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5.7KAmazon 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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5.7KInternationalVenezuelans 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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11.8KVISAVisa 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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7.2KeCommerceMagento 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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8.0KAmazonHyperwallet 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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21.3KConsumer 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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7.9KRetailWhy 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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4.5KFraud 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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5.4KRetailThings 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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5.8KPOS 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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5.4KAmazonAmazon 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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5.8KRisk 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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3.6KToday 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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16.0KCommerceWho’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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5.5KRetailHow 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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6.7KPayment 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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5.9KToday 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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8.4KStartup 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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13.1KMobile 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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8.8KSecurity & 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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5.0KRetailThis 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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7.4KChatbotsAI/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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5.9KRetailThe 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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10.3KNewsSo, 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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7.5KPartnerships / 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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7.5KRetailLocal 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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7.4KPayments 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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8.7KRetailAI/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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5.8KB2B 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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6.1KMobile 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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5.1KRetailCommonSense 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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4.4KFraud 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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6.7KOmnicommerceCreditcall 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...
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7.4KAmazonAmazon Talks Margins And (Grocery) Markets
When one gets on a hot streak like the one Amazon has been on for the last several weeks, it can be...
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4.4KPayment MethodsSoftware Developed Specifically For The Smallest Businesses
Entrepreneurs can be a lot of things – CPA, however, isn’t often a common denominator. That’s why, as he explained in the...
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5.7KPayment MethodsNEW REPORT: Getting SMBs Off The Software Sidelines
Sometimes, even the best businesses, big and small, need a little help from software. Whether its finding and keeping loyal customers or...
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7.1KRetailDirect To Consumer: Brick-And-Mortar Stores As Warehouses
E-Commerce is having a big moment in retail. It’s causing retailers to do something that hasn’t been done in years — think outside...
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7.5KFraud PreventionWith CNP Fraud, Vigilance Is Only Part Of The Battle
With EMV changing the way payments are made in person, so, too, is the nature of fraud changing. Card not present (CNP) fraud...
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8.8KSouth East AsiaChina’s Amazing Cashless Conversion
While there is still much in the way of debate in the U.S. and the rest of the developed West about the...
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4.5KRetailDirect To Consumer: Ditching The Middleman
History tends to repeat itself. In retail, we’ve seen this happen time and again. The latest aspect of retail to rear its...
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15.3KRetailSay Hello To The New Retail Intermediary
“There is also no question that doing business with [XXX] can give a supplier a fast, heady jolt of sales and market...
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11.3KSecurity & FraudThe Part Of Fraud That’s On The Decline
Catching fraudsters isn’t as easy as just checking the IP address of an order anymore. Today’s fraudsters are smart, well-funded and coordinated,...
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4.3KRetailShopify Adds eBay Support For Merchants
Shopify, the eCommerce platform out of Canada, has inked a deal with eBay to enable merchants to sell directly through eBay. According...
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5.9KRetailDirect To Consumer: Impact On Consumer Expectations
Cutting out the middleman has helped many retailers provide a quicker experience for consumers. Some may argue that it also enhances the...
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7.5KBitcoinRetail Bitcoin Acceptance Drops … Even More
Using bitcoin isn’t exactly the frictionless ‘Uber Experience,’ most consumers are after. The cryptocurrency bitcoin has its fans, its detractors, and its...
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14.5KDigital PaymentsPayFacs Are The New ISOs
Once upon a time, merchants had direct contractual agreements with the acquirers who signed them up to accept payments. The process was...
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13.4KCashIdea Bank Is Driving ATM Innovation — Literally, In A BMW
Cash is one of the more underrated players in the payments and commerce ecosystem. It’s often declared dead, innovators of all stripes...
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7.2KeCommerceVantiv On Why Electronic Payments Are SMBs’ Next Natural Evolution
While there are many reasons why small merchants should be able to take digital and online payments — including better conversion rates, wider...
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11.9KMobile CommerceWhat Should Be Inside Your Mobile Wallet (Strategy)
Whereas mostly a concept only really understood by early adopter and tech enthusiasts a few years ago, these days mobile wallets have...
