Viktoria Soltesz of PSP Angels joins PAYMENTS FM for a practical conversation about international payments, provider setup, risk, compliance, and operational control.
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Why this matters
International payments can unlock growth, but they add work across providers, currencies, settlement, compliance, fraud, and reporting.
Viktoria talks about what happens when companies expand before the payment setup is ready for the markets they want to serve.
The conversation is especially useful for teams managing multiple PSPs, entering new countries, or trying to reduce payment risk without slowing down growth.
What to watch
Approval rates by market
FX cost
Settlement timing
PSP performance
Compliance friction
Fraud by region
Reconciliation issues
What it means for your team
International payments are operationally heavy.
Product needs local checkout coverage. Finance needs visibility into fees, FX, and settlement. Risk needs controls by market. Compliance needs clear responsibilities. Operations needs escalation paths when something breaks.
Without that structure, global growth can become harder to manage than expected.
What to do next
Review PSP coverage
Track cost by currency
Monitor declines by region
Document compliance ownership
Create incident paths
Questions to ask internally
Which markets are hardest to support?
Where do fees and FX change margins?
Which PSP owns each route?
Who handles compliance questions?
How fast can we diagnose an incident?
Guest perspective
Viktoria brings an operator view of global payments:
Local context matters in every market.
Provider selection should match business risk.
Compliance ownership needs to be explicit.
Reporting and reconciliation are part of control.
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