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Walmart Endorses Financing Solution for its Marketplace Sellers

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart has approved embedded finance provider Parafin to offer financing to Walmart Marketplace sellers to help them grow their businesses Parafin offers full-scale financial services programs to marketplaces, employing machine learning to analyze sales data to determine offer eligibility and terms.

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How Sephora Turned Order Fulfillment into a Loyalty-Builder

Retail TouchPoints

Although her Wall Street background gave her a clear advantage in finance, her time working under Mary Beth Laughton — Sephora’s VP of Ecommerce at the time — unlocked new career possibilities. Now, Sephora is a clear leader in omnichannel execution — and fulfillment has become a key differentiator in the brand experience.

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Why my Retail Finance Team Loves AI

Retail TouchPoints

For me, the great thing about working in finance is getting to make decisions that touch all aspects of the organization. Finance really places you at the center of everything, where decisions you make play a pivotal role in sustaining long-term business success. That is, at least, the theory. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Retail, POS Finance and the Quest for ESG

Retail TouchPoints

In addition to the products and services they offer, retailers are reconsidering the environmental and social impacts of their supply chains, employee activity and even which partners they choose to work with in an effort to fulfill a moral obligation to their consumers — especially the younger generation.

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Embedded Finance: Making Payments Possible in New Frontiers

Retail TouchPoints

In fact, embedded finance will be a $777 billion opportunity by 2029. What’s really exciting about embedded finance is the simplicity of making complex payments accessible to a wide range of people and businesses, and the creative innovations that are opening new use cases and new opportunities. So how can businesses get a piece of it?

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What Is Purchase Order Financing?

Small Biz Trends

Purchase orders are piled-up, and there is a shortage of money to buy goods from suppliers to fulfill orders. If it does, then purchase order financing or PO financing is just the solution to quickly get the much-needed money to fulfill those orders. What Is Purchase Order Financing? Does it sound relatable?

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Making Fulfillment a Revenue Driver: 6 Ways Design and Tech Can Collaborate

Retail TouchPoints

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Nicholas believes that to make store fulfillment a truly profitable initiative, retailers need to find new ways for their tech, operations and design teams to collaborate.