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.

A wrap-up of our 8-part Regional Payments Series: why we built it, the facts that surprised us most along the way, and an open invitation for what to cover next.

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.

Part 4 of our Regional Payments Series looks at APAC, where India's UPI carries roughly half of global real-time payment volume while China tightens capital controls — and where no unified regulatory framework ties any of it together.