Retailers

As blockchain becomes increasingly popular, heightened levels of data protection and customer awareness of its use become a reality, writes Abhishek Pitti, CEO of Nucleus Vision.

A smart contract for advertising delivery and payments can be subjected to additional layers of verification and enforcement by optional service providers on the network, such as the measurement provider, ratings provider, payment provider and arbitrator, writes Charles Manning, founder and CEO of Kochava.

No matter what the new tool is, you can almost bet it will come with its share of disruption to the very people who invented it, writes Kim Curley, director of people and organizational change for NTT Data Services FSI Business Consulting.

Following the release of the nonbinding statement of policy, regulators still have an important role to play in making sure the industry achieves an effective data-sharing model.

For most retailers heading into this year’s holiday-season sales crunch, the epic Equifax data breach was only the latest in a series of escalating threats that are having a profound effect on the way they handle payments.

Customer service is steadily expanding within Facebook separate from its payments operations, as part of “an ecosystem for buying.”

Because marketplaces are the fastest growing channel in the e-commerce space, many retailers and sellers that have multiple e-commerce channels will see Amazon’s service as a logical next step, writes Victor Rosenman, CEO of Feedvisor.

After 10 years in operation, Amazon Fresh didn’t grow quickly and the company shifted more focus to its fast delivery service Prime Now, which also offers grocery products.

The card is Starbucks' first product with Chase since the companies agreed early in 2016 to make Chase Pay part of the Starbucks app when it became available.

Jeanne Tisinger spent three decades working at the CIA, where her most recent position was deputy director overseeing the agency’s physical and cybersecurity and information technology spanning more than 100 countries.