Cross Border Ecommerce Trade news and trends

WePay’s Cross-Border Payments Strategy
In Depth // February 12, 2015

When Google tapped WePay to tackle its mobile-commerce payments problem, it didn’t just give merchants an easy way to use its two-tap instant Buy system, it helped gave them an easy way to do business cross-border and gave birth to an interesting partnership. Google originally...

More Shoppers Go Global
International // December 26, 2014

Cross-border e-commerce has grown so quickly that 25 percent of PayPal’s transactions are now international, with about 2,000 cross-border transactions per minute, according to the Associated Press. A PayPal report estimates that by 2018, about 130 million shoppers will be spending over $300 billion a...

Russian Shoppers To Double Ecommerce Spending
International // November 20, 2014

Russian shoppers are expected to spend up to $5.1 billion this year on foreign commerce websites, twice as much as they spent in 2013, The Paypers reported on Wednesday (Nov. 19), quoting the Moscow Times and news agency RBC. The estimate came from the Association...

China’s Bustling Cross-Border eCommerce Market
B2B Payments // September 23, 2014

With Alibaba last week having gone through the largest initial public offering in U.S. history, expect continued growth in international eCommerce trade coming out of China. Alibaba already is saying it wants to create more online sales between China and other Asian businesses and consumers,...

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More Shoppers Go Global

December 26, 2014
Cross-border e-commerce has grown so quickly that 25 percent of PayPal’s transactions are now international, with about 2,000 cross-border transactions per minute, according to the Associated Press. A PayPal report estimates that by 2018, about 130 million shoppers will be spending over $300 billion a year across the border, up from $105 billion in 2013. […]

Russian Shoppers To Double Ecommerce Spending

November 20, 2014
Russian shoppers are expected to spend up to $5.1 billion this year on foreign commerce websites, twice as much as they spent in 2013, The Paypers reported on Wednesday (Nov....