Retailers

Online commerce is today dominated by a small handful of middlemen marketplaces that charge outsize commissions for access to a consolidated buyer pool. But new technology can change that model, writes KJ Erickson, CEO and co-founder of Public Market.

This European regulation means fraud detection will inevitably need to evolve as the fraudsters find new ways to exploit new loopholes, according to Catherine Tong, vice president and general manager for Accertify.

For businesses that serve a predominantly millennial audience, knowing the age group’s tolerance toward online security measures is an important lesson that coincides with customer retention, according to David Britton, vice president of industry solutions of global fraud and identity at Experian.

Flipkart, an Indian e-commerce company which Walmart bought in August, has launched a cardless credit program for consumers and is expected to apply for an NBFC licence, or a classification as non-bank that provides credit and other financial services in India.

Amazon is reportedly weighing plans to expand its cashierless Go convenience stores to include up to 3,000 units by 2021 — but traditional convenience stores may not feel the effects as much as the fast food market.

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos sees eliminating meal-time logjams in busy cities as the best way for Amazon to reinvent the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, where most spending still occurs

Once personal and financial information is accessible to criminals, it feeds the pipeline of future cybercrime for years to come, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security.

Discover Financial Services has launched a version of the Discover "it" card for entrepreneurs whose rewards and features compete more directly with small-business cards offered by Amex and Chase.

To bridge the skill gap in this area, universities all over the world are working with private companies to provide blockchain-related training programs, according to Donika Kraeva, strategic communications manager at Dentacoin.

Executives from four companies—Worldnet co-founder John Clarke, Payrailz CEO Fran Duggan, CardFree CEO Jon Squire, and Sionic Mobile CEO Ron Herman— view Uber and Amazon as drivers of the shift to an "unattended" retail experience that removes human interaction from the process of making a payment.