Five years is not a long time, but an awful lot can change in that time frame. Consumers these days expect to dip their card instead of swiping it, and an increasing number are eschewing cards entirely in favor of alternative forms of finance. Jobs...
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With a little over a week left in 2018, the brightest minds in payments and commerce are offering their last summaries on this year, and their sharpest predictions for 2019. And that landscape is very much in flux, as both consumers and small businesses are...
Context is everything, particularly in the age of digital retail where catching the consumer at the right moment is the difference between a conversion closed and a sale lost. But to pursue context in commerce, it’s important to understand who the consumer is in order to create the...
Reselling platforms are seeking to take on risk and delays in the ticketing space by connecting fragmented infrastructures. At the same time, a large share of customers still use passwords for authentication even though they have been said to be ineffective time and again. In...
Getting into the predictions game in payments and commerce is always a dangerous move, as things so often take unexpected and unprecedented turns. Could anyone have predicted the rise of “bleisure” travel or Canadians’ love affair with plastic? Still, some bets seem worth hazarding: eCommerce...
In recent years, the payments and commerce ecosystem has been about the finding new value – and then finding ways to protect it. It’s why Amazon is taking back Whole Foods delivery from Instacart, the multiple billion-dollar brand built for bringing groceries to consumers’ front doors....
With 2018 down to its last two weeks, the world is busy wrapping up the old in order to ring in the new — including the newsmakers in payments. Here are the highs, lows and who-knows of last week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
The Treasury Department noted in a report last week that USPS could generate additional revenue by charging package delivery companies for access to the postal service’s mailboxes. At the same time, a sizable share of consumers are turning to their smartphones to order food from...
