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44RegulationGetting Merchants Ready For PSD2
September 2019 might seem like an eternity away, but for many retailers from the U.K. and around Europe, it’s just around the...
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5.1KRetailWhy The Merchant Countertop Needs A Tech Update
So much is changing in retail and payments these days — the seemingly unstoppable rise of mobile, for instance, or the transformation...
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6.5KSubscription CommerceConsumers Battle Subscription Friction As Fraud Scrutiny Tightens
Subscription commerce stands as one of the hotter parts of retail, with companies such as Lyft launching subscription plans and other firms...
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7.1KRetailChase Mobile App Launches Offers For Mobile Customers
Chase Mobile App has announced the launch of Chase Offers, which will allow customers to find deals and earn statement credits when shopping...
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5.3KANTITRUSTICC: Flipkart, Amazon Not Abusing Competitive Position
Walmart’s Flipkart, and Amazon, have not broken competitive rules in India through their respective efforts to promote certain brands or select certain...
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5.2KDigital PaymentsSquare Launches Terminal To Replace Legacy Keypad Terminals
Square, the payments company, announced Thursday (Oct. 18) the launch of an integrated all-in-one card processing device dubbed Square Terminal. The company...
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3.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAmerican Express, Ethoca Team To Solve Disputes Between Merchants, Cardholders
American Express, the payments company, and Ethoca, a provider of collaboration-based technology solutions for merchants and card issuers, announced on Monday (Oct....
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5.8KPayment MethodsToneTag CEO Sounds Off On Payments At The Speed Of Sound
Talk about cashless and contactless. How about payments made at the speed of sound — to be specific, using encrypted sound waves...
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8.2KVISAFrom Startup To Global Payments Giant: Visa Turns 60
Sixty years ago today (Sept. 18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern...
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7.3KFraud PreventionBanks, Merchants Turn To Behavioral Biometrics To Fight Fraud
In an effort to prevent fraud, an increasing number of banks and merchants have been monitoring visitors to their websites and apps....
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2.4KCheckout ConversionAll The Ways Digital Sellers Can Lose Potential Customers
It seems so easy: Pull out a mobile device, or launch a browser on a laptop or desktop computer, and begin shopping...
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4.6KAmazonAmazon Launches Inventory Performance Index To Maintain Merchant Inventory
Amazon is rolling out a new system to manage the inventory of third-party merchants. Dubbed Inventory Performance Index, the solution aims to...
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3.9KRetailEtsy’s Reset (And Its Discontents)
The story at Etsy in summer 2018 is a much more cheerful tale than the story of Etsy entering the summer of...
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2.9KStartup Check-InChargehound: Getting Merchants Up To Speed With Chargeback Data
When a merchant receives a chargeback, chances are that the transaction in question took place weeks or even months ago, meaning the...
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8.2KB2B PaymentsAmazon’s Pay By Invoice Illuminates Delayed Payment Debate In US
In the day-to-day minutiae of cash flow management, strategy is key. There can be a bit of a tug of war between...
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4.9KToday In DataFighting Off Unforced Errors
Yogi Berra, explaining a loss, once told reporters the problem was, “We made too many wrong mistakes.” We’d laugh, but in payments...
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5.2KAmazon CommerceMore Than One-Quarter Of Amazon Merchant Sales Cross Borders
Amazon is encouraging its eCommerce vendors to sell their goods internationally, as cross-border sales are becoming an increasingly important part of the...
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3.9KInternationalVenezuelans Struggle As More Merchants Want To Be Paid In Dollars
With many merchants in Venezuela charging in dollars or their black market equivalent, many basic necessities — including food, dental and medical...
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TSYS Makes All-Cash Offer To Buy Cayan For $1.05B
Global payments solutions provider TSYS announced Monday (Dec.18) that it would acquire payments technology company Cayan in a $1.05 billion all-cash deal,...
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11.3KVISAVisa Says Chip Cards Reduced Counterfeit Fraud By 66 Percent
Visa, the payments company, revealed Monday (Dec. 18) in an infographic that counterfeit fraud is down in the U.S. at merchants that...
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6.8KeCommerceMagento Hops On One-Click Checkout Bandwagon
Magento Commerce, the cloud digital commerce company, announced Thursday (Dec. 14) the availability of Instant Purchase, which it said makes it the...
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7.1KAmazonHyperwallet CEO: Supporting Payments For Amazon Sellers Down Under
December 5, 2017 was day one, Down Under, for Amazon. It was, according to Amazon executives, an opening day that broke all...
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18.0KConsumer FinanceHow Sezzle Wants To Help Millennials Without Sizzling Credit
The average American carries 2.6 credit cards, but averages can be a bit misleading. For example, that figure includes a full 30 percent of Americans...
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7.1KRetailWhy Big Data Is ‘Strategic Spaghetti’ For Retailers
Retail secret sauce? Throwing spaghetti strategically makes it much more likely to stick. Nicole Jass, Vantiv VP of Data Products, said in...
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4.2KFraud PreventionFor Merchants, Boosting Their .250 Chargeback Batting Average
Merchants recover only one in four chargebacks when disputes arise over who bought what and when. A .250 batting average is OK in...
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4.9KRetailThings To Know: Top Marketplace Features For Global eCommerce
Operating an online marketplace is simple, in theory: A merchant builds a website, fills it with retail products and shoppers, well, shop....
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5.5KPOS InnovationVantiv, AEVI Partner On POS App Marketplace
On Tuesday (Oct. 24), AEVI and Vantiv announced news that they are coming together to offer Vantiv’s partners and clients access to an...
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4.7KAmazonAmazon Entices Advertisers With New Video Format
Amazon is working to attract advertisers by allowing them to add wide-screen videos and interactive, multimedia displays to their product pages. But...
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5.0KRisk ManagementHow The ‘Debbie Test’ Can Flag Sketchy Merchants
“Does this merchant pass the Debbie Test?” That’s the first thing Donald Kasdon, chief executive officer of credit card processing and payment solutions provider T1 Payments,...
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3.4KToday In DataToday In Data: The Evolution Of Commerce Intermediaries
Though commerce intermediaries have been around for centuries and date back to the Ottoman Empire — the first Grand Bazaar was held...
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15.3KCommerceWho’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?
Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale...
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5.2KRetailHow Retailers Can Avoid Reinventing The Wheel In 2017
The retail game has evolved so much over the last half decade that, in some ways, it might be unrecognizable to a...
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6.2KPayment MethodsStripe Aims To Cure Mobile Checkout Conversion Blues
Stripe has launched Stripe Elements, a set of tools that helps digital merchants build a smoother and more streamlined checkout process for their customers. According to Lachy Groom, head...
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5.5KToday In DataToday In Data: Yelp Boosts Commerce
Merchant review website Yelp has a unique status in the eCommerce landscape, allowing customers the opportunity to peer review their favorite — and...
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8.1KStartup Check-InJewel Paymentech Puts Banks On Par With FinTechs
There’s one thing banks and FinTechs can agree on: Those old-fashioned merchant onboarding processes take way too long. But nimble FinTechs have...
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12.2KMobile PaymentsPayPal’s Ready On Mobile Payment’s True Potential
“It is not about changing the swipe or dip to a tap; it’s about using a [smart]phone to do things that you could...
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8.5KSecurity & FraudMan Plus Machine: Better Together In The Fight Against Fraud
Fraudsters are like those wanton drivers running red lights while they text or granting themselves the right of way in a rotary...
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4.7KRetailThis Week In Retail: Finances, Delivery And IT
This week in retail, there has been news coming in from opposite sides of the spectrum. We saw a huge surge in...
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6.9KChatbotsAI/BOTS: Cognitive Chatbots, New Retail Frontier
More human and less robotic is the sound of the beating retail drum this year. As cognitive-enabled chatbots have worked their way...
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5.2KRetailThe Sky’s The Limit For Kenyan Online Marketplace Sky.Garden
Africa is getting its own version of Amazon. Or at least, Nairobi, Kenya, is, with potential to one day see this marketplace...
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9.4KNewsSo, You Want To Be A PayFac
So, you want to be a PayFac? As a software platform, you’ve decided that instead of referring merchants to a third-party provider...
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6.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsPayPal Acquires Swift Financial To Expand SMB Lending Options
The Great Recession had a crippling effect on credit markets across the board. Consumers, enterprise-sized businesses and small businesses (SMBs) all found...
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7.1KRetailLocal Retailers, Surviving or Dying in Retail’s Evolution?
At the basic level of retail industry chatter online, much of the focus is on the battle between brick-and-mortar versus eCommerce. While...
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6.6KPayments InnovationFLEETCOR Closes On Its $690M Buy Of Cambridge Global Payments
FLEETCOR Technologies, a global provider of commercial payment solutions, announced Wednesday (Aug. 9) that it has closed its acquisition of Cambridge Global...
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8.1KRetailAI/BOTS: Consumer Behavior Transformation Via AI
Gone are the days of mom-and-pop stores where the owner behind the counter knew what the customer wanted before he or she...
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5.5KB2B PaymentseCommerce Finds The Cash Flow Link Between Financing And Shipping
For eCommerce businesses, income and expenses are closely linked. After all, you have to spend money to make money, and for sellers,...
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5.6KMobile PaymentsPayworks Partners With Alipay In Europe
Payworks, a provider of point-of-sale (POS) payment infrastructure, announced news on Thursday (Aug. 3) that its payment gateway technology will be supporting...
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4.7KRetailCommonSense Robotics’ $6M Funding To Help SMBs
Pushing the boundaries of retailers’ capabilities has been an issue surrounding the industry for the past few years. Thanks, in part, to...
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4.2KFraud PreventionMost Retailers Feel Like ‘Somebody’s Watching’
In today’’s fast-moving, tech-infused retail arena, one of retailers’ top vulnerabilities centers around their ability to data security. As such, it should...
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6.3KOmnicommerceCreditcall Dials Into Omnichannel Payments As Bricks Merge With Clicks
Merchants need to bridge the gap between online and in-store payments — gathering data that can give insight into what sells and...
