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APRIL 4, 2019

Luxury brands are selling more and more on Chinese eCommerce sites like JD.com and Alibaba, while still keeping their distance from Amazon, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The idea of being listed along with batteries and windshield wiper fluid is not one that attracts luxury brands, the Journal reported.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2019

But over the last 12 months, warnings that first signaled in 2016 have been flashing brighter. CEO scandals, pulled IPOs and sinking stock prices, have taken the luster off previously high-flying brands. For most of the past decade, the fintech sector seemed to have nothing but blue skies ahead.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

billion lost in 2016. One of the results of this arms race is the recent surge in ATO – account takeover – attacks, a form of fraud which is particularly difficult to detect. In 2017, ATO led to $5.1 billion in losses, a staggering 122% increase over the $2.3

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JANUARY 28, 2019

That move comes as Amazon has had trouble wooing some direct-to-consumer brands. Amazon wants “consumer goods companies to create brands exclusively for Amazon after finding that developing them on its own is too costly and time-consuming, according to people familiar with the strategy,” stated a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The second flavor were the brands that had seen traction before the pandemic and flourished during it with innovative marketing, fresh business models and cool packaging. Its eCommerce business has jumped 35 percent each year since 2016.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Target has announced that it’s launching a new private-label food brand called Good & Gather in a move to boost its grocery business, according to a report by CNBC. . The new brand will arrive at Target stores on Sept 15, and Target said by the end of 2020 there will be upwards of 2,000 items being sold by the brand.

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APRIL 17, 2020

The tech company’s debit card will have the brand of Google along with its partnered financial institution; however, it is not known what the offering’s name will be. Google, for its part, rolled out a Wallet debit card in 2013 before closing it down in 2016.

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Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Date: December 6, 2016 | Time: 11:00 AM ET | Duration: 60 Minutes | Adoption of device-based offerings have been tepid so far. Are you on the same page as your customers when it comes to mobile checkout? Join us to find out.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

A study by Dotcom Distribution, a logistics and fulfillment firm, found that close to 90 percent of online shoppers consider delivery times central to their decision to shop with an eCommerce brand in the future. In 2015, 60 percent claimed that brand packaging affected their perceptions versus 68 percent in 2016.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

Really easy to work with, the company is the chosen system for many other innovative companies including Kickstarter and Apple Pay, and valued at almost $10 billion by the end of 2016. These companies have names like Zopa, Smartypig, Nutmeg, etoro and have fun branding and cool offices. Not bad for a six-year-old start-up.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Walmart is positioning its new line, called Free Assembly, as “a modern fashion brand with elevated style,” featuring casual looks with layered approaches that will make it marketable during any season. Denise Incandela , who was once SVP Women’s Group, has now added “elevated and online brands” to her title. The Monday (Sept.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

13) they had been fully repaid on a loan issued in 2016, the sources said. District Court in New York accused Revlon of moving valuable brand assets beyond the reach of lenders in order to use them as collateral for other creditors. Lenders who sued Revlon were surprised to learn Thursday (Aug. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2016

In 2009, I coined the word BaaS. No, nothing to do with sheep! Instead, BaaS stands for Banking-as-a-Service.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The deal comes after a number of years of formidable expansion and innovation for the vision company that AEA Investors bought in 2016, according to the announcement. Innovation is at the heart of the strategy and differentiation as a trailblazing direct-to-consumer brand, according to the announcement.

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MAY 1, 2020

We will continue working with MRC on accreditation, as we have since 2016.”. While losing certification wouldn’t have a formal consequence, it could influence how some brands spend their advertising dollars, the news service reported. Facebook expressed disappointment to WSJ that the letter was made public.

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Payments Dive

MARCH 17, 2016

In a pre-conference workshop at ATMIA 2016, a small army of experts offered an overview of brand-name mobile wallets and the problems the industry must solve to make them interoperable at the ATM.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Digitally native mattress and home goods brand platform Resident landed a $130 million investment headed up by Nexus Capital Management and Ion Crossover Partners with participation from Baron Capital Group in Q4 of 2020, according to a Thursday (Jan. 7) announcement.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

A new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that fraudsters are increasingly requesting to be paid with gift cards, with some even asking for certain brands such as Google Play and iTunes gift cards. Google Play cards were not reported in significant numbers until this year.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

AutoX — a lesser-known startup than others in the field — was founded in 2016 by Jianxiong Xiao, a former Princeton professor who specializes in 3D learning, computer vision and robotics. The company makes its own brand of vehicles, along with big names like Jeep and Dodge.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. These are the brands that have either created new product categories, new business models or pivots on their previous business models. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic. D2C Explodes.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

Apple said in its most recent earnings report that its services top line was up almost 15 percent year over year, and had met (ahead of schedule) its stated target (outlined back in 2016) of doubling this revenue stream by the close of 2020. Paid accounts, up 30 percent year on year, stand at 550 million. showed, 45 percent of U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

eCommerce business president and chief executive officer, said the merchant is dedicated to providing shoppers with an attractive assortment of online goods, and, for that reason, it bought brands such as Bonobos, CNBC reported. It purchased Jet.com in 2016 for $3.3 Marc Lore, who is Walmart’s U.S.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

The representative noted that the company has been “cooperating with a regulatory review of small business card sales between 2015 and 2016” as of the spring of 2020, according to the paper. “We A representative for AmEx told WSJ, “We have robust compliance policies and controls in place, and do not tolerate misconduct.”

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The brands pay to bid on those ads, and HookLogic splits the revenue for the ads with both the eCommerce site and the brand. “We HookLogic is based in New York, has around 190 full-time employees and is expecting to generate $130 million in gross revenue in 2016. Criteo works with 12,000 advertisers and 17,000 publishers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. These platforms bring urgency to fashion and serve as a newsfeed for brands. Within China, sales of brands from Gucci to Chanel, which had been sluggish for years, rose at the fastest pace in five years in 2016 and are positioned to consolidate those gains in 2018.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

consumers a low-cost, digital-only bank that will directly compete with Goldman Sachs ‘s Marcus brand. For its part, Marcus has issued $3 billion in new consumer loans since launching in October of 2016, through the first quarter of 2018. Barclays is ready to offer U.S. It recently rolled out its services in the U.K.,

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JULY 24, 2018

Launching in October in two key markets, Mexico and the Philippines, MoneyGram will expand its options in which receivers from those markets may receive and use funds instantly — via their bank-issued Visa-branded debit card or Visa-branded prepaid card — and senders may choose the option by which to send those funds.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

The complaint claims that Calibra’s logo is too similar to Current’s, which the FinTech has been using since August of 2016, CoinDesk reported. The logos have similar stories of origin, as they were both reportedly made by the Character branding firm out of San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Brands that will be featured include Champion, Jordache, Kendall + Kylie and Walmart private label brands, including Free Assembly, Scoop and Sofia Jeans. Livestreaming for marketers is no longer a novelty — live video is changing the way brands interact with their audiences,” New York based video platform Vimeo said.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Launched in early 2016, Moteefe began in 2016 and provides an entrepreneurial technology solution for influencers and others in the digital space. Our users own their brand, client relationship and marketing channels — we provide the white label store and fulfillment technology,” he adds.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Mastercard , like most consumer credit connected brands, was hit hard in the early days of the Great Recession. He has served as Mastercard’s Chief Product Officer since 2016 and has headed the network’s new products and innovation team since 2018.

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JULY 31, 2020

Authentic Brands Group ( ABG ), the New York-based brand management company, could be the latest potential buyer of Ascena Retail Group , the recently bankrupt parent firm of Ann Taylor, Footwear News reported. The group said they would spare at least 125 of its stores, FN reported. They also purchased Forever 21 in February.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

Everpeaks, which was founded in 2016, stated in the release that the new offering’s value proposition comes from “eliminating multiple layers of traditional retail operations and market barriers.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Petco has worked hard to hang its brand and business model on pet care. They acquired Petco in 2016 for $4.6 In conjunction with the Vital Care announcement, the company also introduced the opening of its 100 th in-store veterinary hospital, located in Encinitas, California. billion from TPG and Leonard Green, according to Bloomberg.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

Though there are literally hundreds upon hundreds of choices when it comes to beauty and personal care, the vast majority of those products and brands (183 of them, to be exact) have historically come from one of seven large global firms: Estée Lauder, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Coty, Shiseido and Procter & Gamble.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It started when Founder Stephen Lease was training for a marathon in 2016. The things that are driving the industry today are those popular, large-volume items coming through big brands and retailers, because they have the most eyeballs on them and have the most financial impact,” he noted.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Additionally, the brand discounted fewer products in the 10 days following the ad. In terms of items, the brand’s Colin Kaepernick women’s jersey, in particular, sold out on September 17. They don’t need to participate in the discounting that tends to plague other retail brands.”.

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