E-commerce

Fintech & Ecommerce

How Social Commerce is Turning Digital Wallets into Must-Haves

Digital wallets are omnipresent today. You’re probably wondering what drives their annual double-digit growth. Well, they’re convenient, secure, and simple to use. Yet, that’s not all the reasons. Social commerce stands out among numerous other factors, catalysing digital wallet adoption in a discrete yet powerful way. 

Fintech & Ecommerce

Perplexity Selects PayPal for AI-Powered Payments Within Its Agentic Commerce System

Perplexity and PayPal will allow AI agents on the Perplexity Pro platform to pay for products, travel bookings, or tickets requested by users.

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Adyen to Offer JCB Card-on-File Tokenization

Merchants who use Adyen platform will soon benefit from even more secure credit card transactions with JCB Card-on-File (COF) Tokenization technology.

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How Open Banking Progresses With API-Based Commercial Variable Recurring Payments (CVRPs) 

E-commerce subscriptions are doubling every year, with Gen Z driving its snowballing popularity. Where there’s demand for subscriptions, there’s also a need for efficiency in recurring payments. CVRPs are getting significant interest share from merchants and payment service providers, making them a potential new stage in open banking progress.

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Mastercard and Visa Usher New Era of Agentic AI Commerce

Both payment network providers, Visa and Mastercard, have almost simultaneously unveiled their initiatives to enable the future of AI-driven agentic commerce.

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Mastercard Advances Stablecoin Infrastructure

Mastercard introduces new end-to-end capabilities that can make stablecoin payments as seamless as everyday fiat transactions.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Chinese E-Commerce Platforms Reportedly to End Refund-Without-Returns

The media, citing insiders, published information according to which the Chinese authorities have asked e-commerce platform operators to stop insisting that merchants refund customers without requiring the return of goods.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Shein and Temu to Increase US Prices

Chinese online retailers Shein and Temu have notified US consumers that prices on their respective e-commerce platforms will increase from April 25.

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AEON Teams Up with Stellar to Grow Web3 Mobile Payments in Southeast Asia

AEON partners with Stellar blockchain to support payments using $XLM and Stellar-based USDC for e-commerce purposes.

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Agentic AI in E-Commerce

Even online shopping can be painstaking, given the manifold selection of products and e-commerce stores. If the mere thought of browsing through myriads of online shops’ inventory items, comparing prices and logistic options leaves you feeling exhausted – agentic AI is on its way to the rescue mission. 

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Checkout.com Boosts eBay Global Payment Platform

Millions of buyers and sellers around the world using the eBay platform will have even more seamless e-commerce experiences, as the marketplace partners with Checkout.com.

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Klarna Expands In-Store Presence With Clover

Klarna partners with Clover, a point-of-sale system developed by Fiserv, to scale its in-store payment network.

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Klarna Partners With Aritzia to Make Everyday Luxury Fashion More Accessible

Klarna brings flexible and interest-free payment options to Aritzia clients online and in select boutiques across the US and Canada.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Amazon Tests Third-Party Product Discovery Feature

Buy for Me service, which enables customers to buy from other brand retailer websites, is currently in the beta testing stage within the Amazon Shopping app. 

Fintech & Ecommerce

Innovative PayPal Ads Solution to Debut in UK

Starting July, UK customers will start seeing personalised PayPal ads and enjoy an enhanced shopping experience with the payment leader’s innovative marketing solution.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Fiserv Brings Clover POS to Australia

Smart POS platform Clover, created by Fiserv, is launching in Australia to power local SMEs.