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How Payment Flows and Direct Sourcing Are Reshaping International Trade
Your payment setup might be the silent reason your business fails. While you focus on tariffs, competitors are bypassing you completely—collecting faster, settling cheaper, and reaching your customers directly. One change in regulation or a blocked payment flow, and your funds are frozen, refunds pile up, and clients disappear. Most companies won’t realise it until it’s too late.
Read the article for more information here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-payment-flows-direct-sourcing-reshaping-trade-viktoria-soltesz-kegte/
Why payment orchestration is overhyped and will not save your business
Payment orchestration is a popular topic in the financial tech world, often seen as a universal solution for managing all issues around payment and banking. While payment orchestration can offer some valuable benefits, it is often overhyped and can overlook broader and more critical payment and banking issues, making things more complicated rather than easier.
Let me explain why.
The main issue is that payment orchestration focuses too narrowly on one part of the payment and banking picture, ignoring important other elements around the flows, such as risk, compliance, data security, fraud prevention, contract terms, or technological advancements.
One problem with payment orchestration is that it tries to simplify by combining various payment methods into one system. While this sounds helpful, it often misses the bigger picture.
Read more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-payment-orchestration-overhyped-save-your-business-soltesz-b6uuf/?trackingId=z0xs0oZAQu6FkZNZIoX5lg%3D%3D
Payment orchestration is a popular topic in the financial tech world, often seen as a universal solution for managing all issues around payment and banking. While payment orchestration can offer some valuable benefits, it is often overhyped and can overlook broader and more critical payment and banking issues, making things more complicated rather than easier.
Let me explain why.
The main issue is that payment orchestration focuses too narrowly on one part of the payment and banking picture, ignoring important other elements around the flows, such as risk, compliance, data security, fraud prevention, contract terms, or technological advancements.
One problem with payment orchestration is that it tries to simplify by combining various payment methods into one system. While this sounds helpful, it often misses the bigger picture.
Read more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-payment-orchestration-overhyped-save-your-business-soltesz-b6uuf/?trackingId=z0xs0oZAQu6FkZNZIoX5lg%3D%3D
Why payment orchestration is overhyped and will not save your business
Payment orchestration is a popular topic in the financial tech world, often seen as a universal solution for managing all issues around payment and...
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