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What Parking Marketplaces Can Learn From Airbnb
What Parking Marketplaces Can Learn From Airbnb
October 11, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

The value of online payments for all transactions is set to blow past $6 trillion by 2024, and much of this money will be spent...

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Top News In Payments: House Passes SAFE Banking Act, SoftBank Mulls $1B WeWork Investment
Top News In Payments: House Passes SAFE Banking Act, SoftBank Mulls $1B WeWork Investment
September 26, 2019  |  News

Today in the payments news roundup, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Secure And Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act that provides cannabis businesses with...

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Why Being ‘Invisible’ Won’t Be Enough For Payments In The 2020s
Why Being ‘Invisible’ Won’t Be Enough For Payments In The 2020s
September 26, 2019  |  Digital Payments

If for nothing else, Uber and Lyft will be remembered for one big thing: making payments all but invisible via a seamless transaction process that...

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Keeping Online Counterfeits Off Luxury Marketplaces
Keeping Online Counterfeits Off Luxury Marketplaces
September 20, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Sales of counterfeit goods, particularly on third-party sites that facilitate transactions between individual buyers and sellers, have skyrocketed with the advent of online shopping. Even...

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Online Marketplaces And The $1.8T Counterfeit Problem
Online Marketplaces And The $1.8T Counterfeit Problem
September 19, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Fraudsters sold counterfeit products worth $323 billion last year, and are projected to make off with $1.8T by 2020. Kimberly Gianopoulos, director at the U.S....

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Why The GAO Thinks PSPS Can Help Fix The Marketplace Counterfeit Problem
Why The GAO Thinks PSPS Can Help Fix The Marketplace Counterfeit Problem
September 18, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Online marketplaces need to meet higher standards if they want to keep customers from the competition. For third-party marketplaces, that means supporting transactions in local...

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Marketplaces Bet That A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Sales
Marketplaces Bet That A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Sales
September 04, 2019  |  Artificial Intelligence

In eCommerce, the right visual images pay dividends  when it comes to inducing shoppers toward impulse buys (or at least impulse browsing) across online platforms...

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How Secondhand Marketplace thredUP Is Using AI To Personalize Shopping
How Secondhand Marketplace thredUP Is Using AI To Personalize Shopping
August 27, 2019  |  Payments Innovation

Today’s shoppers can find eCommerce niches for just about anything for which they are hunting, whether they are searching for the lowest price tags or...

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The Three Golden Rules Of Growing Global Marketplaces  
The Three Golden Rules Of Growing Global Marketplaces  
August 27, 2019  |  eCommerce

Gaining scale as a marketplace is, by-and-large, a good thing. It’s a sign that one has successfully found a way to reach a stable base...

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