June 21, 2023
Shopify Offers Shop Pay to Enterprise Retailers as Standalone Component
Shopify has made its Shop Pay checkout available to enterprise retailers as a standalone component. With this offering, enterprise retailers that are not on Shopify can use Shop Pay without having to replace...
June 21, 2023
FTC: Online Marketplaces Need To Police Fake Goods
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reminding online marketplaces of the duty to ferret out fake merchandise. The agency issued a notice Tuesday (June 20) on the new Integrity, Notification and Fairness in Online...
June 21, 2023
Reusable IDs and AI Help Merchants Beat Back the Fraudsters
The fraudsters are racking up the gains, seeking, as they always do, to exploit vulnerabilities in card-not-present transactions. And now, they’re harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to skirt traditional fraud detection...
June 20, 2023
FedEx: Consumers Shifting Spending From eCommerce to Entertainment and Services
FedEx has seen consumers shift their spending from eCommerce to entertainment and services. The company said this Tuesday (June 20) while reporting another decline in package volume during the most recent...
June 20, 2023
Amazon Trounces Walmart in Most Retail Categories — Is Health/Beauty...
Category by category, the jousting for share of consumer spending is a pitched battle for Amazon and Walmart. One holdout, beauty and wellness, where the two firms have been running...
June 20, 2023
FTC: Online Marketplaces Need to Police Fake Goods
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reminding online marketplaces of the duty to ferret out fake merchandise. The agency issued a notice Tuesday (June 20) on the new Integrity, Notification and Fairness in Online...
June 20, 2023
Amazon’s Fulfillment Service Woos Grocery Sellers Away From Walmart
As small food brands look to reach consumers online, some are finding that, when it comes to both operational simplicity and to reaching the widest audiences, Amazon cannot be beat,...
June 20, 2023
Walmart Hopes TalkShopLive Livestream Shopping Will Turn Followers Into Sales
In order to meet its ambitious goal of reaching $200 billion in global sales within the next five years, Walmart is ramping up its commitment to livestream shopping. Teaming up...
June 20, 2023
PYMNTS Intelligence: The Value of Vaults to Merchants
One of the biggest pain points for both consumers and merchants is expired payment credentials. With card life-cycle management solutions, vaults can ease that pain by providing dynamic updates to...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
The United Arab Emirates boasts a robust digital market, with 89% of retail shoppers leveraging digital tools in physical stores and the second highest ranking in customer satisfaction among the six countries studied. A new 31-page PYMNTS Intelligence report, “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: UAE Edition,” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, examines the state of digital shopping in this country where merchants are challenged to keep pace with shopper’s digital needs.