PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

No matter how innovative they are, companies still need to get paid. And not many companies this year have combined business model creativity with payments innovation more than Beautycounter. We’ve listened to our community and their requests for different payment options – more and more retailers are offering this as an option.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 12, 2019

Identity proofing and verification startup Diro Labs won the DEMOvation Challenge today at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle. In addition to bragging rights, the company will receive admission to the INV Fintech Accelerator and an advertising package on Bank Innovation.

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JULY 7, 2020

The vicious cycle of physical retail is meeting the virtuous cycle of digital, at a time when companies are aiming to chart a course toward a future that is without precedent. In retail, merchants need to enter a new kind of gig economy that can be called “gig retailing.” All this, Today in Data. Data: .

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. In-store sales, notably, is where the retailer needs to see growth. percent, it wasn’t as much as the retailer wanted to see. Larger Trends. More Money.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. They and others have succeeded because they entered the market independent of traditional retail, and because their business model fit the needs of the pandemic.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

27 : Average number of minutes that active users spent per day on the Poshmark site in 2019. QSRs saw in October compared to the same month in 2019. Data: 78M : Number of consumers who want access to rewards programs via mobile apps. 11.2B : Nike’s reported fiscal Q2 revenues, up 9% from the $10.3B in the same period last year.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2019

Customer demand is driving FIs to move to a realtime payments system, and quickly, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle this week. The need for speed is here to stay. The payment systems that we all run today, they've worked and they've been rock-solid," said Matt Wilcox, SVP of […].

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Power study reports that mobile banking adoption for small business owners has surpassed adoption for retail banking customers. The findings from the research firm’s 2019 U.S. consumers may be hesitant to adopt mobile payments, small businesses are more open to it. A recent J.D.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

Rapid prototyping and an innovation-oriented mindset are two characteristics that make a bank a good fintech partner, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle last week.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest episode of our weekly wrap video series, for the week ending Friday, November 8, 2019. In this episode, Suman Bhattacharyya, deputy editor, interviews Bob Meara, senior analyst at Celent, on some of the key conclusions from Bank Innovation Build.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rob Guilfoyle, CEO of Abe AI, will be speaking at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 in Seattle. Guilfoyle will be on the panel titled “The Future of Banking Experience,” where he will address topics such as the role of natural language in customer experience as well as the type of solutions that can […].

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

In retail, the need to simplify, integrate and bring gift card and loyalty programs online to maximize their impact has never been greater, while consumer engagement has the power to remove retail friction. 18.7%: Portion of consumers who will spend more this holiday season than they did in 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

21, the last Saturday shopping day before Christmas 2019, has been confirmed as the single biggest retail sales day in U.S. According to retail research firm Customer Growth Partners, consumers on Super Saturday spent a total of $34.4 billion and that exceeded 2019 Black Friday sales by 10 percent.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s easy to get swept up in the retail apocalypse narrative. With historic retailers like Toys R Us and Sears shutting their doors after more than 100 years in business, and reports of “sad Santas” in empty malls, it’s hard to not take a rather dim view of physical retail’s prospects at present. Time Is The New Coupon.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2020

Welcome to the latest episode of our Weekly Wrap video series, for the week ending Friday, January 17, 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape retail in 2019 and beyond, and a trend that stands as an increasing part of shopping, one that promises to impact brick-and-mortar merchants as they decide how to innovate. Cashierless Checkout.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2019

The customer experience in banking will change drastically over the next 10 years said panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. I think […].

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. So, what constitutes experiential marketing for retailers? Wine and cheese for the shoppers?

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2019

Distributed ledger technology will be crucial to innovation in digital banking this year, according to a poll conducted by Bank Innovation. For the December poll, Bank Innovation asked readers to name a technology, aside from the obvious - artificial intelligence, that would be most prominent in 2019.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Umpqua Bank’s Go-To human-digital live support platform is moving to a 24/7 service, Cort O'Haver, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, announced at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. He said the decision had been made just that morning. Access to the Go-To platform is free for the Portland, Ore.-based

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. Consumers spent an average of 20 seconds longer waiting in the drive-thru lane in 2019 than they did last year. But recent changes have sparked even more interest and innovation from commerce operators. Role of Cameras.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 20, 2019

That sums up the video below from the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference last week, […]. Answer that question and the bank of the future will materialize -- a specialized, consumer-centric, data-driven, networked financial entity.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Cort O’Haver, CEO of Umpqua Bank, will join the fireside chat at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019. The event will take place March 11-12 at Seattle’s Hyatt Olive 8 Hotel. You can join the event by registering here. O’Haver has been CEO of Portland, Ore.-based

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Now in its third annual edition, 52 Mondays 2019 showcases those columns. They are presented in the order published — giving you, more or less, a mini payments and commerce time capsule for 2019. That future is taking on prime importance as a new decade dawns. And, as always, happy Monday.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

The sales of plant-based foods climbed around five times faster than overall retail food sales in the U.S., Julie Emmett, senior director of retail partnerships at PBFA, called plant-based foods a continuing growth engine, up 29 percent over the last several years. Conventional meat sales rose 3 percent in 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Key Data Points: Consumers are performing 12 percent more activities at home in 2020 than they did in 2019 and making purchases during 12 percent of those activities, on average. percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. 31 percent bank via app. 30 percent saw a decline.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

billion digital interactions in 2019 between the bank’s customers and third–party apps.? Wells Fargo Gateway processed more than 1.5 The Gateway, established in 2016, allows customers to securely connect to third-party apps through aggregators like Plaid.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 26, 2019

Customer satisfaction in the overall retail banking industry has improved over the last twelve months, but ever so slightly, according to J.D. Power's 2019 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study. Based on this report, released Thursday, the industry scored 807 on a 1,000-point scale, up just by one point from the 2018 report.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

FIS and Worldpay combined in mid-2019, Fiserv and First Data combined shortly thereafter and Worldline SA purchased Ingenico earlier this year. What makes the current developments so interesting and exciting is that “we're just seeing that they're at the end of the innovation growth cycle,” he explained.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

What to do with retail malls? That is among the latest trends as retail reinvents itself, and technology and other trends force new uses for old commerce spaces. Malls are not exactly the hotspots of coolness and retail activity they once were. retailers so far this year than in all of 2018. New Investment.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Retailers surely have more than enough to worry about these days. For one, the pace of innovation keeps speeding up – and that holds true for all types of retail niches, from apparel to grocery to others. The emerging 5G technology has tremendous retail potential.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

Interested in joining us for Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 at the Hyatt Olive 8, Seattle? In Seattle, you’ll see four Ignite Ideas sessions from the following fintech innovators: Lisa Frazier, Head […]. You’d better hurry! Early registration ends this Friday, February 1 at 11:59 PM.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We didn’t need more than two hands to count the ones we felt were change-the-world sort of innovations. By the numbers, it is hard to deny in the closing days of 2019 that instant payments, as observed by the PYMNTS Instant Payments Tracker , have hit their stride and are no longer a P2P payments tool for gig economy workers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. Between 2008 and 2019, the DVD rentals market dropped like a stone. In the book, he freely admits that his formula might not work for every company. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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