According to an RSR Research study, a surprising number of digital gift card programs are poorly executed among many U.S. retailers. The Annual Digital Gifting Benchmark Study examined 100 digital gift card programs of retailers from the Internet Retailer 100 and Nation’s Restaurant News, as...
Apparel and accessory merchants are getting increasingly better at nailing online sales. The Q3 edition of the Checkout Conversion Index™ reveals the secret sauce of their success and takes a deep dive into the factors that continue to drive abandoned online shopping carts. While progress...
As the instances and threat of ransomware continues to wreak havoc on both businesses, governments and individuals around the world, it seems as though bitcoin has found itself closely intertwined with the malicious software. As The Wall Street Journal pointed out on Friday (Aug. 19),...
The network’s cardholders in China will now have a new way to pay for tuition and other costs in the U.S. using their Mastercard issued credit and debit cards. Mastercard announced today (Aug. 10) the availability of the online payment service found at www.plastiq.com/mcuni, which...
September 01, 2016
According to an RSR Research study, a surprising number of digital gift card programs are poorly executed among many U.S. retailers. The Annual Digital Gifting Benchmark Study examined 100 digital gift card programs of retailers from the Internet Retailer 100 and Nation’s Restaurant News, as well as leading airlines, from May–June 2016. Retailers’ management of […]
May 16, 2016
Most weeks at PYMNTS, we feel like financial news reporters — mostly, because that’s what we are. But, every so often, we get to feel like stormchasers, à la The...
January 29, 2016
Must financial executives and the regulators who regulate them always be at odds? Perhaps not, says a new study. The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday (Jan. 27) that some executives in the financial industry may be moving toward not being as “relentlessly negative” on regulations, as they have been in the not-too-distant past. That’s one […]
January 04, 2016
The movement to grab fundraising among technology startups last year found strong support among private equity players, but that reception might be a little stonier in 2016, according to The...
December 31, 2015
The U.K. is outpacing every other country when it comes to the eCommerce game, at least that is what Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, told...
