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Data Brief: 76% of Consumers Say Smooth Checkout Very Influential When Choosing Merchants

Data Brief: 76% of Consumers Say Smooth Checkout Very Influential When Choosing Merchants
Data Brief: 76% of Consumers Say Smooth Checkout Very Influential When Choosing Merchants
September 27, 2022  |  eCommerce

Checking out should be the easiest part of the purchase, but droves of consumers continue abandoning carts due to lingering frictions in the checkout process...

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US Real-Time Payments Transactions Seen Quadrupling to 8.9B in 2026
US Real-Time Payments Transactions Seen Quadrupling to 8.9B in 2026
September 27, 2022  |  Faster Payments

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Why Small Businesses Outperform Larger Rivals in Preventing Disputes
Why Small Businesses Outperform Larger Rivals in Preventing Disputes
September 27, 2022  |  Fraud Prevention

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Marketplace Model Provides POS Credit Pipeline to Retailers in Tough Times
Marketplace Model Provides POS Credit Pipeline to Retailers in Tough Times
September 27, 2022  |  Payment Methods

Products like buy now, pay later (BNPL) have retrained consumers to expect fast credit decisions — ideally in their favor — at the point of...

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Merchants Try New Tactics to Slow Subscription Churn
Merchants Try New Tactics to Slow Subscription Churn
September 27, 2022  |  Subscription Commerce

With the economic outlook not improving or likely to until 2023 or 2024, subscription commerce faces an inflection point that could see a mass customer...

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Jury Still Out as Web3 Takes Shape
Jury Still Out as Web3 Takes Shape
September 26, 2022  |  Blockchain

When you get past the marketing hype and dig down into what Web3 actually is, it’s hard not to ask whether it’s a real revolution...

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Data Brief: 52% Shopping Carts Originating in APAC Get Abandoned
Data Brief: 52% Shopping Carts Originating in APAC Get Abandoned
September 26, 2022  |  Payment Methods

With roughly 4.3 billion people living in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, stretching across more than a dozen countries, and with internet connectivity growing by leaps...

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Real-Time Transaction Data Key to Shaping Embedded Finance’s Future
Real-Time Transaction Data Key to Shaping Embedded Finance’s Future
September 26, 2022  |  API

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Can Blockchain Help Banking-as-a-Service Leap From Commodity to Capital Access On-Ramp?
Can Blockchain Help Banking-as-a-Service Leap From Commodity to Capital Access On-Ramp?
September 26, 2022  |  Digital-First Banking

In the bid to change financial services, to broaden financial inclusion, the promise of challenger banks was that they’d upend the way financial products could...

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