BlueSnap announced today that it has released “shopping cart ‘plugins’” that will allow ecommerce platforms Magento and PrestaShop the ability to localize shopping experiences in 180 countries, optimizing cross-border sales. The integration requires few steps and includes BlueSnap tools that will enable merchants to “convert...
MPD CEO Karen Webster and BlueSnap CEO Ralph Dangelmaier went around the world to explore the opportunities and challenges of doing business in some of the most dynamic markets for commerce. Here are a few highlights about what it will take to win in these...
Name: Vantiv Headquarters: Cincinnati, Ohio Founded: 1971 Employees: 2,700 Market Capitalization: $6.3 Billion Key Stats: 1. 400,000 Merchant Locations 2. 12,000 Automated Tellers 3. 15.4 Billion Payment Transactions Annually Vantiv Takes The Mobile Call From AT&T Vantiv made a lot of mobile payment-accepting merchants happy...
Our latest November 2013 MPOS Tracker finds that the mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) sector is in the midst of rapid expansion. But, despite this growth, not all players in the ecosystem stand to gain in 2014 and beyond. Our new report suggests the coming months could...
Released on December 23, a new report from comScore sought to assess the top 50 desktop websites for the month of November, finding that Yahoo and its affiliated websites had the most unique visitors during the study period. Rounding out the top five websites were...
The payments industry lost more than $11 billion to fraud in 2012, and that figure is only expected to rise as fraud migrates to less secure channels in the wake of EMV adoption in the U.S. But the figure that we don’t know, the far...
Through a blog post authored by CEO Chad Dickerson, Etsy has released some 2012 statistics marking a “breakthrough year.” According to Dickerson’s post, Etsy’s overall community sales grew 70.3 percent year-over-year to $895.1 million and new buyers increased by 83 percent. Holiday sales also increased,...
Click here to download this article as a PDF. This article examines how the Federal Reserve Board’s proposed implementation of the Durbin Amendment will affect consumers and small businesses. A main objective of the Dodd-Frank Act was to protect consumers. Moreover, the debit card regulations...
Click here to download this article as a PDF. This article examines how the Federal Reserve Board’s proposed implementation of the Durbin Amendment will affect consumers and small businesses. A main objective of the Dodd-Frank Act was to protect consumers. Moreover, the debit card regulations...
