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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Payments Trends
Payments Trends
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 Retailers risk frustrating online shoppers with out-of-date payment technology More than 72% of retailers ...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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Microsoft said soon you'll be able to pay bills and invoices entirely within your Microsoft Outlook email program. ...
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Today’s PaymentsNEXT newsletter has a wealth of payments industry news you can use. We look at the future of Visa Checkout and single button payments as well as a report on how retailers are losing $1.1 billion by not offering the proper payment choices for ...
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It’s the end of the week and time for an e-commerce and payments news roundup from around the globe. What a busy week it’s been in the payments industry as you’ll see in this list of stories. Visa Rises on International Success For the quarter, ...
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Visa is not dropping Visa Checkout yet, but senior execs seem to be pointing it to the exit judging by recent comments in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Both Visa Checkout and Mastercard’s Masterpass programs are likely a victim of plans for the launch ...
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