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March 27, 2024
Buybuy Baby Uses Expert Curation to Compete With Amazon

As specialty retailers are challenged to find ways to hold their own against retail giants such as Amazon, Buybuy Baby is leaning on its specialty selection to keep customers coming back to its...


March 27, 2024
Payop Partners With Tink to Add Pay-by-Bank in Europe

Payop and Tink partnered to promote the adoption of pay-by-bank as a payment method across Europe. Payop added Tink’s pay-by-bank offering to the eCommerce checkout options it offers to European merchants, the companies...


March 27, 2024
Banks Need to Copy eCommerce’s ‘Friction-Free’ Experiences

Eric Foust, VP of Banking Partnerships, North America at Trustly, said that in the wake of the pandemic, consumers are looking toward banks to deliver the same ease of use and...


March 26, 2024
Report: Google and Pinterest Testing Ad Partnership in US

Google and Pinterest reportedly may be testing Google ad units on the Pinterest app. Piper Sandler analysts said in a Tuesday (March 26) note that they have spotted such ad units on the app,...


March 26, 2024
Nu Lowers Yield on Savings Accounts in Mexico

Digital bank Nu Holdings will lower the yield on its high-yield savings accounts in Mexico after the country’s central bank cut its key rate for the first time since 2021....


March 26, 2024
Retailers Expand Smart Cart Adoption to Boost Self-Checkout and Lower...

Across continents, more retailers are adopting smart carts to lower their labor costs without driving up shrink. Instacart and Associated Wholesale Growers (AWG) shared Monday (March 25) that they have expanded their partnership to offer...


March 26, 2024
Mastercard and Worldpay Partner to Prevent Merchant Chargebacks

Mastercard and Worldpay are teaming to help merchants settle transaction disputes faster and reduce chargebacks. Chargebacks — refund requests sparked by customers disputing transactions — are a growing issue, Mastercard said in a Tuesday...


March 26, 2024
D2C Brand Builds Loyalty Offline, Gets New Customers In-Store

For brands relying on senses that cannot be communicated via eCommerce — smell, taste, touch — it can be difficult to build a pure-play direct-to-consumer (D2C) audience. Broken Top Candle...


March 26, 2024
Coupang Eats Taps Free Delivery Subscription Model as Aggregators Drive...

Coupang has become the latest to offer a fee-free fulfillment subscription through its on-demand delivery aggregator — a move that comes as key players in the space around the world turn...


The Real-Time Payments World Map
Handicapping the US, UK and Europe Real Time Payments Race 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.
2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: SMB Edition

New Report: To Compete, Small Businesses Must Sharpen Use of Digital Shopping Features

In the U.S., 70% of consumers report higher satisfaction at large merchants than SMBs — and this is a worldwide trend, according to the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: SMB Edition,” a PYMNTS Intelligence study commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, which draws on insights from 13,904 consumers and 3,512 merchants across seven countries to uncover what it will take for SMBs to make up ground in the global retail landscape.