Retailers

Despite lowering barriers and eliminating borders for commerce, the internet still makes it clunky comparison-shop for products across multiple sites. E-commerce startup Shoppable aims to solve this by creating a universal shopping cart.

In late August, Whole Foods started selling Echos as soon as it completed its sale to the e-commerce giant. It may seem like an odd item to stock at a grocery store, but there's a solid strategy behind it.

The breach may result in a huge new dump of names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account, writes Jason Tan, CEO of Sift Science.

It's only the early days after the Equifax breach, but breadth of the data has the potential to reverberate for some time, requiring a mix of detection, prevention and response, according to John Gunn, chief marketing officer at VASCO Data Security; Atiq Raza, CEO of Versec; and Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire.

While many fintech companies and payment startups have good ideas, they don't yet understand the complexity of integrating into a community bank’s core banking system. That's where partnerships can help, writes Steven J. Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc.

For retailers, WeChat’s hyperactive and massive user base is a goldmine, but mini-apps don't solve the most prominent demand of retailers: to acquire and retain new traffic, writes Franklin Chu, managing director of Azoya International.

The gig or sharing economy has transformed and disrupted the global workforce. It has redefined what we should expect from our payments, writes Ralph Perdomo, a research analyst and writer at Nvoicepay.

As long as we can create enough trust between the parties involved in a payment transaction, the system works, writes Francis Limousy, principal adviser for UL Transaction Security Advisory Services.

The institution launched the PayQwig digital wallet in 2015 and made the mobile app available earlier this year to link a mobile wallet to Tesco shoppers' Clubcard to earn points each time it was used.

Targeting customers and linking mobile marketing to in-store sales is a challenge for retailers, but mobile payments can make a difference, writes Marissa Tarleton, chief marketing officer for RetailMeNot.