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AliExpress brings creator commerce to YouTube

AliExpress is expanding its partnership with YouTube, bringing its product catalogue into the platform's Shopping Affiliate Programme. The post AliExpress brings creator commerce to YouTube appeared first on InternetRetailing.

Boost Turns to Airwallex to Enhance B2B Payments Capabilities

B2B payments company Boost Payments Solutions has launched a partnership with financial operating system Airwallex. The collaboration is designed to enhance Boost’s international commercial card processing capabilities and help it streamlin

Efficient Customer Communication in E-Commerce: Intelligent Assistants as a Competitive Advantage in 2026

Customer enquiries in DACH online retail are rising fast in 2026. Shoppers want instant, accurate answers about products, delivery and returns, and few support teams can hire their way to keeping up. An AI chatbot for e-commerce learns from

Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust

Visa has launched an agentic payments partnership with accounts payable and receivable solutions providers BILL and Billtrust. The collaboration is the first live pilot to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents “to initiate and complete

Temu and IACC launch IP Protection Program

Temu and the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) have expanded their collaboration on IP protection through the IACC-Temu Program, a voluntary initiative that provides IACC member brands with a streamlined process for escalati

Nacha Says Faster Payment Demand Drives 37% Surge in Same Day ACH Volume

Same Day ACH saw year-over-year increases of about 37% in volume and 32% in value in the third quarter as it met user demand for faster payments, Nacha said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release emailed to PYMNTS. With those increases, the t

Shoppers expect less for more this holiday season. That could mean a sales decline.

Some of the latest projections suggest spending could drop, but even those that predict growth recognize consumers are pressured.

OpenAI Racing to Raise $30 Billion Ahead of Anthropic Listing

OpenAI is reportedly rushing to lockdown investors before chief competitor Anthropic goes public next month. That’s according to a report Monday (Oct. 19) by Reuters, which describes the effort as “unusually fast fundraising” that could bri

Pinterest’s head of beauty reveals the rise of hyper-personalised trends

Pinterest’s first-ever Beauty Trend Report suggests beauty is becoming less about following one dominant aesthetic and more about consumers finding increasingly specific ways to express themselves. The report, which analyses Pinterest searc

New US import regulations will take effect, Amazon sellers need to confirm IOR

Countdown! Amazon US site's new insurance regulations take effect on November 2

Cross River Plans to Buy Accrue to Merge Payments With Loyalty

Cross River Bank plans to add branded wallet, stored value and loyalty rewards technology to its regulated financial infrastructure by acquiring FinTech company Accrue, Cross River said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release emailed to PYMNTS

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M&S offers new Sparks rewards to help consumers save on Christmas Shop

M&S has unveiled three ways for its customers to earn extra money in their Sparks wallets: they can spend on bubbles, flowers or lunches at its cafes. This comes as research from the retailer highlighted 44 per cent of UK shoppers have alre

AliExpress and YouTube Announce Global Partnership

AliExpress have announced global strategic affiliate partnership with YouTube. The partnership brings AliExpress’s global product selection into YouTube’s creator ecosystem, giving eligible creators access to a wide range of products to fea

The Cotswold Company trials free interior design service

The Cotswold Company has launched a free interior design service at five of its showrooms as it looks to attract more customers into its stores. The three-month trial will run in Stamford, Harpenden, Knutsford, Tunbridge Wells and Stow-on-t

Brompton Launches Global Partner Portal on BigCommerce B2B Edition

Commerce have announced that Brompton, the British foldable bicycle manufacturer, has launched its new Brompton Partner Portal on BigCommerce B2B Edition. The portal gives Brompton’s global network of independent retailers a modern ordering

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The purchase journey lacks connection and new-customer reach has hit a bottleneck—how did the two brands break through?

We talked with several brands about their real thoughts on the AliExpress & Tmall "China Brand Global Growth Program"

Why retailers are turning to Klarna as shoppers feel the squeeze

As M&S becomes the latest retailer to partner with Klarna, joining the likes of John Lewis and Boots, are brands widening access to Buy Now Pay Later in response to continued pressure on household budgets? Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services

Debenhams Group launches faster payment scheme for 30,000 marketplace partners

Debenhams Group has launched a new cash flow solution, enabling its 30,000-plus marketplace brand partners to access sales revenue faster. The group has partnered with Storfund to introduce its Daily Advance service, allowing eligible selle

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Axya’s $12 Million Bet on Fixing Procurement’s Broken Data

Watch more: Digital Shift With Félix Bélisle-Dockrill of Axya A supplier promises to deliver parts on the 18th of the month. The shipment gets pushed to the 25th. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system updates the expected delivery d

Banks’ Growing Fraud Tech Stacks Create an Integration Challenge

Banks have plenty of fraud technology, but getting all of it to work as a cohesive line of defense is becoming a problem. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Scams Get Personal: Why Banks Pay More to Fight Fraud” found in September that 78% of