Adobe is forecasting a record $124 billion in US online sales during the 2018 holiday sales season. Based on Adobe Analytics data, Adobe says online sales will increase by 14.8%, totaling $124.1 billion, while offline retail spending is expected to increase a modest 2.7%. Cyber ...
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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
The pace of payments news picked up dramatically as we get closer to Black Friday and holiday sales. Here’s the global payments news that caught our attention starting with Adobe’s prediction of a record $124 billion holiday e-commerce season. Eight US retailers including Sears, Claire’s ...
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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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CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer interviewed Visa CEO Al Kelly for an eye-opening look at why he thinks payment stocks may be the safest investment play in the financial sector. “Visa has no interest rate risk,” Cramer said. “Visa’s not gonna get crushed if ...
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US online merchants are far behind building their cross-border e-commerce growth because most are not offering enough or any local payment methods in international markets. A new PPRO whitepaper shows that US merchants need to make local payment methods (LPM) available because traditional credit card ...
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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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Lots of timely global Payments NEXT news for your weekend reading starting with the launch of Amazon 4-Star store in Soho, fraudsters using look-alike URLs, biometrics and contactless payments trends and much more. Also, check out our week’s best payments news roundup. Is Amazon 4-Star ...
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Here’s what we’ve been reading in the global payments news this week. There’s everything from Amazon’s new 4-Star concept store to the mall of the future, biometric payments, contactless payments research and the challenge of look-alike domains. It’s all the news you can use for ...
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It’s not like Visa and MasterCard haven’t tried to get US consumers to embrace contactless cards. But according to a recent infographic released by Visa, only 0.6% of US consumers used contactless payments as of September 2017. Contrast that with some of the biggest adopters ...
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