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Why Retailers Need Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration: 5 Tips to Flexible, Scalable, Customized Payment Infrastructure

Retail TouchPoints

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

Brandbank owns and operates retail brands Seed Heritage, Kikki K, French Connection, Commonry, Fine Day and All Kinds. Halkett was formerly CEO at APG & Co – the parent of Sportscraft, Saba, and Jag – between 2015 and 2020 and at Kathmandu between 2006 and 2014. and oversees strategy and corporate development.

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From fast food to autos, India’s digitally connected users lure investors

Inside Retail

China saw a jump in consumption from 2006 when, as per World Bank data, its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) crossed $2,000. Foreign investors jump in With private consumption accounting for 60 per cent of India’s $3.5 Vahia is one among India’s young and aspirational 1.4 They pumped in a net $2.7

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How Jack Dorsey helped build Twitter

365 Retail

Jack Dorsey has announced his resignation as chief executive of Twitter, the social media platform he co-founded in 2006. The platform was first created as a prototype in 2006 by Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams – all then employees at podcasting firm Odeo, who were said to have been looking for a new direction for the company.

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Alone and thriving: Inside China’s singles economy

Inside Retail

There is not only the cost of the ceremony, but also grooms and their families are often expected to shoulder more of the costs and furnish new brides with items such as large cash payments, jewellery, property or cars. Pet ownership is also popular in China and singles account for a big chunk of this trend. Furry friends.