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...
While it is easy to feel like the whole world’s gone digital, the reality is that there are larger than expected places that are still looking for the right on-ramp into the era of digital finance and commerce. For some industries, cannabis notably, it’s because...
While progress is always ongoing in payments and commerce, its path isn’t always straightforward or even. In China, mobile payments adoption has been racing forward, and stateside its progress is notably slower. Brexit negotiations go forward, backward and sideways, such that the eventual endpoint remains hard...
The customer is always right, which means giving them what they want is rule one of commerce. But what the customer wants can be a bit up in the air. They want frictionless checkout solutions that are more secure. They want to know that if...
Change can be disorienting, particularly when it comes at a fast pace. It’s why the news that 44 million Americans owe over $1 trillion in student loan debt seems shocking. It’s why it’s surprising that sloppy data security hygiene and well-placed bad actors are a bigger security threat to the...
When the “next big thing” seems to be rolling out every 30 seconds or so, it can be easy to miss the big-picture improvement that the age of digitization has made possible for people and businesses all over the world. That can include things as...
Financial technology providers are partnering up to offer expanded mPOS capabilities to merchants, which are looking for tools to avoid long checkout lines. At the same time, businesses are willing to switch payments service providers if they are offered a better deal. In addition, tens...
Merchants experienced a strong start to the holiday season, with retail spend growth up 7.5 percent on a year-over-year basis over Thanksgiving and Black Friday. In addition, Amazon is looking to up its delivery game with an expanded fleet of delivery vans, as merchants are...
Banks give consumers confidence that their data won’t fall into the wrong hands when they make purchases or reservations, thanks to investments in fraud detection and prevention. At the same time, these institutions have an opportunity to build on their reputations as trusted vaults to become co-pilots for their...
