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BNPL market heats up
Buy Now Pay Later E-commerce

BNPL heats up with Visa, Apple, PayPal, Discover initiatives

By Jeff Domansky If there was ever any doubt that buy now, pay later was mainstream worldwide, we can put that notion to bed once and for all. ...
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PayPal merchant fee increase
Banking E-commerce Payments Trends

What’s behind PayPal’s new US payment pricing strategy?

By Jeff Domansky Understandably, PayPal’s new payment pricing strategy attracted a lot of attention. After all, the company is one of the biggest in the payment industry, with ...
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Southeast Asia economies
E-commerce Payments Research

Quick take: SE Asia’s e-commerce goldrush

By Jeff Domansky As excitement builds regarding a return to “normal,” it’s helpful to look around the globe and see which economies are poised to rebound the fastest. ...
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global online fraud growth 2020
Credit Card & Online Fraud E-commerce

Global payment fraud jumped 69% in the past year

By Jeff Domansky, May 13, 2021 Cybercrime is incredibly profitable for fraudsters. Experts estimate more than $1 trillion was lost globally to cybercrime in 2020, and payment abuse ...
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Splitit new BNPL service launches
Buy Now Pay Later E-commerce Payments Trends

Splitit opens new installment payment opportunities for merchants

By Jeff Domansky, April 29, 2021 With the buy now pay later (BNPL) market exploding worldwide, competition for market share and consumer attention intensifies.  As many as 39% ...
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$4.2 trillion in global e-commerce
E-commerce Logistics Payments Trends

$4.2 trillion projected for global e-commerce in 2021

By Jeff Domansky, April 28, 2021 It looks like new online shopping habits by consumers could ring up $4.2 trillion in e-commerce sales globally this year, an increase ...
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economic recovery
E-commerce Payments Research

Intuit QuickBooks survey: US Small business recovery building momentum

By Jeff Domansky, April 27, 2021 It’s financial results season, and it’s not just big business seeing an economic recovery underway. A new report from Intuit QuickBooks by ...
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increasing revenue by reducing false declines
Cybersecurity E-commerce

New fraud solution aims to increase approvals for Magento merchants

By Jeff Domansky, April 8, 2021 False declines are a $430 billion-plus global headache for retailers. A new Forter-Adobe collaboration aims to help businesses increase revenue by 2%-3% ...
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PayPal cryptocurrency payments
Bitcoin & Blockchain E-commerce Payments Trends

PayPal enables crypto payments at checkout

By Jeff Domansky, April 2, 2021 Ostrich cowboy boots. New. Paid by crypto. With apologies to Hemingway, who wrote the apocryphal six-word short story about baby shoes, it ...
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global payments news
E-commerce Fintech Payments Trends

PaymentsNEXT roundup: Global payments news highlights

By Jeff Domansky, April 1, 2021 With so much happening in the global payments industry, we’ve prepped a news roundup to quickly get you up to speed as ...
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