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As companies continue to grow across borders and customers look to become shoppers of the world, a noticeable paradigm has emerged with merchants in the United States—common payment methods in America don’t do well in Europe. This is due in large part to the lack of understanding of payments in Europe by U.S. merchants, and the reasons consumers shop internationally. The current American “one-payment-type-fits-all approach” does not work with European consumers.