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...
Regardless of where Apple sells them from, it’s fairly easy to find someone with an iPhone in just about every country in the world. The same can’t be said for Apple’s physical storefronts, but new rumors suggest that could change — with a definite focus...
If there’s anything that retail should learn from the now-deposed king of social media outrage Martin Shkreli, it’s that consumers always have a line they don’t want businesses to cross. For Shkreli, raising the price of life-saving medications should have been a no-brainer if he...
In 2015, the opportunities in cross-border commerce were limited only to the size of the globe itself … yet merchants seem ill-prepared to seize them. The PYMNTS Cross-Border Payments Optimization Index measures how much work remains for a merchant community that has only seen the...
