Eric Rosenthal

Global expansion is challenging even under the best of circumstances – but payments don’t have to be, says Rapyd's Eric Rosenthal.

Ant Financial's success is instructive in the way it developed products that reach many different areas of their finances. And it's hardly the only success story to come out of the Asia Pacific Region, says Rapyd's Eric Rosenthal.

The real opportunity to achieve financial empowerment lies with the companies that are most intimately connected to people's lives, says Rapyd's Eric Rosenthal.

Modern, global merchants need comprehensive, integrated frameworks that reduce costs, manage risk and exposure, provide direct connectivity and redundancy to optimize reliability and keep control over the customer experience closer to the merchant, according to Eric Rosenthal, managing director of the Americas at Rapyd.

While many public policy initiatives focus on the 1.7 billion “unbanked,” we rarely hear about the nearly 1 billion people who do have a bank account and a smartphone but have no credit card nor cross-border-enabled debit, writes Eric Rosenthal, managing director of the Americas at Rapyd.