April 29, 2024
Digital Wallets Provide Local Touch to Connected Travel Experiences
Alipay+ unveiled a cross-border payments initiative in a move to boost Hong Kong’s tourism and commerce sector. The platform facilitates transactions for users of 14 overseas mobile wallets and bank apps from nine countries and regions. Among...
April 29, 2024
How Fortune 500 CFOs Are Turning Cross-Border Compliance Into a...
Nothing dulls the enterprise risk appetite like uncertainty. And for today’s businesses, the focus remains on navigating the threats of recession, cybersecurity risks and pressure to demonstrate sustainable profitability. But...
April 28, 2024
Report: Middlemen Handle 50% of Russia’s Payments to China
Sanctions on payments between China and Russia have reportedly created a thriving market for middlemen. In fact, half of all payments by Russian companies for Chinese products are now handled...
April 25, 2024
This Week in B2B: Enterprise Metaverses, AI Accountants, Virtual Cards
Innovation is a key factor in any company’s ability to succeed in the long run. And so are the ways in which they pay and get paid. That’s why, within...
April 25, 2024
Visa Teams With AWS to Streamline Cross-Border Payments
Visa says it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). “Visa’s presence in the APN will help enable its partners and clients, including cloud-native fintechs, to access and integrate select...
April 25, 2024
Thredd CEO: Compliance Will Define Future of Payments
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. That quote, by management consultant Peter F. Drucker, holds more true today than ever before — particularly given...
April 24, 2024
Nium and Thredd Launch APAC Virtual Card Partnership
Cross-border payments platform Nium and payments processor Thredd have expanded their partnership. As Thredd said in a Wednesday (April 24) news release, this expansion will allow Nium issue virtual cards in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region....
April 23, 2024
Brightwell Launches Cross-Border Payment Platform Focused on Reimbursements
Brightwell has launched a platform designed to let businesses deliver cross-border payments to their customers. The new Latitude platform does so based on the customer’s currency, location and payment method, the global payments technology...
April 23, 2024
Standard Chartered and Visa Partner on Cross-Border B2B Payments
Standard Chartered has partnered with Visa to facilitate cross-border B2B payments for the bank’s corporate clients. The bank has joined the Visa B2B Connect multilateral payment network and has become Visa’s new settlement partner...
Real-time payments in the EU are on the verge of achieving their instantaneous promise, with a new rule from the European Council requiring instant fund transfers to be available within 10 seconds. In this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores this development along with other advancements unfolding across the global real-time payments landscape.
Many eCommerce merchants in the United States seek growth in international markets but encounter significant friction in cross-border transactions. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, “Cross-Border Sales and the Challenge of Failed Payments,” a collaboration with Nuvei, draws on insights from 300 executives to identify the key challenges of cross-border payments and how to solve them.