Doing business across borders presents a whole host of unfamiliar challenges to today’s merchant. As technological advancement and increasing globalization unlock international markets, it’s tempting to imagine that a business model successful in one region can simply be transplanted into another. Not so. The logistics of domestic and international transactions have changed, and so too have customer expectations and preferences. Customer and merchants pain points have transformed and multiplied. In this report, we explore some of the core challenges businesses today face in their quest to succeed in global commerce. We offer an overview of how unified commerce can both resolve these issues and offer new advantages and standards of best practice, enabling your business to meet the demands of tomorrow’s customer, no matter their location, preferred payment method, and mode of contact.

This American Express® guide helps you streamline FX payments. Includes FX payment provider profile, how to simplify payments, and insightful FAQ.

Financial services companies migrating to the cloud often need to optimize their infrastructure for innovation and agile delivery. International payments provider, OFX, accomplished this with Rackspace Fanatical Support for AWS, to successfully re-architecture its systems when its application portfolio was migrated from a colocation environment to a highly secure, compliant and scalable environment, on a managed AWS platform.