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Why Retailers Need Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration: 5 Tips to Flexible, Scalable, Customized Payment Infrastructure

Retail TouchPoints

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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Cryptocurrencies are the Future of Payments: Here is How Merchants Fit In

Retail TouchPoints

Reinventing Payments: The Entry of Bitcoin. Bitcoin began as a concept to revolutionize payments in 2008, and today stands at a total valuation of more than $1.1 Bitcoin began as a concept to revolutionize payments in 2008, and today stands at a total valuation of more than $1.1

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Revolutionizing Customer Retention: The Rise of Digital Top-Up Cards in the Global Market

Retail TouchPoints

As consumers demand more flexible payment options, it is no surprise that the digital top-up card industry has had a strong year. The trend is set to continue, and it is not just shoppers who benefit from increasingly digital-first payments. This means the demand for flexible payment solutions has surged.

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Mastercard faces court over anti-competitive deals with major retailers

Inside Retail

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the financial services giant has been engaging in anticompetitive conduct since 2017 in the supply of debit card acceptance services, with the purpose of substantially lessening competition.

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How Verizon Personalizes CX, from Engagement to Post Purchase

Retail TouchPoints

That’s why the retailer and mobile service provider uses multiple technology solutions to create a personalized shopping experience at scale. Retail TouchPoints: Many consumers begin their purchasing process online but end up in brick-and-mortar stores. How does Verizon facilitate that type of shopper journey?

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Hair salon penalised over unlawful cashback scheme

Inside Retail

The former operators of a Sydney hairdressing salon have incurred more than $291,000 in penalties, as well as having received backpayment orders, for having underpaid a worker through an unlawful cashback scheme. compensation (plus interest) to rectify the underpayments and cashback payments.

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Decoding the global trends shaping the future of retail

Inside Retail

KPMGs 2024 Apac seamless commerce report suggests Gen Z shoppers (born 1995-2010) are now so heavily influenced by what they see on social media and livestreaming, that 63 per cent said social commerce is most important to their shopping experience, followed closely by livestreaming (57 per cent).