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URBN to Deploy Common Payments Infrastructure Across Brands

Retail TouchPoints

URBN , parent company of Urban Outfitters , Anthropologie , Free People and FP Movement , will adopt Stripe as its primary payments infrastructure for both online and in-store sales, consolidating the majority of its North American payments volume onto the solution provider.

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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. Surges in online shopping during the pandemic helped fuel the growth of point-of-sale loans — a market that is forecast to grow at an annualized 9.8% BNPL are essentially layaway plans in reverse.

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Amazon Deepens Payments Presence With Express Payout, Cashierless Partnership With Panera

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon has expanded its reach in the payments arena with the the launch of Express Payout for Amazon Pay merchants and the reported expansion of its cashierless checkout to 200 stores. The growth of Amazon’s cashierless technology reflects its rising payments capabilities.

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7 Banks Team Up to Create Digital Wallet, Challenging PayPal and Apple Pay

Retail TouchPoints

The digital wallet will be managed by Early Warning Services (EWS) , the company that operates Zelle, but will operate separately from Zelle. The other four owners in the EWS/Zelle venture include Capital One Financial , PNC Financial Services Group , U.S. By 2025, digital wallets are expected to account for 52.5%

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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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Stopping Ecommerce Fraud: How Technology can Help

Retail TouchPoints

According to one report , the total cost of ecommerce fraud to merchants will exceed $48 billion globally in 2023, from just over $41 billion in 2022. Digital payments misuse accounted for 21% of the total number of fraudulent transactions. Why is this happening? That’s why graph databases are widely used in social media.

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Why Payment Orchestration is the key to international merchant growth

A1 Retail

The shift to ecommerce has changed the game for modern retailers, leading many to shift their attentions online and start to plan for international growth. To do so effectively, however, retailers need to optimise their payments ecosystems now to put in place the right framework for expansion in the future.