China’s moves to advance artificial intelligence leadership are well-documented and reflected by the fact that 19 of the top 50 largest patent registrations in the AI space are Chinese companies. The three largest are still US companies – IBM with 3000 applications Microsoft (1955), and  ...                                
                                
                            
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                        Payments Trends
                                    Last week’s post on B2B cart abandonment really sparked some conversations and reflections on how fast B2B selling is changing. The bottom line was businesses are leaving a lot of money on the table by not ensuring a smooth process and top-notch e-commerce platform to  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    Welcome to our first global payments news roundup for September. Lots of important news as we move into the busy fall business cycle. Accenture research shows UK challenger banks will triple in size in the next 12 months – substantial growth and the new competitive  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    Recognizing the threat from fintech startups as well as mobile powerhouses like Alipay, a group of seven European payments leaders has started building a new network focused on improving cross-border mobile payments in the EU. Headquartered in Zurich, the European Mobile Payment System Association’s (EMPSA)  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    MSTS is out with a new report on B2B sellers and buyer payment preferences. There are valuable insights and solutions to some of the challenges faced by B2B sellers, but one statistic shocked me. The research showed that 57% of B2B buyers did not complete  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    We say hello to his week’s global payments news roundup and goodbye to the last weekend of the summer holidays. We start with $260 billion – that’s the amount of business lost by retailers due to shopping cart abandonment online. A social experiment from Lightico  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    Is it still the summer holidays? You wouldn’t think so by the volume of news, and we’ve got global payments news highlights you can use. First, Comscore looks at how fast e-commerce is moving to mobile. US consumers are slow to embrace mobile and contactless  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    In China and Europe, contactless cards and mobile payments are commonplace, even with small payments. But in the US, cash and debit for small purchases are still king, although there is change on the horizon according to a survey from CreditCards.com. For US consumers, contactless  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    As the end of the dog days of summer approaches, we’ve got our weekly global payments news roundup for you. First, we look at the 25th anniversary of Visa’s first e-commerce payment and a bit of online payments history. Next up, the logistics industry is  ...                                
                                
                            
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                                    Hola! Our payments news roundup covers the latest from around the world starting with a look at MSTS’s “Credit as a Service™.” Then there’s the growing problem of password hygiene, according to new research from PC Matic. The future of retail is convenient and connected  ...                                
                                
                            
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