February 27, 2023
Farfetch Aims to be at Center of Luxury Brands’ Shift...
Luxury retail marketplace Farfetch is facing the same inventory and macroeconomic headwinds as other players in the sector but is pushing forward with plans to do more deals and further...
February 27, 2023
The Risks of Not Offering Local Payments
Three-quarters of global eCommerce is conducted using local payment methods, but offering such a diversity of payments may be difficult for merchants to do on their own, says Spreedly’s Andy...
February 27, 2023
Why the Amazon-Walmart Retail Battle Won’t Be Fought in the...
Groceries, and how and where consumers buy them, is almost as topical as generative AI these days. Food inflation remains stubbornly high, and nearly all U.S. households have adjusted the...
February 27, 2023
Failure to Localize Payments Could Cost Online Merchants 60% of...
Businesses worldwide are facing significant headwinds in 2023, with inflation still a global concern and rising interest rates leading to fears of recession. Many companies hope to compensate for these...
February 27, 2023
Why Is It So Hard to Get Rid of Passwords?
A multifaceted approach to digital identity can shore up eCommerce defenses against risk and fraudsters. And that multifaceted approach, Prove Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Officer Amanda Fennell told...
February 27, 2023
How Payments and Embedded Banking Are Helping Small Business
The embedded finance market is large and growing, and will impact B2B payments in particular, Priority Chairman and CEO Tom Priore writes in the new PYMNTS eBook, “2023 Payments New...
February 26, 2023
Debit Card Transactions Soar in Germany Amid Digital Wallet Growth
Germany’s girocard clocked 6.7 billion transactions in 2022, a 13% increase compared to the year prior. This led to a 12.2% jump in sales to more than €284 billion during...
February 26, 2023
UK Rapid Grocery Market Booms as Brits Lean Toward At-Home...
Following deals with Just Eat, Co-op and Sainsbury’s have become the latest U.K. supermarket brands to partner with an aggregator to provide rapid delivery service to clients. This comes on...
February 26, 2023
Amazon Opening More Ultrafast Delivery Sites
Amazon has reportedly upped its investment in ultrafast delivery amid increased competition from rivals. A key part of its delivery strategy is Amazon’s network of “same-day site” warehouses, The Wall...
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.