E-commerce

Challenges in E-commerce: the battle for conversion

Austin Puthur James Enterprise Solution Consultant at FIS

Key Considerations for a better Retail Payments Strategy

The Retail industry is facing challenges to gain and maintain the cost of payments due to internal and external factors. The margins had gone down as consumer spending has decreased due to unstable economic conditions. In this situation, I believe optimising the payment is very critical for the success of the business. Payments are the core of any...

31 July 2023 /payments /retail

Hay Yip Chief Strategy Officer & Chief of Staff at FundPark

eCommerce is crucial to Asia’s economic prospects: how we could collaborate to accelerate its growth

While global eCommerce has passed its COVID induced peak, the sector is still on track to expand for the foreseeable, growing a further 10.4% this year with global sales reaching US$6.3 trillion according to eMarketer. Asia is also expected have the lion’s share of this growth with over US$2 trillion[1] in sales. Zooming into Southeast Asia, the ...

28 April 2023 /startups /markets

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Dream On, Bitcoin

The dream of bitcoin is not just about fulfilling the fantasies you have in your brain when shutting your eyes. The reality of bitcoin is about not giving up on that dream. That means doing the work necessary to make the promises of bitcoin come true. That means keeping pushing until the bitcoin dream become a truth. The time is now to wake up and...

06 April 2023 /regulation /retail

Retired Member 

Fraud trends in 2023

As merchants gear up to maximise ecommerce sales in 2023, the never-ending fight against fraud means there’s no room for complacency. Valiant efforts to detect fraud will come to nothing if merchants don’t have the right tools to fight it. The speed with which fraud is mutating to evade detection is frightening. Even with innovations such as Stro...

29 March 2023 /security /crime

Jonathan Friedman Co-Founder & CEO at Karma

How Flexibility, AI, and Security Are Driving Online Shopping

As the eCommerce and online shopping industry continues to innovate, retailers are finding new ways to streamline the checkout process and provide a seamless and frictionless shopping experience for customers. With the rise of new technologies and innovative payment solutions, retailers can offer customers a range of options that cater to their in...

22 February 2023 /payments /startups

Eyal Elazar Head of product marketing at Riskified

Why online retailers must beware of policy abuse

Retailers across the UK are bracing for a challenging economic period. While the winter months are usually the busiest period for brands, the country is in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis, with prices rising much faster than wages and incomes. Even shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday offered little respite. While sales last yea...

01 February 2023 /regulation

Brad Goodall CEO at BANKED

Add Value or Go Home - why payments delivering customer value and helping merchants foster loyalty

The past 12 months have been tough for payment providers across the board, with market volatility and the end of cheap money leading to funding cuts, mass layoffs, and redundancies. Many firms have been struggling, and certain news stories demonstrate the ongoing challenges. Last year, Klarna laid off 10 per cent of its workforce, and its valuatio...

22 January 2023 /payments /startups