Why Cross-Border Consumers Insist on Local Payment Methods
Despite the widespread adoption of digital technologies, merchants are finding that cross-border payment complexities continue to pose hurdles to capturing international sales opportunities. It’s one of the key findings from “How Payments Optimization Can Power...
Tokenization in Europe Nears 50%
When a shopper whips out their credit card to buy something online, they can feel a lingering worry: Will my card number get stolen by hackers or otherwise misused? That’s why tokenization, a process that hides your 16-digit number from a merchant and instead...
The abandonment epidemic is real
The Abandonment Epidemic: 81% of Shoppers Turn Their Backs on Brands The symptoms are unmistakable: plummeting retention rates, spiking customer churn, and brand loyalty flatlining across the US. The recent survey What’s Killing Conversions for Enterprise...
The next generation of checkout: Why retailers must evolve
The retail landscape has entered a pivotal era where seamless, flexible checkout experiences aren’t just appreciated by customers; they’re expected. As digital behaviors accelerate and competition intensifies, merchants must rethink how they engage consumers at...
Payments Optimization: Powering Global eCommerce Growth
The global payments landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, with digital payments, mobile commerce and local preferences reshaping how consumers shop and pay across borders. According to the Worldpay 2025 Global Payments Report, global eCommerce is projected...
Agentic AI Is Quietly Reshaping the eCommerce Funnel
Maybe browser tabs will become a source of eCommerce nostalgia. Because consumers who once toggled among a dozen browser tabs and comparison-shopping sites are increasingly posing a single question to an LLM such as Perplexity — and pressing “buy” on the answer...
Nearly Half of US Merchants Prioritize One-Click Checkout
U.S. eCommerce merchants are increasingly pressing their payment service providers for technology upgrades, with the primary objective being boosting conversion rates, a direct impact on their bottom line. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “U.S. Merchants Want...
Acquirers Turn to Tokens to Tackle Fraud, Streamline Payments
In the report “Bridging the Gap: Helping Acquirers Meet Evolving Merchant Demands,” a joint effort between PYMNTS Intelligence and Visa Acceptance Solutions, we found that “unified” commerce can improve interactions between merchants, acquirers and consumers....
Why AI-Driven Retail Could Fix eCommerce’s Cart Abandonment
Highlights Online shopping is outdated and ineffective compared to in-store experiences, and AI must humanize digital retail by offering guidance like a knowledgeable salesperson. Rezolve’s Brain Suite uses a proprietary language model to combine product...
