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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Our weekly payments industry news this week features an update on synthetic identity fraud, record Q2 2018 target financials, e-commerce membership sales growth, a smart speaker for cryptocurrency purchases and voice shopping as well as our popular weekly global news roundup. Synthetic identity fraud is ...
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Here’s a roundup of the global payments news we’re reading heading into the weekend. Lots of new developments in identity fraud, retail ups and downs, new payments industry developments and a free Amazon report. Synthetic identity fraud is rising; data breaches abound Synthetic identity fraud is ...
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According to McKinsey & Company research, e-commerce membership sites have grown more than 100% annually during the past five years. An estimated 15% of consumers have signed up to one or more subscription services for everything from beer and wine, child and baby items, contact ...
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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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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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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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Here’s what we’ll be reading this weekend in payments industry news, trends, research and innovations from around the globe. PayPal Cross-Border Consumer Research 2018 The new PayPal cross-border consumer research study is filled with insights for e-retail and e-commerce operators. Learn how online commerce, and ...
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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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It’s been a busy week in global payments news and we’ve got a roundup of the latest payments trends, payments research, and innovations for your weekend reading pleasure. Apple Pay and other mobile payments will count for 1 in 3 in-store transactions by 2020 The ...
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