When is a cross-border payment more than just a payment? When it applies to a milestone and/or emotional transactions such as education or medical needs. That’s the “personal” business that Flywire is in. Its Chief Customer Officer, Rob Rosenblatt, shares with MPD CEO Karen Webster...
As the world gets smaller, with more than 2 billion consumers worldwide connected to the Internet via smartphones, opportunities for merchants to increase their online sales continue to grow. Yet, merchants continue to disappoint those consumers and the latest PYMNTS.com X-Border Payments Optimization Index™, powered...
China may nab the bulk of the headlines when it comes to eCommerce growth, but there are other areas of fertile ground as consumers worldwide increasingly take their buying power online. Consider Latin America. The region’s own eCommerce growth is progressing at a heady pace; in...
Free shipping and returns may increasingly be expected by U.S. online consumers, but it’s a whole different ballgame when it comes to international purchases. In this month’s PYMNTS X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™, PayPal’s Director of Global Merchant and Cross-Border Trade Initiatives, Melissa O’Malley, talks to...
Free shipping and returns may increasingly be expected by U.S. online consumers, but it’s a whole different ballgame when it comes to international purchases. In this month’s PYMNTS X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™, PayPal’s Director of Global Merchant and Cross-Border Trade Initiatives, Melissa O’Malley, talks to...
Just in time to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year, global payments provider Align Commerce announced Monday (Feb. 8) the establishment of its China corridor to enable SMBs to both send and receive payments to and from the largest Asian economy. The firm is offering...
The global economy rose to prominence off the backs of Western brands — McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and Nike, just to name a few. And while the Western consumer is still chugging along nicely, there’s another region of shoppers on the upswing, and it’s ready to spend. According to...
Merchants Get Your Wares: Nigeria’s Open For Business Nigeria’s emerging middle class will have purchasing power of $28 billion in the next four years and merchants need to heed the call. A key demographic for retailers, the Nigerian middle class is hungry for consumption and...
While there may be a trillion dollar cross-border commerce opportunity out there ready for the taking, the move to actually tap into the market is not as easy as it looks. Hikmet Ersek, CEO of Western Union, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to...
