, expansion is both goal and challenge, especially in cross-border situations, where collecting on receivables can be a lengthy and daunting...
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3.5KCan APIs Fast-Track B2B X-Border Payments?
APIs make it easier for any number of payments and financial services functions to be streamlined and improved. Currencycloud CEO Mike Laven...
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1.7KSteep Slowdown For Chinese Cross-Border Corporate Acquisitions
$246 billion in cross-border corporate acquisitions last year, and now China’s buyout frenzy seems poised to quiet down quite a bit. Bloomberg...
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4.0KNEW REPORT: Who Stands To Win From The $7T Travel Opportunity?
The worth of the global tourism industry today has ballooned to a whopping $7 trillion, with Chinese citizens taking more and more...
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5.2KTaking Your Coffee With Sugar, Milk And Blockchain?
Whether it’s eCommerce or coffee, global businesses intent on success often have to ace logistics. April’s X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™ dives into...
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4.9KCoffee Rides The X-Border Blockchain
When it comes to cross-border commerce, it all boils down to logistics. As the latest X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™ reveals, sales and...
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4.9KX-Border Cigar Marketplace Rises From Ashes Of A Hazy Search
From offering free shipping to fewer clicks, merchants from around the world are racing to woo global shoppers, now over 1 billion...
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4.2KNEW REPORT: Who’s The Fairest X-Border Merchant Of All?
Global shoppers know no bounds. And when it comes to wooing them, particularly when it comes to American and Chinese merchants, it’s...
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2.3KRemoving ‘Sticker Shock’ From Cross-Border Shipping?
How can cross-border eCommerce merchants avoid delivering post-order sticker shock to customers? One option is to offer accurate precalculations that include all...
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3.7KNEW REPORT: Is The X-Border eCommerce Fee-For-All Shipping Out?
Merchants engaged in cross-border commerce and logistics continue to produce solutions and products aimed at helping merchants strengthen relationships with their consumers...
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3.1KWhat Keeps Global Commerce CEOs Awake At Night
For innovators and payments professionals, the good news about the world is also identical to the bad news: It is a constantly changing environment. But...
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3.5K‘Think Locally’ Takes On New Meaning For X-Border Merchants
What does it really mean to “act locally?” For merchants doing international commerce, adjusting to various country regulations can be confusing. For...
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3.7KNEW REPORT: ‘Act Local’ Taking On New Meaning For X-Border Merchants
As more companies engage in trade across borders, new partnerships and data insights are emerging as a result of the international interactions....
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3.8KOff The Rails: Can Regulation Help Blockchain Deliver Faster X-Border Payments?
Can the blockchain help SMBs optimize their cross-border trading opportunities? Align Commerce CEO Marwan Forzley says so and gives PYMNTS his view...
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4.6KX-Border Payments Optimization Tracker: Can Blockchain Give SMBs A Global Payments Roadmap?
When it comes to reaching the global marketplace, size doesn’t matter as much as it used to. Developments in cross-border payments solutions...
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7.7KBlockchain’s Potential To Ease X-Border Payment Pains
The cross-border rankings are out, and U.S. merchants are once again on top. Not far behind though are Chinese merchants who are...
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3.8KNEW REPORT: American Merchants Sprint To Win The X-Border Race
The X-border rankings are out, and U.S. merchants are once again on top. Not far behind though are Chinese merchants who are...
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2.7KFor X-Border Commerce, Breaking Old Mindsets May Lower Costs
Global commerce is poised for big-time expansion over the next few years, ushering in new linguistic and technological solutions. The December edition...
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5.5KX-Border Payments Optimization Tracker: Can Flexibility Cut X-Border Costs?
Global commerce is poised for big-time expansion over the next few years, ushering in new linguistic and technological solutions. The December edition...
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3.3KPayPal And Everything About Cross-Border Commerce You Were Afraid To Ask
For merchants in the U.S. and around the world winding up for the holiday season — and getting ready to put a...
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1.8KX-Border Payments Optimization Tracker: Taking Loyalty And Rewards To The New Frontier
When traveling abroad, shopping often calls. But how can retailers turn foreign customers into loyalists? For the latest edition of the X-Border...
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5.5KX-Border Payments Optimization Tracker: Loyalty, International Style
When traveling abroad, shopping often calls. But how can retailers turn foreign customers into loyalists? For the latest edition of the X-Border...
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6.1KVisa Takes Inspiration From Bitcoin For Cross-Border Payments
Payments giant announces a new blockchain network called Visa B2B Connect.
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3.4KHoliday X-Border Shipping Season … Starts Now
It may be slightly early to hang those holiday lights, but global shipping companies are already prepping for the holiday hustle. For...
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4.1KAn Early Ship On The X-Border Holiday Season
It may be slightly early to hang those holiday lights, but global shipping companies are already prepping for the holiday hustle. For...
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5.5KBanking’s Mark On X-Border Payments
The dynamic nature of the cross-border space continues to spark innovation and advancements in payments. But with banking undergoing its own transformation,...
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5.6KThe Other Cross-Border Payments Risk
Nearly half of all SMEs say that they will increase their international business. When that happens, they say that their biggest fear...
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2.0KHalloween’s Super Spooktacular X-Border Boom
U.S.A. … U.S.A. … The results are in, and the U.S. is on top. In the Q3 2016 X-Border Payments Optimization Index™,...
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3.8KX-Border Merchant Rankings: And The eLeader Is…
U.S.A. … U.S.A. … The results are in, and the U.S. is on top. In the Q3 2016 X-Border Payments Optimization Index™,...
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5.4KTackling The ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Global Payments Myth
Moving money from Point A to Point B is about a lot more than the transaction itself. For Global Citizens, as well...
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5.1KWhy Payment Experience Matters For Global Citizens
Global Citizens are an attractive (and quickly growing) market. They make high-ticket payments in full for things like education and health care,...
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Cross-Border Shopping Tracker: France
Paris and the entire country of France offer many opportunities for “cross-border” commerce — from tourists who visit France from other parts...
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5.5KRunning The Global Payments Compliance Playbook
In a perfect world, there would be a global compliance payment standard making it easy to securely send and receive money all...
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1.8KThe X-Border Payments Superhighway
Borders, shmorders. When it comes to the internet superhighway, cross-border business has inherently become increasingly commonplace as it’s become easier to connect...
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4.1KThe Internet’s Borderless Lens?
Borders, shmorders. When it comes to the internet superhighway, cross-border business has inherently become increasingly commonplace as it’s become easier to connect globally. For...
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2.4KWhy UK Consumers Can’t Get Enough X-Border Commerce
New research from eCommerce platform firm Bronto Software conducted by Censuswide found that nearly half (44 percent) of shoppers in the U.K....
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5.2KTackling The Two Rs Of X-Border Payments
Receivers and reconciliation are two of the biggest frictions in cross-border payments. And it’s especially acute when that receiver is an institution...
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2.1KUK Losing Foreign Exchange Market To Asia
Brexit has hit the pound hard. Financial Times reported that the U.K.’s share of the foreign exchange market has dropped, while the...
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6.3KGetting X-Border Payments Done for Global Citizens
The movement of money cross-border by Global Citizens is growing tremendously. What’s needed, Flywire CEO Mike Massaro tells Karen Webster isn’t a...
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5.1KTransferWise To Break Free From Banks
Global money transfer firm TransferWise is getting ready to free itself from reliance on banks. The five-year-old London-based start-up has long advertised...
