By Jeff Domansky, Jane 4, 2021 New research from Checkout.com and Oxford Economics shows that disconnected payments cost merchants more than $20.3 billion in the US, UK, France, and Germany last year. The research also identified those disconnects and where improvements can still be made ...
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Dec 30, 2020 As 2020 fades into the rearview mirror, we’ve got a last look at a year notable for the stories of struggle, resilience, and survival in the payments world. It’s a credit to the industry that many grew their business and at the ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 17, 2020 Prior to the pandemic, the economies of SE Asia were booming, and e-commerce was showing substantial growth as well. A new PPRO report shows the region’s e-commerce growth even eclipses the more developed marketplaces during the COVID-19 crisis. The ...
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By Ankita Tyagi, Founder & Principal Analyst, FSInnovate Dec 16, 2020 For decades, the payments space was associated with facilitating transactions between customers and their financial service provider, and nothing more. But, solution providers such as Alipay showed that it was possible to merge e-commerce ...
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By Thayer Stewart, CEO, PaymentWorks, Dec 15, 2020Everywhere you look, the statistics on B2B payments point to a rapid rise in the adoption of digital payments. Checks are still around, of course (and continue to cost businesses money to process), but according to a report ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 15, 2020 It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and that means last-minute online shopping, higher incidence of fraud, potential delivery delays, and the expectation of a record number of gift and online shopping returns. We’ve got a few holiday ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 12, 2020 As new COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations threaten to overwhelm the US health system, 85% of US small businesses say they need government relief funds now to survive to June 2021. A poll of 5,000 small business owners conducted by ...
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As the end of the year approaches, after a tumultuous, pandemic-fueled 10 months, publisher Doug Hall and managing editor Jeff Domansky reached out to payments industry leaders for their perspectives and predictions for the industry in 2021. These industry leaders have pivoted and innovated throughout ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Dec 9, 2020 Like many other businesses, the restaurant industry is struggling for its life, and new research shows the fragile, slow recovery through October has now slipped backward in November. Pay-at-the-table technology firm TableSafe’s research data shows restaurant transaction volumes declined ...
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By Rob Lincolne, founder and CEO, Paydock, Dec 8, 2020 When Square launched in 2009, they often spoke of the ‘Hidden cost of accepting cash.’ Articulating reconciliation, banking, and administrative inefficiencies (not to mention theft) contemporary thinking at the time referenced the value of non-cash ...
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