Cross-border intelligence

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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Multi-state income tax filing series (3): U.S. companies need to file income tax in multiple states—how is taxable profit apportioned?

If Prime Day prices are pushed too low, will it affect Black Friday and lead to double discounts?

Prices were slashed in October—will this be counted into historical prices, causing the maximum promotional price the system allows for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals to be pushed even lower?

Comment: A crackdown on online shopping tricks is welcome, but doesn’t go far enough

Hurry! Only two left! Fourteen people bought this in the last hour! Fifty people are looking at this item! Anyone who shops online will be familiar with these kinds of messages popping up on their screen. The online equivalent of a pushy sa

Under Executive Order 14411, how can cross-border sellers build a U.S. compliance system that can withstand scrutiny?

26-cv-00517 | Spider-Man has finally arrived! The TRO covers peripheral text, graphics, and character likenesses

New policy introduced! The "Measures for the Administration of Outbound Investment" takes effect in December; Hong Kong companies, overseas warehouses, and store equity of cross-bo

With the new "Measures for the Administration of Outbound Investment" now in effect, cross-border e-commerce operators need to pay attention to overseas investment compliance; both resident individuals and domestic companies making overseas investments must file records, and full-lifecycle supervision of projects has b

Interpretation of new rules: US FinCEN announces the permanent cancellation of BOI reporting obligations for millions of small businesses

On August 11, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released the final rule on beneficial ownership information (BOI)

26-cv-02274 | From a knife-wielding yellow duck to a flower heart, 7 illustrations involve 41 defendants

2026-cv-02285 | Attention capybara merchandise sellers: 31 stores are all in TRO litigation; hoodies, stickers, and keychains are high-risk categories