By Andy Newman, VP of Business Development, Wildfire Systems In 2024, PayPal demonstrated a forward-thinking approach to truly adding value for customers, launching a series of features designed to enhance user experience and further expand the company’s role in payments. These innovations – PayPal Everywhere, ...
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By Michael Seaman, CEO & Founder, Swipesum In today’s online world, digital payments have become essential for businesses looking to thrive in the competitive market. With smart devices and the convenience they offer, embracing mobile payments and other contemporary forms of payment is crucial for ...
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By Jeff Domansky, Managing Editor Visa and Mastercard reached a landmark antitrust settlement with US merchants, ending a protracted legal battle. The agreement aims to cap credit card fees for five years for retailers, potentially saving American merchants tens of billions of dollars. Various merchant ...
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By Rafael Lourenco, EVP & Partner, ClearSale The subscription model is convenient for customers and ideal for businesses that want to build their recurring revenue base. However, subscriptions are vulnerable to payment declines in error, which can cause customers to churn and reduce ROI on ...
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by Donna Blum of BHMIChargebacks are a significant and growing challenge in the payments industry. The rapid growth in e-commerce, rise in fraud, and consumers’ increasing willingness to file chargebacks are making dispute management an increasingly challenging and complex job.However, many merchants and processors still ...
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By Jeff Domansky With Black Friday imminent, we’ve got a rundown of predictions for the 2023 holiday shopping season kickoff from US retail analysts and research groups. Overall, projections are encouraging, with new record-level sales up from 2% to 4% over last year. National Retail ...
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By Chris Abele, VP & General Manager, Global & Emerging Payments, Fiserv Globalizing commerce presents an enormous revenue opportunity. Credit Suisse says cross-border commerce accounts for roughly $900 billion in payments volume globally. Yet, as enticing as it may be for businesses to expand into ...
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A busy week in payments news. ConnexPay with Payouts Network launched a unique push-to-card technology for real-time payments to debit or reloadable prepaid cards. Avalra teamed with eBay to offer a new simplified international shipping system. Six fintech companies joined Mastercard’s Start Path Digital Assets ...
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By Omri Mor, Co-founder & CEO, Routable With the accelerated digital transformation over the past few years, businesses of all kinds have expanded their global reach – a historically unlikely capability. However, the global economy’s rapid growth has turned cross-border payments from an occasional nuisance ...
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By John Lunn, CEO, Gr4vy Global retail e-commerce sales are on track to reach $7.4 trillion by 2025, with consumer payments driving sales at checkout. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated online shopping habits, with 51% of global consumers saying they plan to make more ...
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