Macy’s announcement of a new, free, same-day delivery program for hundreds of thousands of products, creates a whole new US retail reality. As if retailers didn’t have enough competition from Amazon, Walmart, Target and other e-commerce sellers, Macy’s just set the home-delivery bar higher than ...
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With the same resilience as bitcoin, cryptocurrency payments for merchants are still alive and well despite what some may perceive as declining interest by merchants and consumers. According to UTRUST, more than 100,000 merchants around the world accept cryptocurrency payments for goods and services today. ...
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Time flies when you’re in the payments industry and we’ve got some global payments news to help you quickly keep up with the latest. We look at Mitto, an innovative Spanish virtual card design for Gen Z and financed by mom and dad. Clarus Commerce ...
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Loyalty programs can generate substantial revenue when well-designed, created with substantial value and crafted to meet the needs of key customers. That old 80/20 marketing formula from your university business class still applies. That is, 80% of your revenue often comes from 20% of your ...
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Apparently, cash is not on its deathbed after all. At least not yet at Amazon. Amazon is partnering with Western Union to expand its PayCode service so US online shoppers can now pay cash to buy that next 10-in-1 Instant Pot, Fire TV Stick, Donkey ...
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It’s one of the payment industry’s ugly secrets and for companies with a business built on subscriptions, it’s a revenue and business continuity risk that needs very close attention. Erich Litch, President & COO 2Checkout The problem is that some company databases are virtually held ...
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After being taken to the cleaners with any number of wild app ideas, it was just a matter of time before the haircut app was born. Introducing Shortcut – the app where you can find a five-star barber or stylist, book a haircut appointment at ...
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Another week, another payments news roundup. Let’s dive in. How could $35 million in payroll and tax accounts go missing from cloud provider MyPayrollHR? We investigate. B2B cart abandonment is a surprisingly big and costly problem according to new research from MSTS. A new business ...
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Hard on the heels of launching a new small business loans product – Stripe Capital last week, Stripe is out today with a new corporate credit card aimed at small business. The Stripe Corporate Card is designed to meet the needs of US startups and ...
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By: Ralf Ohlhausen, Executive Advisor at PPRO The closer to the September 14 implementation deadline for the Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) on SCA & CSC detailing much of the PSD2 legislation, the less room there is for lack of clarity about its stipulations. The RTS ...
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