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Global e-commerce & payments news roundup

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 Checkout headed for the parking lot?

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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payments preferences cause $1.1B loss
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Retailers lose $1.1 billion by not offering preferred payment choices

A new report from global payments provider Adyen highlights shifting consumer payments preferences and the potential loss of more than $1.1 billion by US retailers who fail to offer customers their preferred payment choice. The March 2018 survey of more than 1,000 consumers and 250 ...
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E-commerce fraud jumps 30%; Amazon 2017 annual report highlights

Our newsletter today covers an extensive Experian report on US online shopping fraud which jumped 30% in 2017. Learn more about the best and worst cities and states for billing and shipping fraud as well as tips to protect yourself from online shopping fraud and ...
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Amazon 2017 highlights: It was a very good year!

In a letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos highlighted a number of important milestones for the company. Most important for Amazon and its competitors is the fact that it has now passed 100 million Prime members. Think about that from every aspect of retail ...
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Experian: 2017 Online Shopping Fraud Up 30%

Russian hackers and trolls may have received all the media coverage in 2017 but it was Chinese and Venezuelan hackers who carried out the most e-commerce fraud in 2017 according to a new report by Experian. In its 2017 E-commerce Fraud report, Experian says online shopping ...
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Winning millennial bank customers; 8 retail innovators to watch

Our newsletter today features a new research report from CSI & The Center for Generational Kinetics on millennial banking habits and preferences and how banks can win over and keep these profitable bank customers in a digital, competitive world. We also highlight an excellent profile ...
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Research: How banks can win millennial customers

Millennials are entering the wealth-accumulation phase of their lives and are driving all major banking trends. A new CSI and The Center for Generational Kinetics research report provides insight into these new millennial banking preferences and behaviors and what millennials now need and want from ...
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Eight surprising retail brands and why they’re growing

US retail sales rose 0.6 percent in March 2018 according to the US Census Bureau. Not great, but not negative. More interesting and telling was the recent newsletter from loyalty marketing group Colloquy which profiled eight brands succeeding despite the challenging US retail environment. Several ...
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Payments news: PayPal chases unbanked; banks drop mobile; crypto credit

Today, we’re looking at PayPal’s campaign to bring in new customers from the nine million “unbanked” US residents who either don’t use a bank or don’t like using banks. We examine how traditional banks are losing mobile customers because their user experience on bank mobile ...
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