Pockyt

This summer, the 2026 World Cup is expected to bring more than 1.2 million international visitors from 40+ countries to the United States, with matches underway across 11 U.S. host cities. Whether they’re buying a train ticket, checking into a hotel, or ordering dinner, travelers expect to use the same payment methods they rely on at home. Most U.S. retailers can't support them. WHSmith can. WHSmith is a fixture of travel retail worldwide, offering books, travel essentials, gifts, food, and convenience products to millions of passengers each year. For international travelers, convenience doesn’t stop at the shelf. It extends to how they pay. Now, through Pockyt, WHSmith is supporting payment methods travelers already use, across the full range of payment networks Pockyt connects: mobile wallets, local bank methods, and emerging stablecoin rails. WeChat Pay is the first payment option to go live at WHSmith’s U.S. airport locations, with many more on the way. But bringing each new payment method to the point of sale requires substantial infrastructure behind the scenes. It takes: - Specialized integration with the existing point-of-sale system - Connectivity to local payment networks - Cross-border clearing and settlement - A compliance framework most providers don’t have That’s where Pockyt stands out: connecting global retailers to the payment methods their customers already use, from established wallets to stablecoin rails, through infrastructure built for complex cross-border transactions. For the traveler, the experience is seamless: they see a familiar payment option at checkout, make the payment in their own app, and the transaction clears through Pockyt into WHSmith's settlement flow. No new hardware, minimal change for store teams, and most importantly, no lost sales. “Chinese travelers are among our most valuable airport customers, and they expect to pay with WeChat Pay. Pockyt made that possible for us in a way no other provider could. It’s just the start of what we’re building together.” — Ian Rankin, Chief Commercial Officer, WHSmith There’s a pattern across travel retail. Your highest-value customers arrive with specific payment expectations, and the businesses ready for them complete more sales, capture more transactions, and serve a truly global base. The World Cup is the most visible example right now, but same dynamic plays out every day, across airports, tourist destinations, and other international travel hubs. WHSmith and Pockyt are actively expanding the rollout to additional payment methods. If you serve international customers, the question isn't whether they'll pay. It's whether you're ready to support the way they pay. See how Pockyt connects global merchants to local payment methods: www.pockyt.io WHSmith WHSmith North America #CrossBorderPayments #TravelRetail #Fintech #WorldCup2026 #Stablecoins

72% of online shopping carts are abandoned. For global ecommerce brands, the reasons go beyond a clunky checkout. It's unexpected fees, no guest checkout, and especially for global brands, missing local payment methods like Pix, Alipay, and WeChat Pay. Most of these problems have straightforward fixes. For local payments, the goal is simple: support how customers actually pay in each market. Even better when checkout, payouts, and all other cross-border money movement live in one easy-to-use interface. That's where Pockyt comes in. We broke down the key reasons for cart and checkout abandonment, and what global brands can do about each one. Read it here → https://bit.ly/4tylKUw

The “stablecoin sandwich” helped explain why stablecoins matter for cross-border payments: Fiat in → stablecoin settlement → fiat out. And it worked. Stablecoins are a powerful part of payment infrastructure — faster, cheaper, and more transparent than traditional correspondent banking. But global money movement doesn’t stop at settlement. A real business still has to manage local collection, named accounts, FX and liquidity, compliance in flow, local payouts, and reconciliation across markets. The sandwich solves one layer. But companies operating across multiple countries don’t just need a faster bridge. They need the whole operating system around it. The next model is the stablecoin bento. Each compartment has a specific function, each layer is designed to work with the others, and the “box” connects compliance, routing, treasury, and visibility across the whole stack. Because the future of cross-border money movement won’t be won by whoever adds the most filling. It will be won by whoever owns the whole box. Read more: https://bit.ly/4tRvaLH

We speak with growing global ecommerce brands every day and see the same pattern: • A patchwork of payment providers, added on as the company scaled • Separate pay-in and payout accounts with different vendors • No single view of money moving through the business The result? • Finance teams reconciling across disconnected systems • Ops teams adding new vendors with every market entry • Leadership with no unified visibility If you're operating in 3+ markets, you're likely leaving operational efficiency—and revenue—on the table. Here's what changes when you consolidate your cross-border payment stack… Read more: https://bit.ly/4eJ81pY #fintech #payments #ecommerce #crossborderpayments