A report from consulting firm Deloitte found that 57% of consumers use a digital app to order restaurant food for off-premise dining, up from 54% in 2020. Even for ordering in a restaurant, 64% of consumers prefer to place their order digitally, up from 53% last year. The survey of 1,000 consumers …
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Stripe Acquires OpenChannel and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/7/21
Processor Stripe Inc. said it acquired OpenChannel, which provides app marketplace software. Terms were not disclosed.Payments provider Payoneer Inc. announced a worldwide working-capital offer for sellers on the Walmart U.S. marketplace.In related news, Facepay Inc., a payments provider specializing in auto-repair shops, said its Facepay Capital service is available to all shops on its platform.Money transmitter LianLian …
Read More »Black Friday Traffic up 40% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/6/21
Of the so-called Cyber 5 shopping days—Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday—Black Friday generated the most shopping traffic online last month, with traffic at its peak nearly 40% higher than the peak at Thanksgiving and 5% higher than on Cyber Monday, according to data from Fastly, an e-commerce platform provider.Issuer processor Paymentology Ltd. said …
Read More »Splitit Volume Increases 61% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/3/21
Buy now, pay later specialist Splitit Payments Ltd. said its merchant sales volume for the first two months of the fourth quarter totaled $94 million, a 52% increase quarter-over-quarter and a 61% increase year-over-year. Splitit reported $11 million in merchant sales volume across the holiday shopping weekend, including Black Friday and Cyber …
Read More »Cart Abandonment Issues Linger and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/2/21
Online checkouts remain a challenge for many merchants as 40% report cart abandonment as more than a minor issue and 41% say fraudulent transactions have risen since the pandemic set in, according to Paysafe Ltd.’s “Lost in Transaction” report.PayPal Holdings Inc. said merchants on the Wix.com Ltd. e-commerce platform can offer …
Read More »Afterpay’s BNPL Spending up 230% and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 12/1/21
Buy now, pay later spending in the United States through provider Afterpay Ltd. has risen 230% in the past 12 months, with a 34% increase year-over-year during the Black Friday through Cyber Monday period, the company said. Square Inc.’s acquisition of Afterpay, announced in August, is expected to close in the first quarter next …
Read More »The Digital Financial Services Playbook
Advanced technologies and open banking have rewritten the rules for success in payments and other crucial financial services. Here’s how to compete—and win. Yes, the future of financial services is digital. But so is the present. Increasingly, traditional institutions, fintechs, and service providers are coming together like a set of …
Read More »Waitr Adds Harbortouch Devices and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/30/21
Waitr Holdings Inc., an ordering and delivery platform for restaurants, has agreed to offer the Harbortouch point-of-sale system from payments provider Shift4 Payments Inc. to Waitr’s 26,000 clients.Payments provider Nuvei Corp. said a subsidiary has won approval to provide payment processing to support daily fantasy sports and sports-wagering operators in Louisiana. The …
Read More »Dorsey Exits Twitter CEO Role and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/29/21
Jack Dorsey, chief executive of both Square Inc. and Twitter Inc., is stepping down effective immediately as chief executive of social-media platform Twitter, Dorsey posted on Twitter. He will be succeeded by Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal.E-commerce holiday shopping on the Monday following Thanksgiving—known as Cyber Monday—will increase 21% over the same day …
Read More »74% of Consumers Intend to Keep Using Contactless Cards and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 11/24/21
Some 74% of consumers who tried using contactless cards this year plan to keep using them, up from 61% who said the same thing last year, according to a report from the Electronic Transactions Association and The Strawhecker Group.Humbl Inc. released a new version of its Humbl Pay mobile wallet, including upgrades …
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