February 12, 2013
French Government Tries To Limit Cash Payments
On Monday, the French government announced a number of measures to combat fraud in the country. Among the many measures desired by the government, is the wish to lower the...
February 12, 2013
Currency Cloud CEO: “New Finance Is Here To Stay”
The Currency Cloud has added its name to the growing list of alternative international payments providers cropping up in the recent months. Currency Cloud is rivalling with traditional financial institutions...
February 11, 2013
Azimo Rivals With The Big Players In The Remittances Market
What can you tell us about Azimo? How does it work? Azimo is a social remittance network. We allow anyone with an Internet-connected device to send money to over 4.5...
February 08, 2013
International & Cross-Border Payments
San Francisco, CA Global and cross-border payment systems, including emerging payment platforms such as mobile banking and virtual wallets, are set to explode, with all of the major industry players...
January 20, 2013
2013: The Year of Digitally Native Financial Services?
2013 will see a host of digitally native financial services firms start to take market share from traditional retail banks. Unlike vertically-integrated ‘Old Finance’ institutions with high fixed costs, these...
January 11, 2013
Cross-Border eCommerce: Payments’ Next Frontier
As global trade grows, all stakeholders in online industries are facing new challenges, for instance, how to make cross-border eCommerce profitable. Global eCommerce has been growing, on average, 19 percent...
January 09, 2013
HSBC Appoints Rani Gu To Lead Payments Business In China
HSBC has named Rani Gu to lead its Financial Institutions Group (FIG) in China, notes Finextra. Rani, a former HSBC employee, had spent the past seven years at Citibank. “In...
January 07, 2013
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?
Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or eCommerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...
December 14, 2012
Overcoming The Challenges Of Cross-Border Commerce
What could a partnership between a major issuer like MasterCard and a cross-border comments player like FiftyOne offer to the average consumer? Mario Shiliashki, senior vice president of emerging payments...
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.