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2.4KFrom Bricks To Clicks: How The Pandemic Is Reshaping Remittances
The pandemic has upended daily life – and in payments, it is moving analog, face-to-face transactions toward the digital realm. In an...
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1.6KMoneyGram Teams With Digital Financial Services For Cross-Border Money Transfers
MoneyGram will partner with Digital Financial Services in order to help facilitate cross-border transfers involving digital wallets in the United Arab Emirates,...
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1.4KNew Vistas For Payments Orchestration
Businesses are digitizing more rapidly these days, often tapping into new overseas markets and expansion opportunities created by COVID-19. They are also...
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1.4KSecrets Of Cross-Border eCommerce Payments Champs
Once asked what kept him together with collaborator Keith Richards through the years, Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger famously replied, “Friction,...
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6.5KNEW DATA: A 20-Step Guide To Boosting Cross-Border Conversion
The global economy is more connected than ever, with consumers from all corners of the world enjoying round-the-clock access to the global...
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3.2KSmarter Payments Are Crossing Borders
Cross-border payments are immense, clocking in at $29 trillion in 2019 and projected to balloon to an estimated $39 trillion in the...
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2.6KMoneyGram, Uber Offer Discount On Digital Money Transfers To Drivers
MoneyGram is partnering with Uber in order to offer discounts on money transfers to over 200 countries and territories, a press release...
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7.7KVisa Leads Latest Funding For FinTech Startup Nium
FinTech payments startup Nium, based in Singapore, is getting a new round of funding led by new investors Visa and BRI Ventures....
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3.8KMoving Money X-Border In The Age Of ‘Business As Unusual’
Making cross-border payments work — across currencies and across time zones — is no easy task. The challenges are myriad, marked by...
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3.9KSantander Expands One Pay FX To Mexico
Spanish bank and investment institution Santander has expanded its One Pay FX international payments system to include Mexico, according to a report...
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12.8KWestern Union CEO On Solving For The Future Of Global, Inclusive Financial Services
The passage of time is a bit unusual in financial services. With the digitization of the ecosystem and rapid emergence of FinTechs...
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3.2Ki2c, Airwallex Link For Cross-Border B2B Payments Card
i2c has announced that it will work with global FinTech company Airwallex to enable the Airwallex Borderless Card for B2B payments, according...
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1.6KCompanies Find Work-Arounds To US Tariffs On Items From China
Under the current administration’s trade policies, Chinese imports come with prohibitively high tariffs, approximately $370 billion or so each year. Several U.S....
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5.2KPostepay Customers Get Access To Western Union’s Platform
Through an effort to enable cross-border payments, Postepay clients can now access the cross-border and cross-currency platform of Western Union to send funds around...
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3.0KTrint On Safeguarding The Customer Experience
The speech-to-text API market is predicted to grow to $4.1 billion by 2024, so long as rampant fraud and rising churn don’t...
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11.4KUsing Data To Fight Subscriber Churn
The subscription business model is growing sharply across the globe, and for good reason. Companies can bank on its recurring revenue stream...
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3.7KDeep Dive: Countering Involuntary Subscription Churn
Subscribers expect frictionless payment experiences, whether they are accessing videos, music or software as a service (SaaS). Some subscribers may eventually choose...
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4.3KHow Recurring Payments Support Customer Services
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) support platforms have more to worry about than solving customer service problems — they must manage the backlash when interrupted...
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5.3KRecurring Payments’ Supporting Role In Keeping Customers Loyal
Entertainment powerhouse Disney made a big splash last month when its long-awaited streaming service Disney+ officially launched on Nov. 12. Within weeks...
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3.3KCurrencyFair Launches Cross-Border Collections Solution
International payments and money transfer service CurrencyFair has announced Friday (Nov. 22) the launch of its new cross-border collections solution for marketplaces,...
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3.1KDeep Dive: How Boleto Bancário Helps International Subscription Providers Reach Brazilians
Brazil’s potential customer base tempts global subscription service providers, as the South American country boasts a population of 200 million and had...
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2.5KHow Saas Providers Can Tailor Subscription Payments For Emerging Markets
U.S. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers expanding globally may find that card payments give way to paper invoices and cash payments, says SaaS company...
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6.6KHow SaaS Providers Get Emerging Markets To Subscribe
Global subscription businesses looking for a fresh crop of customers are setting their sights on emerging markets. These economies are modernizing,...
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5.9KWestern Union Enables Real-Time Global Transfers Via India’s UPI
Cross-border payments firm Western Union is advancing real-time money transfers to customers in India, the company said in a press release on...
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3.4KDeep Dive: How Payment Experiences Help B2C Companies Recruit And Retain Subscribers
Subscriptions represent an increasingly powerful method of offering services to consumers. The sales model can appeal to users by providing access to...
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3.6KHow Asia Is Revolutionizing The $70B X-Border Tuition Space
Pay local — on a global scale. To that end, Flywire said at the end of last month that it has partnered...
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2.6KCloud Storage Subscription Providers Seek To Match Payments To Markets
Cloud-based software subscriptions are highly desired in emerging markets, but consumers can still be hard to serve since access to traditional payment...
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6.9KPingPong: Why Doing Payments Globally Is All About Thinking Locally
The appeal of the global market for both eCommerce buyers and sellers needs little explanation or introduction. As billions of consumers all...
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6.2KSubscription Payments Meet Emerging Markets
Subscription-based offerings can be key to helping business-to-consumer (B2C) companies establish long-running relationships and lock down more predictable revenue streams. Effective subscription...
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2.7KDeep Dive: Tailoring Global Subscriptions To Local Markets’ Needs
A full 2.14 billion consumers around the globe are projected to be shopping online by 2021, presenting a tempting opportunity for the...
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3.6KHow BlueJeans Solved Its Recurring Payments Woes
Transaction fees and interchange rates, among other factors, can turn a simple transaction into a complex process for merchants. But Mike Schramm,...
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5.5KTrending: Why BlueJeans Pays Local On A Global Commerce Stage
Subscription providers would be the first to state that payments need to move seamlessly and continuously across borders. Consumers do not want...
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6.3KThe Treasurers’ Guide To Simplifying Cross-Border Payments
The global economy is more interconnected than ever, with more companies doing business abroad than at any time in recorded history. On...
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3.8KBamboo Straws, Emerging Markets And The Lessons Of Selling Cross Border
It’s one thing to talk the talk on cross-border payments, one of the hottest and increasingly vital areas of global payments and...
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10.0KGlobal Cross-Border Payments Expected To Grow, But Challenges Remain
Cross-border payments are expected to surge over the next few years as the economy becomes increasingly global and interconnected. These transactions reached...
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4.3KCanadian Travel Agency Group Partners With Western Union For Payments
The Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA) is collaborating with Western Union to make cross-border payments easier. The collaboration gives the 12,000-plus...
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2.5KDeep Dive: Smoothing X-Border Subscription Payment Pains
Subscription businesses can get only so far serving their local customer bases. To stay competitive, merchants must be ready to expand their...
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3.6KAdobe On How Regional Payments Enable Global Growth
For global businesses with recurring billing business models, the costs of FX conversion, transaction processing and failed payments can quickly add up...
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7.1KAdobe Takes On Cross-Border Billing
Subscription providers seeking to go global need to make sure they have the right recurring payment offerings to take them beyond the...
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4.7KInstaReM Launches Card Issuing Platform
Southeast Asian FinTech InstaReM, which specializes in digital cross-border money transfers and payments, has announced a new API-based digital platform that will...
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3.4KTariff Battle May See Mounting Retail Casualties
Trade wars leave casualties on the economic battlefield, wounding balance sheets and earnings as the costs to import (and sell) goods mounts....
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6.2KWells Fargo Taps TransferMate For Global Invoicing
TransferMate Global Payments, the cross-border B2B payments provider, announced Monday (May 20) it inked a deal with Wells Fargo to deliver its...
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4.3KFlywire Renews UnionPay Partnership
Continuing a partnership first announced last spring, as of today Flywire and UnionPay International are announcing the re-launch of a promotional program...
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5.2KTreasurers Beware: FX Risk Is Not What It Used To Be
Globalization and easing barriers to international expansion aren’t simply changing the way corporates manage foreign exchange exposure. For many firms, these trends...
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3.6KMexican Gov’t Eyes FinTechs For Cheaper X-Border Transactions
The Mexican government is hoping FinTechs will make sending cash home for Mexican families living abroad more affordable. Deputy Finance Minister Arturo...
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4.3KX-Border eCommerce Payments Now Come In Yuan
The New York branch of Bank of China will allow Chinese firms to get payment in yuan from eCommerce sales derived from...
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5.4KUnionPay Launches Platform For Developers
UnionPay International announced earlier in January that it rolled out the UPI Developer, which is a platform to create applications for cross-border...
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4.5KRipple, Finablr To Launch Asia X-Border Remittances
UAE Exchange, the United Arab Emirates-based company, and Ripple, the blockchain technology company based in the U.S., are gearing up to launch cross-border...
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6.0KXoom Expands Full Suite Of Send Services To Canada
When PayPal acquired global money transfer firm Xoom in 2015, company President and CEO John Kunze noted that becoming part of the larger PayPal organization...
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4.4KAlibaba Inks Deal With Belgium To Create Trading Hub
Alibaba, the Chinese eCommece giant, inked a deal with the Belgian government on Wednesday (December 5) to create a trading hub aimed at...
