Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One gets the feeling that the run in a new store in Dubai might be something of a test drive for the global brand that has spent much of the last several years working overtime to update its largely brick-and-mortar operations for an increasingly omnichannel world. These criminal gangs are sophisticated.”.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In a sign of the times in consumer lending, Auto Finance News today announced the launch of Auto Finance Innovation 2016, a new industry forum to explore the fintech revolution and how it is reshaping automotive lending and leasing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. WPP had purchased Triad for about $300 million in 2016 from Rockbridge Growth Equity, the private equity firm.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize — owner of grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect amid an online shopping surge propelled by COVID-19. “We Delhaize, founded in 2016 from a merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group, is among the biggest supermarket operators in the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. And Amazon and 7-Eleven aren’t alone.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. percent, reaching $124.1

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. In 2016, the IBM Institute for Business Value teamed up with the Economist Intelligence Unit to interview global bankers. Drivers for Operational Innovation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

21) that Acima founder Aaron Allred and his team have created a leading virtual LTO solution for retailers and consumers. “We We all share a common vision to expand the virtual LTO offering across a broader set of retail partners and to meet the needs of more customers through an integrated omnichannel strategy. billion in 2020.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

But no matter the case, music is a big part of the retail world, and is helping to create new harmonies of innovation and disruption. Although Apple will operate the playlist, a fairly young label called UnitedMasters , founded in 2017, will provide much of the music. Others don’t. New Partnerships and Services.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Ever since 2013, when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the eCommerce giant was working on a 30-minute drone delivery program called Prime Air, people have been saying that delivery is the big retail use case for drone technology. Domino’s furthered the point by delivering a pizza by drone in 2016. Patent and Trademark Office.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. WPP had purchased Triad for about $300 million in 2016 from Rockbridge Growth Equity, the private equity firm.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

While Starbucks aims to streamline its operations in places that are seeing challenges with sales, the coffee chain plans to give a longtime partner the rights to operate cafes in four European markets. In addition, Alsea will take over operations at 177 franchisee-owned stores, according to reports. and 3:00 p.m.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Walmart is making some organizational adjustments with its executives to help better integrate its retail store and digital operations, according to a report by CNBC. The company has been pushing to better integrate its online and physical divisions ever since it acquired Jet.com in 2016.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

For the second time in the past week, the retailer has announced a pilot program to test how well drones will pick up and deliver packages. The latest news has Walmart launching a drone delivery operation near the company’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Even before the holiday shopping season began, Amazon already commanded a growing share of consumers’ retail spending, according to The Amazon Paycheck Index from PYMNTS. percent in 2016. Over the last four years, retail sales have shifted to Amazon in key categories that were once the domain of the physical store. Voice Retail.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

Within the retail industry specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) is moving the ball for a lot of merchants looking to not only streamline their business operations but provide a more personalized experience for consumers. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2017

Talking about retail and not mention Amazon these days is a difficult thing to do. The eCommerce company has grown significantly in the past few decades, and we’ve started to see the physical impacts of its innovative force on other retailers. And these are just the numbers Amazon itself chooses to put out into the retail sphere.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The operation will likely include savings and lending products, and it comes just two years after U.S. Chase has usually not done international operations, preferring to nurture its huge and profitable domestic market. Adamson also has experience as a retail lender, chairing the risk committee at Virgin Money until last November.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Wells Fargo has revealed that it is firing around three dozen district managers due to the retail banking scandal that happened more than two years ago. The firings are the result of a scandal that started in 2016, when investigations revealed that employees trying to meet sales targets opened about 2.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Change came from various areas for retail in 2019. Retail merchandising was, at best, a hit-or-miss system in its heyday, Nextail CEO and Co-Founder Joaquin Villalba told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Analytics, too, was another hot spot for retail change in 2019 and will continue to be for the 2020s. Role of Data.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 25, 2017

Could we expect a new internet-like moment for retail financial services if everyday users were given the ability to move money instantly across providers for free? Photo credit: Ady Agustian, 2016 CGAP Photo Contest Plenty of transactions are already offered for free. Let’s entertain this idea for a moment.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Oracle has announced new enhancements for its Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service , which will enable retailers to monitor the integrity of their materials and end products. For example, in 2016, a multi-state listeria outbreak in the U.S. affected a number of well-known supermarket chains.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. Formed in 2008, Green Goo is a women-owned, family-operated company that started out making skin products and first aid salves for friends and family.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The company was founded in 2016. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The largest fast-fashion growth retailer in the country is also the most innovative when it comes to customer engagement. Rue21, which uses the Aptos retail technology platform, has won the loyalty of its teenage customers, as well as a Gold Award for Customer Engagement. It has more than 1,200 stores in 48 states.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Many organizations, from retailers to local governments, are turning to self-driving technology to help them reach their goals and to get purchases and people to their destinations. For Udelv, founded in 2016, self-driving vehicles are all about easing the “last mile” — or final transit leg — of delivery. percent between 2021 and 2030.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Look to China, and look some more — that’s one of the main messages in mid-2019 for luxury retailers, at least for ones not based in the U.S. Luxury retail is a hot space in China. The latest evidence of that comes from Louis Vuitton. JD is also one of Farfetch’s largest shareholders. Back in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This holiday season, consumers are boosting their expectations when it comes to their eCommerce retail. Cloud-based operations solution provider Voxware released consumer survey data that points to the increased standards consumers are holding online retailers to during the 2016 holiday shopping season. Although few U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Luxury style and quality brands, offered at a more middle-class price point and sold directly to consumers, is increasingly crowded terrain in apparel retail. Or, perhaps more accurately, through tactics that are so traditional they are surprising to see in a modern retail context.

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PYMNTS

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. A number of contact lens consumers turned to 1-800 Contacts instead of traditional physical retailers as those in the U.S.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 22, 2017

After my blog yesterday, about banks having to move from being control freaks in a proprietary operation building everything to becoming collaborative partners in an open marketplace curating everything, I was asked: “how do you make money out of curation?” It is also doubling year-on-year. billion in total.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

In a new PYMNTS interview, David Roger, co-founder & CEO of Felix Gray , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eyewear seller that is also trying to tap into broader wellness trends, talks about what’s coming next for this particular brand of online retail, and why Amazon may — or may not — get more involved. But it’s a double-edged sword.”.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

We can all agree Credit Karma, Chase Mobile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PayPal aren’t leaving the Top Ten on App Annie anytime soon. But ratings and rankings aren’t everything — there’s also the cool factor. How easy is the app to use? Does it makes us feel good (even Read More.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does. We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More.

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