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Can your e-commerce business cash in on the membership economy?

According to McKinsey & Company research, e-commerce membership sites have grown more than 100% annually during the past five years. An estimated 15% of consumers have signed up to one or more subscription services for everything from beer and wine, child and baby items, contact ...
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Global payments news: Coffee by drone, Google store, Walmart e-commerce, Amazon theaters, US contactless cards

This weekend’s reading in payments news, trends, research and innovations from around the globe is for the fast and the furious. Watch for Google’s first-ever retail store in Chicago, Amazon’s possible move into the theater business, and Walmart’s stellar e-commerce results. We’ve also got a ...
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Square’s crypto-powered Cash App bests PayPal’s Venmo for first time

When it comes to payments apps, there’s a new sheriff in town. Square’s Cash App now has a total of 33.5 million downloads compared with PayPal Venmo’s 32.9 million cumulative downloads according to Nomura Instinet analyst Dan Dolev. “If the Cash App continues to grow ...
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Asia-Pacific e-commerce will reach $2.3 trillion in 2022, powered by mobile

Online shopping in the Asia-Pacific region will reach $1.6 trillion in 2018 and $2.3 trillion by 2022 according to a new report from GlobalData. Across the entire Asia-Pacific market, Asia-Pacific e-commerce growth increased between 2013 and 2017 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ...
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UK check clearing will get a new image makeover

It’s very surprising the check clearing system in the UK has not kept pace with new technologies in most other markets around the world. By the end of this year, UK financial institutions will all finally adopt a new image-clearing system that replaces a traditional ...
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Debit cards take over from cash as preferred payment in UK

For the first time in the UK, debit cards have taken over from cash as the consumers’ preference for payments. New research from UK Finance shows consumers made 13.2 billion debit card payments in 2017 compared to 13.1 billion payments in cash. This comes a ...
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Global payments news: Order ahead, Apple Pay, Voice shopping, biometrics

Here’s what we’ll be reading this weekend in payments industry news, trends, research and innovations from around the globe. PayPal Cross-Border Consumer Research 2018 The new PayPal cross-border consumer research study is filled with insights for e-retail and e-commerce operators. Learn how online commerce, and ...
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Safelite launches same-day car insurance payment claims service

Instead of taking days or weeks to pay out non-glass insurance claims, a new service from Safelite Solutions and Ingo Money could pay accident claimants within hours. Safelite Solutions SVP of Strategic Client Sales & Support Jon Cardi said in a PYMNTS.com interview, “This is ...
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Voice shopping can’t find its voice yet

Despite the hype and estimates that voice shopping could reach $40 billion in annual sales within several years, research shows that consumers simply aren’t sending off their orders via Google Home and Alexa yet. A report by tech newsletter The Information shows that only about ...
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Are biometric payments ready to break out yet?

Although 15% of consumers have made a biometric payment in the past year, research from Transaction Network Services (TNS) shows biometric payments are not ready to break through into common use according to a survey of more than 3,000 in the US, UK, and Australia. ...
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