Displaying 1 - 10 of 45 eCommerce blog posts
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Could Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Revolutionize Payments in the Gaming Sector? [Q&A]
Monday, July 16, 2018 Katrin Boettger to eCommerceACI recently partnered with Nextpayway, a company offering a specialist payment solution for the gaming industry. The Israeli start-up is implementing ACI’s UP eCommerce Payments solution to deliver next-generation payments and fraud prevention. We spoke with Nextpayway’s CEO Angela Behar just after the GES World Gaming Summit in Barcelona.
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Pints, Penalties and Payment Fraud: Welcome to the World Cup
Friday, July 06, 2018 Jackie Barwell to Payments Risk Management, eCommerceYou’d think that England already had the World Cup in the bag, based on the nationwide scenes of jubilation after the Three Lions’ penalty-takers had gone against the (painful) grain of football history, and emerged victorious at the end of a scrappy match against Colombia. However, those cries of “It’s Coming Home” from English football fans may just be a little premature, given that there are still three matches to play (and win) before the English can lay claim to being world champions for the first time in half a century.
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Innovate and Integrate to Accumulate: Investing in Payments Systems to Drive Growth
Monday, July 02, 2018 Annett van de Bunt to Merchant Retail, eCommerceToday’s merchants face numerous challenges, which boil down to one central issue: how to succeed in a constantly changing, complex market, while also investing for the future.
Merchants need to deliver on growing expectations around the customer experience in an increasingly competitive environment, while battling growing costs and squeezed margins. This pressure extends through the whole business for every merchant, in every sector, and it’s driving merchants to look into every corner of their operations for ways to cut costs and redirect resources.
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Choice and Flexibility Help Digital Entertainment Merchants Catch Their Customers
Thursday, June 21, 2018 Christopher Taine to eCommerce, Merchant RetailGaming and Digital Entertainment is one of the fastest growing verticals within the broader merchant sector, as boundaries continue to blur. Many forms of entertainment that once only took place in the physical world, or through the purchase of physical goods, have gone fully digital – with significant ramifications for businesses that provide payments services to suit a wide range of merchant needs. I spoke with Andy McDonald, ACI’s vice president of merchant payments, to find out more.
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The Telco Transformation Tight Rope: Balancing Risk and Reward
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Chris Curd to Merchant Retail, eCommerceIn a previous blog post, we looked at the towering mobile payments opportunity for those MNOs and MVNOs that can build customer trust and convenience through innovation to become a digital marketplace.
But, it is safe to say that while the digital marketplace model could be a real opportunity for telcos, taking this route is not without some risk.
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Cutting the Cost and Complexity of Merchant Payments – But Not the Customer Experience
Monday, May 14, 2018 Michael Grillo to Merchant Retail, eCommerceNew research from ACI and Ovum, released this week, highlights that many merchants in 2018 are investing in creating operational efficiencies in their payments systems. But the question is, as they strive to simplify systems and cut costs, will customer experience suffer?
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Maintain Vs. Invest: What the Digital Era Ushers in for Banks
Thursday, April 12, 2018 Paul Thomalla to Transaction Banking, Payments and Industry Trends, eCommerceTaking place this week in Brussels, the European Credit Research Institute (ECRI) will host a high-level debate on how policymakers can build on the process of digitalisation of banks to raise competitiveness in light of increased competition from fintech start-ups and tech giants.
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Ursinus College: The Future of Campus Commerce is in the Cloud
Monday, April 02, 2018 Gene Scriven to Payments and Industry Trends, eCommerceSixty-eight percent of schools are moving eCommerce to the cloudi. As Ellucian Live begins to descend upon San Diego this week, ACI’s Gene Scriven took a moment to chat with Ellen Curcio, Director of Student Accounts at Ursinus College, about the future of campus commerce.
Be sure to catch Ellen and Gene, as well as ACI partner and host Ellucian at the event on Wednesday, April 11, for a panel discussion on “The Future of eCommerce in the Cloud.”
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Telcos Have a Unique Opportunity to Drive Mobile Payments
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Andy McDonald to Merchant Retail, eCommerceWe are witnessing a significant and inevitable shift in digital payments towards mobile commerce. In the next ten years, we will see an exponential expansion in the number of devices and applications we will use to make mobile payments. You could pay for your groceries on your mobile, for delivery at home, then two days later receive a message from your fridge alerting you that the milk is running low. By the time you get back home, a new bottle of milk could be waiting for you, thanks to real-time delivery, even by a drone.
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Another Day, Another ‘Pay’? Why Google Pay Could Be Different
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 John Gessau to Merchant Retail, eCommerceThe official announcement of Apple Pay back in late 2014, and Android Pay just a few months later, was the catalyst for seemingly endless prognostication on the dawn of a new era in mobile payments. Along with a clutch of ‘Pay’ cohorts, these digital wallets were widely expected to transform shopper behavior, nudging us closer to cashless world where the physical wallet could be left to collect dust at home.