BR-DGE Explores Cross-border Commerce on The Payments Power 50 Podcast

Our VP of Commercial, Tom Voaden, recently sat down with Mark Walker and fellow industry experts on The Payments Power 50 Podcast. In this episode, the panel dives deep into the complexities of cross border commerce and how enterprise payment orchestration seamlessly connects merchants to a global customer base.

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Navigating the Complexity of Global Payments

Expanding into international markets is essential for enterprise merchants across travel, gaming, and retail. However, global commerce comes with significant operational weight. Tom outlines how enterprise payment orchestration serves as the critical infrastructure to remove this friction:

• Intelligent Payment Routing: Granular data is the foundation of global decision making. By analysing card attributes and local scheme performance, orchestration dynamically directs transactions to the provider most likely to secure the highest authorisation rate in a specific region.
• Dynamic Fraud Management: International payments carry unique security risks. Orchestration allows merchants to integrate top tier fraud providers directly into the payment flow, enabling businesses to automatically block high risk transactions or trigger step up authentication when entering new markets.
• A Single Global Integration: Instead of managing dozens of individual technical integrations and constantly adapting to regional regulatory shifts, enterprise merchants must move towards a single, unified connection. This strategic shift frees up internal engineering teams to focus entirely on their core product and the consumer journey.

Looking at 2026

The challenges of global expansion, new local schemes, and shifting regulations will continue to test enterprise merchants. Rather than getting caught up in building complex internal payment infrastructures to keep pace, the most successful global businesses will shift their operational strategy. When discussing how companies will manage this evolving tech landscape, Tom highlighted the growing necessity of outsourcing this complexity to experts: