Could ATMs go the way of the payphone and fax machine thanks to the decline in cash payments and the growth in digital and mobile payments and other fintech innovations? A new report from RBR Research shows the number of ATMs installed worldwide peaked at ...
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Payments Technology
Payments Technology
You’re probably elbows deep in holiday shopping crowds, and keeping the shelves stocked online and in-store. So, we’ve got a fast roundup of the best weekly global payments news for your weekend reading. Take a few moments break to read and catch up and then ...
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Independent grocers and small shop owners can now compete with online sales and delivery against their biggest competitors thanks to NYC-based Mercato Inc. Mercato’s Order Management and Delivery Dispatching Service for independent grocers leverages the same technology Mercato uses for its nationwide online marketplace and ...
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It’s not often a new e-commerce platform launches but with its impressive features and cost savings for e-commerce, marketing, and other online sellers, we felt it was worth taking an inside look at GrooveKart. There’s a wide range of e-commerce platforms for everyone from small ...
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It’s a week from Black Friday, but the Black Friday ads are already running in full force. To help you get through the weekend while you shop online, we’ve got our popular Friday global payments news roundup ready for your weekend reading. Payments Trends to ...
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When you connect car lovers with e-commerce, you end up with a potential marketplace of $265 billion by 2023, according to the latest Juniper Research report. The report predicts the number of connected vehicles will jump from 330 million in 2018 to more than 775 ...
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If you’re a Sam’s Club shopper in Dallas, you’ll soon be able to use a new “Sam’s Club Now” app to scan and pay for your groceries and exit the new high-tech store at a cashierless checkout. Think of it like Amazon Go, except bigger and ...
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Here’s the global payments news that caught our eye this week including Shopify/Venmo and Amazon/AMEX partnerships, Visa’s double-digit growth, Amazon Q3 results, US cross-border payments research, Swedish government’s e-krona digital currency, British Airways hack, Canadian cannabis sales going higher, and much more. It’s payments news ...
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In an unusual deal, Swedish-headquartered fast fashion retailer H&M invested $20 million to acquire under 1% of online payments firm Klarna. H&M will implement Klarna’s payments platform in its retail and online channels to provide shoppers with what it calls a “frictionless” payments experience starting ...
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Just in time for your weekend reading, we’ve got the latest global payments news including a close-up on Square Installments new payments plan, a Thanksgiving Day retail sales forecast, the latest research on data breaches, the online sales tax storm and our popular global payments ...
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