June 03, 2015
Amazon’s New Weapon: Free Shipping For Small Items
The war is on! In a move to compete with Target, Walmart and eBay’s eCommerce platforms, Amazon is launching free shipping of small items less than 8 ounces and without a...
June 03, 2015
Doorman Aims To Ease Delivery Woes With New Funding
If this company is doing things right, consumers may never have to see a “Sorry we missed you” slip waiting on their doors again. The aptly named company, Doorman, which allows customers to...
June 03, 2015
Pinterest’s Buyable Pins And Instagram’s Buy Button
Just days ago, the public got its first look at Pinterest’s “Buy Button.” And yesterday (June 2), Pinterest introduced the concept of Buyable Pins — which will turn the site shoppable....
June 03, 2015
Alibaba opens office in Russia
Alibaba is doing well. So well that its owner, Jack Ma, decided to expand to Russia, following long time rival eBay as well as Amazon, according to Forbes. Get the Full...
June 03, 2015
Nine Execs On How To Build A Better Social Commerce...
From the launch of Domino’s “tweet-a-pizza” ordering system to Facebook’s “Messenger for Business” platform to the brand spanking new Buy Button on Pinterest, the influence of social commerce on commerce has...
June 02, 2015
Why Series A Funding Could Be Crushing B2B Startups
It’s a difficult truth. Even after successful seed rounds, most startups won’t receive the next round of funding needed to keep the business alive. According to research firm CB Insights,...
June 02, 2015
B2B eCommerce Emerges From PayPal Incubator In India
Three startups have emerged from PayPal’s startup incubator launched in Chennai, India, in 2013, marking the first class of seed-stage innovators to do so. One of the startups that found its...
June 02, 2015
HSBC: Mobile Payments Ready To Enter Enterprise Banking
As one of the world’s largest financial institutions, HSBC has recently made efforts to strengthen its position within the corporate banking world. Late last year, the bank’s head of payments...
June 02, 2015
Office Depot Launches Apple Watch App
Shopping for office supplies just got a little easier for Office Depot and OfficeMax customers. Office Depot Inc., the parent company of the global retailers offering office products and services,...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Embedded finance has moved from experiment to expectation, and the results are reshaping the marketplace economy. Nearly every platform now offers embedded payments, wallets or lending, but the real winners are those that turn management of regulation and risk into competitive advantages. Get the details in “Embedded Finance Grows Up: How Online Marketplaces Can Retain Customers and Boost Revenues,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Marqeta collaboration.