May 09, 2023
Amazon Pays Customers For Pickup to Cut Delivery Costs
Amazon is offering customers a deal to lower delivery costs: Pick up your items, get $10. As Reuters reported Monday (May 8), the eCommerce giant has recently begun emailing Prime...
May 09, 2023
Generative AI Aimed at Making Business Payments Customer-First
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are set to produce new efficiencies across the business landscape. While the technology is having an ongoing pop culture moment as text and video generation...
May 08, 2023
PayPal Buy Now, Pay Later Grabs $6B of Payment Volumes,...
PayPal’s latest earnings results show users are transacting more often, and buy now, pay later is increasingly embraced at checkout. The company’s earnings materials show that it ended the quarter...
May 08, 2023
Walmart Trades Margins for Loyalty to Keep Grocery Share
As grocers compete for consumers’ loyalty amid inflation, Walmart is reportedly absorbing price increases while its competitors pass them on to consumers. According to Reuters, analytics firm Dataweave looked at...
May 08, 2023
Standard Chartered and Tazapay Launch B2B Cross-Border Payments Solution
Standard Chartered and Tazapay are now facilitating B2B cross-border payments for eCommerce merchants and marketplaces. The companies’ expanded partnership brings together Standard Chartered’s capabilities as an international banking group and...
May 08, 2023
Shopify eCommerce Refocus Includes Recruiting Celebrity Brands like The Row
From luxury fashion to tequila, Shopify remains a popular choice among celebrities for launching brands. During the first quarter of 2023, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s luxury fashion brand, The Row,...
May 08, 2023
AWS and Stripe: Merchants Can Do More to Encourage Stored...
Stored payment credentials are a driving force in eCommerce, and while most consumers are using stored credentials in some way, research shows that there’s an opportunity to further increase adoption...
May 08, 2023
Decision Brief: Optimizing Consumer Authorization Rates in Cross-Border eCommerce
Introduction: Cross-border eCommerce involves millions of transactions spanning multiple markets, acquirers and issuers, which combined together can significantly increase the occurrence of failed transactions. That, in addition to local payment...
May 08, 2023
CE 100 Index Slips as Shopify’s Surge Not Enough to...
The CE 100 Index lost 0.5% in a week crowded with earnings reports. Shopify’s corporate transformation, and resulting 28% gain in share price, was overshadowed a bit by investor concerns...
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.
Despite the tremendous growth in Click-and-Mortar™ shopping in Brazil over the last three years, the country’s retailers don’t offer 39% of the features that consumers want. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Edition” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, draws on insights from 2,200 consumers and 622 merchants to reveal what Brazil’s merchants need to know to drive consumer satisfaction and loyalty.