What a busy week in payments news around the globe! Amazon has canceled plans for a New York HQ. US retailers lost $300 billion in sales in 2018 ...
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It’s Valentine’s Day and romance may be in the air but so are financial scams, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2018, more than 21,000 ...
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Tightly woven into e-commerce and payments are the critical issues of trust and privacy for consumers. Experian’s Global Identity and Fraud Report found that 74% of consumers see ...
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A study by Coresight Research and Celect estimates non-grocery retailers lost more than 12% of annual sales or more than $300 billion due to markdowns in 2018. Just ...
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In this week’s payments news, we’ve got an NRF prediction for 2019 retail sales growth of 4.4%. The Anti-Phishing Working Group says 38% of phishing attacks targeted payments ...
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Advocates of the move towards cashless payments are excited about its possibilities but there’s push back from critics who say it disenfranchises people without access to banking services. ...
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New Feb 1 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulations on e-commerce have the online selling business in turmoil in India. The new government regulations prohibit foreign-owned companies from restricting ...
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There’s good news and bad news about identity theft in 2018 according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The good news is the number ...
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Our global payments news roundup is truly worldwide this week. Visa and MasterCard reported solid year-end financials, although both cards remain locked out of China during the trade ...
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New research identifies key ways online retailers can increase sales by reducing friction and making the shopper journey smoother. In the whitepaper – Addressing the Pain Points in ...
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