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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
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If you’re tired of clunky, outdated systems, poor customer service and unnecessary charges, it might be time to switch business bank accounts.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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Beautifying B2B sales: Qwilr’s US expansion
Founded in 2014 as a remote first technology business, Qwilr has customers in 60 markets globally, and to date has raised over A$12 million. Qwilr helps sales teams create beautiful and dynamic online proposals, close a deal, and collect payment all in one place.
•4 mins
What is smooth, transparent, and very efficient? Sleek.
Sleek was founded in 2017 by Julien Labruyere and Adrien Barthel to help make the lives of entrepreneurs and investors easier. Sleek incorporates companies in Hong Kong and Singapore, helping them manage their governance, accounting and tax matters using technology.
•4 mins
How to Calculate ROI: It’s Not as Hard as You Think
In this article, we’re going to look at what ROI is, how to calculate ROI for your business, your marketing, and provide you with a simple ROI calculator you can use for your business.
Joe Romeo
•7 minutes
What Are My Legal Considerations Before Expanding Overseas?
If you have successfully proven your product in Australia, it may be time to look beyond our borders. Overseas markets present a huge growth opportunity. Don't start planning without reading this guide.
•6 minutes
How we are building a culture of compliance that empowers businesses to grow without borders
At Airwallex, our commitment to security and compliance doesn’t stop at our customers. From product and engineering, to business development and marketing, we put compliance at the centre of everything we do.
•6 minutes
Employee Airtime with Ivo Jenni, Product Lead based in Shanghai
Welcome to Employee Airtime! In this content series, we sit down with our talented team to talk about why they're excited to work at Airwallex, their passions and what gets them out of bed in the morning! Introducing Ivo Jenni, Product Lead based in Shanghai.
•6 minutes
The best D2C platforms for international eCommerce
In recent years, even the most tech-adverse among us have embraced shopping platforms like Shopify, Woocommerce, Magento and others to easily shop online. This post will walk you through how to pick the best platform for your D2C eCommerce to be global from day one.
•7 mins
Xero Best Practices for eCommerce Businesses
Accounting software, like Xero, helps small businesses simplify and automate many everyday bookkeeping and accounting tasks to save them time. In this post, we’re sharing six best practices for eCommerce businesses to get the most out of Xero.
•4 mins