Retailers

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.

Apple's digital services group, which includes Apple Pay, generated $8.5 billion in revenue in the quarter for Apple, a jump of 34% from the previous year.

Employees of a small or midsize business can learn customers’ needs and deftly toggle between soft and hard cross-sells at the perfect time, writes Michael Hiskey, chief marketing officer of Semarchy.

It may seem weird or even risky at first, but e-invoicing not only reduces tax fraud, but also makes life easier for small businesses, writes Diego Caicedo, CEO of Portal Finance.

As retailers look to bring payments in-house, there are various approaches to consider, writes André Stoorvogel, director of product marketing for payments at Rambus.

Many standard procedures are possible as there are significant similarities in the information requirements across the globe, writes Zac Cohen, general manager for Trulioo.

Fraudsters deliberately target the holiday season, with more than half of annual fraud income taking place between September and December and chargeback rates increasing by up to 50% at peak shopping periods, writes Suresh Dakshina, president of Chargeback Gurus.

Relevance to the consumer is the challenge for banks in the post-PSD2 era and partnerships hold the key, writes Maikki Frisk, Executive Director of the Mobey Forum

The European regulation will make data sharing more complex, creating an opportunity for stakeholders to collaborate to build new tools.

It’s vital to work with a payment processor that fully discloses its pricing approach on its merchant statements, writes Jeff Zimmerman, COO of Clearent.

Fintrax provides multi-currency digital payment processing for international shoppers, and will add Planet Payment's base of clients in nearly two dozen countries.

Since e-commerce and digital payments' inception, the state of the retail industry has been fluid, always facing new challenges and battles, writes Erik Morton, vice president of strategy and corporate development at CommerceHub.

Automated business payments is key to rightsizing inventory purchases, writes Matt Clark, COO of Corcentric.

The industry has the opportunity to expedite gains in interoperability and realize significant cost savings and productivity gains for both the clinical and administrative sides of the industry, writes Chris Seib, chief technology officer and cofounder of InstaMed.

If you’re an omnichannel merchant, it’s critical to analyze fraud separately across your brick and mortar, online and mobile channels, in order to focus your information security resources where they are most needed, writes Michael Lynch, chief strategy officer for InAuth.

It is often difficult to imagine how something will disrupt an industry because it may seem that the industry is already functioning with no problems. But there are inefficiencies that may not be apparent, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative for Dentacoin.

The lowest rates could be a sign the provider is not investing in itself, not being entirely transparent, or not providing a wide enough range of services for their clients, writes Drew Sementa, CEO of Tidal Commerce.