Sizzle Alexa: Users are spending more, and they seem to like doing it, as evidenced by stickiness. A new study reports that Amazon Echo users are boosting their...
Place a stone in a stream and the water will flow on around it, diverted from its path but not from its destination. Unfortunately,...
BNP Paribas, the European bank, announced news on Wednesday (Nov. 8) that it is introducing WeChat Pay, a popular mobile payment solution in China, to...
Thanks to Chinese shoppers’ affinity for luxury brands, a global recovery of the luxury retail market is underway so far this year. That’s according to...
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” That ancient proverb holds true today, wherever one goes — especially if one is trying to take...
On Wall Street, you are only as good as your last trade. In banking, you might only be as good as your latest customer’s reputation....
The move from plastic to pixels may be a slow one. Changing consumer behavior is no easy feat, as we’ve seen with slow user adoption...
Last week, after five years of debates, discussions, arguments and waiting, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final rules for payday lending dropped. As one...
Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand...