Cross Border Commerce

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...

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Why UK Consumers Can’t Get Enough X-Border Commerce
September 09, 2016

New research from eCommerce platform firm Bronto Software conducted by Censuswide found that nearly half (44 percent) of shoppers in the U.K. have made purchases online from merchants in another country. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...

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Tackling The Two Rs Of X-Border Payments
September 08, 2016

Receivers and reconciliation are two of the biggest frictions in cross-border payments. And it’s especially acute when that receiver is an institution receiving thousands of payments each day. Ryan Frere, VP of global payments at Flywire, joined Karen Webster to talk about the one thing...

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UK Losing Foreign Exchange Market To Asia
September 06, 2016

Brexit has hit the pound hard. Financial Times reported that the U.K.’s share of the foreign exchange market has dropped, while the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reported that Asia, particularly Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore, are picking up the pieces. Get the Full Story...

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Getting X-Border Payments Done for Global Citizens
August 31, 2016

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 money transmission network but a collection network that solves a pretty big problem for the receiving institution. Massaro’s conversation kicks off the Top...

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TransferWise To Break Free From Banks
August 30, 2016

Global money transfer firm TransferWise is getting ready to free itself from reliance on banks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter,...