The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) offer to allow payment firms to enable eRupee transactions via their platforms has reportedly been taken up by five such firms. Google Pay, Walmart-backed PhonePe, Amazon Pay, Cred and Mobikwik have applied to join the Indian central bank’s digital currency pilot, Reuters reported Monday (Aug. 5),...
Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have revolutionized the way consumers shop and interact with brands, with each channel meeting different consumer interests and needs. While not all users make purchases from their discoveries, more than 40% of consumers use their social media...
With the recent news that Amazon is partnering with Hyundai, the conventional wisdom might be to say: Amazon sells pretty much everything else across its platform, and as part of its evolving ecosystem. So why not cars? As announced earlier this month, beginning the second half of 2024, Amazon will start...
Stitch together eCommerce ecosystem by eCommerce ecosystem and you get a massive ecosystem, as measured by scale. Amazon is partnering with Shopify to allow merchants who pay for Shopify’s eCommerce tools to use Amazon’s logistics network. The tie-up underscores the ways in which logistics and fulfillment can be the needle...
August 14, 2024
Digital wallets are transforming payments and commerce. In today’s operational landscape, where convenience reigns supreme and value-added services drive customer stickiness, the financial services industry faces new challenges and opportunities from the Big Tech builders of those very digital wallets. With the news at Tuesday’s (Aug. 13) ninth annual Made by Google event that Google […]
December 06, 2023
Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have revolutionized the way consumers shop and interact with brands, with each channel meeting different consumer interests and needs. While not all...
November 22, 2023
With the recent news that Amazon is partnering with Hyundai, the conventional wisdom might be to say: Amazon sells pretty much everything else across its platform, and as part of its...
June 09, 2023
The whole point of buy buttons is to cut to the chase, as it were, for customers who have made up their minds and want to pay. This simple approach...
August 05, 2024
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) offer to allow payment firms to enable eRupee transactions via their platforms has reportedly been taken up by five such firms. Google Pay, Walmart-backed PhonePe, Amazon Pay, Cred and Mobikwik have applied to join the Indian central bank’s digital currency pilot, Reuters reported Monday (Aug. 5), citing unnamed sources. The companies declined to comment, according to […]
August 15, 2023
Amazon and Chase say they have expanded their equal monthly payments offering for card members. The companies announced Tuesday (Aug. 15) that Prime Visa and Amazon Visa cardmembers can now...
August 06, 2023
Amazon has teamed with Brazilian bank Banco Bradesco to offer a credit card in that country. The launch of the card is set for this week, CEO Octavio de Lazari...
June 07, 2023
Amazon has added Affirm’s pay-over-time option to Amazon Pay. With this addition, eligible United States merchants using Amazon Pay can allow their customers to choose the pay-over-time option at checkout, the companies said in a...
