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UK mobile P2P payments usage growth has a case of the doldrums鈥攂ut bank and digital wallet providers can explore several options to give it a boost.

Zoom鈥檚 and Beyond Presence's AI avatars promise hands-free attendance, though the potential for deepfake misuse looms large.

Our first-ever worldwide forecast for retail media ad spending shows enduring momentum and lots of good news for Amazon and other ecommerce platforms around the world.

German grocery retailer Lidl launched a TikTok Shop pop-up in the UK, marking one of the first major grocery retailers to experiment with TikTok鈥檚 ecommerce capabilities.

Luxury ecommerce is a tough place to play: That鈥檚 why Cartier owner Richemont is selling Yoox Net-A-Porter to Mytheresa鈥攐ne of the few platforms that has found sustained success.

Initiate pre-holiday deals to attract early shoppers. Understand holiday shopping behaviors. More like this:. Holiday season ecommerce spending hasn鈥檛 gotten much earlier, study shows. Deep discounting, mcommerce remain keys to holiday season success. 5 key stats on holiday retail: Shoppers start early, spend on mobile, and rely on buy now, pay later.

Really, I mean this is the forefront, at least in my opinion, of consumer-facing generative AI tools within e-commerce. I mean, really what it does is it puts the technology front and center and is asking shoppers to interact with the tool in order to really guide their shopping experience from the get-go. (05:17):.

The retailer plans to expand its physical footprint by opening 500 to 600 shops across Asia, Latin America, and Europe in the next few years. On Monday it teased a potential collaboration with Beyonc茅 in an Instagram post featuring the caption 鈥淚NTRODUCING: A New Chapter.鈥�

Klarna the business chimera: In the high-flying days of zero interest rates, Klarna鈥檚 growth strategy included dabbling in all things related to ecommerce鈥攊ncluding its checkout business. On top of being a bank and a BNPL provider:. It launched a standalone open banking brand, Kosma. It bought and operated social shopping platform Hero for $160 million. It bought price-comparison site PriceRunner.

It鈥檚 launching in seven European markets this year, with a full European rollout expected by spring of 2025. Why it matters: Merchant Information can help banks improve the customer experience: Almost half (45%) of British adults want their banks to provide information on their individual transactions, per Tink research.

The high price of producing plant proteins is often passed onto shoppers鈥攚ho have sharpened their focus on value over the past few years and may not see enough value to justify the cost of meat alternatives.