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Mary Meeker: Payments & e-commerce trends – what’s ahead

Mary Meeker is a venture capital leader and analyst with Kleiner Perkins. Her annual Trends Report is closely examined for its comprehensive analysis and predictions. Her report is comprehensive, well-sourced and extensive as you can see in the following content index. We’ll take a look ...
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Chargebacks cost $31 billion; Target launches free delivery

Today’s newsletter looks in-depth at a new Javelin Research & Strategy/Verifi research report that says chargebacks cost the industry $31 billion annually. We also look at Target’s new free delivery program called Target Restock and how it hopes to up the competition with Amazon. Cost ...
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Cost of chargebacks in 2017? $31 billion

According to a new report, The Chargeback Triangle from Javelin Strategy & Research and Verifi, merchants lost $19 billion to chargebacks in 2017. Issuers lost another $12 billion as well, a staggering cost to business. Even more critical, researchers found that following a chargeback, consumers ...
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Target Restock takes home delivery to next level in response to Amazon

Target just upped its home delivery game in response to Amazon and other competitors by trying to retain and earn new customers. Target Restock raises home delivery service levels In an announcement on its corporate blog, the company introduced Target Restock, the next-day delivery of ...
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May 18 PaymentsNEXT: Payments industry news

This week’s payments industry news features an in-depth look at PayPal’s acquisition of mobile payments provider iZettle, research on the impact of real-time payments on merchants and our usual Friday global payments news roundup. Just in time for your weekend reading. PayPal acquisition of iZettle ...
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Global payments news roundup – May 18, 2018

Our Friday global payments news roundup includes a useful collection of strategic payments news you can use about iZettle, PayPal, Barclaycard, ACI Worldwide/Ovum, Amazon, Square, Walmart, FNB, Apple Pay and Nuggets. Retailers risk frustrating online shoppers with out-of-date payment technology More than 72% of retailers ...
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PayPal acquisition of iZettle shakes up payments world

PayPal just moved the meter in the payments world with its acquisition of mobile payments provider iZettle for $2.2 billion in an all cash deal. iZettle, the Swedish payments fintech, had planned to raise $227 million on the Stockholm Nasdaq exchange in an IPO valuing ...
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Payments research: 77% of merchants say real-time payments to replace cards

A new ACI Worldwide/Ovum payments research survey says 77% of merchants expect real-time payments to replace card payments in the near future. The report also offers other valuable insights into merchants and payments preferences and challenges. Most important to payments providers, 65% of merchants are interested ...
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Payments news roundup: Facebook Crypto, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, IATA, more

Our Friday newsletter has an in-depth profile of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency and blockchain technology plans as well as our usual extensive Friday payments news roundup. Facebook Gets Serious About Payments, Cryptocurrency When Facebook announced a small cryptocurrency development SWAT team earlier this week, it wasn’t ...
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Weekly global payments news roundup

It was a busy week in payments news from around the world. Every Friday, we include a roundup of the latest payments news, trends, research and innovations to carry you through the weekend. Included are research reports from Forrester, Auriemma Consulting Group and Criteo as ...
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