Bank Innovation

APRIL 23, 2019

For Fifth Third Bank, customer service is not just about digital transformation. The bank also wants to expand its physical retail branch footprint, according to its president and CEO, Greg Carmichael. As a result of the bank's $4.7 billion acquisition of Chicago-based MB Financial Inc.,

Customer Experience 186

Customer Experience Chicago Retail Operations 186

Perficient

AUGUST 2, 2024

Improve customer experience. Perficient’s listing as a consultancy in this Landscape report includes our geographic presence (North America, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific) and industry focus areas (healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing/production of consumer products).

America 450

America Report Technology Software 450

Bank Innovation

JULY 29, 2019

Look no further than Amazon or Apple to learn what customers want from their financial services providers. When retailers can deliver goods to customers within hours and routinely serve up personalized recommendations, financial firms are having to rethink how they build relationships with their customers.

Retail 218

Retail Apple Fintech Customer Experience 218

Perficient

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Visa launched its pilot biometric payment card with Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus, introducing the fingerprint scan as an alternative authentication method to a pin number. Perficient specializes in strategizing and engineering seamless point-of-sale and embedded finance experiences for businesses across industries.

Industry 471

Industry Trends social media Payments 471

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Retailers are doubling down on toys amid a gap in the market left by the bankruptcy of Toys R Us. toy retailer Hamleys , for instance, is eyeing a potential New York City location for a flagship store. The atmosphere comes as brick-and-mortar retailers have to differentiate themselves from their eCommerce counterparts.

Retail 166

Retail US New York City Los Angeles 166

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Sixty-two percent of consumers say they prefer onboarding experiences that put security first and speed second, but this does not mean that businesses and banks can sacrifice the seamless service to which their customers are accustomed. It also found that just 16 percent of U.S.

Online 272

Online Report Customer Experience Analytics 272

Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Half a year after Bank of America’s AI-powered digital assistant Erica reached 7 million users, Erica has surpassed 10 million users, Bank of America reported this week. The virtual financial assistant is on pace to complete 100 million client requests in the coming weeks, according to the bank.

America 293

America Report Customer Experience Retail 293

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Retailers are scrambling to figure out the best ways to provide a more tailored and engaging experience. The study, which surveyed 500 retailers in North America and Canada, was conducted in November and December 2016. Welcome to the age of instant gratification.

Retail 109

Retail social media Survey Customer Experience 109

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Brian Billingsley, CEO North America at Klarna , joined Karen Webster to discuss those partnerships and the benefits that it believes its more streamlined financing options can bring to the consumer purchasing experience. The Revolving Difference.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Millennials Branding Cards 100

Bank Innovation

APRIL 8, 2020

With the launch of the Small Business Administration’s program Friday, bankers are engineering the best ways to handle the customer service inquiries flooding banks’ digital channels. “We dove headfirst into this,” said Becky Buhr, vice president of finance and retail […].

Retail 370

Retail Customer Experience Innovation Strategies America 370

Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Banks need to embrace new customer acquisition models or risk falling behind, a recent Accenture report argued. The report, titled 5 Big Bets in Retail Payments in North America, examined how banks risk losing payments revenue to technology startups and other non-bank competitors.

America 199

America Retail Payments Report 199

PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

To help Mall of America merchants engage with Chinese consumers, CITCON has teamed up with the shopping complex to offer stores a cross-border mobile payments system. ” With the system, merchants can reach Chinese customers who like to use Alipay and WeChat Pay when shopping in China or when they are travelling internationally. .

America 103

America Las Vegas Payments United States 103

Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Bank, any new idea incubated within the bank should have a measurable effect on customer experience. Venturo said the bank, which is headquartered in Minneapolis and has $467 billion in assets, looks at three criteria when launching any new innovation effort, including improved customer experience; added […].

Minneapolis 199

Minneapolis Customer Experience US Innovation 199

PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Citigroup named David Chubak, 39, to head the retail banking division in the U.S., Chubak will head all retail sectors — branches, mortgages, wealth, risk management and small business, according to the memo. Chubak will head all retail sectors — branches, mortgages, wealth, risk management and small business, according to the memo.

Retail 101

Retail New York Risk Management Customer Experience 101

Celent Banking

APRIL 25, 2016

Digital is the new reality in Latin America. In other geographies Banks have responded to this threat by becoming extremely digital and also neo-banks have been launched to attract those customers seeking for a more friendly and digital relationship with its financial institution.

America 100

America Digital Banking Strategy Fintech 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

However, in the 2019 Retail Banking Report, a study by Reputation.com that analyzed online data relating to retail banking locations for 23 major U.S. The study came up with Reputation Scores, measured on a scale of 100 to 1,000, based on online reviews, accurate listings, social media, search results and customer engagement.

Retail 103

Retail Study Online Mobile 103

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The retailer recently announced that it was acquiring online marketplace Cornershop Inc., Through the service, consumers can order goods from pharmacies, supermarkets and specialty food retailers. Despite interest from Amazon, eCommerce still makes up only a small portion of all retail sales in Mexico.

Retail 166

Retail Arkansas Customer Experience Online 166

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Mobile payment capabilities are on the forefront of retail executives and tech staff. In a survey by Zynstra , some 65 percent of retailers said they pegged mobile payments as their top priority for in-store technology, Chain Store Age reported. percent increase in sales over the same period previously.

America 114

America Regional Mobile Cards 114

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Providing a top consumer experience is becoming more important and is a rising trend in retail, and that will almost certainly increase in the 2020s. The upscale apparel brand, according to a recent report , is opening an “experiential store” in the Mall of America in Minneapolis on Wednesday (Nov. Physical Retail Efforts.

Retail 109

Retail New York City Minneapolis Branding 109

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

To serve travelers from China who want to shop in-store and online, retailers thousands of miles away from Asia are accepting Alipay in brick-and-mortar stores and on the web. Amid this trend, brick-and-mortar and eCommerce merchants in North America are adopting Alipay as a payment option for their consumers. Apparel brand GUESS?,

Online 140

Online Las Vegas America United States 140

PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Companies are developing new subscription boxes, tiers and perks to retain customers’ loyalty in the face of rising competition, too. Like retail, the travel, entertainment and education industries have moved to the digital world. Deep Dive: Learning Platforms and the Subscription Economy.

Apple 179

Apple America Retail Industry 179

BankInovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Hari Gopalkrishnan, client facing platforms technology CIO at Bank of America, is among the experts sharing new use cases for chatbot development and deployment during the Bank Automation Ignite virtual conference on April 13-14. Gopalkrishnan will be part of a live panel discussion on April 13, at 2:15 p.m.

America 98

America Conference Technology Customer Experience 98

Bank Innovation

JULY 15, 2019

In a second-quarter earnings call today, the bank reported active mobile users grew 12 percent year-over-year for North America customers (11.4 million users) and 39 percent for its international customers (8.9 Meanwhile, online banking grew more modestly, with a 6% increase for North America customers (18.8 […].

Mobile 186

Mobile America Online Report 186

FICO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I’ll be participating in an excellent panel, “ Balancing Fraud Prevention & the Customer Experience ,” at the first virtual edition of CBA LIVE , the must-attend annual event for the retail banking industry. Ben Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Director of Retail Product Management, Fifth Third Bankcorp.

Customer Experience 59

Customer Experience Fraud Strategy Compliance 59

PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

PayU, which provides a digital payment platform for merchants and other retailers around the world, plans to roll out Feedzai’s transaction monitoring system in its Latin America markets, including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Panama.

Payments 131

Payments America Customer Experience Data 131

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

As of mid-2020, Walgreens has focused on its loyalty program, online capabilities and overall customer experience. The new relationship will allow Walgreens to address those priorities by tapping into Mastercard’s services, including data analytics, loyalty, customer engagement and cybersecurity.

Payments 174

Payments Branding Analytics Data 174

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The fund’s investors include retail landlords like Acadia Realty Trust and Macerich. Retail is not dead — it’s changing,” Fifth Wall Co-Founder Brendan Wallace said in an interview last summer. Retail is not dead — it’s changing,” Fifth Wall Co-Founder Brendan Wallace said in an interview last summer. But will it work?

Retail 130

Retail Branding America Online 130

Celent Banking

OCTOBER 21, 2014

It also encompasses re-thinking how a branch should look like and what services it should provide as an integral part of the customer experience. In this context I had the chance to moderate a panel during last week Next Bank Americas. Digital also needs to reach to those customers that are still analog.

Innovation 203

Innovation America Customer Experience Resources 203

Payments Source

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Modern, global merchants need comprehensive, integrated frameworks that reduce costs, manage risk and exposure, provide direct connectivity and redundancy to optimize reliability and keep control over the customer experience closer to the merchant, according to Eric Rosenthal, managing director of the Americas at Rapyd.

Customer Experience 115

Customer Experience America Management Retail 115

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Lucaciu is the chief technology officer of Adore Me , an eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailer that has adjusted to disruptive changes in its market, including the bankruptcy of the parent company of Victoria’s Secret. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Adore Me is ranked No. PYMNTS research shows that 1.9

UX 210

UX Retail Technology Mobile 210

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The trend promises to heat up even more in the 2020s, and in a new PYMNTS interview, Butch Langlois, president, North America, for cloud-based retail management software seller Vend , provided an in-depth tour of those changes and a glimpse of what’s to come. They say the storefront is dead, but I actually see a pushback,” he said.

Retail 101

Retail System Mobile Innovation 101

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Contactless mobile payments pioneer Mobeewave and digital customer experience platform Incentivio have teamed up on a multichannel, all-in-one, contactless digital-ordering platform for restaurant customers, according to a press release. The new platform removes the need for dongles, cables and card readers.

Payments 131

Payments Customer Experience New York America 131

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Arts and crafts retailer Michaels has announced that Walmart executive Ashley Buchanan will be taking over as CEO from Mark Cosby, and shares jumped 15 percent after the news, according to a report by CNBC. We are grateful to Mark for his steady and thoughtful leadership as Michaels has navigated a challenging retail environment.

Leadership 131

Leadership Retail Customer Experience America 131

PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

For brands and sellers,” the company says, “LazMall offers an opportunity to create a customized experience for their customers.”. The COVID-19 crisis came during an already tough time for department stores,” said a recent research note from Bank of America Securities.

Groups 153

Groups Branding Retail Taxes 153

Accenture: Banking

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Recent Accenture research indicates that banks in Europe (where Open Banking is being mandated) and in North America and Asia Pacific (where, at the moment, it is optional) appear to be choosing to admire the flowers. View the results. Ninety percent of respondents expect Open Banking to boost revenues by up to 10 percent.

America 156

America Customer Experience Data Apple 156

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Many other retailers are trying cashierless checkout systems, including Sam’s Club, Kroger and 50 Meijer stores in the Midwest. So while retailers are becoming more aggressive, the Meijer numbers are the first indication that consumers will use cashierless technology at scale. According to GPShopper , nearly half of U.S.

Retail 136

Retail Seattle Mobile Samsung 136

South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This conference is crucial because it provides insight into small business banking and has a good mix of essential banking-focused topics with a heavy emphasis on the customer experience. Many banks expressed frustration over keeping small business banking housed within the retail bank channel.

Conference 195

Conference Retail Community Bank Technology 195