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What You Need to Know About Payment Processing and eCommerce Merchant Services

Groove

These services help eCommerce businesses complete the online and mobile sales that drive success. Recent news reports highlight these important trends: Cryptocurrency payments Mobile wallets Enhanced fraud protection As these trends become more mainstream, retail organizations may notice an increasing demand for new payment options.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

For retailers, the revolutionary payments shift towards cryptocurrency will certainly come with challenges, but it may all be worth it. After all, offering this option opens the door to a whole new audience of more than 106 million people across the world that hold assets in cryptocurrency. Expect the need for a crypto manager.

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A Blueprint for Retail Cyber Resilience: Evolving Tactics for Today’s Digital World

Retail TouchPoints

These groups often infiltrate endpoint devices, including point-of-sale (POS) systems, employee laptops and mobile devices used for customer service. By adapting methods to target the critical tools retail teams rely on most, threat actors are able to disrupt business operations and demand payment, typically in hard-to-trace cryptocurrencies.

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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

Adii Pienaar, Founder of Conversio and WooThemes (later acquired by WooCommerce), sums this up best: Customers worldwide are using their mobile devices for online shopping more often. Depending on who you want to believe, it’s estimated that since late-2014 more than 50% of all online purchases are made from mobile devices.

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Where Payment Processing Systems Are Headed In 2020

RTP blog

trillion biometrically secured transactions will take place annually via mobile devices. Mobile Payments On The Rise Already, 29% of American consumers would be content to pay with their smartphones all the time. You need to facilitate mobile payments if you haven’t already. What makes cryptocurrency appealing?

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Beyond the Transaction: How PayPal is Helping Remove Friction Across the Commerce Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Mobile technology is transforming payments, making it easier, safer and more affordable for people to move and manage their money than ever before,” said Dan Schulman, President and CEO of PayPal at the time of the spinoff. “As Lai: Today in the PayPal and Venmo wallets you can buy and hold cryptocurrencies and use them as payment methods.

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Holidays in the Metaverse: Macy’s Parade Goes Virtual, Mattel Debuts Marketplace for Toy NFTs

Retail TouchPoints

The event will be accessible on desktop or mobile without the need for a crypto wallet, login or VR headset, and will feature iconic parade balloons from the nine-decade run of the holiday march — the same virtual balloons that were featured in last year’s NFT collection. 24, 2022 at 9 a.m.

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