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Many payment providers are set up to aid transactions on a low value, low volume basis, Althaus said, “but as the size of cross-border payments gets into the thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars, this opens up a whole other level of complexity from the view of compliance” and the process of moving money.
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is facing heightened compliance burdens that similarly force administrative, manual tasks on professionals that need that time to focus on their businesses. On top of that administrative burden, the growing gig worker population in the U.K. He noted that this is another challenge for the smallest of the small businesses.
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