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Cross-border commerce success is simple if done right

Statista reports the number of global online shoppers between 2014 and 2018 jumped by 36%, growing from 1.32 billion to 1.79 billion people. According to Braintree, PayPal’s mobile web payment system, cross-border shoppers also want their shopping experience to be simple and painless. Cross-border challenges ...
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Synthetic identity fraud is rising; data breaches abound

Synthetic identity fraud is a growing, evolving challenge for merchants. It arises when criminals combine real or stolen personal data with fake information to create new identities, open fake accounts, and make fraudulent purchases. And this cybercrime problem is growing according to fraud prevention experts. ...
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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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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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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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Retail payments trends, digital impact and what’s ahead for merchants

The changing customer and technology landscape is having a huge impact on retailers in-store and online. A recent Retail Wire presentation provided a look at the most recent research and what merchants can expect in retail payments in the future. Mobile matters to e-commerce sales ...
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Contactless payments will reach $2 trillion by 2020

A new report from Juniper Research says in-store contactless payments will reach $2 trillion by 2020, representing one-third of the total point of sale transactions. Driven by payment cards and mobile wallets, contactless payments will reach $1 trillion by the end of this year, a ...
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