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4 Habits of highly successful eCommerce businesses
Want to learn the secrets of eCommerce success? Start with these four purpose-led, customer-centric and experience-driven growth strategies.
Shani Ishigaki
•7 minutes

Transfers
What’s the best way to transfer money abroad from the UK?
Learn how to transfer money abroad from the UK without incurring excessive fees. We'll cover how international bank transfers work, how to get the cheapest currency exchange rate, and how to avoid transfer fees.
Tilly Michell
•4 minutes

Business banking
How ClassBento scaled their business overseas during a global pandemic
Learn how creative marketplace, ClassBento, enabled bespoke workshops to thrive during the pandemic by connecting crafters to online classes around the world.
•4 minutes

Expense management
Reduce Google, Facebook and LinkedIn ad spend with this one hack
Because Google, Facebook and LinkedIn adverts are billed internationally, companies can incur additional charges when paying their bills. Here's how to avoid those fees.
Tilly Michell
•4 mins
Airwallex news
Airwallex hits the global stage, attending this year’s Money 20/20 circuit
Airwallex's Director of Strategic Partnerships Vivien Cheung wraps up her experience at Money 20/20 in Europe and the United States.
Vivien Cheung
•6 minutes

IBAN discrimination: what is it and what are my options?
IBAN discrimination is illegal, plain and simple. But if you do find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place, it’s helpful to know your options.
Jullian Duran
•2 minutes

Online payments
The best possible way to receive payment from Japanese customers
Business is easy when you're big in Japan. Here's a helpful guide on how to accept payments in Japanese Yen.
Ben Wang
•2 minutes

Business banking
Infographic: 77% of UK businesses plan to expand their international presence in 2022, according to poll
An Airwallex poll of UK small and medium-sized businesses has found that more than three quarters plan to expand their international presence in 2022. But international currency exchange fees threaten to hamper growth.
Tilly Michell
•3 minutes

Airwallex news
How Airwallex is enabling Sona to scale their business internationally
As a company with a big goal, and even bigger dreams, international expansion was always on the cards for Sona. The key challenge they faced was how to make this financially viable, and as streamlined as possible.
Tilly Michell
•5 minutes

Business banking
How to switch your business bank account in the UK
If you’re tired of clunky, outdated systems, poor customer service and unnecessary charges, it might be time to switch business bank accounts. Check out our guide on how to make the switch.
Tilly Michell
•5 minutes

Airwallex news
Airwallex partners with Brandbassador
Building brand awareness is a key challenge for all businesses, especially smaller ones. With Brandbassador, businesses can reward their customers with perks when they promote their products online.
Tilly Michell
•6 minutes

Airwallex news
Release Notes: October 2021
Pay with your smartphone, collect global payments with a single link. Here are the releases you need to know about in October 2021.
Shani Ishigaki
•2 minutes

Corporate cards
How Bowtie uses virtual corporate cards to streamline its operations in Hong Kong
Airwallex offers free virtual company cards that allow users to make online payments in multiple foreign currencies. Learn how Bowtie uses Airwallex to set-up free corporate cards for its employees and track their spending in real-time on Ariwallex’s online portal.
Alice Wong
•3 mins

Business banking
How to open a business bank account in the UK
When opening a business bank account in the UK, the process itself is reasonably straightforward, and there are a number of key documents and pieces of information you need to provide. Follow our guide to getting started.
•5 minutes

Attract, Develop, Retain: Top Talent to Transform Your Business with Naomi Simson
Top talent has the power to transform your business completely. Top talent also contributes diverse thinking and ways of working. Traditional models of recruitment, performance conversations and working styles are long gone, so how can we go about rethinking them?
•11 mins
Online payments
Multi-currency payment gateways: A better way to accept payments globally
Payment gateway technology has been instrumental in enabling eCommerce businesses to grow. We explore how an international payment solution can help your global eCommerce business expand with higher margins.
•6 minutes

Airwallex news
Follow the Money: How to Develop Cashflow Confidence with Naomi Simson
If you think of a business as a living organism, cash is the lifeblood of the business. One of the main reasons businesses fail is not that they don't record a profit; they run out of cash. It's essential to know where your cash is and monitor your business' health and wealth.
•8 mins

Employee Airtime: How Account Manager Yvia Magan-Parker made the leap from fashion to fintech
Get to know Account Manager Yvia Magan-Parker, employee number two in the Melbourne sales team at Airwallex.
•4 minutes

Online payments
CHAPS vs. BACS payments: What’s the difference?
When making high-volume or high-value transfers through your bank, there are two main payment networks you’ll be using: CHAPS vs BACS. So let’s look at the difference between BACS and CHAPS, and what this means for your business.
Joe Romeo
•5 minutes

Customer Story: Rotor One is flying high over Melbourne
Some people have used lockdowns to learn how to bake sourdough, propagate plants or dance on TikTok. But for Edward Taylor, founder and Commercial Pilot at Rotor One, he fulfilled his life-long dream of becoming a helicopter pilot. Read Edward's full story, here.
•4 minutes

Gathering and Guiding: Four Steps to Leading Leaders with Naomi Simson
Leadership is a curious thing. It's an intangible quality and notoriously hard to define. We discussed with Naomi Simson what it means to grow as a leader and will further explore four steps to building effective leadership teams.
•11 mins

Business banking
How to open a business bank account in the US
In this article, we’ll look at how to open a business bank account in the US, the benefits, and the US bank account requirements you need to be aware of.
Joe Romeo
•6 minutes

Accounting
How to calculate opportunity cost
An opportunity cost formula provides you with a way to measure the difference between two decisions, as a way to land on a rough value figure of one option over the other. Learn how to calculate opportunity cost with this simple formula.
Joe Romeo
•6 minutes

Choose Growth with Naomi Simson: Building a Customer-obsessed Culture
In business, we get obsessed with many things: the latest trends, our PR, our competitors, or internal politics. However, there is only one thing that is worth getting obsessed over – your customers.
•8 mins