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Inês Ferreira covers payments, financial infrastructure and cross-border trade policy.
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4 published stories
Merchants routing the same transaction across several acquirers are turning processing into a spot market. Pricing teams are discovering how little of their spread was ever defensible.
Inês Ferreira · 5 hr ago · 6 min read
A wave of tuck-in acquisitions is assembling end-to-end shipping stacks. For merchants, the trade is fewer integrations and less negotiating leverage.
15 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
Instant account-to-account transfers are quietly replacing card payouts for marketplaces and gig platforms across the EU, and the savings are large enough to notice.
15 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
Low-value import exemptions are narrowing across several major markets. Direct-from-factory pricing models lose their structural edge.
13 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
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