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I'm assuming by "cross-border" that you mean across currencies. You really expect a company to do foreign exchange for free?



Foreign exchange can easily be "done for free" by properly setting the exchange rate. All Stripe has to do is publish an exchange rate that is a 0.N% deviation from the current market rate and they'll cover their costs, have a profit, and provide a "free" service. This would likely be significantly cheaper than international wires.


Nope - it is a fee for money that travels between PayPal users in different countries. It's about 1% for Canadian accounts, depending on the payment's source or destination [1].

[1] https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees




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