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Cut the Fat: The Real Cost of Cross-Border Payments

Finextra

Whether youre paying overseas vendors or remote employees, understanding the true cost of sending international payments is vital to protecting your margins. A Breakdown of Hidden Fees in International Payments 1. Ask how your payment is routed - If it goes through SWIFT, expect deductions.

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ACH Payment vs Wire Transfer: What’s the Difference and Which Payment Method Should You Use?

Stax

If you’ve been accepting and using electronic payments in your business, you’ve probably come across two of the most popular terms in the digital payments scene— automated clearing house (ACH) and wire transfer. While they’re both electronic modes of payment, they have stark contrasts when it comes to their processes.

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Wire Transfer vs Electronic Transfer

EBizCharge

Wire transfers and electronic funds transfers have been staples of financial transactions for decades, but various electronic transfer methods have emerged with the innovation in banking technology. What is a wire transfer? Wire transfers are particularly useful for urgent or high-value transactions.

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Cambridge, Beanworks Continue X-Border Payment Partnership

PYMNTS

Customers will be able to compare purchase orders alongside invoices before going to straight to payment in more than 145 currencies with the AP technology of Beanworks and the payments technology of Cambridge brought together.

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Deep Dive: Why Freelancers Want Payment Flexibility And How Businesses Can Keep Up

PYMNTS

The following Deep Dive analyzes how the ongoing pandemic and the increasing availability of digital and instant payment methods are shifting freelancers’ payment expectations globally. Freelance Flexibility And Cross-border Payments. Faster Payments And The Global Economy.

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Alibaba Bridges Cross-Border B2B Buyer-Seller Trust Gap

PYMNTS

Legacy cross-border payment methods that may have been inconvenient but endurable in 2019 no longer serve firms’ needs in 2020. Last year saw 68 percent of companies using wire transfers to transact with international business partners, but more firms are now regarding this approach as too friction-heavy.

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Mastercard and the Medical Tourism Association Join Forces to Revolutionize Cross-Border Healthcare Payments

Fintech Finance

The Medical Tourism Association will utilize Mastercard’s commercial virtual card technology to go beyond arranging treatments to also facilitating fast and secure payments with healthcare providers. Introducing virtual cards also brings a range of benefits to providers.