A new survey by point-of-sale expert Vend identifies key benchmarks and provides valuable business metrics for the retail industry. ...
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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
What you do when you want to pay anonymously for services like discreet dating sites, VPN, email, and other online services or you want to protect your identity? Whatever you think of Ashley Madison, the dating site for married people, you’ve got to admit ...
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A new global survey of 5,000 consumers by Capgemini shows that conversational commerce is finding its voice with online shoppers. The research highlights the opportunities ahead for retailers who provide voice shopping as a way to engage in a growing new e-commerce channel with consumers. ...
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Here are the payments industry news stories we’re reading this week along with the payments trends and innovations we’re watching from around the world. PayPal and Temasek invest $125m in India’s Pine Labs PayPal’s shopping spree continues as the US behemoth makes its third investment ...
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With more than 50 million Amazon Echo smart speakers sold, the voice shopping use case is rapidly expanding. Is there an impact on sales by Echo owners? A new research report from InfoScout and Alpine.AI, shows consumers increased the frequency of their consumer package goods ...
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Our Friday global payments news roundup includes a useful collection of strategic payments news you can use about iZettle, PayPal, Barclaycard, ACI Worldwide/Ovum, Amazon, Square, Walmart, FNB, Apple Pay and Nuggets. Retailers risk frustrating online shoppers with out-of-date payment technology More than 72% of retailers ...
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PayPal just moved the meter in the payments world with its acquisition of mobile payments provider iZettle for $2.2 billion in an all cash deal. iZettle, the Swedish payments fintech, had planned to raise $227 million on the Stockholm Nasdaq exchange in an IPO valuing ...
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A new ACI Worldwide/Ovum payments research survey says 77% of merchants expect real-time payments to replace card payments in the near future. The report also offers other valuable insights into merchants and payments preferences and challenges. Most important to payments providers, 65% of merchants are interested ...
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It was a busy week in payments news from around the world. Every Friday, we include a roundup of the latest payments news, trends, research and innovations to carry you through the weekend. Included are research reports from Forrester, Auriemma Consulting Group and Criteo as ...
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Our newsletter looks first at MasterCard biometric cards that allow cardholders to verify their fingerprint at home. Next, we examine Shopify’s brand-new merchant payments features and some back-office improvements to their e-commerce platform. Finally, Microsoft introduces payments using its Outlook email program – an idea ...
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