The disruption has to come from bypassing credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard.
In India, almost every merchant is using UPI which saves them fees of credit card processing.
The world banking is getting more advanced and technical and I am sure payment gateways can bypass the credit card and currency conversion fees with direct bank to bank transfer.
For larger Amount, we are asking our customers to use Wise instead of stripe or PayPal as the saving for us is significant.
Yes. They only do bank to bank. But there is definitely a business model here.
If you can offer subscription model and can do bank to bank transfer with 0.5% fees, you will disrupt the whole subscription industry relying on visa/Master card monopoly. Not only this, banks also charge very high currency conversion fees which you can disrupt.
You of course need to build lot of things from scratch but with most of the banking now a days going online with new APIs, it is possible.
We are paying roughly 9% fees to stripe which includes currency conversion charges.
So if a customer pays us $100, we are getting $91 to our bank account which is absolutely ridiculous.
If anyone looking for next $10B-$100B business idea, work on making the transaction fees to 1% and you can take business from stripe and PayPal immediately.
Wise.com is doing this and I hope more such companies work on this.
The disruption has to come from bypassing credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard.
In India, almost every merchant is using UPI which saves them fees of credit card processing.
The world banking is getting more advanced and technical and I am sure payment gateways can bypass the credit card and currency conversion fees with direct bank to bank transfer.
For larger Amount, we are asking our customers to use Wise instead of stripe or PayPal as the saving for us is significant.