The End Of Western Dominance In Payments

Are your international checkouts bleeding revenue because you rely on Western credit cards? Emerging markets are no longer adopting financial technology, they are building the global blueprint. From India's UPI to the rise of stablecoins replacing slow SWIFT transfers for B2B trade, the Global South is forcing a structural shift in commerce. Eduardo de Abreu, Chief Product Officer at EBANX, joins Enterprise Explores to unpack the expensive realities of cross-border expansion.

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• The B2B Consumerisation Shift: Corporate finance teams are abandoning slow SWIFT transfers in favour of instant, consumer-style payment methods like UPI and Pix to improve traceability and reduce default rates.

• Stablecoins as Corporate Infrastructure: Moving beyond speculative assets, stablecoins now offer businesses faster cross-border fund flows and vital hedging opportunities against volatile foreign exchange markets.

• The Installment Multiplier: In regions like Latin America, offering instalment payments is a cultural necessity that substantially improves consumer affordability and can significantly boost a merchant's Average Order Value (AOV).

• Checkout Conversion Killers: Attempting to expand into emerging markets using only global card networks will lead to massive checkout abandonment if local alternative payment methods and e-wallets are ignored.

• The Global South Blueprint: Driven by the need to serve unbanked populations, emerging markets have bypassed legacy systems to build highly sophisticated, mobile-first payment rails that Western regulators are now trying to emulate.

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