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

Retail TouchPoints

Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. When we have partnerships with these merchants they’re trusted brands, so consumers can feel good about shopping with those brands.”.

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Signifyd Raises an Additional $205 Million, Eyes Further Expansion in Latin America

Retail TouchPoints

The funding will be used to expand the Signifyd Commerce Protection Platform and identity graph globally across digital shopping and payments. The solution provider also will build up its global product, customer success, risk intelligence and data science teams while expanding its development and engineering teams.

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The Next Generation of Shoppers Needs a Next-Generation Strategy

Retail TouchPoints

They want shopping to be fast and fun — less of a process. That’s why Synchrony partnered with payments startup Skipify, which enables purchases instantly across email, text, social and other channels. This new way of shopping is a powerful retail trend toward simplifying, speeding and improving the online shopping experience.

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Yoox Net-a-Porter’s APAC GM talks tech, loyalty and luxury spending

Inside Retail

We speak with Yoox Net-a-Porter’s APAC general manager Natalie Lee about the resilience of luxury spending amidst an economic downturn, the importance of localisation, personalisation and incredible customer service, and how the company is using technology to improve the way it operates.

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How Merchgirls supercharged business growth by 300% during the pandemic

Inside Retail

Established in 2015 by Hannah Chipkin and Pippa Joseph, Merchgirls quickly became the go-to merch solution for companies that wanted something different to the traditional merchandise offering. An improved post-purchase experience with tracking visibility and customised branding. Reduce costs with fulfilment optimisation.

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Battle of the superapps: GoTo vs Sea in Indonesia

Inside Retail

Although both superapps boast a number of digital services, the main business lines are e-commerce, on-demand services (primarily ride-hailing and food delivery) and fintech (financial services, consisting mainly of e-payment systems). The company has 2.5 So who is winning the food delivery battle?

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

VMS

Throughout the decades, it has been known by various names, including The Merchants Record & Show Window , Visual Merchandising , VM&SD , VM+SD and VMSD. The term “customer friendly” did not apply. As merchants stared into the face of the new century, philosophies began to change. THE END OF THE. BELLE EPOQUE.