2015 saw stocks gyrate on central bank policy switch ups around the globe. The trend is likely to persist as bankers seek to fine-tune monetary policy to suit their respective situations – but the ripple effects can be contagious.
If there’s anything that retail should learn from the now-deposed king of social media outrage Martin Shkreli, it’s that consumers always have a line they don’t want businesses to cross. For Shkreli, raising the price of life-saving medications should have been a no-brainer if he...
While Hong Kong has traditionally been the favored shopping destination of Chinese mainland consumers looking to grab up luxury items, it looks like 2015 may see the biggest drop in retail sales since 2003. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
In 2015, the opportunities in cross-border commerce were limited only to the size of the globe itself … yet merchants seem ill-prepared to seize them. The PYMNTS Cross-Border Payments Optimization Index measures how much work remains for a merchant community that has only seen the...
As the FinTech industry heats up in the U.S., there’s one particular country that’s setting the pace for the financial tech world: China and its Internet companies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
The dotcom boom of the 1990s fooled many investors into believing that the digital revolution would lead to an unending source of profit and revenue, but that didn’t stop them from learning many a hard lesson. Now, however, that newfound skeptical attitude is being applied...
According to a cofounder of India’s largest online marketplace, Snapdeal, the company will invest heavily into logistics and technology in order to compete with Amazon’s Indian unit and Flipkart. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Just about every retailer entered the 2015 holiday shopping season beating their chests with increasingly ambitious shipping options for hard-to-please consumers. This year may go down as one where shoppers finally developed an expectation for same-day and express delivery, and such a dramatic change didn’t...
The Chinese technology sector was wary of supersonic growth not all that long ago, but as The Wall Street Journal reported late last week, “it’s been a warm winter,” even amid concerns over too much in the way of investments, too fast. Get the Full Story...
