**All details have been anonymized. Alice** was buying furniture for her move to New York City. After a full day of price comparing, reading reviews, and calculating the right measurements for her new apartment, Alice decided on her purchase. At 5 pm, she ordered a $200 couch and a $300 mattress from a retailer we’ll […]
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Ecommerce 2021: Rethinking Digital Challenges & Opportunities
Forrester indicates that 27% of brands improved their CX Index score in 2020 – a notable jump. But the crisis made clear the gap between customer experience leaders and the laggards: 70% of the most digitally mature companies significantly outpaced their competition. To build up resilience and drive recovery in the long run, eCommerce merchants must […]
Customer Experience
3 mCommerce Trends To Watch in 2021
Traditionally, customers preferred browsing shops on mobile but completing purchases on desktop. Now, that monetization gap is closing as new technologies make mobile shopping more streamlined and widely accessible. It’s early 2021, and most of the world is still living in a pandemic state, with both customer behavior and business planning already greatly influenced. People […]
Customer Experience
Survey Says?! ATOs Are a Major Threat and Many Merchants Are Unprepared
Despite the amount of virtual ink that has been spilled discussing ATOs and their impact in recent years, we found a surprisingly large percentage of merchants aren’t taking them seriously, with 27% of all merchants reporting that they don’t have measures in place to prevent them. That may explain why 35% of merchants report that […]
Customer Experience
How Airlines Can Maximize Success in 2020
2020 will be a critical year for airlines. The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the entire travel industry, bringing it to complete standstill in many places. While there’s no doubt the world will recover and normal life will resume, it’s difficult to assess when this will happen, and what the economic outlook will be. Our […]
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Infographic: What Europe really thinks about PSD2
PSD2 has led to a period of uncertainty for online merchants and consumers alike. To find out more about their concerns, Riskified commissioned a survey in 2019 of 2,000 consumers and 200 retailers evenly split across the UK, Germany, France, and Spain. Elena Lerman, one of our talented in-house designers, has turned the results into […]
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3 Ways to Maintain Control of Customer Experience Under PSD2
Almost a month has passed since the September 14 PSD2 deadline. But as we know, a lack of market readiness has meant that the new legislation may not be enforced consistently across Europe until December 2020. In this post, I will go through some of the key steps online businesses should be taking to ensure […]
Customer Experience
Considering 3D Secure 2.0? What Merchants Need To Know
The alphabet soup of payment authentication protocols has been more visible in the press and general eCommerce and payments buzz lately. Why? Because the latest update of a decades-old card-not-present payment authentication protocol launched earlier this year. Plus, PSD2 is going into effect on September 14th for merchants, and one aspect of this European regulation […]
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Revenue Protection & PSD2: Navigating a New Payment Ecosystem
The motives behind PSD2 are, on the whole, quite positive: protecting online businesses and consumers, while driving competition in the European payments industry. But while the exact implications of this regulation for merchants remain to be seen, it is already apparent that its execution may not be as fruitful as intended. It’s no secret that […]