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The Real-World Tech That Smooths Payments in the Metaverse
eCommerce // September 28, 2022

The new eCommerce landscape is complex and ever evolving: Businesses seeking to provide their customers with new virtual spaces like gaming environments have to adapt their payments management strategies to new technical and user experience challenges. “Navigating The New eCommerce Landscape: Modernizing Payments For Marketplaces,...

The Role of a Modern Clearing Bank in Scaling Global Payments
Banking // June 23, 2022

Global payments are complex, often slow and inevitably risky. Compliance and anti-fraud efforts can be lengthy, costly processes, and many businesses, financial institutions (FIs) and entrepreneurs simply assume that this state of affairs is a permanent one. Enter the modern clearing bank, a new kind...

Levi’s, Mondelēz Face China Shutdowns In Coronavirus Crisis
International // January 31, 2020

The coronavirus is forcing global businesses of all categories to scale back, close locations or even shut down for a while, according to The Wall Street Journal. So far, the disease has killed more than 130 people, and more than 6,000 are infected.  Airlines have...

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AI and Biometrics Give Sellers Confidence to Do Business Globally

September 30, 2022
When businesses go global, they are often exposed to new risks such as exposure to cybercriminals seeking to exploit their lack of familiarity with the idiosyncrasies of regional payments processes. Key tasks like as ensuring that payment sources and payment recipients are legitimate can be difficult to accomplish for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and […]

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Levi’s, Mondelēz Face China Shutdowns In Coronavirus Crisis

January 31, 2020
The coronavirus is forcing global businesses of all categories to scale back, close locations or even shut down for a while, according to The Wall Street Journal. So far, the disease has killed more than 130 people, and more than 6,000 are infected.  Airlines have been affected, too. For example, British Airways and Lion Air […]