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Consumers and Merchants Should Look Before They Leap into BNPL Services

Retail TouchPoints

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment options. Research by The Ascent showed that among people who have used a BNPL service, 45% first did so in 2019, 21% first did so in 2020, and only 7% had used a BNPL service prior to 2015.

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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. PayPal will need this edge as the world of digital payments heats up, with formidable competitors including Apple and Google snapping at its heels.

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Macy’s Shakes Up Senior Leadership, Eliminates COO Role

Retail TouchPoints

Macy’s has announced a series of changes to its senior leadership team, including the elimination of the Chief Operations Officer role, as it moves forward with its “Polaris” omnichannel transformation strategy. Miller also has held leadership roles at global payments processing firm First Data Corporation, TD Ameritrade and The U.S.

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New 2021 VAT Rules Will Simplify Filing, but Complicate Calculation

Retail TouchPoints

Called the “low value consignment stock relief,” the threshold was intended to reduce the administrative burden in customs compliance. The new rules broadly extend a 2015 VAT adjustment for certain sales of digital, telecommunications and broadcast services to include ecommerce goods.

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Meet Missfresh, the Chinese grocery retailer offering 30-minute delivery

Inside Retail

Here, we chat with Missfresh about how the DMWs operate, how it’s digitalising fresh markets and its plans for the future. Missfresh was the first to invent the distributed mini warehouse (DMW) business model in China in 2015, before any other player in the on-demand DMW industry. Missfresh generated RMB 6.1

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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. Last year we saw ecommerce sales and influence propelled into 2025, and yet the online checkout experience is stuck in 2015,” said Raj Ramanand, CEO of Signifyd in a statement.

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British small and medium businesses predict strong festive trading period as payments volumes rise

A1 Retail

Barclaycard Payments’ data shows quarterly SME transactions have risen by 38.1 Business owners are starting to feel more optimistic about their own performance, with almost three in 10 (29 per cent) expecting their most successful festive period since 2015. Year-on-year payments volumes are also showing strong growth – up 21.9