The future of retailer payments

Payments have always been a core part of any retailer's business. Increasingly, retailers from traditional grocers (e.g. Tesco) to direct-to-consumer players (e.g. ASOS) are becoming more sophisticated and more involved in the value capture associated with payment processing.

As technology advances and the payments ecosystem continues its trend towards decentralisation, retailers can leverage payments expertise as a strategic tool to drive down costs or add ancillary revenue. Retailer’s engagement in the payments space will also have downstream implications for incumbents on both the issuer and acquiring side of the payments industry.

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How to build the right payments strategy for your retail business

Through our recent conversations, we have identified 3 main “payments value drivers” for retailers to consider as they face into the payment trends and make choices around their future payment propositions.

Six key trends will define the retail payments landscape over the next few years.

“As the payments ecosystem continues its trend towards decentralisation, retailers can leverage payments expertise as a strategic tool.”

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Peter Hewlett

FinTech Leader, PwC United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)7483 356243

Rhys Dalkin

Banking and Payments Director, Strategy& UK

Tel: +44 (0)7858 997421

Constanza Vargas Corbacho

Payments and Financial Services Strategy, Manager, Strategy& UK

Tel: +44 (0)7483 388279

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The future of retailer payments

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How to build an effective payment strategy

The changing payments value equation

The future of retailer payments: Key trends

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