Cross Border Commerce

Cross Border Commerce
The Other Cross-Border Payments Risk
October 11, 2016

Nearly half of all SMEs say that they will increase their international business. When that happens, they say that their biggest fear isn’t fraud or security — it's currency volatility. AFEX’s State of International Payments Report highlights the risks and complexities that keep payments players...

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Halloween’s Super Spooktacular X-Border Boom
October 10, 2016

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™, American merchants received a score of 67.5 points, indicating they are the world’s best at appealing to international audiences. Find out what nations...

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X-Border Merchant Rankings: And The eLeader Is…
October 07, 2016

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™, American merchants received a score of 67.5 points, indicating they are the world’s best at appealing to international audiences. Find out what nations...

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Tackling The ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Global Payments Myth
October 06, 2016

Moving money from Point A to Point B is about a lot more than the transaction itself. For Global Citizens, as well as the receiving institutions on the other end, that payment experience is key. Jason Moens, VP of Product, Flywire, explained the technology and...

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Why Payment Experience Matters For Global Citizens
September 30, 2016

Global Citizens are an attractive (and quickly growing) market. They make high-ticket payments in full for things like education and health care, which can be a big revenue driver for institutions on the receiving end. But as Flywire’s Sharon Butler, EVP of sales, and David...

Cross-Border Shopping Tracker: France
September 29, 2016

Paris and the entire country of France offer many opportunities for “cross-border” commerce — from tourists who visit France from other parts of the world to French citizens who use the internet to shop outside of the country. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Running The Global Payments Compliance Playbook
September 20, 2016

In a perfect world, there would be a global compliance payment standard making it easy to securely send and receive money all over the world. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case because the regulations that work in one country may not work in another —...

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The X-Border Payments Superhighway
September 12, 2016

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 the September edition of the X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with Shannon Scott, director of risk and payments at uShip,...

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The Internet’s Borderless Lens?
September 09, 2016

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 the September edition of the X-Border Payments Optimization Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with Shannon Scott, director of risk and payments at uShip, about how...