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Rewards and Preferred Payment Methods Help Merchants Lure Mobile-First Shoppers
Rewards and Preferred Payment Methods Help Merchants Lure Mobile-First Shoppers
March 20, 2025  |  Mobile Commerce

The rise of the click-and-mortar shopper, with mobile devices as the key conduit to commerce no matter the channel, has given clues to what consumers...

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Australia’s eCommerce Merchants Want Help as They Battle Chargebacks
Australia’s eCommerce Merchants Want Help as They Battle Chargebacks
March 19, 2025  |  eCommerce

Chargebacks are a fact of life in commerce. Customers dispute transactions, money is kept back from merchants amid the dispute, and the card issuer determines...

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Mobile-First Consumers Are Key to SMB Sales Growth
Mobile-First Consumers Are Key to SMB Sales Growth
March 17, 2025  |  Shopping

Competing against eCommerce behemoths can be an uphill battle for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). However, those players can level the playing field by adopting...

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Bank of America Says Real-Time Payments Connect Commercial Accounts to Working Capital
Bank of America Says Real-Time Payments Connect Commercial Accounts to Working Capital
March 17, 2025  |  Payments Innovation

The Clearing House’s RTP network launched in 2017. The FedNow Service, the central bank’s foray into real-time payments, debuted in the summer 2023. And yet...

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Gaming Platforms That Close Real-Time Data Gap Can Gain Competitive Edge
Gaming Platforms That Close Real-Time Data Gap Can Gain Competitive Edge
March 17, 2025  |  Data

Irony exists everywhere, and the gaming industry is no different. Just take the fact that the gaming industry has long been at the forefront of...

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Caution Clouds Walmart and Amazon Outlook as Shoppers Tighten Budgets
Caution Clouds Walmart and Amazon Outlook as Shoppers Tighten Budgets
March 14, 2025  |  Retail

Mark your calendar for earnings reports. For Amazon it’s April 29. For Walmart it’s May 15.   If you have any stake or interest in...

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Better DPO Management Emerges as Key Outcome of Working Capital Efficiency
Better DPO Management Emerges as Key Outcome of Working Capital Efficiency
March 14, 2025  |  B2B Payments

For enterprises of all types and across all industries, tariffs, trade wars, reconfigured supply chains and inflation are all top of mind. Dynamic times call...

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Cost and Integration Concerns Keep Smaller Banks From Adopting Real-Time Payments
Cost and Integration Concerns Keep Smaller Banks From Adopting Real-Time Payments
March 14, 2025  |  Banking

The benefits of real-time payments may be readily apparent to financial institutions (FIs) — as they can serve their clients with new use cases, including...

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Update: As Markets Enter Correction Territory, FinTech IPO Index Plunges 4.8%
Update: As Markets Enter Correction Territory, FinTech IPO Index Plunges 4.8%
March 14, 2025  |  Fintech Investments

Markets were awash in a sea of red this past week, and the broader gauges, such as the Dow and the S&P 500 Stock Index,...

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