Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign with the UK’s largest retail shopping day!
The Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday is coming, and retailers are gearing up for the biggest shopping day in the UK!
Vulnerabilities in cybersecurity can impact your business
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for many businesses. This includes the shift to online shopping and remote work which has been a boon for some, it has also exposed new vulnerabilities.
3DS 2.0: Thoughts, Concerns and Threats
Generally speaking, the 3DS protocol is a fraud prevention mechanism. It adds a layer of verification to ensure the authenticity.
Optimizing Digital Payments with SEPAexpress #PartnerstoFollow #2
Simplifying and streamlining payment flow should be a top priority for every member of the payments chain in the industry. Easier said than done? Not this time! In this episode of Partners to Follow, please meet SEPAexpress, our whitelabel Direct Debit provider. Straal: Can you tell us about your journey to create SEPAexpress? Franz Guttenberger,…
Top 5 Payments Blogs Worth a Glimpse + Bonus!
At Straal, we strongly believe in the value of information, which later can be used as the basis for business analysis, market forecasting or economic research. Our mission is to unravel the mystery of the constantly changing payment ecosystem – around the globe, around the clock! That is why we’d like to share with you…
How to Win the Holiday Shopping Season in 2020? 4 tips
Whilst Black Friday and Cyber Monday, or “Black Friday Weekend and Cyber Week” do not mean as much as, say, 2-3 years ago and according to experts in 2020 we’re experiencing „the lockdown effect” which means lower interest and less overall spend, the pre-x-mas shopping spree is still among the key determinants of the thickness of your top line. Even if you sell digital goods or subscription plans. Here’s how to – in the realm of intangible merchandise – make the most of all holiday season sales even though this time – due to the COVID-19 – is going to be like no other.
TOP 5 FinTech Podcasts Worth Tuning in to in 2021
Podcasts are considered to be one of the most impactful media of the digital industry. As of July 2020, there were over 850 000 active podcasts in more than 100 languages (!). It’s impossible to try out every single one, that is why we’ve curated the top 5 fintech-related podcasts with a solid “recommended by Straal” label, including FinTech legend’s podcast Brett King’s Breaking Banks, 11:FS experts and much more.
Merchants to follow #2: Cateringoo. A simply delicious business idea
Get the inside look at the catering industry with our second 'Merchants to follow episode’ preseting Cateringoo – a simply delicious business catering brand. Discover, how has the pandemic affected the online on-demand food delivery services market and what did the Cateringoo team do when, due to the lockdown, the number of orders almost dropped to zero?
Merchants to follow #1: Piesotto. Polish Pioneers of Pet Food Subscriptions
Learn how Piesotto – a company founded by some true dog lovers out of genuine care for their four-footed “kids” – has become a leading subscription-based pet food supplier in Poland and one of the cutest brands we have ever seen.
New Chargeback Thresholds – Don’t Panic. Get Ready.
As of October 1st, 2019, Visa, the world’s largest card organisation, is updating its fraud and chargeback monitoring policy. Will it affect you? If you accept cards online – it certainly will. Should you be concerned? Not necessarily, if you have a well-thought risk management strategy. If, however, you do not yet have any fraud prevention mechanisms on board, you better hurry up in getting some.
