Another week, another great global payments news roundup for you. Best Buy just threw down the free next-day holiday delivery gauntlet for its competitors. Kount and BlueSnap have partnered to enable and encourage international e-commerce for US companies. Look, up in the sky, it’s Wing ...
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Holiday season sales haven’t really started yet but the competition for online sales coupled with special free or discount delivery options just heated up. Best Buy announced it will offer free next-day delivery on online purchases over $35 through Christmas Day for the first time. ...
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With global e-commerce likely to reach a record of nearly $3.5 trillion in 2019, why are more US businesses not making bigger headway in growing their international e-commerce sales? New research from fraud prevention solution company Kount and payments processor BlueSnap suggests fraud concerns and ...
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Residents of Christiansburg, Virginia will be looking to the sky a lot more in the near future, and it won’t be with a prayer. Rather, they’ll be buzzing about Walgreens, FedEx and Sugar Magnolia package deliveries by Alphabet subsidiary Wing Aviation’s fleet of drones. Wing ...
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Mastercard launched Payment on Delivery, a new solution that lets businesses pay a supplier in real-time when receiving goods or services. The company is piloting the program with PNC Bank, which uses the RTP® network from The Clearing House for real-time payments clearing and settlement ...
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The global payments news is just about as busy as the impeachment proceedings in the US but we’ve got important payments news to share. Lightico research looks at what Gen Z wants from their bank and it’s way more digital than their Dad’s bank. Juniper ...
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Let’s start with what Gen Z and younger consumers want from their banks. They want digital, mobile, and instant banking services. In other words, not their dad’s bank. What they’ve got right now from an entrenched banking system is too much paperwork, too many off-line ...
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If you’re like most e-commerce and online sellers, online shopping cart abandonment may be causing you to lose between 60% and 80% of potential sales in addition to other problems caused by fulfillment order challenges. Here are 10 e-commerce shopping cart and order fulfillment stats ...
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So how big is the mobile financial services market in emerging markets? According to a new study from Juniper Research, the mobile financial services market will be worth more than $1 trillion by 2024, up 70% from an estimated value of $580 billion in 2019. ...
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As the critical Festival shopping season begins, India’s Paytm Mall, the e-commerce subsidiary of payments and financial services company Paytm, is getting closer to profitability after several years of losses typical for a startup in the e-commerce business. “Paytm Mall business is close to break-even, ...
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