Alternative Payments Drive Cross-Border Sales

Alternative Payments Drive Cross-Border Sales

The eCommerce market experienced significant growth in 2020 when pandemic-related restrictions made it difficult for consumers to conduct in-person transactions. Na’Imah Muhammad, owner of wig and hair extension retailer Brazilian Bundle Me, said she noticed an...
Customer Satisfaction Fell Without Free Shipping

Customer Satisfaction Fell Without Free Shipping

Merchants have reduced the availability of some online shopping features for customers this year — particularly free shipping — and this left some consumers completing their purchases with a less satisfactory experience.  As a result, there’s been a slight overall...
Customer Satisfaction Fell Without Free Shipping

Customer Satisfaction Fell Without Free Shipping

Merchants have reduced the availability of some online shopping features for customers this year — particularly free shipping — and this left some consumers completing their purchases with a less satisfactory experience.  As a result, there’s been a slight overall...
One-Click Experience Drives BNPL in Europe

One-Click Experience Drives BNPL in Europe

Playing in the big leagues. That’s the brand-new reality for buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Twisto following its acquisition by global Aussie BNPL company Zip. Finalized this month, the deal for $89 million euros (about $100 million) gives the Prague-based payments...
Booking.com Made Payments a Top Strategic Priority

Booking.com Made Payments a Top Strategic Priority

Question: When is a global travel conglomerate not a simply global travel conglomerate? Answer: When it’s also a FinTech. Discussing new initiatives during the recent third-quarter earnings call, Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel told analysts that the company had made its...
PayPal Lays Infrastructure for Connected Economy

PayPal Lays Infrastructure for Connected Economy

In under 24 months, we’ve witnessed the astonishing success of buy now, pay later (BNPL), the meteoric rise of cryptocurrencies and the effects of a devastating pandemic that sped up payments tech by a factor of years, forcing consumers and businesses to reimagine...