PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

Online retail is known for moving fast, and sometimes, the execs pulling all the levers behind the scenes move even faster. online operations, had vacated his post effective April 1. online operations, had vacated his post effective April 1. “We’re in the process of identifying a successor.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

One cannot have the good without the bad, and that holds especially true, it seems, with online product reviews — a vital, useful part of eCommerce that is reviled by consumers, marketplace sellers and merchants alike. Talk to any online shopper, merchant or marketplace third-party seller. It comes from the U.S. FTC Penalty.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

A recent California Supreme Court decision that essentially allows a negative Yelp post to stand about a lawyer could help determine how online reviews are treated in the future. The Hassell Law Group represented Ava Bird in a 2012 personal injury case for three months. A colleague disagreed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

It’s well known that Amazon has dominated the eCommerce market for years, but a new report shows just how much: Slice Intelligence found that Amazon accounted for 43 percent of all online sales in 2016. percent in 2012. percent in 2012. retail sales.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

The think tank found a decline of 410 basis points in the retailer’s apparel share as its revenues declined by $3 billion from 2012 to 2017. According to SimilarWeb, more than half of online traffic for general merchandise originates from mobile platforms. Even so, there are opportunities for retailers like Macy’s in the mobile arena.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Online consumer lending – in a variety of forms – has grown explosively over the last decade. Its team of economists takes a rather dim view of the online lending space and the ways in which it recruits and handles its customers – and believes that additional regulation is needed to rein in some of the excesses their research uncovered.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission’s online database of consumer complaints reports 13 million complaints from 2012-2016, 42% of which were fraud related, and 13%, identity theft complaints. As the technology behind payments becomes more advanced and readily available, so too are the possibilities for fraud.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

2012: Year of Gympass’ launch in Brazil. 82.8%: Share of Americans who are willing to work out online post-pandemic. Gympass ’ services, in one case, will now expand to include live-streamed classes, one-on-one personal training, virtual therapy and overall wellness plans instead of just gym memberships. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The company was founded in 2012 and has since been partnered with companies including Walmart and Expedia Group. Max Levchin , founder and CEO of Affirm, said at the time that it is important to help businesses get on board with the rising trend of online shopping. It was valued at $2.9

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This latest expansion — Amazon’s most extensive in Brazil since its 2012 opening — will generate 1,500 jobs and add an additional 807,000 square feet of distribution space. Although lockdown measures are easing, online sales are still booming.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Affirm was founded by Max Levchin in 2012 to help to remedy that merchant-consumer relationship by giving online shoppers an alternative to traditional credit cards and retailer-branded installment loans when shopping online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

In 2014 alone, about $4 trillion in merchandise was simply abandoned and never purchased in online shopping carts by consumers. Breaking that number down even further, the online shopping cart abandonment rate is 61 percent on desktop, 71 percent on tablets and 81 percent on mobile. What’s going on here? cart abandonments.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2021

Honest was launched in 2012 and sells its products online and through 32,000 retail locations, according to the statement. “Kelly is a strong female leader with diverse experience growing businesses and her support on our executive team will help drive the business forward,” Alba said in a statement.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 19, 2018

outpaced growth in noncash payments overall between 2012 and 2015, according to a Federal Reserve Payments Study released this week. billion in 2012 to $8.3 Noncash payments fraud in the U.S. The study’s survey of depository institutions found noncash payments fraud increased 37%, from $6.1 billion, in 2015.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 19, 2017

trillion in total payments through Alibaba’s Alipay service last year, compared to only $70 billion in 2012; Tencent’s WeChat users sent about $1.2 According to a new report released by the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance, users sent $1.7 trillion in […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Affirm , which provides installment payments to online consumers, priced its planned initial public offering (IPO) at $49 per share, higher than its marketed range of $41 to $44 per share, and is on track to raise over $1.1 billion, Bloomberg reported. The information comes from anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg. million shares.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 29, 2017

Free credit reporting company Credit Karma reported more than $500 million in revenue in 2016 — a 50% increase compared to the prior year — hitting 70 million members since the launch of its flagship product — credit monitoring — in 2012, the company announced this week. What’s the secret to its success?

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

KYC is a key tenant of our product set, part of a unit of SWIFT we launched in 2012. EXCLUSIVE— A time-consuming and costly area of banking, Know Your Customer (KYC) and due diligence maintenance could use an upgrade, global payments provider SWIFT told Bank Innovation. It’s part of a bigger play for us,” Paul Taylor, […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

SumUp has been active in Ireland since 2012 and has introduced electronic payments to thousands of businesses. The company has also recently launched new solutions — payment links and invoicing options; the eCommerce suite SumUp Online Store; and gift card partnerships with Google, Facebook and Instagram.

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Mishkin Nearly three years after identifying the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) annual privacy notice requirement as a candidate for streamlining , the CFPB issued a final rule earlier this week to allow financial institutions that meet certain requirements to deliver such notices using an alternative online delivery method.

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Payments Source

MARCH 31, 2017

The 2012 Jobs Act let regular Americans invest in startups, spawning a glut of crowdfunding sites offering real ownership stakes in return for cash, rather than the new smartwatches or electric skateboards available on pioneering platform Kickstarter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

.” Microsoft revealed that the flaw was discovered by Google ‘s Threat Analysis Team, and it affects older Internet Explorer browser versions — including Windows 7 and 10, and Windows Server 2012; 2016 and 2019 versions of Explorer 11; Explorer 10 for Windows Server 2012; and Explorer 9 for Windows Server 2008.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Data from Coresight shows that 9,300 stores shuttered in 2019, the most since 2012, the first year the information was tracked. As traditional mall merchants go under, however, some online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar locations. An April, a UBS report showed that online shopping by the average U.S. 24 were up 3.4

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2019

Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza has announced that it will be selling books online, which could be picked up in one of its almost 1,000 stores. The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Overall retail sales reflected record-high numbers this holiday season – at least in online shopping, Mastercard reported. Online spending reflected 15 percent of the total, up 18.8 There were 9,300 store closures in 2019, the most since numbers were tracked in 2012, according to Coresight, as reported by Financial Times.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Valued at $190 million two years ago, Deliv has raised $85 million in venture capital since its founding in 2012, according to PitchBook Data Inc. The survey also revealed 39 percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of the study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

identities took center stage in 2012 — the year HSBC, Europe?s The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization, adopted new KYC rules in 2012 requiring its broker members to use “reasonable diligence” to open and maintain every account. The London-based bank?s

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SWBC's LenderHub

JULY 28, 2016

Credit unions, in particular, saw substantial growth in their auto loan portfolios, nearly 30% since 2012, according to Forbes. Indirect lending programs grew substantially over the last several years due to intense competition in the auto lending industry.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The online shopping spike generated from the pandemic has led Amazon to open three more logistics centers in Brazil. The newest expansion — Amazon’s most comprehensive in Brazil as of its 2012 opening — will bring about 1,500 employment positions and add a further 807,000 square feet of distribution space.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

A survey by the National Community Pharmacists Association last fall found the number of independent pharmacies fell by nearly 20 percent to 18,478 stores last year, down from 23,029 in 2012. PillPack , the online pharmacy, was acquired by Amazon for $1 billion and is another contender for prescription dollars, PYMNTS reported.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. billion into Snap since it started in 2012, and its IPO in March of 2017 raised $3.4 When Amazon was just about selling books online, its competition was the physical bookstore. Investors put $2.65 billion more. Then there’s Amazon.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

350 percent: Estimated retail sales growth in the subscription market from January 2012 to October 2019. 8 percent: Estimated share of Malaysian commerce that takes place online. Data: $385B: Total value spent on recurring payment services in 2018. percent: Share of estimated monthly churn rate for subscription businesses.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The CFPB announced earlier this week that it has initiated an administrative action against a Delaware-based online lender and its CEO for alleged violations of Truth in Lending Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), and the CFPA’s UDAAP prohibition.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

They poke and prod, looking for various weaknesses to be exploited on online platforms, in company emails (as in Business Email Compromise, or BEC), through text messages and even the old-fashioned phone call that induces a victim to hurry online and send some money. Internet scammers, by nature, are a resourceful lot.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The event launched in 2012 and raised around $400 million in the U.S. And a hacking group has been mass-scanning the internet looking for Docker platforms that have application programming interface (API) endpoints exposed online. Crypto-based donations are taking center stage this holiday season with #BitcoinTuesday.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

According to reports in luxury daily, high-end shoppers with a taste for buying online will get something of a unique opportunity to combine their dual passions next week, care of an effort undertaken by Sotheby’s and eBay. But as brands are moving increasingly to keep up with consumers who are moving online, those walls are crumbling.

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