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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

No matter how fast the modern payment ecosystem is developing, the pursuit of the best customer experience isn’t going anywhere. To answer customers’ demands, business leaders must find the balance between adapting services to consumers’ digitally-driven shopping behaviors and staying true to the company’s strategy.

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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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The Growth of Digitally Exclusive NFTs is Creating Real-World Opportunities for Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

The current use cases of NFTs are already varied — digital twins of physical products, facilitating services like resale or authentication , sharing provenance details of a product, creating digital souvenir s for real-world experiences or programs and unique digital collectibles or art. Access to exclusive content?

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Trends Analysis: Why Cryptocurrency May Still Be Important for eCommerce

ESW

There’s a bigger discussion about what crypto — and the blockchain technology behind it — can do for the entire eCommerce sector. Digital currencies like Bitcoin are helping both private users and online merchants to experience a whole new world of monetary exchange with complete ease,” eCommerce consultant Darshit Parmar writes.

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Trends Analysis: Should eCommerce Brands Get Serious About Crypto Payments?

ESW

We’ve previously advised eCommerce brands to be aware of the role that the blockchain can play in fraud prevention, CRM and the customer experience. Even if some of that technology isn’t market-ready right now, you need to be thinking about how you can integrate it in the future. What about payments, though?

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Checkout Optimization: A Guide For eCommerce Retailers

Korona

So, of course, it’s important to keep up with the latest technology and offer the most comprehensive eCommerce checkout. After all, studies show that customers are quick to abandon a retailer or purchase if they’re not happy with their checkout experience. . Digital currencies. 1-Click Checkout.

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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.