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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
This Week In E-Commerce - Digital Commerce Insights Forecasting Future Market Dynamics
The latest "Digital Commerce Market: 2025-2029" report offers an exhaustive examination of the rapidly expanding digital commerce sector, providing detailed analysis and strategic recommendations for stakeholders. This comprehensive research covers pivotal segments such as Digital Banking, eCommerce, and Proximity Payments, analyzing market trends and challenges across 60 countries. It offers critical insights into key growth drivers and constraints, enabling stakeholders to refine their strategies within digital commerce. Accompanied by extensive benchmark forecasts, the report serves as a crucial resource for understanding market dynamics and preparing for future developments within this evolving industry. In other market news, was a notable mover up 15.8% and ending trading at CA$22.72, close to the 52-week high. This week, the company raised its earnings guidance for 2025, projecting higher comparable store sales growth. At the same time, trailed, down 20% to end trading at $1.00. Seize the opportunity as Amazon leverages AI to boost AWS and ads. Dive into the full narrative to explore Amazon's growth potential and strategic moves. For a deeper understanding of the e-commerce landscape, revisit our Market Insights article highlighting the pivotal role of logistics automation in driving industry growth; essential reading as the landscape rapidly evolves. ended the day at $59.51 down 0.8%. On Tuesday, Cathleen Benko informed the company of her decision to retire from the Board of Directors effective after the 2025 annual meeting. closed at $212.52 down 1.1%. This week, Amazon saw key partnerships with Tufin and CSG to enhance cloud security and transformation solutions. settled at $113.49 down 1.3%. Alibaba recently presented at MWC Shanghai 2025, two days ago, highlighting insights from Vice President Steven Hoi. Unlock our comprehensive list of 252 E-Commerce Stocks like Arvind Fashions, STO ExpressLtd and Weimob by clicking here. Interested In Other Possibilities? AI is about to change healthcare. These 22 stocks are working on everything from early diagnostics to drug discovery. The best part - they are all under $10b in market cap - there's still time to get in early. This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned. Sources: Simply Wall St "Digital Commerce Market Report 2025: Benchmark Forecasts Highlight Market Trends Across 60 Countries" from Research and Markets on GlobeNewswire (published 17 June 2025) Companies discussed in this article include TSX:GRGD NYSE:NKE NasdaqGS:AMZN NYSE:BABA and OTCPK:MALG. This article was originally published by Simply Wall St. Have feedback on this article? Concerned about the content? with us directly. Alternatively, email editorial-team@
Arabian Business
11-06-2025
- Business
- Arabian Business
Securing innovation at scale
As digital commerce evolves, a new paradigm is emerging—one where intelligent systems act on behalf of consumers, shaping the future of commerce. This shift is redefining the digital experience, placing trust and security at the heart of every interaction. At Visa, we're continuously evolving our platform, unbundling capabilities through our value-added services. This makes it easier for clients of all sizes to access the tools they need and unlock new opportunities across the Visa network and beyond payments. Digital by default. Security by design As digital experiences accelerate, so does the complexity of the threat landscape. Businesses and financial institutions are not only driving innovation, but also managing rising consumer expectations and increasingly sophisticated risks. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region exemplifies this digital momentum. With 5G expected to cover 93 per cent of the population by 2030, the region is laying the groundwork for a hyper-connected future. In digital payments, transaction volumes are projected to reach $193.46 billion in 2025 and near-universal mobile connectivity, setting a global benchmark for digital engagement. Here, consumers don't wait for innovation, they expect it. According to Visa's Stay Secure study, over 80 per cent of consumers in the UAE and Saudi Arabia plan to use digital payments more in the coming year. However, the same technologies that empower consumers are also enabling fraudsters. Today's threats are real-time, AI-powered, and coordinated. Fraud is no longer the work of isolated actors—it's a service, scaled and sold. Nearly half (49 per cent) of consumers in the UAE have fallen for a scam, with 15 per cent being victims on multiple occasions. Legacy systems weren't built for this. The challenge now isn't just to detect fraud—but to outpace it. Visa Protect: Built for growth Meeting this challenge requires more than detection—it calls for a fundamental rethinking of how we secure the entire payments journey. That means anticipating risk, not just reacting to it. Over the past five years, Visa has invested over $12 billion to do just that: enabling seamless, secure payments by identifying and protecting against potential points of friction across the transaction lifecycle. In 2024 alone, Visa helped block $40 billion in fraudulent activity. This is the foundation of Visa Protect—our AI-native, end-to-end suite of solutions that secure every transaction, on and off our network. With hundreds of AI models embedded across more than 100 products, Visa Protect spans the entire payments ecosystem and every use case. These solutions translate hundreds of risk signals into multiple, actionable scores—empowering smarter and faster decisions. We secure every layer of the payment experience by safeguarding credentials with Visa Provisioning Intelligence (VPI), enabling risk-based authentication with Visa Consumer Authentication Service (VCAS), detecting fraud in real time with Visa Advanced Authorisation (VAA), and intercepting scams in account-to-account payments with Visa Protect for A2A. To support fraud and risk management at scale, we've built centralised platforms like Visa Risk Manager (VRM)—a network-agnostic solution used by thousands of issuers globally—and Decision Manager, which offers a unified fraud prevention engine for acquirers and merchants across channels and gateways. Now, with the acquisition of Featurespace, we're expanding those capabilities even further. Featurespace brings a real-time, AI-native platform that delivers a 360-degree view of customer behaviour across all payment channels and upstream events. Its solution enables behavioural profiling across multiple entities—device, account, card, and merchant—allowing for more precise detection of complex, cross-channel threats. Innovating to keep you ahead As digital fraud grows in volume and sophistication, Visa is staying ahead by enhancing our powerful risk and fraud solutions with technology innovation. We contine to grow our suite of value-added services, which includes over 200 products covering acceptance, advisory, issuing, and risk and identity. These services empower clients and partners to innovate, grow, move faster, and build trust in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
Forbes
09-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
The Combined Power Of LinkedIn And Email Marketing For Driving Sales
Karan Sharma is a digital commerce expert and the co-founder at Kinex Media Inc, a creative digital agency in Toronto. As social platforms continue to evolve with new features, they're increasingly influencing purchasing behaviors. As a result, the buyer's journey has transformed dramatically. According to research by GWI, 71% of B2B decision makers say that social media influences their decisions when they're considering new products for their companies. For many of these buyers, their purchasing journey begins on LinkedIn. You can leverage this shift by using LinkedIn to build trust with your audience and then connecting with them through personalized email campaigns that drive conversions. Let's take a look at how. LinkedIn has evolved from a professional networking site into a powerful platform where you can build genuine relationships with your brand's audience. To effectively build trust and engagement, you should empower your company's most valuable assets: your people. One survey found that content shared by employees leads to eight times more engagement than content shared directly by brands. This effectively humanizes the brand and helps foster a deeper sense of trust. This phenomenon underscores the power of employee advocacy, where companies encourage their teams to share positive news, insights and industry expertise about their workplace. This approach not only amplifies the brand's reach exponentially but also injects a crucial layer of authenticity, making the brand's voice more relatable and trustworthy to its audience. To cultivate this, you can proactively provide clear guidelines on brand messaging, offer a repository of content ideas or even pre-written posts that employees can easily customize and share, and publicly acknowledge their contributions to foster a culture of sharing. Implementing formal advocacy programs, providing training on LinkedIn best practices and celebrating employees who actively contribute can turn every team member into a genuine brand ambassador. For example, you might designate an internal content champion to curate shareable articles or organize friendly internal competitions to boost participation and reward engagement. Beyond leveraging personal profiles, you can further ignite engagement through interactive content. Sharing elements like LinkedIn polls and carousels actively encourages audience participation, which in turn drives greater brand awareness. Polls offer real-time insights into customer preferences and pain points, helping brands segment audiences and tailor communications. You can regularly create polls on industry trends or customer challenges. Carousels visually break down complex information or case studies. By integrating these, you can transform your brand's LinkedIn presence into a vibrant community, fostering authentic connections. Turning social media engagement into email subscribers is a critical next step in the digital marketing funnel. Here are some key tactics to turn LinkedIn followers into loyal, high-intent subscribers: • Offer lead magnets: To grow your email list effectively, offer valuable resources like e-books, reports, templates or webinars as lead magnets. For instance, a B2B SaaS company might offer a 'Comprehensive Guide to Optimizing Sales Funnels.' You can offer these on LinkedIn via organic posts linking to landing pages, through LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms in paid campaigns or through profile resources. When a lead magnet directly addresses audience needs and offers significant value, it boosts conversion rates because the perceived benefit outweighs sharing personal information. • Create simplified forms: Limit required fields on lead capture forms to reduce friction and increase sign-ups. Collect essential information initially (name, email) for higher conversion rates, and then gather more details through targeted nurturing. Building an email list is just the first step—how you engage with your subscribers is what truly drives results. Sending messages that are relevant, engaging and conversion-focused is the key. This requires personalization. AI tools can help you craft personalized subject lines, body copy and calls to action at scale. By analyzing audience data, AI tools ensure that every email feels individually tailored, even when targeting large subscriber lists. For instance, you could share personalized e-book offers with your subscribers. Consider adding interactive elements to your emails as well. Adding components like quizzes, sliders or clickable product recommendations within emails can boost engagement and increase time spent with the content. These elements not only improve the user experience but also generate valuable data about customer preferences for future segmentation. To accurately assess the success of a LinkedIn-to-email strategy, look beyond superficial metrics and concentrate on key performance indicators. This involves tracking conversion rates, specifically the percentage of LinkedIn interactions that lead to email subscriptions. Additionally, be sure to consistently analyze engagement metrics like email open and click-through rates to gauge content resonance and how well it addresses audience needs. To understand the financial efficiency of your efforts, calculate your customer acquisition cost (CAC) by adding up all of your direct marketing and sales expenses (e.g., LinkedIn ad spend, lead magnet content costs, email platform costs, relevant team salaries) for a defined period and then dividing this total by the number of new customers acquired through that specific funnel during the same period. The formula looks like this: CAC = total sales and marketing costs/number of new customers. Finally, measure your pipeline velocity—the time it takes from initial LinkedIn engagement to deal closure. This helps you pinpoint bottlenecks and optimize the overall sales process. Integrating your LinkedIn and email marketing efforts is an effective, efficient way to build trust, engage audiences and drive conversions. By using LinkedIn to attract and nurture leads and leveraging personalized email campaigns to convert them, you can achieve sustainable growth and enhanced brand loyalty. For chief marketing officers, founders and marketers, the key takeaway is clear: Stop siloing your platforms. The modern growth engine is not about being everywhere—it's about being intentional and strategic with the platforms you choose to engage on. Forbes Agency Council is an invitation-only community for executives in successful public relations, media strategy, creative and advertising agencies. Do I qualify?
Finextra
09-06-2025
- Business
- Finextra
Tietoevry Banking outlines seismic shift in European digital commerce by 2035
Results from a new report commissioned by Tietoevry Banking and written by leading research and advisory firm Celent predict continued strong growth in digital commerce to 2035, with the value of digital transactions set to hit €1.090 trillion in five key European markets by the middle of the next decade. 0 The report, 'A Future of European Payments' also highlights the rise of Account-to-Account (A2A) services and the development of smart AI agents that drive automated transactions as key areas of opportunity for banks and payment providers in the next 10 years. The report investigates consumer e-commerce payments volumes in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the UK - five of the most significant digital commerce markets in Europe. The model used for studying these markets considers three main areas: • The battle between payment rails - while card payments will continue to grow, they will lose market share to A2A services, which are expected to grow from 24% of all transactions in 2025 to nearly 40% by 2035. Wallets will continue to play a key role, but innovations will make it more difficult to identify them as standalone payment methods. Digital assets will become prominent, especially if a digital Euro is introduced during this period, but they will remain a small segment of the market. • Pay now/pay later options - the scope of options to pay instantly (debit and instant payment) or pay later (credit, Buy Now Pay Later, and others) will expand. The demand for pay later/credit products will remain robust and will provide banks and wallet providers with opportunities to develop new credit options for A2A and wallet products. The report expects credit on A2A transactions to grow to €35.7 billion (just over 7% of total pay later value) by 2035. • AI agents - the biggest change, according to Celent analysts, will come in the way e-commerce is conducted, i.e. not in how consumers pay, but how they buy. The report predicts customers will deploy 'AI agents' to initiate transactions on their behalf. While still in its early stages, Celent expects the value of agent-initiated digital commerce to reach €191 billion across the five markets analyzed (17.5% of total e-commerce volume). The report suggests that the impact of agent-initiated commerce will be greatest in areas such as travel, food and drink, digital content, DIY/gardening, financial services, and entertainment. 'The opportunity for European banks over the next 10 years is enormous,' explains Natalija Dmitrijeva, Head of Instant, Retail Payments and Cards at Tietoevry Banking. 'This report - while not attempting to provide an accurate prediction for the future - does highlight clear areas for development and growth. To play a leadership role in an expanding and changing payment landscape, banks and fintechs must be clear on the way one wants to play in e-commerce, digital wallets, and the development of digital identity infrastructure.' 'Succeeding in this future landscape will mean more than outstanding technology solutions. It will also mean working with external partners on the gradual removal of siloed payment operations that are already acting as barriers to growth. At the same time, banks should be working with external partners to modernize their payment systems in preparation for an instant Account-to-Account future, as well as adopting a flexible strategy that allows them to maintain a profitable payment business and adapt to the huge changes that are coming.'
Tahawul Tech
04-06-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
'We are creating the best salespeople on the planet through conversational AI.' – Daniel Wagner, CEO of Rezolve AI
CNME Editor Mark Forker sat down with British tech entrepreneur Daniel Wagner, to find out how his company Rezolve AI is harnessing the power of conversational AI to completely transform and revolutionise customer experiences in digital commerce. It has been said that the UAE doesn't just imagine the future, it builds it. The same accusation could be levelled at Daniel Wagner, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve AI. Wagner is a serial tech entrepreneur, who has a proven track record of building hugely successful technology companies since beginning his career back in the 1980's. He first came to prominence when he created MAID in 1984, which was one of the world's first online information services, and he eventually took the company public in 1994, whilst it was also listed on the NASDAQ in 1995. In 2001, he launched another hugely successful venture with the creation of Venda, which was a cloud-based enterprise-class commerce platform that he eventually sold to US IT behemoth Oracle. In 2003, he co-founded Attraqt, which was an e-commerce software company that he again took public on AIM in 2014, and sold to a private equity firm in 2019. Wagner was one of the first to recognise the benefits of packaging electronic information and data back in 1984, and 32 years later he could see the potential of conversational AI in providing a human touch to the digital commerce space. Wagner began the conversation highlighting the factors that led to the company's inception. 'When I started Rezolve, I was obviously bringing decades of experience, knowledge and an intrinsic understanding of how commerce and search all worked. It didn't come out of nowhere, the company was born out of my deep understanding of natural language processing, and my objective was very clear, and that was we wanted to create the best salesperson on the planet by leveraging the power of conversational AI. Instead of trying to create a wide, generic solution like ChatGPT we created a platform that was specifically tailored to enable online retailers to create the best salespeople in the world,' said Wagner. Wagner pointed to the main crux of the problem for online retailers and outlined how they are trying to resolve the problem pardon the pun. 'Look, when you go online to buy items, 70% of people drop out of the process. That is a huge number. However, when you go into a physical store then 70% of people buy something, so there is something fundamentally wrong in the online shopping experience. It is completely reversed and the difference between one or the other is 70%. The reason for that is very obvious. For example, if I ask my wife to go and buy me a mobile phone, she couldn't do it online because she doesn't know what an OLED screen is, she doesn't know what a MB is, she doesn't know the difference between iOS and Android. She doesn't know any of these things, but in an online environment then that's how these products would be presented to her. But if she went into a mobile phone shop and said, 'I need to buy a phone for my husband,' one or two questions would be asked of her, and then the salesperson would be able to sell her a phone,' said Wagner. Wagner stressed that the business model of Rezolve AI is engineered towards empowering online retailers to create what he described as the 'perfect salesman' through the use of natural language processing. 'We've developed our own language model, and it's essentially like a salesperson ready to learn about the retailer's products. That salesperson has sales techniques—it's trained on how to sell and close sales, how to discuss products and engage with customers in a way the very best human salesperson would in a physical store. We know it's going to be a market leader, and Google and Microsoft have also recognised that what we have is totally unique in this space, and that's why they have partnered with us. We haven't just jumped on the AI bandwagon either, we have been working on this since 2016 and have invested $130m during that period,' said Wagner. Wagner also added that Rezolve AI has a language model with products layered on top that allows them to go to any retailer in the world. 'We support 96 languages, so we can work with retailers in Arabic, Korean, Chinese, French, Spanish etc, and they can engage with us in their own language, and that is an extremely powerful capability to have when you are trying to humanise that online digital experience. We are levelling up commerce and that's the way I see it,' said Wagner. One of the many key differentiators of what Rezolve AI does is in relation to its ability to tackle hallucinations. 'There are plenty of companies out there in the marketplace saying they're providing AI solutions that allow some sort of conversational engagement with retail. However, crucially most of it is around customer service. When you're dealing with a product catalogue, there are real problems with Gen AI. If I'm a cosmetics retailer with 200 products, and say there is 100 fragrances for men and 100 for women, then these products could have names like 'Sauvage' and 'Beast.' The issue is the descriptions may say things like its smells like 'blackberries with sandalwood notes', but Gen AI doesn't understand that. There's no context. So, it hallucinates and gives wrong or nonsensical answers. At the end of the day, the propensity for hallucinations goes way up. Normally, Gen AI hallucination rates are about 3–4%. But with product catalogues, it's about 17%. We have spent nine years solving this hallucination problem in product catalogues, and that's what makes us really unique,' said Wagner. Wagner reiterated the importance and significance of their partnership with Google and Microsoft in terms of the market credibility it gives Rezolve. 'We have three patents on how we do what we do, and ultimately that's why tech giants such as Microsoft and Google are partnering with us. Microsoft is a massive leader in AI, and Google is the number one search company in the world—they're not going to partner with us unless we have something special, and we do. They're selling us into their customer base. We've got videos and references from both saying this, and crucially, we're the only ones who've been focused on solving this specific problem for the last nine years and that gives us a huge advantage,' said Wagner. The success of Rezolve AI since beginning to roll out their platform at the start of the year has been nothing short of staggering. 'The company went public in August 2024, but in April 2025, we got publicly listed on the NASDAQ after processing $50bn in sales through our technology in just the first 3 months of us going live with our platform. We started in January, before that we had almost no revenue. As the old saying goes, the numbers don't lie, and they certainly don't in our case. The success we have had is unprecedented really, and only serves to further reinforce how unique we are, and how we are going to be the global market leader in this space. From a standing start, over 41 million consumers now have our technology on their phones, in their apps. And we've improved conversion rates by 25% on the sites where we've been deployed, and that is astronomical,' said Wagner. Wagner said they are excited about the opportunities emerging all across the Middle East. He said the company is laying solid foundations in the Gulf, and hopes to be in a position very soon to announce a very significant customer in the region. When asked was he preparing the company to ultimately be acquired by a large tech company, Wagner insisted that they were only at the beginning of the journey. 'Look in all reality, I don't need to do this, I've had a hugely successful career. However, the fact remains that I am driven by a desire to build products that can totally transform and revolutionise industries. In relation to the question of us being acquired, it's a fair question. In the 1980s, I created the world's first digital information businesses, and then in the late 1990s and early 00s, I built one of the first cloud-based commerce platforms – and both of those were acquired by Oracle. Now, I'm building the future of retail interaction, but I see this as my career's pinnacle, and I'm totally energised by it all, and trust me, this is just the beginning of the journey,' said Wagner.
