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

Retail TouchPoints

Get ready for a technology retouch. We’re all used to traditional payment methods, and fully digitized payment solutions have not yet become mainstream. However, even if you’re not yet set up for in-store crypto payments, you can still integrate a digital currency option into your ecommerce or click-and-collect offering.

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PayPal Purchases Cryptocurrency Security Provider Curv

Retail TouchPoints

In October 2020, PayPal committed to helping shape the role that digital currencies will play in the future of commerce and financial services, and the company recently created a business unit focused on blockchain, crypto and digital currencies. Curv was founded in 2018 by CEO Itay Malinger and CTO Dan Yadlin. “As

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The 19 Ecommerce Growth Challenges of 2018, Outlined by Amazon’s Annual Report

BigCommerce

From changes in technology to pending legislative issues, these are the top items to keep an eye on in 2018 and beyond. Technology: The speed at which technology advances (and thus, users adapt their habits) poses a certain amount of risk for a business that can’t be flexible or agile enough to adapt to those changes quickly.

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Bank of England launch digital currency consultation

365 Retail

Officials said on Tuesday that it would launch a consultation on the introduction of a so-called central bank digital currency (CBDC) next year. But it would take until at least 2025 for such a currency to be launched in the UK, the Treasury and Bank of England said.

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Why Backend Orchestration is the True Payment Experience Unlock

Retail TouchPoints

“Too many friction points all along the customer journey is a big pain point for consumers, and certainly the checkout or transaction moment plays a part in that friction,” said Margot Juros, Research Director for Retail Technology Strategies at market intelligence and advisory firm IDC in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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How to Adapt Your Ecommerce Business to Increase Sales in 2021

Retail TouchPoints

Despite this, its use is gradually spreading, above all among large brands and the most technologically advanced vendors. What we do know today is that paying with digital currencies can easily be an additional payment method alongside others that we’re already familiar with, such as PayPal or Stripe.

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Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin and Blockchain in Ecommerce

Ecommerce Platforms

But now it’s shifting towards bitcoins and digital currencies. Digital currencies are the future of ecommerce. Local currencies couldn’t be converted to bitcoin easily and, as a result, no retailer would even think of accepting bitcoins as payment. Blockchain is the name of the technology powering bitcoin.