WEBINAR: The retail reset – Sign up now!
By Summit According to finder.com, there was a 21% increase in time spent on social media last year, with Facebook & Instagram expected to overtake Google’s share of UK digital ad spending. To find out more about this trend, Summit recently conducted a Voice of the Customer survey looking at consumers and their social media […]
Resilience in Retail: How European businesses are adapting with payments
By Nick Noyer, Head of EMEA Marketing, Stripe Consumer spending has been moving online at a growing pace over the past 20 years. When COVID-19 hit, it further accelerated the ongoing trend, causing retailers and other businesses to evaluate and adapt to new consumer spending patterns. The most adaptive firms not only saw this as […]
Everything you need to know about Payment Orchestration
By BridgerPay Payment orchestration is the next big trend in online payments, but why? What is it and how does it improve upon the traditional payment service providers (PSPs) that have dominated the market for years? Below we’ll discuss what payment orchestration is and how it can benefit your online business. What is Payment Orchestration? […]
How COVID-19 has changed perceptions of e-commerce
By BridgerPay COVID-19 has changed the way consumers relate to e-commerce and that according to this recent survey, the pandemic has accelerated a greater global shift toward online stores and digital solutions, especially in emerging economies. This means that online platforms are faced with the need to provide seamless, speedy transactions that can be completed […]
Businesses transform during Coronavirus
By Ordo New year, new you? What about your business? Are you fit for rapid recovery whilst weathering political turmoil, new virus strains and vaccines? The planet transformed to move online to fight to survive, both personally and for businesses. But now’s the time to keep innovating and transforming to be as efficient as a […]
How can international brands thrive in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan?
By Checkout.com Every economic region can suffer from stereotypes. For the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENAP), that comes in the form of petroleum, natural gas, heavy industry and concentrated sovereign wealth. Lazy analysis may correlate this with weak individual consumer spending and a lag in mass digital adoption. As a consequence, it’s easy […]
Risky business – Why tackling cyber-security and fraud is key to post-pandemic retail success
By Angel Grant, Director of Digital Risk Solutions at RSA Security Retail has always been one of the most popular targets for fraud and cybercrime. Hardly surprising, given their complex supply chains, cyber-immaturity relative to other sectors, and the huge volumes of customer data they often possess. But the rush to digitalise during the pandemic […]
The ‘phygital’ experience as protection against the virus… and the financial crisis
By Limontek Over the last several years, the ‘phygital’ marketing strategy (i.e., physical plus digital) has been gaining ground. This trend in the retail world aims to provide consumers with an enhanced in-store shopping experience that reaches into the digital world. Entirely focused on customer requirements, this strategy is geared to enrich physical outlets with […]
Surviving post-pandemic retail challenges with subscription models
By John Phillips, General Manager, EMEA at Zuora Whilst many organisations are feeling the economic effects of the global pandemic, subscription-based businesses are proving to be resilient. In fact, a recent report found that more than half of subscription businesses have not been impacted by the pandemic, while one quarter are actually seeing subscriber acquisition […]
Ordo, reshaping payments with Open Banking, enabling low cost, real-time transactions across the UK
By Ordo In March, the World Health Organisation (WHO) proposed contactless payments as a countermeasure of COVID-19. The effect is the ever-faster rise of digital payments on web platforms and mobile apps. Digital and contactless payments have seen an increase in usage by more than 50%, and experts are claiming that these new forms of […]
