merchants

Merchants are businesses that sell goods or services, typically operating in the retail or eCommerce sectors. They utilize platforms and systems to process payments, manage sales, and interact with customers.

Why it’s in the news: Merchants are in the news due to the rapid evolution of AI and payment technologies, which are reshaping their operations and fraud prevention strategies.

Latest on merchants

• Pine Labs launches unified platform for merchants in Singapore
• AI Agents Bring Shoppers, but Merchants Must Close the Sale
• The Alphabet Soup of Agentic Standards: A Vocab Playbook for Merchants and PSPs
• Amazon and Walmart Race to Become Merchants’ Operating System
• 51% of eCommerce Merchants Hold the Line on Fraud Staffing
• Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon
• 56 million U.S. shopping carts abandoned because merchants missed five obvious payment options.
• Merchants are now exploring agentic AI solutions to address these checkout issues.
• Historically, merchants have associated bots with credential stuffing, scraping, inventory hoarding and fraud
• a algorithmic pricing adjustment that looks optimal at the platform level can liquidate a small seller in weeks.
• Consumer shopping habits are advancing faster than many merchant payment systems can accommodate
• The problem isn't that payment systems are outdated. It's that they're invisible to the buyer journey until they fail

Connections

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