Cross Border Commerce

Cross Border Commerce
Closing the Books on the Global Challenge of X-Border Accounting
February 06, 2024

One of the biggest challenges to account for in cross-border payments is, well, the accounting. It’s a silent but often deadly snarl that can tangle up business’ plans to tap into the potential of international expansion. That’s because cross-border payments, traveling across far-flung tax codes...

Cross-border Payments
Mangopay and Sprinque Partner to Streamline B2B X-Border Payments
February 06, 2024

Mangopay, a payment infrastructure provider for marketplaces and platforms, and Sprinque, a B2B payments platform, partnered on B2B cross-border payments. The collaboration aims to offer merchants and marketplaces a customizable payments infrastructure, enabling them to tap into B2B cross-border opportunities, the companies said in a...

Cross-border Payments
New Report Examines Impact of Cross-Border Payments on Business Growth
January 30, 2024

In an era of disruptive technologies, cross-border payments are quietly undergoing a revolution. The emerging paradigm centers around cost-effective, real-time payment options with maximum visibility for both sender and receiver. Beyond driving international sales, cutting-edge payment solutions provide a range of benefits to CFOs and...

Cross-border Payments
Airbnb to Raise Guest Service Fees 2% for Cross-Currency Bookings
January 26, 2024

Airbnb will add about 2% to its guest service fees when guests pay with a currency different from the one set by the host in their listing. This additional amount for cross-currency bookings will be added to guest service fees, beginning April 1, the online marketplace...

Cross-border Payments
Multicurrency Corporate Cards Help Safeguard Firms Against Losses in Volatile FX Market
January 25, 2024

Corporate card usage has surged in popularity, especially among small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) grappling with inflationary pressures and rising costs.  However, despite this trend, the traditional financial services sector continues to hinder the widespread adoption of business credit cards, resulting in a mere 28%...

Cross Border Commerce
ISO 20022 Can Help Solve X-Border ‘Failed Payments’ Frictions, But Challenges Remain
January 22, 2024

The farther payments travel, the greater the potential is for failure. Cross-border transactions, as they wend their way across currencies and time zones, with any number of parties and counterparties in the mix, are rife with complexities. Streamlined, standardized messaging, at least conceptually, aids straight-through...

Cross-border Payments
Digital Wallets, Pay by Bank and Push to Card Can Transform Cross-Border Payments
January 19, 2024

Cross-border money movement’s digital makeover rests with a variety of endpoints. More specifically, the more ways there are to send and receive, the more options there are to house stores of value, and the more streamlined international payments become. To that end, and as PYMNTS reported...

Cross-border Payments
Interoperability and Transparency Are Key Challenges as Cross-Border Payments Modernize
January 15, 2024

When three quarters of a given market are dissatisfied with the way things are going, that’s a market ripe for innovation and technology in the service of making things better.  No matter where you look, cross-border payments are tied to hundreds of billions of dollars...

Cross-border Payments
Visa and CIBC Collaborate on Sending Remittances to Digital Wallets
January 09, 2024

Visa and CIBC have formed a new collaboration to help the bank’s clients send remittances across borders more conveniently.  With Visa Direct’s money movement capabilities, the clients of CIBC and its digital banking division Simplii will be able to send money to more digital wallets in the Philippines, China,...