Cross-border intelligence

A trademark used for 5 years, then suddenly a letter arrives: Please stop using it

An "industry-generic term" cost him 3 months of profit

[Common Questions in Cross-Border E-Commerce] Brand authorization, agency operations, and co-branding: How to write an authorization letter without stepping into pitfalls

A small bottle sells for $12! How did Touchland become the "Hermès of hand sanitizer"?

Shipments, listing discrepancies, overage inventory: How to get AI to proactively remind you to handle them?

Once shipments are sent out, no one tracks them; when quantities don't match, you don't know whether to file a claim; and you only discover inventory has exceeded its age limit after it's too late—with many stores and many SKUs, manual daily monitoring is simply unmanageable. This article starts from 3 scenarios—shipme

This overseas expansion account can't be balanced by remedial lessons

Sellers on the Germany site, take note: Old LUCID accounts need to add a packaging EPR authorized representative

Being registered for Germany's LUCID does not mean all newly added packaging compliance requirements have been met. This article reviews the key items that existing sellers on the German site need to verify, from applicable entities, authorized representative qualifications, written agreements, and system confirmations

Annual accounting for a Hong Kong company doing cross-border e-commerce: With platform reports, payment collection records, and purchase invoices, can the books be prepared directl

For annual cross-border e-commerce accounts, attention must be paid to differences between platform reports and accounting standards. Having complete materials does not mean the books are clear; accounts must be classified by store and costs aggregated to ensure audit compliance.

Compliance must deliver big results! Q4 self-inspection checklist for European site sellers, to avoid sudden delistings during peak season

Overseas influencer marketing in the AI Agent era: Which steps to hand over to machines, and which must stay with humans?

The scale of overseas influencer marketing is approaching $40 billion, and AI Agents are taking over execution tasks such as screening, outreach, and monitoring. However, a Gartner survey shows that consumer trust in AI content is declining. This article proposes a human-machine division-of-labor framework: leave batch

Countdown to Brazil's tax reform! Cross-border sellers must prepare in advance for 2027!

In 2026, new changes in Brazil's taxation have emerged one after another: import tax rules for low-value imported goods have been adjusted, consumption tax reform has entered the testing phase, and 2027 will bring further changes to the tax system.

California C Corporation 2025 tax filing extended to November 16—what if you missed filings in previous years?

The extended filing deadline for California C Corporation Form 100 for the 2025 tax year is November 16, 2026. If a company has unreported filings from prior years or has not yet filed for the current year, how should it handle this? What fees will result from late filing?

HaiMa Influencer Marketing | 900,000 units sold per month for a single product! North American anglers are snapping up "Shandong fishing rods"!

Overseas influencer marketing | A single product sells 900,000 units a month! North American anglers are scrambling for "Shandong fishing rods"!

Fraudsters Leave Patterns, and AWS Wants AI to Follow Them

Fraud attacks can now be assembled with commercially packaged software, distributed across accounts and devices, and altered faster than banks can rewrite a conventional fraud rule. “We’re seeing fraudsters leverage commoditized SaaS toolki

Tungsten Automation Says Scale Will Keep Humans in the Payment Loop

Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Tungsten Automation’s Emily Nash-Walker A company can automate routine supplier payments while requiring human approval for unusually large payments or transactions outside its normal markets. For Em

Scams Gain 10 Percentage Points in Share of Fraud Dollars

Banks have an opportunity to strengthen fraud protection by helping customers recognize when someone is persuading them to send money to a criminal. That’s a central finding of “Scams Get Personal: Why Banks Pay More to Fight Fraud,” the Se

AI Breaks the Traditional Relationship Between Business Growth and Hiring

Artificial intelligence is creating a new competitive question for small businesses. What happens when revenue can grow without payroll growing alongside it? The PYMNTS Intelligence report “New Data Shows Small Businesses Use AI to Grow Wit

Backbase Helps Banks Deploy Agentic AI With Delivery Factory

Backbase has introduced a tool that pairs banking teams with specialized artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The banking operating system provider’s Delivery Factory lets a bank’s delivery team work with AI agents “from the first agreed re

CFOs See the Same Downturn. Only Some Can Afford to Exploit It.

Economic uncertainty is supposed to make CFOs defensive. Today, it’s giving the strongest companies permission to attack. New data in the October 2026 edition of “The 2026 Certainty Project” from PYMNTS Intelligence finds that 87% of CFOs s

Gen X Wants More From Familiar Payment Tools

Generation X is giving payments providers a clear signal to make payments more flexible, but keep them familiar. This cohort is not particularly interested in the rapid adoption of new methods, but instead largely desires to keep using the

People keep talking about differentiation—you can mine unmet needs from low-rated products

People keep talking about differentiation—you can mine unmet needs from low-rated products

Shunde small home appliance company goes global, annual revenue of 3.4 billion yuan

Deerma, with revenue of 3.4 billion yuan, is growing through water purifiers bearing the Philips trademark, while its own Deerma brand is actually shrinking. Rented trademarks, distributor-led overseas expansion—the faster the leverage is borrowed, the more it hurts when it comes due. Whether the license can be renewed

Hangzhou directly pushes customs declaration amounts, Shenzhen requires on-site visits! Export tax-exemption declarations are being verified

Sellers using export tax exemption need to pay attention

What major events happened in the cross-border circle last week (10.19-10.25)

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