Is your original pre-digital loyalty program meeting the needs of new digital-savvy consumers with sky-high expectations? A new whitepaper from West Monroe Partners suggests many loyalty programs are overcomplicated, too transactional, and too homogeneous. They no longer meet their original goal of inspiring true customer ...
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If you’re a Sam’s Club shopper in Dallas, you’ll soon be able to use a new “Sam’s Club Now” app to scan and pay for your groceries and exit the new high-tech store at a cashierless checkout. Think of it like Amazon Go, except bigger and ...
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Here’s the global payments news that caught our eye this week including Shopify/Venmo and Amazon/AMEX partnerships, Visa’s double-digit growth, Amazon Q3 results, US cross-border payments research, Swedish government’s e-krona digital currency, British Airways hack, Canadian cannabis sales going higher, and much more. It’s payments news ...
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CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer interviewed Visa CEO Al Kelly for an eye-opening look at why he thinks payment stocks may be the safest investment play in the financial sector. “Visa has no interest rate risk,” Cramer said. “Visa’s not gonna get crushed if ...
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US online merchants are far behind building their cross-border e-commerce growth because most are not offering enough or any local payment methods in international markets. A new PPRO whitepaper shows that US merchants need to make local payment methods (LPM) available because traditional credit card ...
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Last week, Sears finally succumbed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a decades-long and painful struggle. Sears expects to close 142 unprofitable stores by the end of this year. Mattress Firm also announced bankruptcy plans to close 700 of its stores across the US. These ...
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Welcome to Payments NEXT’s Friday global payments news roundup featuring breaking news, industry insight, trends, research and much more. PayPal Scores an AmEx Tie-Up and Notches a Strong Quarter, Though Challenges Loom PayPal began working with competitive and semi-competitive partners, and on Thursday it added ...
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Online retailers using PayU in Europe can now add to Google Pay to mobile and online payments for customers. Google and PayU first introduced Android Pay (now Google Pay) to the Poland market earlier in 2018. “Thanks to Google Pay, users in Poland and Europe ...
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Mitek released a new report ranking the top 20 US retail financial institutions based on the customer experience, quality and features of their mobile banking deposit app and services. The third annual 2018 Mobile Deposit Benchmark Report shows that financial institutions investing in the design, ...
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You may be surprised to learn which e-commerce markets in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States are growing the fastest. In fact, according to the latest PPRO research report, the average e-commerce growth-rate is 25% in this region, two-and-a-half times higher than the average ...
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