July 2023 Summaries

Airwallex’s July updates introduce tools intended to give businesses greater control over foreign exchange, payments, and risk management. New features include FX Rate Alerts for tracking target exchange rates, online card-payment acceptance for deferred-delivery businesses such as travel agencies, and Danish krone local currency accounts. Shopify merchants can now integrate Airwallex’s global checkout directly into their stores, supporting multi-currency settlement and 160 local payment methods, while customizable API-based Watchlists allow businesses to apply their own transaction and customer risk rules. The iOS app now supports global transfers to existing and new recipients, and Payment Links have been optimized for social-media sharing with shorter URLs and branded previews. Airwallex also announced upcoming employee-card customization that will allow businesses to print their names on cards.

Olivia, a Shanghai-based Senior Product Manager on Airwallex’s GTPN team, manages the end-to-end customer experience for cross-border payments and joined the company in 2019 seeking the visible impact and broad responsibilities of a fast-growing startup. She values Airwallex’s fast-paced environment, opportunities for growth, and supportive colleagues, who have encouraged her competitive freediving pursuits. Less than a year after beginning freediving, Olivia represented China at the CMAS World Championships in Kuwait, set the Chinese national record in Dynamic No Fins, and later broke two additional national records at the AIDA World Championships in Jeju. Inspired by her lifelong interest in the ocean and prominent freedivers, she attributes her rapid progress to structured practice, discipline, mental preparation, and support from coaches, family, and the freediving community. She has addressed fear and panic associated with extreme breath-hold diving through meditation and visualization, applying the resilience, continual improvement, and willingness to challenge limits developed in the sport to her work in fintech.