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Retailers Must Embrace Financial Services, and Quickly

Retail TouchPoints

And it’s increasingly clear that brands that embrace financial services within the customer journey are scoring highly on engagement scores. The only problem is, for many retailers, the idea of becoming involved in the financial transaction part of the journey is a leap too far. It’s reckoned that nearly 4.5

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The Ongoing Battle to Protect Consumer Payment Card Data

Retail TouchPoints

The war between criminal gangs and the payment industry has been raging for some time. In the early days and now, criminals stole cardholder data from internet-connected point-of-sale (POS) systems to make their own fraudulent transactions. Criminals went back to the drawing board. Standards to the Rescue?

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FAQs on Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and the 4 steps to ensure ecommerce complaisance

GetElastic

Before investing in any of the available payment processing solutions that promise to make it easy for customers to make online payments, it’s crucial to be familiar with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. What is the PCI DSS? When imposed on small business, these hefty fines can put an end to operations.

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Evercommerce Review 2023: All the Pros and Cons You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

Instead, the company offers tailored curated selections of applications and tools for ecommerce within specific industry environments. The company, designed to transform commerce for service organizations, wants to build a world-class, scalable, and modular approach to digital transformation.

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Investment in BigCommerce, Our Customers and Our Partners

BigCommerce

The implications for our customers, partners, and industry will be profound, and our entire team is thrilled to partner with Goldman Sachs, a world-class firm and global financial services leader. Industry-leading site performance, security, and bug fixing were part of the package. Industry-best speed.

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Dispensary Fraud: How to Protect Your Cannabis Business

Korona

Without federal credit institutions allowing dispensaries to use their financial services to execute transactions, very small amounts of debit cards are used in the marijuana retail space, and virtually zero credit cards are used. Cannabis is a cash business. This will limit what features your budtenders and employees can access.

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What Is The SAFE Act 2022 – Cannabis Banking Developments

Korona

Cannabis is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Analysts estimate adult use marijuana sales to top $25 billion in 2023. Nonetheless, the industry still has countless complications and issues. Being federally illegal , cannabis does not have the same access to banking as most other industries.

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