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Why Backend Orchestration is the True Payment Experience Unlock

Retail TouchPoints

“Too many friction points all along the customer journey is a big pain point for consumers, and certainly the checkout or transaction moment plays a part in that friction,” said Margot Juros, Research Director for Retail Technology Strategies at market intelligence and advisory firm IDC in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Crypto-Commerce: Banking on Blockchain for B2B Payments

GetElastic

The predictions for rapid adoption by 2020 never materialized; however, the underlying technology, Blockchain, still holds promise, especially in the B2B payments space. Blockchain’s foundation is distributed ledger technology ?(DLT). A Stablecoin is a digital currency pegged to a ‘stable’ reserve asset, like the U.S.