Nuvei's acquisition of Payoneer is board-approved and moving toward a 2027 close. That's a long runway — long enough to tempt clients into waiting and seeing. Here's what's actually worth tracking in the meantime.

Part 1 covered when to consider a local entity. Part 2 covered what setting one up actually takes. This is the worksheet — what to actually line up side by side before you make the call, and it's not just cost.

Part 1 of this series covered when a local entity makes sense. Here's what actually goes into setting one up — and why the cost and timeline vary so much from company to company.

Most multinationals never formally decide between setting up a local entity and continuing to pay cross-border fees — they just keep absorbing the fees because nobody's put a number on what the status quo actually costs. Here's how to evaluate which is right for your company.

Multinational companies rarely lose money on cross-border payments because of bad luck — they lose it because nobody ever laid out what their real options were. Here's why that gap is so common, and what fixing it actually unlocks.

Closing out our Regional Payments Series with the actual framework behind all seven posts — plus a region-by-region recap of what changed along the way, from Brazil's Pix to Canada's real-time rail.

Part 7 of our Regional Payments Series looks at Canada and Australia, the lowest-friction markets in the series — where the real gap is not access or compliance, it is defaulting to SWIFT out of habit instead of using fast, cheap local rails.

Part 6 of our Regional Payments Series looks at the Middle East, where GCC currencies have been dollar-pegged for decades and the UAE runs one of the world's fastest instant payment systems — while neighboring banking systems remain fragile or sanctioned.

Part 5 of our Regional Payments Series looks at Africa, where mobile money is the primary payment rail, not a workaround — and where remittance costs remain the highest of any region in the world.